Hi, a friend is going to trade his Dual 2 GHz G5 for a PowerBook G4, he would like to get a 'Core Image ready' PowerBook, the models with an ATI 9700 are fine, but he had received just an offer about a 17 inches 1.33 GHz model, the one that comes with a 9600 Radeon GPU. This GPU is not displayed as being Core Image
friendly but I have read the text below at xlr8:
New iBook Radeon 9550 has Tiger Core Image/Video Support - Earlier today I mentioned the new iBook line is using the Radeon 9550 graphics chip and guessed it had Tiger Core Image/Video support (since the desktop 9550 is based on the R3xx/9600 series) but wrote a contact at ATI who verified it does.
Apple's iBook graphics page mentions quartz extreme support but didn't mention Tiger Core Image/Core Video support.
(For those that missed the posts here earlier this year - although the OS X Tiger page listed a Mobility 9700/Desktop 9600XT or higher was required, the Mobility 9600 and non-XT 9600 also have Core Image/Video support in Tiger.)
So, anyone here could let me know if the 1.33 GHz model with a ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 is able to get the fancy Dashboard effects?. The last thing my friend wants is to get a kinda 'outdated' PowerBook, if a 1.5GHz 15 inches is a better option, he would go for it, if an offer cames of course.
Thanks you all.
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