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Originally Posted by Tristan
Windows users got upgraded to OpenGl 1.5 when the video card manufacturers updated their drivers, which was quite a while ago. Are Apple really offering a driver upgrade as a selling point?
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Sort of. OS X uses OpenGL for the GUI (IIRC, every window is an OpenGL texture). If the upgrade to OpenGL 1.5 can provide performance increases then I suppose they can get away with touting it as a new feature, just as the version of DirectX that came with Win2K (can't recall which version it was) was a new feature for Win2K, as it didn't work on NT4 (or at least NT4 had a limited subset of functionality).