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A couple Tiger questoins...
Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 6:04 am
by Psyche911
First, Internet Explorer.
Is it still in Tiger? My girlfriend, who owns the Powerbook we're considering upgrading to Tiger, uses a number of websites through school that, unfortunately, rely on the user using IE only.
Second, what will not run through Quartz Extreme? The Powerbook we have has a GeForceFX Go5200 32MB card.
TIA
Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 11:46 am
by Doombrain
it has IE but i'm not sure about the second question
Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 5:28 pm
by NCG_Mike
QE requires a 32MB card, AFIAK. My PowerBook seems okay with it.
Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 9:39 pm
by saturn
haven't seen IE in Tiger thank god.
You could use Camino and make it mimick IE, I'm sure Firefox can do that too.
Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 12:13 am
by Psyche911
saturn wrote:haven't seen IE in Tiger thank god.
You could use Camino and make it mimick IE, I'm sure Firefox can do that too.
Yeah, we've gotten by most of them using Mozilla on 10.2.x, but there's still a couple that require IE.
As long as it is still in Tiger, great. It'd be nice if it was improved, but I'm guessing not, or not much. Oh well, another reason to wean her off of it.
She picked it up at her student store today so we'll install it tonight. Installed a 512MB DIMM last night. It should be a lot better after these two days. woohoo!
Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 12:30 am
by saturn
Have a lot of fun with Tiger
If you really need it you can still download and install IE
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx
Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 12:47 am
by 4g3nt_Smith
As for the second one, Quartz Extreme IIRC isn't the new stuff, the new things are CoreImage, CoreVideo, and CoreSound. The only stuff thats gpu dependent are the features of CI, which I think is supported fully by the 5200s, but the VRAM amount is a big if, I think some of the effects require 64 megs of VRAM.
Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 8:33 am
by Geebs
There's an insanely complicated series of diagrams over at ars which explin it all. Basically, your graphics card won't be able to do core image or core video; you will benefit from hardware acceleration in quartz, but pretty much only to the same extent as you would have in Panther. Quartz Super Ultra Extreme Lucky Golden Palace edition isn't enabled in Tiger yet anyway; but those features will run on the CPU on your powerbook.
Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 1:59 am
by Psyche911
Geebs wrote:Quartz Super Ultra Extreme Lucky Golden Palace edition
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Well, we got it installed last night.
All went well, except for some reason, I can't enable the encryption on my shit router or else I can't connect with the Powerbook. If I turn it off, it signs on fine. But with encription enabled (and there's no doubt in my mind I'm using the right password) it doesn't work. It doesn't specifically say it, but it seems to act as if I'm using the wrong password.
So right now I have encryption dissabled.
But the firewall is on on both computers, so I hope we'll be okay. At least until I buy a
real[/b] router.