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Originally Posted by vdbucks
I'm going to call BS on Apple sending you a free $300 video card... sorry, but Apple didn't build the company they did by sending free hardware. And chances are, your 2009 machine running 2 9800's is still running 10.5, maybe 10.6.. and therefore isn't compatible with newer GPU since Apple doesn't retroactively update their drivers for newer hardware to work in older software.
Now, if you managed to get past the lion upgrade issues with an old 2009 machine, got it running without flaws; then perhaps the gpu would work... but I cannot see any scenario on this side of hell where Apple would send you free hardware.
As to the rest.. do your research. Aside from a few minor things like EFI Bios and it's own firmware on GPUs, there is very little difference between your average PC hardware and your average Mac hardware... the only difference is the cost.
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Sadly, you're wrong on every count here. Apple sent me the card, completely free.
I run Mountain Lion, 10.8.2. My machine is a dual-processor Quad-Core Xeon (8 cores total) with 12GB of RAM. Even by today's standards, it's a fast machine. My architecture is identical to a Mac Pro you'd buy today, right down to the 6.4 GT/s bus.
There are NO "issues" with upgrading this machine to Mountain Lion, as it's what it ships with today. The machines are identical.
You truly have NO idea what you're talking about here, sorry.