[Gllug] Linux laptop?

Matt Amos matt.amos at ic.ac.uk
Thu May 23 10:51:39 UTC 2002


On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 03:56:17PM +0100, Simon Stewart wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 03:32:59PM +0100, mallum wrote:
> > I didn't think they'd got round to making quatz hardware
> > accelerated yet. Certainly didn't feel like it. 
> 
> It's coming in the next major release of OS X, but Apple have already
> given out the minimum specs that need to be met to get OpenGL
> acceleration.

and my iBook doesnt meet them <sob/>...

seriously, i thought they would have done this far sooner with all the 
transparent stuff scaling and blah... to me hardware acceleration seems to 
be the natural choice.

never mind, it'll all be standard by the time this PoorStudent(TM) can 
afford another computer in 4 years time :(

cya,

matt

-- 
"In Cupertino they make the prettiest (or weirdest) boxes for their 
machines, but they've only moved sideways or backward in terms of 
interface design. When I see the color aqua, I do not want to put a skin 
on it, but think more in terms of hiding it with six feet of earth."
                                              -- Jef Raskin



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