So is there any heuristic I can use to determine if the effect will  
be rendered on the GPU or the CPU? I need it to look good, and so I  
want to disable it completely if it's not going to be smooth.

On Dec 12, 2005, at 3:32 PM, Colin Cornaby wrote:

> Apple chose to disable that for usability reasons I suppose.  
> Running the ripple on low end hardware might drop enough frames to  
> not look good. I know an a Rev A iMac G5 the widgets in Dashboard  
> still ripple, so Apple must have decided the G5 was fast enough to  
> handle it.

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