nForce 2 and Apple?
nForce2 continues Nvidia's venture into the risky but potentially profitable business of chipsets, chips that bridge a PC's processor with key components such as memory. Nvidia last year signed a licensing agreement with AMD to create chipsets that work with the company's Athlon processors.
nForce was rumored (Aug 31, 2001) to be coming to other platforms.. but little details except for hints from NVidia about "exciting introductions" in the Mac area this year.
Vague rumors were also circulating about an Apple / NVidia alliance... but seemed to be more speculative.
Steve Mason noted this interesting blurb on NVidia's nForce 2 Features page:
Digital Vibrance Control (DVC)
Allows the user to adjust color controls digitally to compensate for the lighting conditions of their workspace, in order to achieve accurate, bright colors in all conditions.
Currently this feature is not available on Mac systems.
Not currently available? Implying the rest of the features are available on the Mac... soon?
nForce is not simply a graphics card... but a motherboard chipset and utilizes Dual DDR (DDR400) and other technologies that would far exceed current PowerMac specs. Apple has been a member of the HyperTransport Consortium.... which previously spurred rumors of it making its way to the Macintosh.
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nForce2 continues Nvidia's venture into the risky but potentially profitable business of chipsets, chips that bridge a PC's processor with key components such as memory. Nvidia last year signed a licensing agreement with AMD to create chipsets that work with the company's Athlon processors.
nForce was rumored (Aug 31, 2001) to be coming to other platforms.. but little details except for hints from NVidia about "exciting introductions" in the Mac area.
Vague rumors were also circulating about an Apple / NVidia alliance... but seemed to be more speculative.
Steve Mason noted this interesting blurb on NVidia's nForce 2 Features page:
Digital Vibrance Control (DVC)
Allows the user to adjust color controls digitally to compensate for the lighting conditions of their workspace, in order to achieve accurate, bright colors in all conditions.
Currently this feature is not available on Mac systems.
this is what he also said will be featured in the chipset:
Dual channel DDR400, AGP 8x, ATA133, USB 2.0, Dual Ethernet, APU for nforce
i posted bout this on the windows forum i'm a newsposter/mod for...even tho most ppl there hate macs lol
http://www.ixcstudios.com/nforcemac.jpg
pic of the thing bout mac
thanx to for telling me ;) steve
Originally posted by foniks2020
So this means the rest IS available. If they are singling out one feature to say it isn't available for Macs, doesn't that mean the rest are?
That was actually the whole point of the original post. :)
arn
People must have thought I was nuts when I posted this early this morning as my guess for it to be used on the new systems since no one ever responded to it. Now I have new rumors to support my rumors. ;)
http://www.macrumors.com/forums/showthread.php3?s=&threadid=7713
Originally posted by Ensign Pulver on appleinsider:
Go to this page
http://nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=feature_dmg
Click on the nForce2 Flash Demo and then on Consumer Solutions and then on Home Office. This brings up a set of images. The second one on the left is clearly iPhoto.
Smoking gun?
Wow it sure is! hummmm....
(let the flash demo picture cycle through btw)
EDIT: fixed link
Originally posted by imacman287
Wow it sure is! hummmm....
(let the flash demo picture cycle through btw)
EDIT: fixed link
The pictures that are shown at the apple iphoto site:
http://www.apple.com/iphoto/
are the same ones in the flash demo!
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