Beautiful systems, but start at twice the cost of my current system (this time I think about comparable in power), which is well out of my price range. Wow, great deal.) Now at the other end is the Mac Pro. (For about $200 less what I paid for my current over a year ago, you get (1) dual core processor instead of quad core, (2) the same amount of RAM, (3) basically integrated graphics shared with main RAM instead of an 8800GTS. The Mac mini is probably even less upgradable than the iMac, and has for a moderately powerful system today is an underpowered processor and small amount of RAM. Hell, the bulk of my current system is about a year old, but I have components in there from 2004, and that's just what's in the main case. To my eyes, iMacs are stupid because it doesn't make sense to throw away a hundred or two hundred dollar monitor when you get a new computer. But they insist on selling OS X only with their own hardware, and then don't make hardware I both want and can afford. I'm not the original poster, but I really wish Apple would let me. Windows Vista doesn't NEED anything besides age-old window drawing, it just offers you the option to throw (in my opinion) useless eye at you that only distracts from the actual GUI.Īlso I doubt your claim that Aero actually does TTF rendering on the GPU, do you have any references to back that up? My point is, that if you don't need/want/care about this eye-candy, about everything essentially already _is_ GPU-accelerated, even without Aero. The only valid point you make is that with a full-blown GPU-accelerated desktop you can throw in much more eye candy without slowing down the system. You can 'cache' anything you like in video RAM without using the 3D capabilities at all, just like you can DMA stuff around without taxing the CPU, and draw stuff to the screen with just a few FIFO commands, it is not, (I repeat: it is NOT) what makes your system 'slow' unless you want to blur title bars, wiggle windows when you move them or add all kinds of other visual effects just because you can.
Let's just stop here because you obviously don't know much about how video cards work.
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