Apple users get Radeon 8500 at last

But now ATI has plugged the gap by offering the Radeon 8500 Mac Edition, and will flog it for a high end $299.

The card comes with support for MAC OS 9 and MAC OS X operating systems and ATI claims superior visual quality and "groundbreaking performance".

What this has to do with mechanical shovels escapes me, I must say.

The ATI unit will be the only graphics card that will have support for FSAA for the Mac but this feature should be available in mid April from using drivers currently being readied.

The card will bring multiple display capability for high end card for MAC and it will have all those things that you can find on the PC Radeon 8500 such as Truform, Smoothvision, Smartshader, HyperZ II etc.

The card should be compatible with any Power MAC computer with an AGP slot and Mac OS 9.2.1 or Mac OS X 10.1 or later.

According to ATI "It is an ideal replacement for factory-installed AGP cards in any Power Mac G4." Which we do not doubt at all.

ATI have three other Mac products - Xclaim TV USB edition external TV tuner, the Radeon 7000 Mac Edition PCI graphics card, and the Radeon 7500 Mac Edition ADC graphics card. µ