sandmanfvrga Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 I just remember that some in the Macbook thread when it was released kept on bashing the chip. Now it is ironical that the Macbook is as powerful as it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe The Dragon Posted May 26, 2006 Share Posted May 26, 2006 at the cost of system ram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted May 26, 2006 Share Posted May 26, 2006 I understand that OS X uses some hardware acceleration on the 2d side, but it doesn't need as much as a 3d game ok? Please don't kid yourself. I have seen old PowerMacs run OS X (mine at home) with 16 and 32 meg cards that are ancient and the interface was smooth. The Macbook graphics chip is plenty for 2d. My old G3 iMac runs Tiger (and runs it pretty darn well), but it doesn't feature the tiny speed boost that Quartz Extreme can give it (it doesn't support Ye Olde Rage cards that came with iMac G3's). In fact, it takes an AGP card that is a GeForce 2 or is more recent than that card to have QE. So those incredibly ancient cards are good at one thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted May 26, 2006 Share Posted May 26, 2006 My G3 iBook has an ATI Rage and it has QE but not CI. It suprisingly can do some really good 3D things though, like play Halo. Ooh, this is off topic, but I installed iLife 06 on it even though it was made for G4s and up and it runs iPhoto really well considering it's age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandmanfvrga Posted May 26, 2006 Share Posted May 26, 2006 at the cost of system ram Yes, but nobody should run a Mac with 512. If you do, then you are shooting yourself in the foot, not Apple. Getting 1 gig or more, you can run apps and have plenty of ram to play with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daganl Posted May 26, 2006 Share Posted May 26, 2006 is 256 mb a big deal? i have 1 gb piece on my macbook.. i have a 256mb ddr2 lying a around.. should i even bother to put it in? sorry for going a bit off topic.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldente Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 I just have to say this is the put the BIGGEST on my face when I read this. After ordering my macbook 2.0 I had sudden and last-minute paranoia so I reasearched even more about the macbook vs macbook pro for like 6 hours straight. Once i saw that the video card on the macbook couldnt be upgraded I freaked out. One reason i wanted the mac was to do video editing. Ideas started rushing through my head...what do I do? Do i send it back, do I pay the difference to get a pro? Do I look on ebay? But...i have to say this article has really reassured me...thanks. It's nice to know the macbook turns out to be the bang for the buck that I thought it was. With 2GB the thing should fly. YAYYY!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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