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[Catfish_Man]

Re: Quartz Extreme Specs Again?

Originally posted by dernhelm
I've seen several posts indicating that this machine was "Quartz Extreme" ready. Have the video card specs suddenly shrunk from 32MB to 16MB? Has Quartz been re-optimized for the G3? Does the direct-to-video card feature negate the need for the G4 optimization?

16MBs of vram will hold 5.33 full screen 1024x768x32 windows. 16MBs will run 1024x768x16 like 32MBs runs 1024x768x32. After that it'll hit the main memory (which is why it needs AGP) and slow down. What do you mean about the G4 optimization? I wasn't aware that Quartz required a G4 (in fact I thought the point of QuartzGL was to reduce the dependence on the processor).

 

[Backtothemac]

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
back to da mac.... where/how did you get 10.2? i don't remember you mentioning it......

I got it from a little birdie It is really nice.....

 

[jelloshotsrule]

Originally posted by Backtothemac


I got it from a little birdie It is really nice.....

ahh, where/when did you first announce you had it? i'm surprised i missed that... since you and i are tight and all...

 

[Backtothemac]

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule


ahh, where/when did you first announce you had it? i'm surprised i missed that... since you and i are tight and all...

Got it about two days ago. It is unreal Jello.. you are going to be blown away!!!!

 

[jelloshotsrule]

Originally posted by Backtothemac


Got it about two days ago. It is unreal Jello.. you are going to be blown away!!!!

wow, can't wait then.... i think my dual 800 will take to it nicely! hehe

 

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by Backtothemac


Got it about two days ago. It is unreal Jello.. you are going to be blown away!!!!

Aw, damn. I'm not going to be able to run it anytime soon, my old mac won't be able to handle it. I'll need to upgrade the video card and the CPU, hopefully someone will come out with a Dual 733 or 800 for my Sawtooth.

Do you think my rev b. 667 TiPB will be able to handle it?

 

[Backtothemac]

Originally posted by dukestreet


Aw, damn. I'm not going to be able to run it anytime soon, my old mac won't be able to handle it. I'll need to upgrade the video card and the CPU, hopefully someone will come out with a Dual 733 or 800 for my Sawtooth.

Do you think my rev b. 667 TiPB will be able to handle it?

What are the specs on your old sawtooth? Believe it or not, it will run if it is running x at all. The TiPB will more than handle it. Believe me.

 

[Wry Cooter]

Originally posted by dukestreet


Aw, damn. I'm not going to be able to run it anytime soon, my old mac won't be able to handle it. I'll need to upgrade the video card and the CPU, hopefully someone will come out with a Dual 733 or 800 for my Sawtooth.

Do you think my rev b. 667 TiPB will be able to handle it?

I'll creep along with my 400 mhz sawtooth and a Radeon or GeForce. Bet it will be fine. My sawtooth is too early for ANY upgrades however (How happy would we be if we didn't have to buy a new case and motherboard everytime we wanted a faster chip?)

 

[rkcrane]

new ibook has no reset button

I currently own an ibook 500 which has the tiny reset button on the left side. I see that the specs for the new ibook has no reset button. I have had to reset my ibook several times when it went into total ( and I do mean total) lockup in both OS9 and OSX environments. I still run the original packate OS9.1 and OSX10.03.

The ibook would not power down, would not respond to 3 finger reboot and I presume that the only thing I could have done is to remove the battery and re-insert.

Frankly, it is not undertandable how the reset button was designed out. Unless they implemented a watchdog timer that would perform an internal reset in such a case. But a watchdog timer must have a software loop of the OS hitting it at regular intervals, say 1 second, in order to operate.

Anybody have any idea of how Apple got around the real need for a reset?

 

[ftaok]

Re: new ibook has no reset button

Originally posted by rkcrane
I currently own an ibook 500 which has the tiny reset button on the left side. I see that the specs for the new ibook has no reset button. I have had to reset my ibook several times when it went into total ( and I do mean total) lockup in both OS9 and OSX environments. I still run the original packate OS9.1 and OSX10.03.

The ibook would not power down, would not respond to 3 finger reboot and I presume that the only thing I could have done is to remove the battery and re-insert.

Frankly, it is not undertandable how the reset button was designed out. Unless they implemented a watchdog timer that would perform an internal reset in such a case. But a watchdog timer must have a software loop of the OS hitting it at regular intervals, say 1 second, in order to operate.

Anybody have any idea of how Apple got around the real need for a reset?

WOW!! They got rid of the Reset button??? Oh well.

I used to use the reset button all the time back in OS 9. It was a real pain since I had to reset the clock every time. Then I found out about the "soft" reset. Just hold down the "power" button for about 5 seconds. It'll reboot and you won't have to reset the clock.

I haven't run into any problems where the "soft" reset wouldn't work.