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> On Saturday, June 29, 2002, at 08:12 PM, David M. Ensteness wrote:
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>> Quartz Extreme requires a Radeon 2x AGP or an Nvidia 2x AGP card and 32MB
>> of video RAM.
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> I think it said it only "recommends it." It could run with less, but not
> at top speed.
Correct. To make full use of Quartz Extreme, you need what Apple
recommends. QE will use what it can (on what hardware it supports) and
anything left over will be offloaded to the CPU (just like how 10.1.x does
it now). So, existing users with older hardware won't get slower (you may
see a very very slight increase) but newer machines will see improvements.
I personally think Apple should reword it (or add a qualifier like "to get
optimal performance") so so many users won't be confused and angry by the
requirement statement.
Personally, I don't think needing QE will fix the CPU utilization problem
that some are seeing with Fire but that's just an educated guess at this
point since I don't have any hard evidence. It seems to me that a app just
sitting there (graphically) wouldn't need CPU but an app just sitting there
(graphically) but doing other stuff (networking comes to mind) would
possibly need CPU.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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Ryan "My hometown is nowhere, my friends are everywhere." La Riviere
System Administrator; Drexel University
215.895.6010
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