What settings do you have? We play Quake III a lot at work, including Team Arena, and assorted mods (Urban Terror, Alternate Fire). An iBook G4 is more than capable of this. Hell, it's even playable on the old Rage 128 in the Sawtooth machine.
U2k4 works perfectly on my machine (admitedly a 15" PB, so better graphics card than your iBook) but the differences really just boil down to the amount of RAM. Apart from long load times for levels, UT2k4 is excellent.
Original UT is also great in OS X, although there is a bug when drawing the grenades that come out of the RL's alternate fire mode (this seems to be the only error though).
Encoding mpeg2 video is another easy way to turn your Mac into a fan heater.
For particularly long encodes, we can get the G5's fans to spin up. My 15" Albook's fans hardly ever come on. Maybe with high CPU use when it's on my lap, but on a desk, even heavy use doesn't heat it up enough to start the fans (although it does make it nice and toasty to the touch).
Any wireless card with the broadcom chipset works with OS X as an Airport/Airport Extreme Card.
Most people would rather use the Apple branded stuff though, since there is a dedicated slot for it and an integral antenna. Of couse, you have no choice if you have a Mac with no expansion slots.
On a Powermac or a 15" or 17" Powerbook, you can fit a PC wireless card and have it work right away with no drivers to install.
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Any wireless card based on the broadcom chipset will appear to the Mac as an Apple-branded Airport/Airport Extreme card, unless it's something really funky like a proprietary PC wireless card from HP or something.
Airbus claims it is 20% cheaper to run than a 747-400.
This is according to a Discovery Channel programme on the A380, so I don't know how accurate that actually is, or if that figure is for an equal number of passengers or not.
The A380 has 50% more floorspace at least, than a 747.
They are focussing on people who need a simple layout app. ("InDesign for the masses") It's in no way supposed to be a replacement for Office X.
Apple is also highly unlikely (at this stage) to stick its oar into the OOO pond. Maybe they have given some token support for the formats (I haven't seen iWork up close, so I don't know. Keynote is based on an open, well documented XML format so it wouldn't be too hard to fill in the blanks). Apple won't be porting OOO themselves though - for a start it's a long, long way off being a "Mac like" app and would take a lot of work to write an Aqua front end that conforms properly to Apple's HI guidelines. It would be easier for them to start from scratch.
OOO is also GPL is it not? That might create a few hassles were Apple to sell an Office suite based on it. You don't think they'd give it away for free do you?
My G3 iBook had a fan too - it never turned on in 3 years of use.
My 15" 1.5GHz powerbook has two fans on the left and right side under the keyboard area, but I have very rarely heard them come on, and never at full speed. They hardly ever come on together either.
The only time I have heard them at full speed was during the fan tests on the hardware test CD, and even then they are quite discrete, unlike the original fan on the Tibook, that sounded like a hairdryer.
Under normal use (eve with heavy cpu use), and when on a desk, the fans never come on. If there's heavy cpu use when it's on my lap, the fans occasionally come on for a minute or so.
While a 777 might be able to cruise on one engine, I don't think it has enough power to take off like that. There is an unavoidable critical period during take off where you are vulnerable to failure. You could use engines with enough power to lift the aircraft on their own, but the extra cost, weight or complexity isn't worth it for the extremely small risk of losing an engine during takeoff.
I can't think of many things that are so heavily tested as a jet engine to prevent failure during use.
All of Rolls Royce's Trent series engines have to survive something like 6 geese being fired into them while running, and have no appreciable loss of power (10% or something) during the event, with the fan blades returning to shape within a certain number of shaft rotations.
They also have to run at full power while ingesting thousands of litres of water per minute (I have seen this done on a Trent 500 and the effect is pretty remarkable)
The compressor discs are also carefully checked at set intervals and are immediately scrapped if the engine is run 20% overspeed at any point during a flight, even if they show no defects. This is Rolls Royce reccommended procedure any way. Even so, the engine pod can withstand a compressor disc failure at full engine power without damage to the wing or the fuselage (although if this were to happen, the engine would be utterly destroyed, thus you could limp home on the other engine).
Frank Whittle's very simple engine - essentially one moving part - has come a very long way in the past 50 years. I wish my car's engine was so carefully looked after!
Anyway, your original point is valid - redundancies in systems are always good.
There is nothing in there that a "normal user" could install though - the target market for this machine.
Sure, I'd have no problem taking it apart and swapping HD, optical drive, RAM etc, adding Airport, but it will be like taking the iBook/Powerbook apart; challenging, but not impossible. All the parts are likely to be standard laptop parts taken from the Apple laptop production lines (2.5" IDE HD, slot load IDE CD-RW drive etc).
It is not designed for average joe to stick in a new hard drive when his current one gets too small.
The iBook has 12 of them. Do you need more than that? The full Mac keyboard only has another three.
You can swap the behaviour of the Fkeys on a powerbook/ibook in system preferences to make either the key or its alternate function the dominant one (the other being accessed by holding the Fn modifier).
I have my powerbook set up this way, since I bind several F keys to applescripts to perform various tasks, usually involving control of iTunes and other apps while they're hidden. I access the less-used brightness/volume/keyboard illunination functions with the Fn key.
