On Jan 24, 2005, at 7:13 PM, Joshua Coombs wrote:
Core in Tiger moves all the work to the GPU. This will result in the bus seeing lower utilization, (meaning PCI cards should be enabled if they have enough ram) but more ram use by the GUI. The Mini may have enough raw GPU horsepower to tackle Core, but die because it's light on ram, and then be doubly hit by not allowing DIME mode which would have allowed it to attempt it rather than having to fall back hard on the CPU when it runs out of ram. Should be interesting to see how Apple handles this.
As an Electronics Engineer I find your post highly interesting and also have pondered this question. I , too, will be watching to see how this progresses. I believe that most high end graphics users will not be the group that corners this market . I also believe that they were not the group that Apple was aiming for with this product, though.
Andy3
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