A lot of Microsoft's fanbois defenders have argued that the Vista Premium UI versus fallback option is similar to the situation with \"Quartz Extreme\"* on the Mac.
A Mac running OS X without a Quartz Extreme graphics card looks exactly the same as one running without it. The \"eye candy\" that may be missing is in screen transitions, etc. When you are documenting your program, you don't need to publish two sets of screen shots.
Similar analogies have been drawn to Core Graphics, which is also ridiculous since this represents functionality, not eye candy, which you either have or don't have at an application level.
* Quartz Extreme is the hardware accelerated compositing engine introduced in 10.3 which requires a 3D video card with 32MB of video RAM.","$updatedAt":"2024-06-05T10:51:22.817+00:00",path:"and-one-final-thing-",_created:"2024-07-09T20:34:17.555Z",id:"35",_modified:"2024-07-09T20:34:17.555Z","$id":"35",_path:"post/path=and-one-final-thing-"}}