Apple has never been interested in supporting the highest-end graphics on Macs. Never.
This happened before some of you kids were born, but for the first 2 years, Mac didn't even support color! They behind the industry in this respect, and even behind themselves, as the Apple IIgs introduced color a year earlier.
I'm a big fan of the Quadro 4000, but have you seen what the 6000 can do? Or what NVIDIA's Maximus technology, which ties together 2 GPUs? Or SLI, which ties together up to 4? This has been around since, what? 2005? OpenGL? Bueller? Bueller?
There are many, many reasons to use Macs, and maybe even reasons to believe that a new Mac Pro is coming...uhm, someday...but no reason to believe that its graphics will even attempt to meet the state of the art in pro graphics. Apple swings for the fences in a lot of things, MOST things...but not with this.
A little sensitive about this because it's what made Macs impossible for me to use as a primary platform anymore. I was not happy about it. Doing fine now, thanks. LOL
Tim Wilson
Associate Publisher, Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW Magazine
Twitter: timdoubleyou
