On Feb 19, 2004, at 10:18 PM, Rad Craig wrote:


What is Quartz Extreme anyway?

Quartz Extreme is a technique where some of the UI graphics is run, not on the CPU, but the GPU on the video card. It does some nice stuff and speeds up the UI.


<http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/quartzextreme/>


What is Fast User Switching?

When enabled, it allows you to switch out user sessions without logging off. WinXP has this as well.


<http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/fastuserswitching/>


Rad...


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Sonja

I think, even without Quartz Extreme, Fast User Switching still works
in Panther. It just doesn't display the fancy graphic, instead it shows
a blue screen or some nonesuch...




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