will my iMac take advantage of Quartz extreme

[cwoody222]

I'm not sure about what my iMac's specs are in relation to what's required for the Quartz Extreme aspects of 10.2.

Here's my machine:

http://www.apple-history.com/quickgallery.html?where=imac_summer_2001.html

(the 500MHz indigo)

The important stuff (I think) VRAM: 16 128-bit ATI RAGE 128 Ultra (2X AGP)

Apple says the following:
Quartz Extreme functionality is supported by the following video GPUs: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX, GeForce3, GeForce4 MX, or GeForce4 Ti or any AGP-based ATI RADEON GPU. A minimum of 16MB VRAM is required.


So...will I be able to take advantage or not?!?!

 

[Edge100]

Originally posted by cwoody222
I'm not sure about what my iMac's specs are in relation to what's required for the Quartz Extreme aspects of 10.2.

Here's my machine:

http://www.apple-history.com/quickgallery.html?where=imac_summer_2001.html

(the 500MHz indigo)

The important stuff (I think) VRAM: 16 128-bit ATI RAGE 128 Ultra (2X AGP)

Apple says the following:
Quartz Extreme functionality is supported by the following video GPUs: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX, GeForce3, GeForce4 MX, or GeForce4 Ti or any AGP-based ATI RADEON GPU. A minimum of 16MB VRAM is required.


So...will I be able to take advantage or not?!?!

You will not be able to take advantage of QE, but 10.2 will DEFINITELY give you a big speed boost, just not as much as you would see if QE was active.

Sorry. I'm in the same boat with my iBook 500 and iMac 600. 10.2 will still rock, though.