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Users with any 32 MB graphics board will just get extra speed boost on transparencies, shadows and other eye candy found on the OSX GUI.
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Lots and lots of people are going to feel “locked out” because of this advancement in the graphics layer of OSX.Īnyone knows if the requirements for Quartz Extreme are mandatory or if they are not met, the rendering can fallback to software or traditional 2D rendering? If these requirements are mandatory, I don’t see too many happy Mac users… Update: It seems that OSX 10.2 will run on older hardware, but it will not make any use of the OpenGL for the 2D actions. Also, many stores still sell the older Powerbooks with 16 MB of VRAM.
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The funny part is that Apple still sells iBooks with only 8 MB of VRAM and of course, the classic best-sellers iMacs, with 16 MB of ATi Rage Pro 128 (same as a standard Cube). Our Take: I received the Cube 2 weeks ago, and now it seems that I will have to find the special edition GeForce2MX 32 MB (which fits in the Cube) if I want to run OSX 10.2.
#Apple drops macos server install
Every single server can install off of that. The server version of Jaguar will support Net Install and Net Boot. “ A week from tomorrow there’ll be some news on the server front.” On May 14th Apple is introducing a dedicated server, rack mount model, Jobs said. Jaguar (codename for OSX 10.2 that comes at the end of the Summer) also features database technology which can be used for any app, system wide. Recognized by any application that uses text, even basic UNIX applications like Terminal. Jobs said this puts Apple two years ahead of “the other guys.”Īmong other things introduced, is InkWell: A Handwriting recognition technology. AGP 2x and 32MB video RAM are required for this new technology. It is not possible on older graphics cards like RAGE 128 cards, said Jobs - that means it’ll work on newer iMacs and eMacs, but not on older machines, Jobs emphasized. “ Everything on the screen is being drawn in hardware by OpenGL.” Requires AGP 2x and 32MB of video RAM. Combines 2D, 3D and video in one hardware pipeline via OpenGL. “Quartz Extreme” is a new technology that takes the compositing engine in Quartz, and accelerates it in graphics cards. Update: “Quartz Extreme” will probably force most of the Mac users to upgrade. Today we say goodbye to MacOS 9 for all future development,” said Jobs. “ MacOS 9 isn’t dead for our customers, but it is for you. “These are the guys buying the application software,” he said. Apple expects to see 5 million MacOSX users by the end of the year. “ We can do things in X that we just can’t do in 9… a hundred percent of what we’re doing is X only.” He cited Microsoft as an example of companies that are going X only.
#Apple drops macos server full
The news of Xserve’s demise is certainly a reminder that, despite Apple’s recent iPad and iPhone success with business users, it can’t quite compete with the likes of IBM or HP in enterprise server rooms.The first big news today from the WWDC 2002 is that Apple now officially stops the MacOS 9 development and goes full speed with OSX.
I don’t suspect too many server administrators are going to jump at the chance to throw in Mac Pros or Mac Minis in their setups, but the addition of the Mac Pro Server configuration may be useful to some. In job postings for the datacenter, Apple says that it will run “MacOS X, IBM/AIX, Linux and SUN/Solaris systems.” So even if XServe systems are part of its infrastructure, it likely won’t make up a significant chunk. With XServe on its way out, it’s also unclear what role, if any, the server will play in Apple’s upcoming North Carolina datacenter. That’s certainly better than the alternative - the Mac Pro takes up 12 racks of space, according to Apple. The Mac Mini’s thin profile allows it to fit in a single rack unit (or 1U of space), and they can also be stacked side-by-side to fit two units on one rack. While it would seem that Apple has effectively pushed itself out of the traditional server room, it offers some suggestions on how users can fit the Mac Pro and Mac mini into server racks. The Mac Pro server is slated to ship in a few weeks with a $2,999 base option that features a quad-core Intel Xeon processor and 8 gigabytes of RAM In its Xserve Transition Guide (embedded below), Apple recommends that users adopt its new Mac Pro Server configuration, or its Mac mini server. The form factor allows administrators to easily sandwich significant amounts of hardware together in tight spaces (Virgina Tech relies on Xserve for its world-class System X supercomputer).
Xserve was Apple’s only rackmounted server - a system that could be stacked in server room racks. AppleCare warranties will still be honored, and the company says it has repair parts for up to seven years in California, and five years elsewhere in the world.
Apple won’t be leaving current Xserve customers high and dry, though.