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Leopard on GMA950?
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For those of you who have the latest build of Leopard and either a Mac mini or a Macbook, how are the visuals?
If I buy a Mac mini now, do you [graphics-wise] think it'll last me for the nest three years till college? I don't really do any gaming or anything, just the occasional movie. But I don't want to buy a computer with a graphics card that's not well-suited for Apple's next-gen OS.
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I have Mac OS X Leopard running on my Macbook Core 2 Duo, and for the most part it runs really well. Almost just as good as Tiger, its smooth and everything works really well. Core Animation has no problems running on the Intel GMA950 everything works like it should, but sometimes when running more than graphic intensive application my Macbook has a really hard time.
Other than that my CPU gets really hot, temperatures soar when running Leopard but thats another issue. Hope this little write up helped.
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Originally Posted by Sethro 
Other than that my CPU gets really hot, temperatures soar when running Leopard but thats another issue. Hope this little write up helped.
You might want to pay attention to the seed notes and your activity monitor.
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The Vista UI was more-or-less designed for GMA950, since so many users (Intel has ~40% graphics marketshare) have it.
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Originally Posted by mduell
The Vista UI was more-or-less designed for GMA950, since so many users (Intel has ~40% graphics marketshare) have it.
It's the other way around.... the GMA950 was designed to run Aero. Not Aero being designed for the GMA950
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Microsoft and Intel aren't exactly unaware of each other's existence. MS has been talking up Aero, or rather Avalon, for some time, so Intel added enough basic features to GMA 900 and 950 to make it possible to make it work on them. MS then made sure that it actually did work, because they wanted people to upgrade to Vista.
The same goes for Apple: The GMA 950 is used in the Macbook, the mini and the education iMac - that is a quite large subset of Apple's volume (if not its revenue). Apple wouldn't make an OS that doesn't run well on Macs that they're still selling, and they'd be vulnerable to class action lawsuits if they did.
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Originally Posted by P
Microsoft and Intel aren't exactly unaware of each other's existence. MS has been talking up Aero, or rather Avalon, for some time, so Intel added enough basic features to GMA 900 and 950 to make it possible to make it work on them. MS then made sure that it actually did work, because they wanted people to upgrade to Vista.
GMA900 doesn't support Aero, because there's no WDDM driver for it, because it's missing a hardware scheduler. I guess GMA900 was frozen too early (released in mid 2004) to know the Aero requirements.
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