Darcy James Argue / 2006/08/11 / 04:18 PM wrote: >You've actually got it backwards -- OS X has progressively been >offloading more and more drawing tasks to the graphics card. It began >with the introduction of Quartz Extreme, and continued with Tiger's >Core Image. (Of course, if the Mac's graphics card isn't powerful >enough to support Quartz Extreme or Core Image, those features are >disabled.)
Are you saying Finale is now a Quartz app? Porting QD app to Quartz isn't trivial as I heard, and I would think MM will advertise it if they did. The introduction of Quartz 2D made audio metering apps to be lighter on cpu load, but they offer either mechanism to detect Quartz presence or user switch to disable it because running Quartz app on non Quartz machine takes cpu down heavily. If Finale is still QD app then graphic card isn't doing much for its 2D drawing _on Mac_ as I believed that was your point as well, but somehow I found you are disagreeing with me so I am veiling out on this thread. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA <http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com> _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
