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Authored by: krove on May 21, '02 12:40:29PM

No one ever said your machine was not supported. You'll still enjoy the reported increases in "snappiness" without the use of Quartz Extreme.

Newer machines will be able to take advantage of this new technology. Get over it. You can't expect Apple to grandfather in every customer they have: the platform wouldn't go anywhere, as we'd be stuck waiting for everyone to catch up (which would of course never happen). The line had to be drawn somewhere (in this case they had no choice - the technology deemed that ONLY AGP 2x and great and 16MB and greater cards would be supported).

If it makes you feel better, I have seen that a plist exists to control which cards will and will not run QE. Try turning it on in your iBook and see where it gets you. Probably nowhere because this is not a conspiracy of planned obsolesence.



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Authored by: radfordr on May 21, '02 04:20:00PM

I had an iBook on order when Steve Jobs made the Quartz announcement. I would not have bought if I had known but still had to take delivery of a machine after finding out that Apple was not optimizing its operating system for machines they were then delivering.

I have no problem with Apple making improvements but I do when Apple ships machines that are already obsolete. Let us see an upgrade kit, either from Apple or a third party, that doesn't void the warrantee so that we can get a current machine.



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Authored by: krove on May 21, '02 07:03:01PM

Jaguar isn't even released yet! Until then, the "Apple shouldn't ship obsolete" argument is bunk.



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Authored by: marcinjeske on May 22, '02 04:06:21AM

Apple is optimizing Mac OS X for your machine.

Your iBook just won't be able to take advantage of all the optimizations in Mac OS X.

If Apple optimizes something for AltiVec... the iBook does not benefit. If Apple creates a PCI card that makes running Carbon Apps faster... you are out of luck.

Please be clear on this... the features in Mac OS X (including optimization) whichan iBook can use are a subset of all features. At the speed technology is moving, any new computer will always be missing the latest technology...



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