<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Bjorn, <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>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?<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Michael</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 2, 2005, at 2:00 PM, Kuestner, Bjoern wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">But Quartz was definitely built for the future, not for current hardware.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Quartz Extreme was one step to get hardware graphics acceleration back which</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">was basically lost with OS X. But the transition isn't complete until we</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">have Quartz 2D Extreme. Only then will almost all the things we previously</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">had run as effortlessly (or so it appears to the user) as they have before</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">... plus the many new things that Quartz allows.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>