>At 10:19 PM 5/07/02 +0900, you wrote: >>>I'm considering the switch to Mac But there machines >>>only have four PCI slots What do you do if you need more? > >You wait till you inherit a large sum from a rich relative and buy a Magma >expansion chassis with up to 13 PCI slots. Seriously -- Apple aren't making >the sort of pro-oriented towers they used to make before the G3 with 2 PCI >bridges and six slots (9600 etc). > >This is part of the rationalisation that Stevo delivered when he returned >to the roost -- just a few models with wide appeal. When he's gone out on a >limb it has been with something even less practical for our sort of Apps -- >the Cube. The fact that you cannot even order as an option a bigger case >and a mobo with more slots should tell you plenty about Apple and the pro >market. This is all very true. Lets hope that with apple's clear motions in the direction of recapturing the audio market they will start making some boxes with a more professional attitude in this area.
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Re: [L-OT] PCI Slots
2002-07-05 by Dennis Gunn
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