I finally got time to test the new ibook model with the Radeon 9550. I
loaded up my Quartonian patch, some other Quartz Composer files and the
Motion compatibility checker on a USB stick and visited the Apple store
in Regent St, reason being that I'm am going to buy one on these only if
it ran core image filters in hardware.
The new ibook IS completely core image accelerated. Quartonian ran at a
fair clip even on 640×480 clips. Motion compatibility checker said yep
this machine is supported.
I tested quite a few filters on 640x480 quicktimes, most ran at a fair
clip. Some of course booged down but it looks like they are all running
in hardware on this machine.
Pretty good news for anyone who wants a cheap portable machine to use
core image or quartz composer files on... and in fact one of these would
be faster than a 12" powerbook for core image stuff (the fx5200, less
said the better).
--
Roger
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