[geeks] nVidia 8800GT for Apple Mac Pro

[Mark]

On 21 May 2008, at 19:17, Mike Meredith wrote:

> On Wed, 21 May 2008 12:14:55 -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
>> Am I weird that the onboard GMA950 graphics in the Mini are fine for
>> everything *I* do?  It's most all "2D" (web, terminal windows, and so
>> forth) though.  Anything requiring hardcore 3D is games, and I have a
>> Windows box for that.
>>
>> I'm a heavy Spaces user but it works just fine..
>
> Thinking from a position of ignorance, wouldn't using Spaces lower the
> demands on QE ? You may have enough windows open to trigger the issue,
> but as they're spread across the Spaces, there isn't enough in any one
> Space to trigger the issue.

The windows have to be composited and rendered off-screen to make  
Spaces and Expose as snappy as they are, I think, and to make the  
fluid movement between windows and desktops work correctly. That's my  
take at least.


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