On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 05:09 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:

> As far as I know, the law suit was specifically about DVD playback

No.  The lawsuit is about the definition of "fully supported."  Apple 
claimed that OS X was fully supported on many machines (including 
yours), and in the view of the plaintiffs, "fully supported" includes 
support for the graphics hardware that shipped with those machines.

> And I can assure you that this is only true for 8 MB Rage Pro cards.

Yes -- I said as much in my post.  I do realize that the Rage Pro LT on 
your Wallstreet PowerBook is still unsupported.

> I am pretty sure the original iMac isn't either, but I can't say this 
> for
> sure.

You are correct.  The original iMac shipped with only 2 MB of video 
RAM.  Again, Apple could write a driver to enable this card, but a 2 MB 
video card isn't going to help much no matter what.

> 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.

I didn't realize the Lombard also had a Rage Pro LT.

> 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.

Again, Johannes, I sympathize with your frustration, but I think your 
expectations are somewhat inflated.  Even if Apple kicks in support for 
your video card with a future upgrade to OS X, overall performance is 
still going to be painfully sluggish on a Wallstreet PowerBook.  Like I 
said, you're trying to run today's operating system on a four-year old 
machine.

- Darcy

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