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ATi's All In Wonder Radeon 9700 Pro

Posted by timothy on from the sound-of-expiring-ndas dept.

FlippedBit writes "ATi has taken the wraps off their latest Swiss Army Knife 3D Graphics Card with TV Tuner and Remote Control capabilities, that rival most discrete solutions. The All In Wonder Radeon 9700Pro packs a ton of A/V features and is driven by their new R300 VPU. HotHardware has a look at this new beast and all its bells and whistles, right here."

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  1. more reviews here... by Maditude · · Score: 5, Informative

    Anandtech has a review and TechReport as well .

  2. Warning to all males by Schik · · Score: 5, Funny

    Beware - owning this will be a DEAD giveaway that you have a very, very tiny penis.

  3. Video Recorder by atrus · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I was struck by this phrase from the review:

    Should you be interested in a particular word or phrase from a captured show, you can search the close captioned database and playback will begin at the section of the stream.

    That feature makes my day :) Kudos to ATI for adding something useful to the video recorder program.

  4. Re:So where's the Mac version? by benh57 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, you're in luck. (maybe). According to Think Secret, ATI is developing an All-In-Wonder card for the mac.

  5. Re:Yep by chefren · · Score: 5, Informative

    The DRI-project have 3d-support available in CVS and binary snapshots with semi-friendly installers available. I'm using a snapshot now. Remember that this is not yet stable code (whatever that means). Look for 'r200' snapshots on their download page.

  6. Re:So where's the Mac version? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hate to sound like a whiner

    It's alright. Most Mac users are whiners.

  7. Re:Yep by chefren · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, it means that if I leave an OpenGL screensaver running while going away for a few hours, I am greeted by the lilo boot menu (i have no timeout) when I come back. Nothing in the logs, the machine just reboots it seems. Also using Xv in mplayer results in a black box that won't go away until I start another Xv app, like xawtv which works well. If you just need Xv, go for the gatos project instead (better Xv, no 3d).

  8. Bad drivers.... BAAAAAD! by Zakabog · · Score: 5, Funny

    If ATI were a Winston Cup NASCAR, we'd say that the company is efficiently firing on all eight cylinders.

    Jeez, if the Radeon was a car, it'd beat all the other car's in 1/4 mile times and top speed, but in a 500 lap race, at lap 200, the paint would peal, the doors would fall off, and the engine would fall out.

    Further, ATI's latest round of hardware has been complimented by relatively stable drivers - a first, as far as the gaming community is concerned.

    I hope they mean a first, as in, first time ATI released relatively stable drivers. What bother's me though is "Relatively stable drivers." well, stable in relation to what? In relation to a blind man balancing a chair on his nose while juggling chainsaws?