Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 10th Jun 2009 12:20 UTC
Despite the beating Apple often receives for its controlling behaviour of the App Store and its Mac OS X EULA, the company really does know how to market itself and its products. At the WWDC in San Francisco, currently under way, the company found a very illustrative way of showing the sheer size and success of the App Store.
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RE[4]: Some random thoughts - loosely related to this subject
by jal_ on Thu 11th Jun 2009 09:59
in reply to "RE[3]: Some random thoughts - loosely related to this subject"
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You just need to use Matrox video cards to do so.
Thanks for this interesting information, I didn't even know Matrox was still around.
You won't be playing any high-end or even mid-range 3D games on these ... but you do get full 2D acceleration with them.
In that case, for this specific videowall, they wouldn't go then, as the ripple effect seems heavy 3D.
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Good luck finding a computer that can drive 20 displays. "
Any Windows computer with enough PCIe and PCI slots can do it. You just need to use Matrox video cards to do so. Their standard (lower-end) PCIe video cards can drive 4 displays. Their half-height video cards can drive 2 displays. And their higher-end PCIe video cards can drive 8 displays. And you can put more than 1 into a box, and link them together, without having to use SLI or CrossFire. (They also come in AGP formats.)
If I remember correctly, you can run 4 video cards at a time using the Matrox drivers, giving you from 8 to 32 displays.
You won't be playing any high-end or even mid-range 3D games on these ... but you do get full 2D acceleration with them.
We gave up trying to get nVidia and ATi/AMD consumer video cards to work with even 2 monitor setups in Windows, and have started buying Matrox. These are truly plug-and-play multi-monitor video cards.
Edited 2009-06-10 23:10 UTC