Originally posted by tsmith
I dont think the voting otions are very fair as if you were to vote for Altivec to be an option would that not mean you want it to be faster. If you vote for faster response would not the further addition of altivec code achieve this??
well, the reaseon i put those two up there is this. Faster response would not exactly be faster by Altivec. If someone has a slow video card, the very visual OS would certainly bog it down. I dont think that Altivec would help much in that aspect.
But in running applications, it doesnt exactly work as fast as i'd like on my g4 400 (sawtooth). With the use of Altivec, i think that it would go much faster. But now that i think of it its the people who make the apps, doh. Well, if it does use Altivec, it sure doesnt seem to use it all that much.
Anyway, the Altivec option is different than faster response. When i say faster response im really talking about useing menu's, resizing windows, opening and moving windowz, ect. ect.