> >Will, my Radeon Mac Edition isn't supported either. That doesn't mean it >won't work (Which, btw, it does, just fine); it just means ATI isn't >going to invest R&D and Support money in it. > >That said, I wouldn't want to be the first one to buy a 7000 in the >hopes it would work. But maybe someone with direct experience with that >card will be able to answer Mike's question.
I well know the difference between "supported" and works with no tech support.The Radeon Mac Edition which is no longer being made works in OSX with OLD World Macs. The Radeon 7000 does not.It does work fine in OS9.x. There is talk of a work around on www.xlr8yourmac.com which a couple of people may have gotten to work with OSX and I think in a Beige G3 which I don't think is supported by ATI now but was when the card first went on sale. > > Old World Macs I belive would have been their largest market. > >Certainly. But not legacy Macs trying to run OSeX. It's a vanishingly >small percentage of Mac users that are going to do this. Very small >market that would be. > > > Based on their troubles with writing drivers I wouldn't hold my breath. You might be surprised how many people would run OSX on their Apple 7300,7500.7600 8500, 8600,9500,9600 and clone machines if there weren't so many road blocks. The Video problems are one of the biggest problems in doing so. I too am happy with my ATI rage pro card which runs fine in OSX on a Umax Supermac J700 . I with the help of several others did the code work so OSX will run on UMAX J700/S900 and worked with Ryan Rempel to include this code in "XPostFacto" So while the number of people running OSX on older machines maybe small when considering the number of machines sold. I was amazed at the number of people interested and trying to get it to work. I could be wrong but I think ATI would be surprised how many people want the 7000 card for OSX. later Will S -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