This is true. It is the same for your unleaded gasoline too.
American gasoline is not fit for use in lawnmowers here in the UK. It's really poor quality.
The high quality diesel we have here has resulted in a huge advance in diesel engines and turbo chargers, giving them almost the same performance as a petrol engine, but with the added benefit of 30% more fuel efficiency.
It will run Motion (as long as the minimum amount of RAM is installed) but whether you'll be able to actually use it is another matter.
I run a 1.5Ghz 15" PB with a gig of RAM and an extra monitor for Motion, and it's about the minimum I would suggest to be decently productive - I still have to do partial exports of Motion projects to check the overall effect when I have several complex layers and mattes going on. I really could do with another GB of RAM for this work, but at the moment I can get by without spending the money to buy two GB sticks and get rid of the 512's I have in there now.
The extra screen is essential to keep the timeline, keyframe editor, viewer window, layers pallete, inspector and library visible at all times. I doubt this headless box will have dual head capability, but you never know. Moton will run on a single screen just fine, you just have to manage your windows more selectively.
FCP will run on pretty much anything with a G4 or higher, as long as it has 384Mb of RAM.
If this headless iMac has a 1Ghz+ G4 and space for a GB of RAM or more and has at least a 32Mb graphics card then it will be more than enough for modest Motion and good FCP performance.
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But Final Cut Pro and Shake don't run on a PC.
Also I'd have to put up with Windows.
I know Shake runs on Linux, but Apple charges extra for the render licences on Linux. Might as well use OS X.
The fact that I like Macs anyway is just a bonus.
Although all of Apple's portables and a large number of their desktops have switching power supplies that will work anywhere in the world.
It makes sense in a laptop, and it reduces costs to use the same power supply for all your machines.
The iMac G5 is one of the first of Apple's machines for a long time to use these two separate power supplies in different regions.
Ah, but OS X is full of illogical things, like the slow motion modifier key (shift) for minimising and expose.
Very cool, but ultimately redundant.
Quake III native is slow? In what universe?
What settings do you have? We play Quake III a lot at work, including Team Arena, and assorted mods (Urban Terror, Alternate Fire). An iBook G4 is more than capable of this. Hell, it's even playable on the old Rage 128 in the Sawtooth machine.
U2k4 works perfectly on my machine (admitedly a 15" PB, so better graphics card than your iBook) but the differences really just boil down to the amount of RAM. Apart from long load times for levels, UT2k4 is excellent.
Original UT is also great in OS X, although there is a bug when drawing the grenades that come out of the RL's alternate fire mode (this seems to be the only error though).
It has firewire 400 - is that not high speed enough for you?
Encoding mpeg2 video is another easy way to turn your Mac into a fan heater.
For particularly long encodes, we can get the G5's fans to spin up. My 15" Albook's fans hardly ever come on. Maybe with high CPU use when it's on my lap, but on a desk, even heavy use doesn't heat it up enough to start the fans (although it does make it nice and toasty to the touch).
They're not trying to prove that Macs are cheaper than shitty PCs - they simply released a Mac that is cheaper than other Macs.
From the outset it was clear that you could build/buy a PC for less money than a Mac mini, but that's just not the point.
It's a Mac, in a box the size of a few CD cases, with a full OS, CD burning, DVD playing, wireless etc.
Any wireless card with the broadcom chipset works with OS X as an Airport/Airport Extreme Card.
Most people would rather use the Apple branded stuff though, since there is a dedicated slot for it and an integral antenna. Of couse, you have no choice if you have a Mac with no expansion slots.
On a Powermac or a 15" or 17" Powerbook, you can fit a PC wireless card and have it work right away with no drivers to install.
Any wireless card based on the broadcom chipset will appear to the Mac as an Apple-branded Airport/Airport Extreme card, unless it's something really funky like a proprietary PC wireless card from HP or something.
That vertical running slot is likely to be the Airport Extreme slot.
The slot running along the edge of the board is a common-or-garden 184 pin DIMM slot.
Apple themselves, on their homepage www.apple.com, uses the terminoligy "OS X 10.4" or sometimes OS X Tiger V10.4" for the new version.
OS X 10.3 is how they address the current version, Panther.
Whether the X and the 10 are synonymous doesn't matter. Who knows, they might use OS XI and 11.x with the new OS. but I doubt it.
Airbus claims it is 20% cheaper to run than a 747-400.
This is according to a Discovery Channel programme on the A380, so I don't know how accurate that actually is, or if that figure is for an equal number of passengers or not.
The A380 has 50% more floorspace at least, than a 747.
Surely you mean iCheerios, the new OS X compatible breakfast.
Stops you crashing at lunchtime.
Also, there is a native version of OOO coming for OS X, but Apple aren't doing it.
They are focussing on people who need a simple layout app. ("InDesign for the masses") It's in no way supposed to be a replacement for Office X.
