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Resolution independence - IMO that's never gonna happen. Apple will do the pixel-doubling thing, I reckon. Netkas has confirmed the following about Lion: (http

Resolution independence - IMO that's never gonna happen. Apple will do the pixel-doubling thing, I reckon. Netkas has confirmed the following about Lion: (http://netkas.org/?p=609 http://netkas.org/?p=609) >Lion requires hardware with a Core 2 Duo processor or better. A lot of apps are sandboxed. OpenGL 3.2 support

lurch_mojoff 16y ago
OpenGL 3.2, huh? Well, I guess it's better than nothing, but had a faint hope Apple will skip ahead to 4.0 or even 4.1. Next time around it seems.
- masklinn 16y ago
  Intel's HD 3000 seems to only support OpenGL 3. NVidia's 320M and 330M are likewise limited to OpenGL 3.3 (according to wikipedia, NVidia's own spec pages only talks about 2.1[0]). I'm not sure it makes as much sense to support that. [0] http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gt_330m_us.html http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gt_330m_us.html
  - zdw 16y ago
    Apple has used LLVM in the past to run more advanced OpenGL implementations on lesser hardware - their Intel 950 graphic driver was one example of this: http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2006-August/006492.html http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2006-August/00649... Of course, this only covered vertex processing and other compute-intensive tasks, and thus wouldn't apply to many other OpenGL features.
terhechte 16y ago
Which is weird, because resolution independence has been part of Mac OS X since 10.5. Only if developer tools are installed though, and it never really worked with Carbon applications, but those are slowly vanishing anyway. I just activated it again to see how it looks and.. well, it could look better :) I tried the preferences and I've to admit I think they looked better (scaled up) in 10.5 than on 10.6.
snsr 16y ago
You reckon correcly; Lion apparently has support for 'HiDPI' mode, which is essentially pixel doubling. http://www.macrumors.com/2011/02/24/mac-os-x-lion-building-in-support-for-super-high-resolution-retina-monitors/ http://www.macrumors.com/2011/02/24/mac-os-x-lion-building-i...

lurch_mojoff 16y ago

OpenGL 3.2, huh? Well, I guess it's better than nothing, but had a faint hope Apple will skip ahead to 4.0 or even 4.1. Next time around it seems.

masklinn 16y ago
Intel's HD 3000 seems to only support OpenGL 3. NVidia's 320M and 330M are likewise limited to OpenGL 3.3 (according to wikipedia, NVidia's own spec pages only talks about 2.1[0]). I'm not sure it makes as much sense to support that. [0] http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gt_330m_us.html http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gt_330m_us.html
- zdw 16y ago
  Apple has used LLVM in the past to run more advanced OpenGL implementations on lesser hardware - their Intel 950 graphic driver was one example of this: http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2006-August/006492.html http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2006-August/00649... Of course, this only covered vertex processing and other compute-intensive tasks, and thus wouldn't apply to many other OpenGL features.

terhechte 16y ago

Which is weird, because resolution independence has been part of Mac OS X since 10.5. Only if developer tools are installed though, and it never really worked with Carbon applications, but those are slowly vanishing anyway. I just activated it again to see how it looks and.. well, it could look better :) I tried the preferences and I've to admit I think they looked better (scaled up) in 10.5 than on 10.6.

snsr 16y ago

You reckon correcly; Lion apparently has support for 'HiDPI' mode, which is essentially pixel doubling. http://www.macrumors.com/2011/02/24/mac-os-x-lion-building-in-support-for-super-high-resolution-retina-monitors/ http://www.macrumors.com/2011/02/24/mac-os-x-lion-building-i...