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Does Apple sell TVs? No. Then no HDMI.
Seriously. HDMI is not a computer standard. It's DisplayPort without as many supported resolutions. That's all that it is.
This is the ideal way to analyze need to maximize a budget.
Solving bottlenecks can help tremendously for overall performance. One thing to consider with a MacPro is to have it running Folding@Home continuously in the background. That way your extra hardware and energy costs become a donation to the Nation Institutes of Health. It's an efficient donation to curing disease because it costs less per Gigaflop than the comparable supercomputing, and it runs in 'Nice' mode so Darwin takes care of keeping it out of the way of your own use of you computer automatically.
HDMI is just encrypted single-link DVI with audio in the same cable. If you don't care about the audio (as in: you're not plugging it in to a TV whose speakers you want to use,) then DVI is exactly equal, if not better. (HDMI can't handle the resolution of a 30" display.)
You can get a physical adapter to convert DVI to HDMI, if you really want. Here you go.
You haven't hefted a 4870X2 or GTX 295, then, I take it? Those things could kill someone if dropped on their head from a stepladder. Not to mention they both put out an insane amount of heat. A pair of 4870X2s could heat a decent size house in New England.
If I could run both Windows (or Linux) at the same time on each of it's own video cards then that would be intriguing. This way is more of a waste IMO.
Is there really a burning need out there for these??
Yes.
No, that's the going rate for a CG artist. Modelers, matt artists and texture artists are on the lower end of that while animators and SFX specialists are on the higher end of that range - generally - there are exceptions on both sides of that rage of course. That's for film work and hustling free-lancers. TV work and corporate/industrial CG is about half that - again generally speaking. One of the reasons salaries are decent (I call that normal myself!) is because the tools are costly.
To a race car driver two million dollars for an indy car is dirt cheap and just part of the normal expected expenses. To outsiders it seems as you put it, ridiculous but actually, it's not.
Unfortunately i can not put my backing behind anything that helps prolong human life, not when the world is so over populated it does not make logical sense to fight natural process.
Don't worry about overpopulation, the U.N. project the world's population to level off in 2050 at 8 or 9 billion. Nevermind that humankind has to feed itself. I'm sure before you and I die off we'll see several problems caused by overpopulation and I'm sure you will be pleased to know will have plenty of people die off. [/rant]
Anyways, on my end it is about economy. I keep my machines off either when I am sleeping or at the college, just because it saves money. Maybe if I had an apartment with electricity paid, then I'd keep my machines folding... in fact, I would be pretty interested since chem is my major. Organic molecules FTW!
I take it folding programs make use of OpenCL, thus the pro-graphics card has comparitivly more bang?
I would like to see what Apple is going to do with the apple displays.
Will they go LED or not.
I also hope that they will normalise the display connector issues. Do we have to have mini-display, mini-dvi and dvi? Not to mention HDMI?
Enough already of keeping connector manufacturers in business.
Will they go LED or not.
I also hope that they will normalise the display connector issues. Do we have to have mini-display, mini-dvi and dvi? Not to mention HDMI?
Enough already of keeping connector manufacturers in business.
The world is NOT overpopulated. That's propaganda put out by the eugenists who think there should only be 500 million slaves on the planet and them.
Don't fall for it!
Hehehe the Georgia guidestones. WTH?!?! How strange huh? But no, I'm talking eugenic societies and foundations who publish such nonsense over and over and over again - for the past 100 years or so. There's not even any real science behind it - just corporate junk science from corporations hooked up with the self-same societies and foundations. (as just one example: go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_Foundation and then look at #1 in the Notes section. It goes on and and on...). But we better stop before it goes too OT. Yeah?
About a third of the non-Apple laptops I sell now have HDMI ports on them. People like being able to use their computers on their tv screens. I sell a lot of DVI-HDMI adapters to my Mac customers.
this card is actually an answer to our prayers at my office. this means that we can run framecycler on a mac instead of a PC for our 3d stereoscopic confidence rig (where we test our stereo renders). until now we were screwed because the old card had no way to do conversions to sdi and couldn't get signal to our DLP system
A 295 needs an 8-pin power connector which AFAIK is outside the scope of the motherboard, unless you maybe draw together power from the optical drive and both 6 pin PCI supplies on the mother board. A 285 uses two six pin and is therefore easier to do. I am still using external power for all my experiments, and that would work well with 285 or 295. An easy solution is to have the GT120 (no extra supply) and a 285 for bootcamp - closed case and no extra power. A Quadro and a 295 would definitely need external power, but it is easy to do.
I could not get it because i only have the 24" LED Cinema Display.
It's not that i want it... The question is... Will new Mac compatible graphic cards support the mini-display port in the future?
I could not get it because i only have the 24" LED Cinema Display.
It's not that i want it... The question is... Will new Mac compatible graphic cards support the mini-display port in the future?
Irrespective of your display, I restate the question:
Are you in the target market for this card? What sort of work do you do?
