i like it, but it's almost unusably slow on my home computer (a dual G4 with 1.5 gb of ram with DSL and a geforce4 titanium card with 128 mb video ram).
personally, i want to see what's going to come of the sketchup acquisition google made a couple weeks ago. i can imagine them doing wireframe walkthroughs of major cities aroudn the world free to your desktop (given enough time)
Google Earth runs pretty well on my G5. At first I didn't think it was all that, but once you turn on the 3D features and get the SF cityscape going its pretty cool.
Google Earth runs pretty well on my G5. At first I didn't think it was all that, but once you turn on the 3D features and get the SF cityscape going its pretty cool.
Overall though the interface needs some love.
yeah, it runs fine on my dual G5 at work, too. i guess i just don't get why it's so slow on my home setup. and yes, the interface... egad. it's like they accidentally got the user interface guidelines of mac ox 10.0 instead of 10.4
I have no problem using it on my 933MHz iBook G4 with 640MB RAM. The only problem I have is where I am living has not been mapped so I am not able to get a bird's eye view of my "domain"
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personally, i want to see what's going to come of the sketchup acquisition google made a couple weeks ago. i can imagine them doing wireframe walkthroughs of major cities aroudn the world free to your desktop (given enough time)
Overall though the interface needs some love.
Originally posted by Xool
Google Earth runs pretty well on my G5. At first I didn't think it was all that, but once you turn on the 3D features and get the SF cityscape going its pretty cool.
Overall though the interface needs some love.
yeah, it runs fine on my dual G5 at work, too. i guess i just don't get why it's so slow on my home setup. and yes, the interface... egad. it's like they accidentally got the user interface guidelines of mac ox 10.0 instead of 10.4
it runs fine on my G4 pBook (1.5 w/ 512MB). Something on your dual G4 setup must be choking it... it should be useable on that!
Got to agree, such a great application , so useful and it's free!
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