PowerBook - No QE/CI

[nylock10]

Hi,

A friend of mine recently got a 2001 PowerBook Titanium, 400MHz PowerPC, 512MB RAM.

The laptop wouldn't boot the operating system, it wouldn't get past the Apple logo boot screen.

So it bought a Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger DVD from Craig's List and installed.

Everything seems fine except this: In System Profiler, it says there is no Quartz Extreme / Core Image support.

How can he fix this?

Attached is a photo.

 

[panoz7]

How can he fix this?.

He can't. The graphics card in his ti-book does not support core image or quartz extreme. The graphics card is not upgradable, so he's pretty much stuck.

 

[nylock10]

What? No video support?

There has to be something..

 

[panoz7]

There's still video support... it's just that some of OS X's visual effects will be disabled or function slower.

Here's a wikipedia article on core image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Image

and one on quartz extreme: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_Extreme

The wiki articles explain just what quartz extreme and core image do and what your friend is missing by not having a supported graphics card.

Remember that the 400mhz model powerbook was introduced in 2001. It's pretty amazing that a 6 year old laptop can run the most recent version of OS X, however expecting it to be able to support all of OS X's eye candy is unrealistic.

 

[Maxwell Smart]

Yeah, your friends powerbook unfortunately doesn't have a graphics chip capable of QE/CI. Not surprising considering a good number of apple's laptops don't have CI support going beyond 2 years ago. He could upgrade the logic board to a 550Mhz or 667Mhz VGA board, but it would probably be more trouble then it's worth unfortunately.