Dennis B. Swaney writes: > At 13:05 -0400 9/27/02, Dan Knight wrote: >>Mark Salzman writes: >> >>>I have a slot loading Imac with 8Mb of VRAM. Mac warehouse states that >>>Jaguar requires 16 MB of VRAM, but the apple site does not seem to make that >>>statement. Anyone know if that's true or not? And if so, can a slot loader >>>have a VRAM upgrade? >> >>That is incorrect. Quartz Extreme -- which is not eye candy -- requires >>at least 16 MB of VRAM. Plain old Quartz will run just fine with less. >> >>Quartz Extreme is not eye candy. It actually offloads the whole process >>of managing screen display and windows to the video section of your >>computer, freeing the CPU to work on other tasks. >> > > But, Dan, doesn't Quartz Extreme require a different video card then > what is in the CRT iMacs? So if you had 16 MB of VRAM but not the > newer card, it still wouldn't work, correct?
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