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Apple works slowly towards OpenGL 3
CAPPUCCINO COMPANY Apple, which claims to be at the cutting edge of technology, seems to be slowly waking up to the OpenGL 3 graphics standard.
In the latest release of the glorious new OS X beta there appears to be some initial support for parts of the OpenGL 3.0 spec. According to Ars Technica, the developer test build of 10.6.3 contained a number of OpenGL 3.0 extensions, as well as a few for the updated 3.1 and 3.2 specifications.
This will be good news for Apple fanboys who have been waiting for Apple to wake up to the fact that OpenGL has moved on a bit since the 2.1 standard, which has been part of OS X ever since the Philistines installed Apple Macs as part of their war against Samson [shurely Samsung. Ed].
Most modern GPUs support the new standard and have been running on Windows for yonks, but Apple OS X has been stuck on the steam powered OpenGL 2.1.
Ars said that to get the new standard to work on its machines Apple has to do some work and cooperate with GPU vendors to get its drivers into shape. It is fairly confident that 10.7 will include full support. µ
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"Linux is OK for normal users and somewhat more advanced coders, but for high intensity apps like games and video editing you need something like Windows."
Your kidding right? about games. The convicted monopolist Microsoft has pretty much succeeded in killing off Open Gl support in games. They did this on purpose for the very reason of tying gaming to Windows with their Direct X platform.
Linux can run games just fine, usually always with better frame rates too.
Long Live Open GL and I commend Apple for helping to keep it alive. Hopefully one day the game publishers will tell MS to F*ck off and start supporting Open GL again.
You must be misinformed, Apple is in Cappucino. Also -it's gay.
"- The time, effort, and cost of having to pay for and then manually install most of your programs required to get a Windows PC to do anything useful"
As opposed to runing linux whixh have none of those programs no matter how much you can pay. DUH
"Well lets see 10.6 Snow Leopard was $29. How much is the convicted monopolist MS charging for Vista SP2, I mean Windows 7.
Enough said! hacks.
Go Linux and pay 0 I say."
- Well a, Snow Leopard is cheap because the BSD guys do the work and Apple does the gay ahm sry GUI stuff.
- It does support kinda small set of hardware. (Only kind off)
- They make their money with overpriced hardware. (Hardware which is for sure good, but still overpriced).
And finally you get dropped support for the the older "real" macs for your 29 dollars, sounds great to me.
But you still fight the update as glorious, Stockholm? (I know this is unfair ;-)
@Regulas
Linux is OK for normal users and somewhat more advanced coders, but for high intensity apps like games and video editing you need something like Windows.
@Free your mind
Windows 7 automatically installs drivers as Andrew pointed out, and virus checking is easy, dont get viruses. For those who do, Microsoft Security Essentials is a brilliant free tool that just works.
There's nothing wrong with Linux, it just doesn't support as much as I would like.
@Joe
Seriously? It's The INQ, get used to it or GTFO.
LOL... Your comments are way too funny, I've done none of that since XP and 7. No activeX running and only Firefox it's been running smooth as butter. Even in XP there was no problem but XP sure lacks the eyecandy that 7 has.
I'm guessing this means you haven't tried installing windows 7...
So far on 4 installs on 4 computers, I've only needed 2 drivers. And one of them was because I wanted the ati graphics control panel, not because windows didn't have a driver.
But anyways, I'm not opposed to linux, I use it daily. Just saying, windows 7 really is a huge improvement in regards to included drivers.
I still think that most linux distro's are a bit harder to figure out than windows, but you could argue either way based on which software you plan on using and what you plan on doing with the computer. If all you do is use facebook and gmail then either one will be as easy as the other. Half those people buy macs anyways... somehow believing the hype that it's easier to click safari from your dock than firefox from your quick launch....
Glad to see that Nick Farrell managed to live up to his incredible record of blunders and worthless articles.
Hint: Apple is not located in 'Cappuccino', it's in 'Cupertino'. Look it up on a map.
Oh, and thanks for your usual gratuitous reference to fanboys. It obviously bothers you so much that someone might actually try multiple computer platforms and choose to use a Mac that you have to call them names. Why is that?
Recompiling, what programs are you trying to run? I run the latest Ubuntu on my laptop and everything works just fine. I can download for free other programs from the secure repositories without fear and they work, no recompiling needed. Come forward to the future of Linux stop quoting your experience with Red Hat from 1985.
I guess you could tally up the:
- time Windows users spend searching for drivers for their hardware (which is not typically included in Windows).
- The time, effort (and possibly cost) spent scanning for viruses, updating virus signatures, rebooting their machines each Patch Tuesday, and restoring or paying to have their machines repaired from virus attacks (or calling their banks and investigating or reversing charges on keylogger-related financial transactions).
- The time, effort, and cost of having to pay for and then manually install most of your programs required to get a Windows PC to do anything useful (or conversely, the moral and security costs of pirating expensive programs).
I think after you tally it all up, a few hours spent figuring out how to install and run a modern, user-friendly Linux distribution like Kubuntu or OpenSuse makes a lot of sense. Free (of cost, of viruses, of limitations), and very little effort yields long-term freedom from the problems discussed above. Want a new, secure program? Just search for it using your Linux distro's package manager, which can easily download and install it for free in seconds.
(And, no, you do not have to "recompile the kernel" all the time, so you can ignore that FUD as well...things "just work" out of the box, and Linux supports more hardware by default than any version of Windows).
Use something like Ubuntu and things just work if you stick to the generic kernels and download through the GUI package manager.
It may run like Windows, something that Linux doesn't have to do if you compile your own kernel, but then all your programs are free compared to windows where you might pay for some of your programs.
I agree with d; I know some Linux users, and for all the time they spend getting it to work they could walk around town picking up tin cans, turn them in, buy Windows, and be ahead financially - plus we'd have cleaner streets, and the beardies would get a bit of exercise.
People use Linux because they feel like using Linux.
You pay in all the time you spend trying to get Linux to do what you want and need instead of just turning it on and it just working.
I gave up on Linux a long time ago when I had to recompile my programs everytime there was a kernel update... which was often.
... we must respect the minorities.
Respect the Apple users. All 289 of them.
Well lets see 10.6 Snow Leopard was $29. How much is the convicted monopolist MS charging for Vista SP2, I mean Windows 7.
Enough said! hacks.
Go Linux and pay 0 I say.
I think the question is what is service pack 1.7, 1.7.1, etc?
... how much will they charge for service pack 1.7 this time? And how many service packs will they release for the next service pack? (1.7.1, .2, etc)
Questions, questions...