The Apple site goes into very little detail on which GPUs give full support. I have a brand-new PowerBook 12" (64MB nVidia 5200) so I'm guessing it is fully supported, but my friend has an 800MHz iBook G4 and I don't know whether I should recommend the update for her or not. Also, my 1GHz Sawtooth has a 32MB GeForce MX pulled out of a QuickSilver, this is an older, though Quartz Extreme capable card. Will it be supported under Core Image, and if not, is it still worthwhile from a performance viewpoint to install Tiger on that machine?
Andrew On 4/13/05 4:01 PM, "Laurent Daudelin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 13/04/05 18:38, Tim Hodgson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Now that is *very* good to hear :-) Thanks. >> >> TimH >> >> On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 7:20 pm -0500, Bruce Sergeant wrote: >> >>> Tim, >>> >>> Yes, it was very responsive, very quick. Some of the Spotlight >>> searches took a little longer, on the Pismo, than I've seen elsewhere >>> but overall very fast. All accounts I've heard indicate that Tiger will >>> operate even faster, on most systems, that all previous Xes. >>> >>> I'm psyched... > > I am not sure where to draw a line but I think that if your PowerBook > supports Core Image, things can get amazingly faster. I have a 17" at 1.5GHz > and I did notice a significant speed increase in various operations. Most > notably in the Finder (finally!) and Safari 2.0 is also much faster. There > are some pages that display in less than a second! Menus and other widgets > are quite faster. > > However, I am not sure to what extent your GPU supporting Core Image can > speed things up... > > -Laurent. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
