News Apple delayed by Nvidia

Waiting for your swank 30" Apple cinema display? Yeah, me too - and that win on the lottery.

Apparently the delay can be placed square at the feet of NVIDIA, according to the Inq:

APPLE ANNOUNCED its new range of LCD displays over a month ago now, and have begun shipping the 20-inch and 23-inch displays in volume. There are a fair few at the Apple store here in sunny SanFran, and also down the road at CompUSA. Beautiful they are too.
Those friendly CompUSA fellas spun us an interesting yarn, however, about the complete lack of 30-inch displays. If you're an Apple follower, you'll know that the 30-inch is the flagship display to accompany its G5 range of machines. Since it's running at such a huge resolution, 2560x1600, the display requires a dedicated graphics card - the GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL card, with dual DVI outputs to connect to the same screen.

Unfortunately, it seems, Nvidia just can't produce these. Our sources told us that whilst Apple is raring to go, Nvidia hasn't got the cards working yet. With 6800 Ultras in short supply on the PC, and the marketing machine telling everyone to buy 6800GTs, this special edition 6800 Ultra must be a niche of a niche of a niche - and possibly even less viable to produce. The board, which you can see at the Apple website, looks monstrously huge - we are talking Voodoo 5 6000 size here. It ain't cheap, and it don't appear to be easy.

Apple is well known for flirting with both graphics cards giants - its laptop range uses both ATI and Nvidia chips. If Nvidia can't deliver its end of the deal soon, it's unlikely it will get another stab at leading Apple technology for a while. Is Nvidia over-stretching itself, or is Apple just awkward to the core?

L'inquage

 

Sounds like apple called the wrong people...

http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/p_hr256/home.cfm

 

But that Matrox card cost $2,500!

 

I wonder how long NVidia will take to release the vacuum accessories kit

 

It DOES seem like it would be a right ***** to get the dual DVI working right... and Apple probably did something REALLY funky so even Matrox would have problems with it... I really wonder if nVidia is being slow... or if Apple said "We're going to build this LCD and we need dual DVI for it to work" then they built it and nVidia built the card, then Apple said, "NOOO, we need the dual DVI to go to ONE display! And it has to use this specific output!" and nVidia was left going "SCRAMBLE! Get this **** out the door!"

/me sees a future of 6800 Ultras and 6800 Ultra "Mac Edition"...