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Sharper Graphics
Apple combines Quartz, QuickTime and OpenGL-three of the most powerful graphics technologies out there-to take the Mac's graphics capabilities beyond anything you've ever seen on a desktop operating system.
Based on the Internet-standard portable document format (PDF), the powerful new 2D graphics system called Quartz delivers on-the-fly rendering, anti-aliasing and compositing of PostScript-strength graphics with pristine quality.
If you think the gold rush caused a stampede, watch what happens when graphics professionals discover Quartz. Because with Quartz, graphic elements that were sharp before will now be dramatically sharper - even when you greatly increase their size.
See Quartz at Work in Mac OS X
You can see the power of Quartz in the Mac OS X Aqua interface itself. Taking full advantage of Quartz's powerful compositing engine, Aqua creates translucent controls and menus, and gives the system visual depth with drop shadows around the edges of windows.
Built-in Support for PDF
Plus, we've built in support for PDF, enabling you to embed and manipulate PDF data (and even Save to PDF) with any Mac OS X application. So you can easily create Quartz-enhanced, graphic-rich documents that you can share with anyone. And since this capability is available to all Mac OS X applications, Macintosh developers have a whole new palette of creative tools.
Performance Booster
Apple has also integrated OpenGL - the blistering hot 3D technology used by games like Quake 3 Arena from id Software, and heavy-duty authoring tools like Maya from Alias/Wavefront - into Mac OS X. And the state-of-the-art plumbing in Darwin actually boosts OpenGL's performance to a whole new level on Mac OS X, making it the ultimate PC platform for 3D games and eye-popping photorealistic graphics.
And of course Mac OS X includes QuickTime technology, the unifying format and platform for multi-source, multi-destination content creation and consumption in the digital age. QuickTime is the Internet standard for multimedia, and it's the engine that powers iMovie and Final Cut Pro, Apple's cutting edge digital video editing software (for consumers and professional users, respectively). QuickTime lets you watch live streaming online events, play your favorite MP3 music tracks, or create your own home videos. Mac OS X applications can embed any kind of audio, video, or image data that QuickTime can handle - which is pretty much the whole spectrum of anything worth seeing, watching or hearing on the Internet.
Mac OS X combines Quartz, OpenGL and QuickTime - three of the most powerful graphics technologies out there - to take the Mac's graphics capabilities beyond anything you've ever seen on a desktop operating system.
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