On 09 Aug 2006, at 4:59 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 9 Aug 2006 at 13:54, A-NO-NE Music wrote:
All this talk about the graphic card effects on Finale, it may be
because Mac has graphic controller on mother board while PC
doesn't so
Windows have to do the extra work Mac OS doesn't need to, no?
The Intel motherboards that Dell uses often have onboard graphics
controllers. The higher end machines replace those with add-in
graphics cards.
Is this different from the Mac?
No. Hiro is mistaken.
For a long time, no Macs used integrated graphics controllers. (Some
models do have the video card soldered onto the motherboard, but
that's not the same thing as integrated graphics.) And the all the
towers have always had replaceable PCI or AGP video cards.
This only changed with the introduction of the MacIntels. The low-end
MacIntels (Mac mini and MacBook) use Intel integrated graphics. The
midrange and high-end machines -- iMacs, MacBook Pro, and Mac Pro --
use true video cards. The Mac Pro is the only model with a swappable
video card (and room for multiple video cards).
Also, he has it exactly backwards -- it's the machines with
integrated graphics that have to do extra work. Machines with proper
graphics cards can offload more tasks from the CPU to the graphics card.
Cheers,
- Darcy
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