The infamous ATI issue - again.... 2004-07-14 - By Dan Yargici
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Sorry to be a bore and bring this up again, but my searching turns up a
mountain of old/contradictory results...
OK, once and for all:
1. Are the low-end ATI cards still considered unusable/crappy? (my interest
here lies more with the mobility radeons)
2. Is this general crappiness down to Softimage or ATI?
3. Will they ever be less crappy? When (if?) HL2 comes out, will this not mean,
as everyone has predicted, that there'll be scores of disgruntled ATI users
unless this is addressed?
Basically, I'm on the laptop hunt again, and I've found hundreds of laptops
that are perfect in every way, except they use ATI and not Nvidia. Compared to
the 3 or so I've found that have the same spec with Nvidia cards. All 3 of
these, without exception, carry a huge jump in price.
This situation would be much better if manufacturers weren't so tight with
their screen resolutions however....
Thanks for your patience. :)
DAN
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sorry to be a bore and bring this up again, but my
searching turns up a mountain of old/contradictory results...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>OK, once and for all:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1. Are the low-end ATI cards still considered
unusable/crappy? (my interest here lies more with the mobility
radeons)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2. Is this general crappiness down to Softimage or
ATI?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>3. Will they ever be less crappy? When (if?) HL2
comes out, will this not mean, as everyone has predicted, that there'll be
scores of disgruntled ATI users unless this is addressed?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Basically, I'm on the laptop hunt again, and I've
found hundreds of laptops that are perfect in every way, except they use ATI
and
not Nvidia. Compared to the 3 or so I've found that have the same spec
with Nvidia cards. All 3 of these, without exception, carry a huge jump
in
price.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This situation would be much better if
manufacturers weren't so tight with their screen resolutions
however....</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for your patience. :)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>DAN</FONT></DIV>
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