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Quartz Extreme with Unsupported Video Cards

Posted by pudge on from the hack-a-licious dept.

BandwidthHog writes "This thread over at Ars Technica discusses a simple .plist hack to enable Quartz Extreme on the PCI version of a supported video card, i.e. the original Radeon PCI and Radeon 7000, two of the most popular video cards for those of us running on 'unsupported' OldWorld machines."

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  1. shocked and appalled by jchristopher · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    You mean Apple INTENTIONALLY made it not work with PCI video, in order to artificially boost sales of new Macs? I'm shocked.

    The speed of OS X is the biggest scam I've ever seen. Sorry, but the only thing stopping OS X from running better on old Macs is Apple. A windowing system should not require a $3500 computer to run smoothly without lagging!

    Apple knows that users tend to hang onto their Macs and not upgrade. Now they've finally found a way - make the OS so painfully slow that users will have no choice but to go shopping for new hardware.

    As a consumer, I'm pissed. As a stockholder, I am merely disgusted at a company I once believed in.