what does this mean?

[glbronze]

http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/quartzextreme.html

they compare mac os x 10.1 to mac os x 10.2 to quartz extreme...can you have 10.2 w/o QE?

 

[fbp_]

yes, by not having a supported graphics card

 

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Yes, you can -- Quartz Extreme is just Apple's name for offloading some of the graphics processing of the system to a supported video card. In essence, the video card will do a lot of the processing of the visuals in OS X so that your physical computer processor doesn't have to do it, making the OS X visual effects a bit faster.

Yes, you can have 10.2 without Quartz Extreme -- if you don't have a supported video card (any NVidia card or an AGP-based ATi Radeon card with at least 16MB of RAM) then you'll get plain-old Quartz. They won't look any different, but Quartz Extreme will be faster than Quartz.

 

[glbronze]

well it showed that 10.2 beat 10.1 even without QE, so 10.2 is faster anyways.

 

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Yup.

 

[voice-]

Yeah, it's faster anyways, QE will just push the speed even more...