If I were running Apple, I would get NVidia's latest chipset and design a high-bandwidth memory architecture (like SGI did) chipset to bypass AGP and package the whole thing as a (relatively) low cost iMac. IMHO, the memory bandwidth is the bottleneck in PCs nowadays. Having a low cost version of an SGI-like station would get me to buy (and program) a Mac again (sold my Mac SE w/Radius monitor and Lightspeed C about 10 years ago). Imagine coupling their upcoming version X OS and OpenGL and hardware transformations @ a higher memory bandwidth than AGP?
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If I were running Apple, I would get NVidia's latest chipset and design a high-bandwidth memory architecture (like SGI did) chipset to bypass AGP and package the whole thing as a (relatively) low cost iMac. IMHO, the memory bandwidth is the bottleneck in PCs nowadays. Having a low cost version of an SGI-like station would get me to buy (and program) a Mac again (sold my Mac SE w/Radius monitor and Lightspeed C about 10 years ago). Imagine coupling their upcoming version X OS and OpenGL and hardware transformations @ a higher memory bandwidth than AGP?