If you have a powerful enough machine it'll be there, afik the current mac minis dont support it (assuming thats what your using)
Yeah it's on by default. Looks pretty swish on my G5 iMac too. I'm actually really impressed with how smooth and quickly the effects work. I'd half expected some slow down or sluggishness... actually really swish.
depends on how your system handles quartz. to get the fancy effects like the water ripple youll need quartz extreme whichll come down to how core image distributes the workload between your cpu and gpu - basically ... theres no set formula on whether youll see the ripple or not - unless youve got a mini - then its a definate no-no. confused?
Works on my 15" PowerBook - it has a 9700 in it. It also works on Mrs Goo's 12" PB, that has a 5200. Must be your hardware, which IIRC is fairly old - A G3 800Mhz, wasn't it?
I don't think it has anything to do with your processor speed, rather than how much grunt your graphics card has. The mini only has a 32Mb 9200 built in IIRC, whereas I stated before, my PB has a 64Mb 9700, and Mrs GOO's PB has a 5200, which also has 64Mb.
AFIK, it's something along the lines of, if the card supports DX9 it'll work, i know it's not a simple as that, pixel shader 2 rings a bell too
