Re: My Vista Experience

Alan Baker wrote:

In article <mLydnb7lSpTAp3TanZ2dnUVZ_vKunZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve de Mena <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Maverick wrote:


The problems started for everyone with Leopard. 1,000 plus posts in multiple threads on the Apple Mac Pro discussion site. This "bad hardware" never gave anyone a problem in Tiger.

Steve


Hmmmm...

Perhaps Leopard drives the graphics card harder....


Apple made OS X UNIX compliant, which is a deep area. Even Sun microsystems had big problems when they left OpenWindows to CDE and also the SYSV changeover. I expected things to break in the beginning, but I also knew that it would be for the better as time goes on and Apple starts realizing where the glitches are and fixes them.
It seems stevie, our M$ fanboi, is dissing OS X.
Have we ever heard him dis Vista or XP?

I have a valid right to "dis OS X" when I was having daily kernel panics with their ATI graphics card that I spent extra money on. To even run sort of reliably I had to get the Quartz Debugger from the developer's kit and disable OpenGL and Quartz Extreme. But I still had crashes with both disabled, just now once every 3 or 4 days.

Where did this "Apple made OS X UNIX compliant" stuff come from, how is that relavant to anything?

Steve


You don't by chance have another graphics card in there as well, do you?

<http://macfixit.com/article.php?story=200609150951463&query=X1900XT>

'Mac Pro Special Report: Graphics card support

We've noticed a strange snippet in Apple's Mac Pro developer note, which states:

"Note: The Mac Pro does not simultaneously support an ATI graphics card and an Nvidia graphics card."'

And, is your ATI card a third-party add-on?

'Also, we are still looking for any reports from readers who have successfully installed and utilized third-party-purchased graphics cards -- like the ATI Radeon X1900XTX -- with the Mac Pro.'


LOL!
It reminds me of the days of cash strapped IT depts. looking for ways to reduce the costs of hardware by doing 3rd party add ons to VAX systems, not realizing that the hardware and software in this case go hand in hand. If you don't have an ECO upgrade with that hardware then it becomes a craps shoot and usually end up with system crashes.
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