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Nvidia or ATI Radeon card required ???
Does this mean only a select few machines will actually work with it?
Nvidia or ATI Radeon card required ???
No the spiffy gfx card is only required for Quartz Extreme; if you don't have one you'll just get Quartz "Normal" (aka slow), probably tweaked a bit anyway in the Puma->Jaguar process.
After market card...
Hmm, might have to go shopping for an NVidia or ATI card for my aging G4/350 at work. A graphics upgrade would keep it viable for a while longer! ;-)
After market card...
Yeah, but what if you use a Powerbook?
AGP *2x*
At least one of the keynote reports I read specifically mentioned that you would need a 32 MB card and AGP 2x. So that would probably leave both you and the previous poster (G4/350 has AGP 1x, AFAIK) out in the cold (& slow). Me as well with my PCI B&W rev.1 G3. Just as long as it's not required for the 10.(release-to-be-named-later) upgrade, I can deal with it. :)
I would be surprised if we didn't see some improvements anyway, but it won't be hardware accelerated. mh
Nvidia or ATI Radeon card required ???
Apple's website states that any Nvidia or ATI Radeon will work; 32mb is recommended. It will work on a Radeon 16mb (Tibooks), it just won't be as fast.
ibook ATI Rage
so they're not bothering to accelerate the graphics for the ibooks that they're currently selling? doesn't that seem a little ridiculous?
ibook ATI Rage
The problem with laptops is you are never going to get the same performance as on a desktop system, because you have to run off of a battery. They probably can't get the older graphics chips to do what they need anyway, so nothing will fix that.
Apple kills iBook
With the new hardware requirements for a fast OS X, Apple has killed the iBook as an OS X machine. Who is going to buy a computer that Apple has already announced that it will not support in the future?
Apple kills iBook
It is supported. It runs OS X just fine. It will only get better with Jaguar. For extra performance you'll want a better machine. That has how it has always been with the Mac or any computer.
Apple kills iBook
By announcing graphics card acceleration of OS X, Apple is admitting that OS X needs a speedup beyond what Apple can do with simple CPU speed. Previously Apple said for us to wait for optimization. Now they are saying that machines they are currently shipping are not good enough. Who is going to buy a computer that even the manufacturer says isn't good enough to run the operating system?
I completely disagree...
I use my iBook with OS X a ton. I have zero speed complaints about it. Could window resizing be a bit quicker? Sure it could. Does it affect my using the system? Not in the least.
Logic ..
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