[Bf-committers] NVidia support: free quadros!

[trip somewhere]

lucky :D

Now only if we could harness that sick crazy power of the Quadro and
it's pixel shaders :D



On 8/24/06, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've met one of the Nvidia tech-support people on Siggraph, and
> discussed opportunities to support Blender development. Follow-ups on
> this have resulted in:
>
> - we can get early access to driver releases, with developer login to
> give feedback and "certify" driver releases. (Todo: who likes to do
> this?)
>
> - related to that, we'll get listed here:
>    http://www.nvidia.com/page/partner_certified_drivers.html
>
> - best of all: we get a couple (I asked 5, unconfirmed) free Quadro
> cards. One of the cards will be for Macs, the others for PCs.
>
> As for the ATIs we got two years ago, I'd like to make a shortlist of
> people who are in urgent need for a 3d card upgrade.
>
> I've already added Andrea (PC, Windows) and Jean-Luc (Mac) on that
> list. I know Joe Eagar also really suffers a bad 3d card, but he's
> using a laptop still (get a PC man!).
> Just mail me personal if you'd like to get a free quadro! But note that
> active developers really will get a preference...
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Ton-
>
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