Re: Best supported and rendering card

[Donovan Baarda <abo at minkirri dot apana dot org dot au>]

On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 05:27, Pablo Fischer wrote:
[...]
> I'd like to continue using nVidia, however I live in Mexico and is very
> difficult (if not impossible) to buy a nVidia, most USA retailers don't
> send products outside USA.

Interesting; you can get ATI but not nVidia?

My rule of thumb is "buy what everyone is buying". It doesn't matter if
the hardware and/or software is crap... the weight of numbers will
eventually mean the greatest support, which will eventually mean the
best drivers, and drivers matter more than hardware. Companies that
co-operate with Open Source developers and/or have brilliant hardware
can push the balence, but not enough to overcome a huge difference in
raw numbers.

See 3Dfx vs nVidia, Realtec vs Tulip, and many others for examples.

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Donovan Baarda <abo at minkirri dot apana dot org dot au>