Mac and PCs graphic speeds

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Fri May 20 22:38:12 EDT 2005


Eric Chatonet wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> Working with both Macs and PCs, I am always surprised by the BIG 
> difference between graphic cards speeds.
> I have to say that graphic cards on Macs are very slow compared to even 
> cheap PC cards...
> For instance, you use a dissolve effect FAST on a Mac since it appears 
> too slow without adding fast.
> Then you put the stack on a PC and you don't see nothing: It's already 
> too fast :-)

I think the OS has a lot to do with that.  Why waste time on little 
things like the user's work when you can consume so much processing 
power with 16-layer alpha channels that make really cool demos?

;)

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