At 01:15 AM -0400 06/29/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 6/28/05 12:55:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Quartz especially is problematic. It's tuned for systems with
auxiliary graphics processors on AGP-based cards. Without that
secondary processor, it's sluggish. >>
Yeah, the only thing is I have a Radeon 9200 with 128MB VRAM. Should be able
to handle online poker.
You're right. My guess is this is a pokey java app thing, as Bruce
suggests. Quartz should be zipping along on that AGP card. *shrug*
I just hope in the coming years Apple gets their act together. This
Intel switch may actually be a good thing.
IMO, Apple's software developers have their heads in the clouds.
They're into featuritis bloat (eg: Tiger and QuickTime). So the
switch will make little to no difference wrt improving software
performance *initially*. BUT when the Mactel systems ship, I think
there will be some serious comparitive benchmarks published: x GHz
Mac vs almost the same exact hardware PC. At that point, hopefully,
Apple will wake up...
FWIW,
- Dan.
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