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Ars Technica published a review on the Quadro 4000 Mac Edition graphics card



Everyone knows the old Einstein quote about the definition of insanityit's doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. After a pretty harsh review of the Quadro FX 4800, I was really hoping not to have to slam another potentially great card hamstrung by bad drivers. As a 3D professional, I've known NVIDIA's drivers to be their weakest point and have lost track of how many times I've recommended Radeon cards over NVIDIA for Maya and Mudbox (I frequently get asked to recommend video cards). It seemed that NVIDIA was just phoning it in and praying that CUDA's entrenchment in professional non-linear video editing, known to be heavily Mac-based, would be enough to sell these to Mac users. So when NVIDIA felt confident enough in their new Quadro 4000 Mac Edition to give me a card for review, I know that they'd either fixed it or gone insane. Well, I'm pleased to say that the folks at NVIDIA aren't crazy. But that said, this is no perfect score either.
  Quadro 4000 Mac Edition Review