The infamous ATI issue - again.... 2004-09-02 - By Thomas Shaw
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I ordered a Dell Inspiron notebook yesterday with an Radeon Mobility
9700 on it. While I didn't get it with the intent of running XSI, I can
check it out and let you know how it performs...
Ing. Marek Mihok wrote:
> Dan,
>
> I never had any problem with ATI at all !!
> I am using now 9600 256mb board....working with XSI and WindowsXP
> without any problem...
>
> I can't tell you about mobility radeons, I do not have a notebook
>
> Marek
>
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> Ing. Marek Mihok - ANIMAX 3D
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>
> -- --Original Message-- --
> *From:* owner-xsi@(protected)
> [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)]*On Behalf Of *Dan Yargici
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 14, 2004 1:04 PM
> *To:* XSI@(protected)
> *Subject:* [OT] The infamous ATI issue - again....
>
> 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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