[louh]

I noticed a big price difference between graphic cards. For example the ATI Radeon 9000 Pro graphics card (Mac edition) with 64MB DDR SDRAM in 4x AGP slot runs about $130.00 for a new unit on eBay. The Windows version costs about half that amount. Same ratio holds for used cards. Why the difference? Isn't a card a card? I would think that they would be interchangable. If not what makes them different?

Curious,

[spiky_dog]

try googling for something like "flashing pc graphics card mac os x" and you should get some good reading material.

[Drakino]

Mac cards differ in that:

They offer ADC ports. This addes some compexity as the video card has to route power to a connector.

The ROM is typicially bigger for a Mac system for some reason.

Newer cards are AGP Pro for the G5 system, lacking the extra power cable inputs the PC versions have.

Basicially they cost more to recoup the additional development time for a product that goes to a much smaller market, and usually has different features geared to a platform that actually advances.