[Ti] difference in way OSX shuffles desktop backgrounds

Alan Thompson alan at alanthompson.net
Wed Feb 2 10:31:12 PST 2005


rats - mine does not.  it will on the screen saver fade effect, but 
changing the desktop background does not have the fading effect.  maybe 
i'm the one missing something :-p

J wrote:

> SO why does mine do the fade thing then? :-)
>
>
> On Feb 2, 2005, at 1:02 PM, Alan Thompson wrote:
>
>> It has the same video card, so yes.  (i have a 500 model, btw).  I 
>> don't think you get quartz extreme support on the TiBooks until 
>> perhaps the 867 model, and maybe not even that one, but perhaps only 
>> the 1GHz model.  I just can't recall at this point which has 32MB of 
>> VRAM, and which has 16MB.  Apparently, some 16MB cards/chipsets can 
>> be made to work with quartz extreme, but that's another topic.
>>
>> --alan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> J wrote:
>>
>>> And is this true of the 500 mhz model too???????
>>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 2, 2005, at 12:23 PM, Alan Thompson wrote:
>>>
>>>> It's because you only have 8MB of video ram, and a chipset that 
>>>> does not support Quartz Extreme.  You'll notice that you don't get 
>>>> that cool cube effect with fast user switching as well.  Also, you 
>>>> won't get those cube transition effects as part of the options for 
>>>> iPhoto (4 and higher) slideshows.
>>>
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