Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks

[Henrik Edlund <henrik@edlund.org>]

On 23 Oct 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote:

MD> It might be. On this good ol' PowerBook with a 400 Mhz G3, about a third
MD> of the frames are skipped or dropped. And as the software seems to be
MD> improving rather quickly in this area, the new iBooks might soon be well
MD> enough for smooth DVD playback.
MD>

Wouldn't it though not be false marketing (and hence illegal) to claim
that the iBook2-500 can play DVDs when it drop frames? I believe you could
get a court to rule that DVD playback means 0 frame drops.

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