But if I did something like try to play a bit of Need for Speed Carbon or X-Plane in my free time-or even use Quartz Composer to test some hints-the machine would usually lock up tight after some unpredictable amount of time. As long as I never pushed the card, everything was fine.
Like my colleague Dan Frakes, I too had been experiencing video card problems with the ATI X1900XT in my Mac Pro. “What?, what’s the relationship between the two?” you’re probably thinking.
Have you ever stopped to think about just how far personal computing has come in a relatively short period of time? It’s not something I do often, but I recently did just that, mainly thanks to a bad video card in my Mac Pro.
