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Old 07-03-2002, 07:32 AM
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Default Re: OT ... Jaguar ahead of schedule

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Originally posted by The Electric Trombone:
This "quartz" graphics engine worries me a bit. . . This article says you need at least a GE-farce MX or a 32 meg ATI card to run it ?
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">As I understand it Quartz Extreme is a way to accelerate the 3D of the whole GUI the same way most 3D games are done now (in hardware). I believe Jaguar can be used and the Quartz Extreme can be turned off. Otherwise all the iBook people would be iScrewed.
It does mean that you're gonna get mucho better desktop graphics from a 32 meg card, but we knew that already [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

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