To be honest, the inability to choose specifics is why I've always avoided Macs for my personal use. Given my usage, and the quirks of my eyes, I -must- be able to reconfigure or change the video adapter to something that I can use. Every one of the Macs and PPC's I've used have given me a blinding headache after about an hour in front of it. I choose my display adapters -very- carefully, oftentimes buying something that's considered 'inferior' for the simple reason that I had complete control over picture gradients and refresh rates. Most early Diamond adapters, all of the old Western Digital adapters, early Voodoo cards... they all have a 'flicker' to them that most folks can't see. For me, it's =painful=.
TNT2 cards, Kyro cards, a very few Riva128 cards, and the newer ATI chipsets don't flicker. I've a Kyro in this machine now, the V550 and V770 are both TNT2 or Riva 128 cards. The Matrox card is solid also. So I cling to my aging cards, and pray that as time goes by that someone will care enough to continue to update the drivers. Hence my questing for drivers and manuals and upgrade information.
And... SONICBlue's lame attempts at 'legacy support' are pathetic. It would have been better by far to let Diamond fold, so that the users that -cared- could do the support.
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*nods*
Date: 2003-03-23 07:33 pm (UTC)TNT2 cards, Kyro cards, a very few Riva128 cards, and the newer ATI chipsets don't flicker. I've a Kyro in this machine now, the V550 and V770 are both TNT2 or Riva 128 cards. The Matrox card is solid also. So I cling to my aging cards, and pray that as time goes by that someone will care enough to continue to update the drivers. Hence my questing for drivers and manuals and upgrade information.
And... SONICBlue's lame attempts at 'legacy support' are pathetic. It would have been better by far to let Diamond fold, so that the users that -cared- could do the support.
*hugs*
~Ellie-chan