> What you're saying is that it's INDEED worth to buy a radeon 7000 for > our oldish macs ?
It was worth the $75 I paid for a pre-flashed PC Radeon 7000. I would probably have paid the $120 a new one costs here if I'd known how much of an impact it would have ahead of time. > How better than internal (onboard) video ? Depends on the application. Anything that can use OpenGL including most video players are outstanding... Quicktime goes from "postage stamp is mostly viewable, occasional dropouts" to "quarter screen is pretty smooth". Straight Quartz graphics are a mixed bag. Mostly slight to significant improvements. A lot of GUI elements like menus seem to be accelerated. Compositing does seem to be sped up somewhat. A few (very few) apps that seem to write directly into a bitmap are slower and jerkier, I assume because they're going from 50 MHz 64-bit memory to 33 MHz 32-bit memory. Overall, 'millions of colors' is a lot smoother than 'thousands' on the internal video. The "idle" CPU overhead about doubles. I have edited the file to enable QE but I haven't been bold enough to pull the trigger yet. :) > PS: By the way, are you related to brazilians ? Because "da Silva" is > the MOST popular surname here in Brazil I have relatives in Portugal and Africa, not Brazil that I know of. -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.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/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
