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  • Indeed, Quartz 2D, which is what most apps use to draw to their windows, is not hardware accelerated in 10.2. With Quartz Extreme, the Quartz Compositor now does most of its work in the GPU, which makes a huge difference. It fetches the Quartz 2D -m…
  • The real reason Rage 128 isn't supported is that it doesn't support textures of arbitrary, non-power-of-two sizes. It doesn't have DMA support for many of the Quartz pixel formats either. There might have been some other missing features, too, bu…
  • It's not called Regatta -- that's the name for the IBM big iron that currently runs on the Power4. Now, regarding your question, if we were to assume that this chip (the PowerPC 970) was tailor-made for Apple, then things point toward single-chip…