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Quote: Originally posted by PB Cool. OK, I will tell you what I remember. You bring down the console using the tilde ( ~ ) key. Then you type the command: stat fps followed by 'enter' of course. Ran UT 2003 Demo, the football match,…
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Quote: Originally posted by halse can you do a verbose boot (command + v) and tell us what you see? you should end up in safe mode (command line) and then you just might have access to the NVRAM I did this, and it booted in text mode (with l…
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Some World of Warcraft screenshots running under Rosetta. Most of these shots were with settings middle to high quality (generally also with 2X antialiasing), and all were at the native iMac 20" resolution of 1680 * 1050. Running under emulation is …
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Quote: Originally posted by fredash Thank you very much for your info. Do you use DREAMWEAVER on your iMac CD ? I don't use Dreamweaver very much at all, so I can't compare it to other platforms. It did launch just fine, and seems to be per…
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Quote: Originally posted by sunilraman heh. bollocks to that iMac g5, it's probably running some startup disk-checking script or something. that said, it appears that iMac core duo generally boots up faster than the latest iMac g5. We report…
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Quote: Originally posted by fredash As i'm working in Eclipse, and as i am interrsted in using SWT, could you tell me if the current version for Eclipse, 3.1.1 is working well on the iMac CD ? It runs very well -- I'm pleased. It's been lef…
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Quote: Originally posted by a_greer I had that happen on my G4 once, same version, so it may be non-rosetta-specific. permission repair seemed to fix that...but it was in 10.4.3 Tried that, still crashes out after a little while. Time to t…
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Quote: Originally posted by Xool ciparis, mind if I send you the AAC file I used in my MacBook Pro tests so we can compare how well the new iMac encodes AAC files? Be my guest it's a mac.com address (same name as forum id).
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Quote: Originally posted by FotNS Here are some questions I am curious about: What's in the /usr/standalone/i386 folder? Code: /usr/standalone/i386 michael$ ls -la total 224 dr-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 4 07:11 . drwxr-xr-x …
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Quote: Originally posted by PB One MacInTouch reader reports that the built-in iSight camera in the new model works now with iMovie (previously it required QT Pro or other USB-aware software). ciparis, or anyone else, could you confirm this repor…
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I found my first misbehaving app: Yahoo Messenger. It launches and runs fine, but eventually it turns into a runaway process, chewing significant CPU for some period of time before crashing. Yahoo! Messenger for Mac OS X Version 2.5.3 (Build 106…
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A teaser about java performance doing ant builds from Eclipse (using Java 1.5.0 on both machines): Compiling 92 java files and building a schema for MySQL.... iMac Core Duo (2.0 GHz, 512MB RAM) vs. IBM Thinkpad T43 (2.0 GHz Pentium M, 2GB RAM,…
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Quote: Originally posted by MajorMatt I heard a reason why browsing is snappier on a PC and now a X86 Mac is that websites check for intel tags and somehow it is faster? Have you encountered any PPC apps that wont launch? Architecture, sp…
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Expose and Dashboard are silky smooth so far across both monitors I haven't played any HD videos since I hooked up the second monitor. I'll post if I find anything that runs me out of video ram and makes things choppy.
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Meh. It looks like my iMac has a bad DVD drive. It can read CDs fine, but it can't mount DVDs. Tried both of the supplied system discs plus a movie DVD, and none mount (all work fine in a powerbook). I'll probably have to take it in. I'll just have …
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I picked up a mini-DVI cable today and hooked up my Gateway 21" widescreen display. This image (crappy cellphone cam -- sorry) is showing the iMac doing spanning, with both displays set to 1680 * 1050 (native for each).
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Typing this on my new iMac 20" Core Duo 2.0
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Quote: Originally posted by Mr. H Congratulations! Could you download a 1080p trailer from Apple, play it, and use activity monitor to gauge processor usage? Do you have QuickTime Pro? Or any DV video files? Okay, I currently have some …
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Quote: Originally posted by Xool I'm putting together comprehensive results for all tests I've performed but its taking slightly longer than planned, sorry guys. I'll get it up here later today, but to whet your appetite I'll say that HD content…
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Quote: Originally posted by Bancho They were Powerbooks long before they sported PowerPC chips. Right. They were. And then they released PowerPC-based desktops, and called them PowerMacs. At which point you had: desktop: PowerMac portable: …