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Quartz Extreme Demo Movie

Posted by pudge on from the i-will-buy-that-for-a-dollar dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "The Swedish web site MacNytt has a QuickTime demo of Quartz Extreme (the graphics acceleration technology in the upcoming Mac OS X "Jaguar" release). It is impressive footage, truly impressive. Now I can watch DVDs at a microscopic level!"

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  1. Re:/.'d already by BeenaBerry · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't you think users with poor vision might appreciate being able to zoom their screen?

  2. Pismo?! by SPYvSPY · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That machine is ancient in Mac-time. You don't see me griping about not having HW acceleration on a Lombard do you? No, I went out and bought a DP 800 G4 so I could play too.

    Why is it that you purchased a machine with a cripple mobile graphics card and then were surprised to discover its limitations?

  3. Re:wonderful, *IF* you've got a Radeon or GF2... by SpamJunkie · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Quartz extreme is *not* meant for everyone. It is lucky that Apple is releasing it this early at all; Microsoft's fully accellerated GUI is more than a year away, likely more than two. Unaccellerated Quartz is still very fast and very advanced - still unlike anything any other OS has.

    Also doing text on GL has always been a bit weird - lining up pixels and so on is kind of awkward. Unaccellerated Quartz will always be there, and always be reliable. It's not like Apple is suddenly making OS X only work on these video cards.

    You're not going to expect Doom III to work on these machines as well, are you?

  4. Re:I still don't get it by FaRuvius · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, lets think for a second that maybe not EVERYBODY in the world has your wonderful vision.

    In fact, many people with handicaps are prevented from using computers because they can't distinguish the shapes on the screen. Intensive magnification of the screen contents allows these people to use computers effectively.

    The zooming is actually magnification of the screen, I think the really nifty part that they were trying to show was the real time zooming on a DVD image with no slowdown of the dvd frame rate. ( I believe they were pausing the dvd here and there, I could be wrong)

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  5. Re:wonderful, *IF* you've got a Radeon or GF2... by TRACK-YOUR-POSITION · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Yeah, I was kind of ticked it wasn't going to work with my little iBook ... in retrospect, it makes sense to expect that though. To store a texture big enough for my iBooks screen of size 1024 * 768 at 32bpp(4 bytes) takes 3 megs. Then consider overlapping windows (typically LOTS of those, at least the way I use computers) and other overhead... it all adds up, I suppose.

    It was just a nasty surprise to read about how sexy cool Quartz Extreme would be until I'm drooling, then get all of those dreams dashed to pieces by brutal, brutal reality. Such is life.

  6. Re:wonderful, *IF* you've got a Radeon or GF2... by arson1 · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Translation of "Recommended" -- You'll need double this spec this to use the product properly.

    No, that's the translation of "Minimum Requirements" :)

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