| From: | Philipp Scheidel |
| Date: | 14 Aug 2000 at 23:01:55 |
| Subject: | Re: G3 & CGFX |
Hello guys,
>> When do you think there will be one, and btw: why the heck do Met@box use
>> G3, that pile of slow shit, G4... now that's better but not good enough...
>
> It is waaaaaaaays faster than what we have now. I do not really care if there
> comes a G3 or a G4... the important thing is that SOMETHING comes out which is
> better hardware than what we have now.
>
>> A G4 macintosh ain't really fast, but maybe that's just because of the
>> weird OS..
>
> Well, actually the "feeling" of the system is much better under LinuxPPC than
> under MacOS, using the G3...
... what about altivec ? But even 300 MHz G3 would be really nice, though.
It can only get better, doesn�t matter what comes exactly ;)
>> Voodoo 3 is slow and expensive... What about Voodoo 5, it rocks, but it co
> What will be available as drivers for "decent" chips first will be a driver
> for Voodoo 3. And this thing will totally screw the CURRENT 3D Hardware,
> believe this...
and just imagine all the "outdated" voodoo1 and voodoo2 boards laying around
at the dealer�s boxes labelled "used", and noone really wants them anymore.
Drivers could be done very easy I think (just look at the linux code), and voodoo2
performance is not that bad, of course it reaches the end at 800x600 16 bit
(perhaps sli connection would be an option... ;) but after all it would be one
of the cheapest add-on solutions for owners of a current gfx-board. I would not
like to miss my permedia2-card, it was very expensive and surely there are many
others out there using plain 2d-cards for their workbenches.
cheers,