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    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by equinox654, Jun 7, 2007.

  1. equinox654

    equinox654 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey guys,

    I was hoping one of you with the new mbp with the nvidia 8600 could help me out.

    I want to take my 8800 out of my pc and put it in my mac pro. I am hoping the new 8600 drivers that come on the mbp will work for it with titan. The program the pc users are using to make their video cards work on hacked copies of osx.

    Anyway if one of you can get them for me they would be under /system/library/extensions and it would be anything with nv in or or named nvidia.

    Thanks so much
     
    equinox654, Jun 7, 2007
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    circa86 Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    that would be fantastic if you could get that to work correctly, such a huge jump up from the older x1900xt they have in their, not to mention much less noisy etc.

    good luck. hope you succeed.
     
    circa86, Jun 7, 2007
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    equinox654 Notebook Enthusiast

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    it probably will. the drivers in osx right now support everything down to like geforce 4. so its quite likely that the 8600 driver will work on the 8800
     
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    circa86 Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    oh that is good to here, actually that is very very good motivation to buy a Mac Pro.

    it would be great if Apple released a Mac Pro Jr. or something :( something in between an iMac and Mac Pro. that just used a regular motherboard, and single processor (or a single multi-core processor, obviously), had a few more GPU's available than the Mac Pro, and didn't use the RAM riser setup.

    price points good be exactly in between an iMac and a Mac Pro, and it would be a great way start supporting a little bit more hardware, in terms of upgrades.
     
    circa86, Jun 7, 2007
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    circa86 Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    did a little searching, couldn't find the correct site and info, found a lot of forum info, but not a site that was up.

    i hope that site is not already down :(
     
    circa86, Jun 7, 2007
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