nospam wrote:

Some Macs used regular PCI.

all macs since 1995 use pci.

A later model used 3.3V PCI cards (um...)

so do pcs. so what?

There is a Mac that uses 3.3V *only* PCI cards.

Which is a customer antagonistic choice that
goes against market trends. It makes
it difficult *on purpose* for a customer
to use the slots in the machine they paid for.

I always used to fill the slots on my Mac.
The PTP250 had six slots (on two bus segments)
and the machine was full, plus I had a couple
more cards I could fit if needed. I have more than
enough cards to fill my Mac G4 (two SCSI cards, an
ACard IDE card, and so on).

But customer antagonistic or just plain stupid
(+25V on the video card, to power the monitor),
was the name of the game. If there was
a dumb way to do things, they'd find it.

Like, even today, there are companies
falling all over themselves to remove
the *headphone jack* on mobile devices.
An item in the news a day or two ago, shows
a customer survey was carried out, where
something like 80% of customers used the headphone
jack. So what did the company do in that case ?
Why, remove the headphone jack.

What kind of an upside-down world are we living in ?
Customer antagonism at every turn.

Paul