Sunnyvale, California-based SuperMac Technology has announced two new video boards with accelerated graphic cards and a 16 Trinitron display. The 16 Trinitron has a resolution of 832 by 624 pixels, as opposed to 640 by 480 on Apple’s monitor and offers 50% more display space than Apple’s 13 colour display. It uses the Apple-standard 75Hz refresh rate for reduced eye strain, and has a 72 dots per inch resolution. The display is shipping now in the US, and costs $2,800. Video board features include advanced 24-bit and 8-bit accelerated graphics cards for large screen displays. The cards, called Spectrum/24 PDQ and Spectrum/8 PDQ, work with displays from Apple as well as SuperMac, enabling customers with existing graphics equipment to upgrade. The new Spectrum/24 PDQ and Spectrum/8 PDQ display cards both incorporate SuperMac’s QuickDraw-in-silicon graphics acceleration. The Spectrum/24 PDQ is a high-end card, designed to support true colour displays with resolutions up to 1,152 by 870, including SuperMac’s new Color Two Page Display. With the most advanced graphics acceleration technology in the industry, SuperMac claims, the Spectrum/24 PDQ eliminates the loss of productivity often associated with working with true colour. SuperMac’s custom QuickDraw acceleration chips are built into the card, so users need only use one NuBus slot. The Spectrum/24 PDQ is fully QuickDraw compatible, so it works with virtually all Macintosh applications. With the optional Graphics Accelerator, it accelerates faster than SuperMac’s current Spectrum/24 Series III card or Color Card/24. The Spectrum/8 PDQ card uses SuperMac’s on-board QuickDraw graphics acceleration to display 256 colours as quickly as standard Macintosh systems display monochrome, using a single NuBus card. The Spectrum/8 PDQ delivers resolutions up to 1,152 by 870 and supports SuperMac’s new 21 Two Page displays, 16, 19 and 21 monitors from SuperMac, and monitors from Apple and other vendors. The card also supports the Apple-standard 75Hz as well as 60Hz refresh rate. It is fully QuickDraw compatible, and handles one, two, four and 8-bit pixel depths for maximum software compatibility. Both the Spectrum/24 PDQ, and the Spectrum/8 PDQ can support NTSC Red Green Blue and PAL Red Green Blue video for multimedia applications. The Spectrum/24 PDQ, is at $5,000 and the Spectrum/8 PDQ is $1,900.
