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Apple Updates iBook
micq writes "After the PowerBook was updated with a faster processor at the end of April, the iBook was sure to follow. Apple announced today that the popular iBook line has been updated, upping it to a 700MHz G3. It's good to see they're still keeping the 12.1" models, which are of the few remaining small screen, ultra-portables..." They've also improved the video card to an ATI Mobility Radeon. Prices range from $1500 to $1800 for the 700MHz model (12" and 14"), and there's a 12"/600MHz model for $1200.
OK, you assholes, one last time-- try to get this one simple fact through your thick Steve-washed braincases:
MAC OS 10.2 DOES not REQUIRE 32 MEGS OF VIDEO MEMORY TO USE QUARTZ EXTREME.
Every time there's new Apple hardware released, or some new rumor or tidbit regarding Mac OS 10.2, AKA Jaguar, there always seems to be at least one idiot who posts something uninformed yet totally rude and arrogant like "ah, [new hardware], outdated before it's even released." This makes my blood boil.
So what is it that you people think exactly? That upon installing Mac OS 10.2 on, say, a Power Mac G3/450 it'll reboot into VGA text mode with a blinking text message "PLEASE UPGRADE VIDEO HARDWARE: INSUFFICIENT RAM TO DISPLAY MAC OS X?" Come on people, please. We know Apple's playing the "planned obsolescence" game now but that's a bit fucking ridiculous.
If there's not 16 megs of RAM, regular Quartz will run. If there's 16 megs of RAM, Quartz Extreme will run. And if there's more than 16 megs of RAM, it'll run really nice. GET THIS THROUGH YOUR FUCKING SKULLS . Mac OS 10.2 will run on any system that Mac OS 10.1 will run on. Jesus fucking Christ, I run 10.1 on my stock Power Mac 8600/300 with no video card!!! You people really need to wake up.
To said idiots, morons, and imbeciles (which the Mac world seems full of nowadays, thanks to the Apple's fruit campaign bringing over loads of PC lusers), I'd like to shout a resounding FUCK YOU and link you to Apple's Mac OS 10.2 spec page so that, on the off chance that you can read, you'll see that Quartz Extreme doesn't require 32 megs of RAM, it just prefers it over 16 megs of RAM (which is the actual base requirement).
I hope this little rant helped get the message across about Mac OS 10.2's actual graphics requirements. I need to go lay down before I have some sort of blowout. I can feel my heart pounding in my head at 180bpm.