Thread: TiBookers who want Quartz Extreme, unite! (Other unsupported ones, too!)
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Old May 7th, 2002, 04:53 PM
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TiBookers who want Quartz Extreme, unite! (Other unsupported ones, too!)
According to Apple-history.com, my PowerBook G4 500 has...

VRAM: 8 MB (ATI RAGE 128 Mobility 2x AGP)

and Apple's web page (http://www.apple.com/macosx/newversion ) says Quartz Extreme needs one of these....

*nVidia: GeForce2MX, GeForce3, GeForce4 Ti, GeForce4 or GeForce4MX. ATI: any AGP Radeon card. 32MB VRAM recommended for optimum performance.

So this means that "Quartz Extreme" will not be supported on my PowerBook G4. Does anybody else think it rediculous that their 1 year old machine will not be able to take advantage of hardware acceleration? My graphics chip will just be sitting around, doing absolutely nothing. I say put the little bugger to use!

Please, Apple. If you can support nVidia and Radeon, please take the time to accelerate our PowerBook G4s.
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