Apple, you've got a real problem with multiple monitor support on your machines now. We were in the market for a couple of 733 quicksilvers a few weeks back. I was browsing the apple store, building a box, and started looking for a second video card option. What?! no second video card option? Oh I see, you by the TwinView and it gives you two monitor ports. WHOA! one of those ports is VGA and the other is ADC? We need dual VGA, just a few months back we could get support for dual VGA from your store, what happened? Now I KNOW nVidia makes a TwinView card with dual AGP ports, why isn't this an option? We're not spending thousands on new flat panels, which appears to be what you are pushing your customers towards doing.
Apple, do you realize how many people use your machines for photoshop, dreamweaver, illustrator, etc? Do you realize how many need dual monitors? Do you realize how absolutely infuriating it is to have ZERO options through apple and only ONE option (ATI Radeon) through third parties for dual VGA support?
Your store should stock TwinView VGA/ADC, TwinView VGA/VGA, Radeon (PCI), and 16MB Rage Pro/128 (PCI) at the least. The loss of the Rage Pro/128/Orion as a low cost VGA solution for dual monitors is another huge irritation, why not order a bunch of those and stock them for your non-gamer customers who undoubtedly could use them? We don't need 32MB DDR Radeons or nVidia's gut-stomping gaming cards, we need to move our plethora of palettes to another screen, that's all.
We bought our 733s. They are okay, slower than the dual 450s because of that weak cache, but they're okay otherwise. But you know what? We have two nice Sony 17" monitors sitting with black screens on our desks, they've been that way for a few weeks now. They're going to stay that way indefinitely because those with the checkbooks are pissed off in a major way about this whole mess. Thanks for thinking about your customers, Apple.
OS X version 10.1 is great by the way.
Apple, do you realize how many people use your machines for photoshop, dreamweaver, illustrator, etc? Do you realize how many need dual monitors? Do you realize how absolutely infuriating it is to have ZERO options through apple and only ONE option (ATI Radeon) through third parties for dual VGA support?
Your store should stock TwinView VGA/ADC, TwinView VGA/VGA, Radeon (PCI), and 16MB Rage Pro/128 (PCI) at the least. The loss of the Rage Pro/128/Orion as a low cost VGA solution for dual monitors is another huge irritation, why not order a bunch of those and stock them for your non-gamer customers who undoubtedly could use them? We don't need 32MB DDR Radeons or nVidia's gut-stomping gaming cards, we need to move our plethora of palettes to another screen, that's all.
We bought our 733s. They are okay, slower than the dual 450s because of that weak cache, but they're okay otherwise. But you know what? We have two nice Sony 17" monitors sitting with black screens on our desks, they've been that way for a few weeks now. They're going to stay that way indefinitely because those with the checkbooks are pissed off in a major way about this whole mess. Thanks for thinking about your customers, Apple.
OS X version 10.1 is great by the way.