Apple is also highly unlikely (at this stage) to stick its oar into the OOO pond. Maybe they have given some token support for the formats (I haven't seen iWork up close, so I don't know. Keynote is based on an open, well documented XML format so it wouldn't be too hard to fill in the blanks). Apple won't be porting OOO themselves though - for a start it's a long, long way off being a "Mac like" app and would take a lot of work to write an Aqua front end that conforms properly to Apple's HI guidelines. It would be easier for them to start from scratch.
OOO is also GPL is it not? That might create a few hassles were Apple to sell an Office suite based on it. You don't think they'd give it away for free do you?
My MAC is 00:0d:93:ad:16:a4
My Mac is a 15" Powerbook.
My G3 iBook had a fan too - it never turned on in 3 years of use.
My 15" 1.5GHz powerbook has two fans on the left and right side under the keyboard area, but I have very rarely heard them come on, and never at full speed. They hardly ever come on together either.
The only time I have heard them at full speed was during the fan tests on the hardware test CD, and even then they are quite discrete, unlike the original fan on the Tibook, that sounded like a hairdryer.
Under normal use (eve with heavy cpu use), and when on a desk, the fans never come on. If there's heavy cpu use when it's on my lap, the fans occasionally come on for a minute or so.
While a 777 might be able to cruise on one engine, I don't think it has enough power to take off like that. There is an unavoidable critical period during take off where you are vulnerable to failure. You could use engines with enough power to lift the aircraft on their own, but the extra cost, weight or complexity isn't worth it for the extremely small risk of losing an engine during takeoff.
I can't think of many things that are so heavily tested as a jet engine to prevent failure during use.
All of Rolls Royce's Trent series engines have to survive something like 6 geese being fired into them while running, and have no appreciable loss of power (10% or something) during the event, with the fan blades returning to shape within a certain number of shaft rotations.
They also have to run at full power while ingesting thousands of litres of water per minute (I have seen this done on a Trent 500 and the effect is pretty remarkable)
The compressor discs are also carefully checked at set intervals and are immediately scrapped if the engine is run 20% overspeed at any point during a flight, even if they show no defects. This is Rolls Royce reccommended procedure any way. Even so, the engine pod can withstand a compressor disc failure at full engine power without damage to the wing or the fuselage (although if this were to happen, the engine would be utterly destroyed, thus you could limp home on the other engine).
Frank Whittle's very simple engine - essentially one moving part - has come a very long way in the past 50 years. I wish my car's engine was so carefully looked after!
Anyway, your original point is valid - redundancies in systems are always good.
There is nothing in there that a "normal user" could install though - the target market for this machine.
Sure, I'd have no problem taking it apart and swapping HD, optical drive, RAM etc, adding Airport, but it will be like taking the iBook/Powerbook apart; challenging, but not impossible. All the parts are likely to be standard laptop parts taken from the Apple laptop production lines (2.5" IDE HD, slot load IDE CD-RW drive etc).
It is not designed for average joe to stick in a new hard drive when his current one gets too small.
Lack of Fkeys?
The iBook has 12 of them. Do you need more than that? The full Mac keyboard only has another three.
You can swap the behaviour of the Fkeys on a powerbook/ibook in system preferences to make either the key or its alternate function the dominant one (the other being accessed by holding the Fn modifier).
I have my powerbook set up this way, since I bind several F keys to applescripts to perform various tasks, usually involving control of iTunes and other apps while they're hidden. I access the less-used brightness/volume/keyboard illunination functions with the Fn key.
I want a 6TB iPod for $99, is that too much to ask?!
/cheap/.
Gievn that the dollar is shitty right now compared to the pound, I could pick up an iPod shuffle for about £50 the next time I'm in the states.
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Apple is not a monopoly in the online music business or the mp3/aac player market.
Sure, they have a giant market share, but they are not a monopoly.
That word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
This is true. It is the same for your unleaded gasoline too.
American gasoline is not fit for use in lawnmowers here in the UK. It's really poor quality.
The high quality diesel we have here has resulted in a huge advance in diesel engines and turbo chargers, giving them almost the same performance as a petrol engine, but with the added benefit of 30% more fuel efficiency.
Almost half of the UK's cars are DERV burners.
Motion runs just fine on the current revision Powerbooks. I believe mine has a 64Mb 9600 Pro in it.
It will run Motion (as long as the minimum amount of RAM is installed) but whether you'll be able to actually use it is another matter.
I run a 1.5Ghz 15" PB with a gig of RAM and an extra monitor for Motion, and it's about the minimum I would suggest to be decently productive - I still have to do partial exports of Motion projects to check the overall effect when I have several complex layers and mattes going on. I really could do with another GB of RAM for this work, but at the moment I can get by without spending the money to buy two GB sticks and get rid of the 512's I have in there now.
The extra screen is essential to keep the timeline, keyframe editor, viewer window, layers pallete, inspector and library visible at all times. I doubt this headless box will have dual head capability, but you never know. Moton will run on a single screen just fine, you just have to manage your windows more selectively.
FCP will run on pretty much anything with a G4 or higher, as long as it has 384Mb of RAM.
If this headless iMac has a 1Ghz+ G4 and space for a GB of RAM or more and has at least a 32Mb graphics card then it will be more than enough for modest Motion and good FCP performance.