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The Radeon 4870 Experiment

This weekend, I received the final ingredient I needed to test the PC-based Radeon 4870 card in my Mac Pro: two molex power connectors. My hope was to chronicle the …

 
Preparing the Mac Pro for Radeon Power

After reading my post “Does a 1GB Graphics Card Make Sense for a Non-Gamer”, a very generous reader sent me an ATI Radeon 4870 1GB card to see for myself. …

 
Zen and the Art of an Uncluttered Dock

I’ve never been a big fan of the Mac OS X Dock. It’s never fully adapted itself into my workflow; it’s more of a nuisance than anything else. The problem …