[Cube] Re: Cube Digest, Vol 50, Issue 5

[Gary Lauterback]

Mar 5, 2009, at 11:24 AM, cube-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com  
wrote:

> Gary, thanks for poppin' in!
>
> In fact, the lack of a FW port is not the main reason for me to gave  
> up upon new models. If you take a closer look to the Tech Specs  
> you'll notice the following:
>
> Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with  
> main memory (3)
> (3) Memory avalable to Mac OS X may vary depending on graphics  
> needs. Minimum graphics memory usage is 256MB.
>
> I've never liked the idea of sharing the GPU memory with the  
> computer memory. Don't ask why, but I always get the feeling that  
> users may lose computing performances with VRAM shared.
>
> Anyway, I appreciate the precious hint!
>
> LM

Oh for sure.  I understand.  My 13" MacBook is like that.  The newer  
units have dedicated VIDEO RAM ..  so much faster ...

GaryL