Mac users can finally call their beloved and beautiful boxes workstations now that NVIDIA is offering its Quadro FX 4800 graphics card for the Mac. You’ll have to wait until May for this $1800 monster card to ship, but when that day comes, Mac users, you’ll agree it was worth the wait.
I’m using the PC version right now (it’s been here since November), and it chews through the most gigantic After Effects comps like their video is the size of postage stamps. With the right kind of drivers on the PC, the 4800 turns into a formidable Quadro CX, especially tweaked to mow down Adobe CS4 projects like they’re going out of style. No word on whether that coolness will be available for the Mac yet, but probably not, at least not yet.
It’s a great product, but what I want to know is, why does it take six months after the Windows release of a workstation-class graphics card to finally find its way to the Mac? Aren’t Macs supposed to be the ultimate in multimedia?
Via NVIDIA
