On 5/9/02 at 2:13 PM -0700, Charles Baker wrote: >How does the AGP Radeon Mac Edition differ from the PCI version other >than the bus differences?
I believe it is precisely the bus difference. The big advantage of AGP is that it offloaded graphics bus traffic from the CPU load, while PCI graphics suck a lot of CPU time. The whole point of Quartz Extreme is to offload the Aqua eyecandy from the CPU to the GPU, something that wouldn't happen very efficiently over PCI. I'm sure if Apple really wanted to they could program QE to take advantage of PCI graphics cards, but why would they want to do that? ;-) -- _______________________ Phil Lefebvre Chicago, IL -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
