Mediator PCI USB card

[adolescent]

Phonic wrote:
They all come off the same line and they're all built to the same budget until a few are pulled out and flashed with the Mac compatible ROM.

You can't honestly believe that a relatively simple modification to a 64KB file justifies a 100% price hike even after factoring in R&D, testing etc.
Oh, and don't forget the sticker on the front of the box....

Sure it does.  Let's say it costs $10,000/per platform to develop firmware/drivers for a particular GPU.  If they are going to sell 10 times as many cards for one platform, then the card/firmware for the other platform is going to have to cost more, or be subsidised by the more popular platform which could effect sales and profit margins.

Call it MacTax, but it's really an effect of marketshare.  

BTW, most USB/Firewire cards work with both Mac and PC (even if they say they don't).  I got a 19.99 special at Fry's that is USB2.0 and Firewire for my Mac.

[adolescent]

@Zac67

It was obviously a huge mistake for Elbox to do that.  If you can't forgive them that's fine, but move on.  It's been years since this happened and people still bring it up like it's in the current drivers.  

[adolescent]

Piru wrote:

(I will stop when Elbox confesses the wrongdoing and apologizes).

Apolgizes to who?  The 0 people that got a trashed RDB?