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Quartz in older G4?
Authored by: JohnnyMnemonic on Jun 06, '02 12:36:20PM
You are confusing, I think, Quartz, and Quartz Extreme.

Quartz is the term for the entirety of the dipslay layer in OS X. It is what handles ALL of the graphics that you see. However, Quartz Extreme is an advertised feature of X.2, announced but not released. It purports to hand of much of the display processing to the graphics card, rather than as it is now, handled by the processor. As such, it requires a very fast connection to the graphics card, and a very fast card. As announced, it required a card with 32M VRAM. However, that's been now modified to "recommended for optimal performance".

So--you do, in fact, benefit from Quartz. How much you benefit from the added performace of Quartz Extreme remains to be seen, but I think you'll find it pretty good on the system you describe.

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