System profiler on Macbook Unibody Quartz extreme

I have noticed that in system profiler under graphics display Quartz extreme said suported now I just did a system restore full erase and install and funny it says not suported this is strange any feedback

Hi,
taken from here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1564
"Safe Mode in Mac OS X 10.5 or later also disables Quartz Extreme (hardware accelerated graphics). Applications that depend on Quartz Extreme will not open, and the Mac OS X menu bar will appear solid even if "Translucent Menu Bar" is enabled in Desktop & Screen Saver preferences."
Regards
Stefan

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