Looking at platforms objectively [X4U]

[Michael Elliott]

Bjorn,

Could you educate me on what the advantages for Quartz 2D Extreme  
will be?  I've heard the term thrown around, but I don't understand  
what exactly will be sped up.  (Or not...since I don't know if my  
iMac G4 1.25 Ghz or iBook G4 will support it!).  What "things we  
previously had run as effortlessly" will run better now?

Michael


On Sep 2, 2005, at 2:00 PM, Kuestner, Bjoern wrote:

> But Quartz was definitely built for the future, not for current  
> hardware.
> Quartz Extreme was one step to get hardware graphics acceleration  
> back which
> was basically lost with OS X. But the transition isn't complete  
> until we
> have Quartz 2D Extreme. Only then will almost all the things we  
> previously
> had run as effortlessly (or so it appears to the user) as they have  
> before
> ... plus the many new things that Quartz allows.

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