AnandTech Reviews ATI's Mobility Radeon 9000

Mike Bouma writes "AnandTech has reviewed ATI's latest mobile graphics solution. According to the reviewer this small and energy efficient chip is the new king when it comes to mobile graphic chips for Notebooks. Also John Carmack is apparently very positive about the chip and also stated that Doom 3 will be able to run smoothly with this new Radeon chip."

Comments

slow

[jchristopher]

Has anyone noticed how slow MacOS X is?

Re:stupid

[jchristopher]

I have a duty to tell others so they don't get suckered into the same mistake. I bought my iBook based on recommendations I read here on Slashdot about how nice it was. They were right, it's a very nice machine, except they forgot to mention how slow OS X is!

I was in CompUSA over the weekend and got to play with the new dual machines. Unbelievably, OS X STILL lags, even with Jaguar and the fast CPU! Especially for web browsers and games.

Again, I am not saying "OS X sucks". In fact I like it alot, except for the speed issue. As a result, I recommend that anyone planning on buying a Mac try before they buy to avoid unpleasant surprises. If you can live with the slow GUI speed, great. I couldn't.

P.S. FWIW, the machine that replaced the iBook is an HP Omnibook PIII 700 with half the RAM my iBook had. The HP is far faster for every computing task I have tried despite having a far worse video chip. Go figure.