Hi, I have a MacPro5,1 with 2 6-core 2.93 GHz i7, 24GB of RAM, and 1 Radeon 5770. I am processing large 2D images in Photoshop CS5 and I am basically limited by processing speed. Adobe claims that CS6 can make better use of GPU. This makes me wonder whether upgrading to CS6 will make significant change. Furthermore, I also wonder how much CS6's performance will be scaled with video card. For example, If I upgrade the 5770 card to 5870, will I feel it? Mac usb to dvi monitor for macbook air 1. How about Quadro 4000?

Will I feel a difference? Can CS6 make use of multiple video cards? For example, if I add a second 5770 instead of upgrading the current 5770 to 5870, will it make a difference? Any insight on these is appreciated. Unless Apple or a 3rd party releases an Nvidia GPR, I am pretty confident our GTX570 2.5GB is going to be THE card to have for CS6. There are already 2 people who have picked one up and will vouch for it. One person specifically mentions a 2X+ speedup for video apps in Adobe.

The new Mac mini looks like a bigger version of the Apple TV.The square enclosure measures 7.7 x 7.7 x 1.4-inches and weighs 2.9 pounds. So, it's bigger than an Apple TV, but the resemblance is.

Would stand to reason that the same holds try for other parts that work with Mercury. Not only does it offer full boot screen support on Apple Displays, it can also run a 30' from it's DVI port. Nvidia has shown that they will release solid drivers for their cards, whether or not Apple is eager to include them in OS point releases. Adobe is all about Nvidia cards and CUDA. Don't waste your time with AMD / ATI cards. Support for OpenCL is added as an afterthought, much like for Resolve. Chunk or any other well respected Mac person is welcome to borrow one for review purposes.

We are Hollywood based, near the (former) Kodak Theater. Click to expand.MacVidCards never said anything about 'Mac (or Apple) approved', did he? Neither have I, nor anyone else that's got one of his cards. It's an aftermarket modification that just happens to work exceptionally well, thanks to his hard work along with the fine folks at nVidia.

The folks that wrote the drivers for these cards? Even though they're not 'approved' by Apple?

Just because Apple doesn't sell it or approve of it, doesn't mean it isn't good. And in fact, for getting work done, nVidia cards are just better performers than ATI/AMD cards. I consider 'aftermarket modifications' to be a hack to get unapproved hardware to interface with a system -- which is what is is. If I was doing professional work or worked for a firm, I would not want to take the risk of hardware flaking out due to an error in firmware flashing or coding, and yes, I have read all of the frustrations and hiccups people are having on these 'video card discussion threads' with their thousands of posts about kext problems and incompatibilities.

Simply not for me -- I want something I can buy, plug-in, and be 100% assured that it will work from the manufacturer, and yes, have Apple's approval that the card is compatible and verified to work with 100% of the software, acceleration, thermal specs, and hardware specs -- and not flake out on me. I consider 'aftermarket modifications' to be a hack to get unapproved hardware to interface with a system -- which is what is is. If I was doing professional work or worked for a firm, I would not want to take the risk of hardware flaking out due to an error in firmware flashing or coding, and yes, I have read all of the frustrations and hiccups people are having on these 'video card discussion threads' with their thousands of posts about kext problems and incompatibilities. Simply not for me -- I want something I can buy, plug-in, and be 100% assured that it will work from the manufacturer, and yes, have Apple's approval that the card is compatible and verified to work with 100% of the software, acceleration, thermal specs, and hardware specs -- and not flake out on me. Click to expand.YOu can buy many PC Nvidia cards that will plug in and work with 10.7.3.

Both Apple and Nvidia have written drivers for them, except without MacVidCards and Netkas' help they would run with no boot screen and at PCI 1.0 speeds. The mods done by MacVidCards add the boot screen and alter the BIOS/EFI to run at native PCI 2.0 speed therefor maximising the GPUs abilities. You can stick with the official AMD/ATI offerings but if you wanna get work done faster then do some research you will see that the mods don't bite!!