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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. Before everyone starts their bitching... by Lally+Singh · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Yes, Quartz Extreme requires a 32MB AGPx2 video card. That's because everything is now rendered to OpenGL and then the card takes care of the drawing from there. So, it simply _can't_ work on older graphics cards that don't do much 3D optimization, like the Rage128.

    So, you can't do lots of cool little tricks. Jaguar does have plenty of other graphics optimizations. I've seen it fly on iBooks. It's simply faster. OS X has up until now been worked on for functionality, not speed. Now Apple's optimizing it, and it is crazy fast. CRAZY FAST.

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