On 03.07.2002 18:30 Uhr, Darcy James Argue wrote > Here is the story as reported at MacCentral: > > "The law firm of King & Ferlauto has filed a class action lawsuit > against Apple in Superior Court for the State of California for the > County of Los Angeles. The firm alleges that Apple has violated the > California Consumer Legal Remedies Act by not supporting certain > G3-equipped models of Mac systems with the same features in Mac OS X > afforded to more recently developed G4-based systems. [...]
As far as I know, the law suit was specifically about DVD playback, since the non-support for a graphics card doesn't really give enough to sue Apple, whereas DVD playback does. In the case of the early Powerbook G3s DVD playback was realized through an adapter card, and that card is not supported by OS X. So _as far as I know_ the law suit does not really have anything to do with the graphics card istself, which won't be able to playback DVDs without hardware help anyway, not even on OS 9. But as I say, I haven't read the law suit documents, so perhaps the case extends to the graphics cards. > Johannes, I've seen the benchmarks from people comparing the results > (QuickTime playback, window scrolling, etc) in OS X 10.1.4 vs 10.1.5 and > I can assure you that Apple *did* introduce hardware acceleration for > the ATI Rage Pro in 10.1.5, just like it says in the ReadMe file. And I can assure you that this is only true for 8 MB Rage Pro cards. Go look it up at XLR8yourmac if you like, it's a fact. The drivers cannot be loaded on 4 MB Rage Pros, and in fact they won't by default even load on the Lombard, which has 8 MB, though there is a user tweak to get them to load (but it involves hacking the code). The Lombard is not officially supported by Apple either. But my Wallstreet is still not supported in this respect and runs no faster with 10.1.5 than it did with 10.1.4. I am pretty sure the original iMac isn't either, but I can't say this for sure. The Rage Pro LT uses the same chipset as the Rage Pro, btw, which is the only reason the Lombard can be tweaked to run, since it uses the same Rage LT, only it has 8MB compared to 4MB. In your original post you said: > However, there were some ostensibly "OS X-supported" > machines, such as the beige G3's, the original iMac, and some PowerBook > G3's, which were outfitted with very old video cards (ATI Rage II, ATI > Rage Pro), and QuickTime and OpenGL acceleration was not enabled under > OS X on these machines. Subsequently, some of the owners of these > machines banded together and sued Apple for false advertising, and to > avoid the lawsuit, Apple moved quickly to introduce support for these > video cards. (They have been supported since OS 10.1.4, I believe). This was what I was replying to. Fact is, the Rage II is not supported at all, and there is only limited support for the Rage Pro, which unfortunatly does not include my machine. And as for the others there is still no 3D support. Sorry if I reacted too harsh, but I am a little, shall we say, annoyed about Apple in this respect. We'll see what 10.2 brings. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
