[Ti] Which graphics chip?

[Marcus]

On Saturday, November 30, 2002, at 08:37  PM, Mark C. Langston wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 11:15:06PM +0000, Doug Edwards wrote:
>> Just got my new 1Ghz TiBook. Compared with my original 500MHz, it is 
>> great.
>> the screen is so much brighter. However, one query - it is supposed 
>> to have
>> a ATI Radeon 9000 graphics controller. However, on boot up, the 
>> following is
>> reported:
>> localhost mach_kernel: ATIRadeon8500: using AGP
>> Anybody any idea what is going on?
>
>
> I believe ATI hasn't finished the 9000 drivers for us yet, so the new
> 1GHz TiBooks are still running the 8500 drivers.  You're seeing a 
> report
> from the driver, rather than a read of a string from the actual
> hardware.

So does that mean that when they finish the driver one will get better 
graphics in games?  Also when they finish the driver, will it be an 
apple update in the system preferences or something on ATI's website?

-Marcus