Group: comp.sys.mac.advocacy
From: "Hasta La Vista"
Date: Sunday, March 30, 2008 7:48 AM
Subject: Re: Apple GPUs now 2 generations out of date?


"Tim Adams" wrote in message
news:teadams$2$0$0$3-0E58C8.06325430032008@70-3-168-216.area5.spcsdns.net...
> In article ,
> Steve de Mena wrote:
>
>> Hasta La Vista wrote:
>> >
>> > "Alan Baker" wrote in message
>> > news:alangbaker-98BFC3.19410229032008@[74.223.185.199.nw.nuvox.net]...
>> >> In article ,
>> >> Steve de Mena wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Tim Murray wrote:
>> >>> > On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:02:43 -0400, Steve de Mena wrote:
>> >>> >> Visually you can stand across the room and tell that the cheaper
>> >>> >> card
>> >>> >> is more washed out and doesn't have as much "punch" as the ATI
>> >>> >> card.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > I stealing a line from Alan, and coughing out a bullshit.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > A digital value for a certain color is the same across video cards.
>> >>> > Generally
>> >>> > I see you as pretty technical, so I don't think you'd say that
>> >>> > without
>> >>> > reason. If you can enlighten me as to how that's possible, then I'm
>> >>> > all
>> >>> > ears.
>> >>>
>> >>> Luckily, I don't need to enlighten you (or anyone) as to "how this is
>> >>> possible".
>> >>>
>> >>> Steve
>> >>
>> >> Translation "I just got caught in a big lie".
>> >
>> > You seem to spend most of your time translating posts into things that
>> > were never said, Gimp.
>>
>> It just blows me away how people think I would make up the fact of how
>> disappointed I was after changing video cards. What possible reason
>> would I have for saying that one looked better than another if both
>> were the same. And its something impossible to "prove". Amazing.
>
> I'd question weather the replacement card you bought was good or not.
> Sounds
> like it isn't.

That leaves one struggling to understand why he was told a new driver would
remedy the problem.