QUARTZ HARDWARE ACCEL!!
From MacCentral:
"Quartz Extreme: Takes the compositing engine in Quartz, and accelerates it in graphics cards. Combines 2D, 3D and video in one hardware pipeline via OpenGL
It is not possible on older graphics cards like RAGE 128 cards, said Jobs -- that means it'll work on newer iMacs and eMacs, but not on older machines, he emphasized. AGP 2x and 32MB video RAM are required for this new technology."
HOT!
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"Quartz Extreme: Takes the compositing engine in Quartz, and accelerates it in graphics cards. Combines 2D, 3D and video in one hardware pipeline via OpenGL
It is not possible on older graphics cards like RAGE 128 cards, said Jobs -- that means it'll work on newer iMacs and eMacs, but not on older machines, he emphasized. AGP 2x and 32MB video RAM are required for this new technology."
HOT!
[ 05-06-2002: Message edited by: AppleCello ]</p>
Comments
Hmm, I wounder what Apple is going to do about that class action?
<strong>I have a radeon 32mb card in my 500 MHz G4 Cube - does this mean my machine is supported supported?</strong><hr></blockquote>
YES!
<strong>I assume that the same is true of my G3-450 iMacs...sluggish forever.
Hmm, I wounder what Apple is going to do about that class action?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Class Action won't work. Apple never promised you blazing Video Performance.
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Raycer just bore it's fruit. There you go.
Looks like iMacs (g3) and iBooks are both dead in the water as far as future speed increases for OSX go. I can't see why anyone would buy either machine knowing this. Even recently purchased VGA-out TiBooks, won't get any UI help.
Expect Ebay to be very active this summer.
<strong>OK so what happens if you have a dual monitor setup that runs through a PCI card (say a Radeon). Your main display gets hardware acceleration and you secondary gets umm...uhhhh...anyone see the problem here?</strong><hr></blockquote>
I have the same question as Arty50... I currently have a G4 tower with AGP, but I also have a second display via PCI and was about to drop $$$ on a THIRD display card for video (Matrox RT-Mac once the OSX drivers are available)... but does that mean that none of the PCI displays will see the accelleration...? will they offer multi AGP boxes...? how does this effect us multi-display users... I am now worried.
- Scott
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YES!</strong><hr></blockquote>
Thanks a million for the quick reply :-) I feel happier now!
<strong>I see that I will need to replace my video card in my dp/450. I can't seem to find out if it is agp 2x or not though. Anyone know?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Any G4 450Mhz or higher that shipped that way from Apple are AGP. Most G4 400's are too (although some are not)
TiBook is 32MB, AGP 4x so that's ok.
<strong>I'm a bit anxious about this too... I mean, really... that's a whole lot of people to be all but orphaning... i mean it'll still work, but it better be speeded up some on machines with <32 mb VRAM....</strong><hr></blockquote>
I'd assume that the other general optimizations that will occur with Jaguar will help those with less then 32 MB. In the end though I don't think they'll ever get snappy finder performance. Another reason to upgrade I guess (which is probably what Apples thinking too).