What are you talking about, dobey?
Frank was agreeing with me. You said Aero uses too much CPU, and I stated it
uses LESS CPU then the old windows GDI, because it makes SPECIFIC use of
those shiny new GPUS that most modern video cards have.
If you have a decent video card (mine is a 2 year old 6600GT, which is
plenty fast), you can see the effect yourself. Turn off aero, and use an old
"basic" widows skin. This drops back into CPU GDI mode. See how slow it is?
See all the crappy artifacts left behind as windows close and the cpu
struggles to redraw the screen?
Turn aero back on and see how windows SNAP open. See the nifty lack of
garbage left on the screen when moving, closing windows. Look at the CPU
meter in your side bar and see how little of the CPU is being used.
Get with the 21'st century. OSX uses GPU acceleration for its Desktop. Linux
has just added Beryl to do the same for itself, and Vista has done the same
for Microsoft.
Maybe you'd be happer running a nice CGA desktop with windows 3.0.
Kurt
