[SWLUG] Xgl and Official Hellos

Andy Dixon andy at andydixon.com
Wed Sep 20 10:05:55 UTC 2006


On 20 Sep 2006, at 11:03, Neil Greenwood wrote:

> On 19/09/06, Andy Dixon <andy at andydixon.com> wrote:
>> Dave Cridland wrote:
>> > But really, I can't help but think that these things are carefully
>> > designed for people with more cycles than sense.
>> Its been designed for Windows. It sickens me when I think these
>> companies either are too short-sighted, too lazy or the driver
>> developers are just ex-Microsoft code monkeys.
>
> I think you're talking about the laptop and Dave was talking about the
> 'special' effects in Xgl.
>

Oh. It had been a long day ;)

Its mainly eye candy, but does mean more stuff is handled by the GPU  
instead of being all done by the CPU, I think. Could be wrong...

Ady



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