I just finished your article on the new Power Mac 9500 ("The Power Macintosh 9500," August '95, page 68). This is one hell of an article. Whoever compiled it should get a raise. Yesterday.
Daiquiri St. John
daiq@primenet.com
While recently SETTING up a Power Mac 9500, I went to plug in the monitor cable where I supposed the monitor input jack would be. I slowly realized that Apple hadn't put a video card of any kind inside the chassis of the computer. I found myself with a $5,000+ machine sitting in front of me, and I couldn't even hook up the monitor. The 9500's manual says the 9500 doesn't come preinstalled with a monitor card because Apple figured that users might want to add their own third-party video card. Now, call me crazy, but why couldn't users have simply removed the existing video card and put in a new one? Why did Apple do this?
Ben Jacobs-Swearingen
bfrink@mercury.netropolis.net
/ Since the 9500 is a high-end machine and since users of such machines usually add high-resolution accelerated video to their Macs, Apple decided to save them the cost of built-in VRAM that would probably go to waste. For those who want to buy a CPU with instant video support, one configuration of the 9500 is bundled with ATI's Xclaim GA video card.
