Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 26th Aug 2002 18:13 UTC
Mac OS X Almost a year after our much discussed Mac OS X 10.1 review, it is time to write down our impressions from the new version of OSX, Jaguar 10.2. Is Jaguar worth the full $129 USD? Dive in for more. Update: Slashdot seems to agree with our review, at least on the backwards compatibility issue.
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Windows OpenGL applications
by Anonymous on Mon 26th Aug 2002 14:43 UTC

It doesn't surprise me if OpenGL applications running in windowed mode are slow with Quartz Extreme enabled.

Switching between rendering contexts is very, very expensive. You can see this in Windows and Linux too if you start 2 decently intensive 3D applications in windowed mode.

You don't usually play 3D games in windowed mode anyway, and if you use a Maya or something you can always just turn QE off, so it's a very minor drawback.