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The bundle comes with a driver CD (yes, youвЂ™ll be needing it), a pair of power cables and a lone DVI to VGA adapter. The card even looks identical, the PCB even has a useless pair of SLI bridge connectors on it.

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Unlike some earlier ATI Mac Edition cards, the GTX 285 ships with the exact same clocks as the PC version.

Looks can be deceiving, one end is a normal PCIe power connector, the other end is tiny PCIe power The EVGA bundle does come with the two necessary power cables, which youвЂ™d have to buy separately if you were going the hack-your-own route they absurdly retail for $30 a cable. The price is a bit hefty at $449.99, especially considering that you can buy the PC firmware enabled GTX 285 from EVGA for around $330.

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ItвЂ™ll also work just fine in Windows using Boot Camp. Now you can do some Googling (or Binging) and find ROM dumps for various PC cards that will enable Mac operation, or you can buy a card that comes EFI equipped from the factory.Д®VGA is offering the latter, a GeForce GTX 285 with firmware that will allow it to POST and function under OS X without any modifications. ItвЂ™s not a huge change, but for whatever reason the PC specific cards donвЂ™t have it.

In order to get your PC video card to work under OS X it needs firmware with a few EFI hooks in it. These come in the GTX 285 Mac Edition box.

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If you upgrade to a more power hungry video card, youвЂ™ll need one or two cables that connect the small PCIe power connectors on the Mac ProвЂ™s motherboard to the connectors on the video card itself.

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These cards are only useful in the Mac Pro, but the standard video card in any Mac Pro doesnвЂ™t require any additional PCIe power connectors. Why do you even need a GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition? The hardware is identical to what you get (for $100 less) when you buy a PC card, the difference is in the packaging and firmware. What EVGA has done is given Mac users a very high end GPU option that they can buy from or through a handful of other online vendors. Prior to this release, all 3rd party video card upgrades were branded either by ATI or NVIDIA - Apple doesnвЂ™t really support the upgrade market the way the PC industry does. In a completely surprising move however, EVGA has released a GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition. Even more awesome is that once Apple officially supports a conventionally PC video card, it just takes one user to dump the ROM from the Mac version and now we all have a way of hacking PC cards to become Mac editions. The 8800 GT and even more recently, the Radeon HD 4870 have both been build-to-order GPU options directly from Apple. Lately Apple has been getting a bit better with GPU releases. Do I even need to point out how disappointing that is? Apple still sells an ATI Radeon X1900 XT upgrade kit for the Mac Pro, for $399. Mac versions of PC GPUs have always been ridiculously overpriced and taken far too long to come out. Upgrading Mac video cards has always been an unreasonable pain. And the ones that donвЂ™t use mobile chips have other supermodel quirks associated with them, like being lidless.

Most of AppleвЂ™s machines use mobile CPUs soldered on to the motherboards, which makes swapping chips an impossible affair. Refer to the following message from Ubuntu's mailing list if you want to learn more.Upgrading anything other than memory or hard drives in a Mac is ridiculously frustrating. Warning: The driver descriptor says the physical block size is 2048 bytes, but Linux says it is 512 bytes.ДЄll these warnings are safe to ignore, and your drive should be able to boot without any problems. Try making a fresh table, and using Parted's rescue feature to recover partitions. Is this a GPT partition table? Both the primary and backup GPT tables are corrupt. Or perhaps you deleted the GPT table, and are now using an msdos partition table. Perhaps it was corrupted - possibly by a program that doesn't understand GPT partition tables. However, it does not have a valid fake msdos partition table, as it should. dev/xxx contains GPT signatures, indicating that it has a GPT table. Ubuntu images (and potentially some other related GNU/Linux distributions) have a peculiar format that allows the image to boot without any further modification from both CDs and USB drives.ДЄ consequence of this enhancement is that some programs, like parted get confused about the drive's format and partition table, printing warnings such as:

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