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magill
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Member # 4129
 written Monday, March 22 2004 19:34 Profile #19
I would rather have an upgradeable unit than having to buy whole new setups with no choice of os? You have to run a mac os on a mac machine right?


Appple hardware is based on the IBM PowerPC. It's a 64 bit Chip had has been around a lot longer than Intel even has thought of the idea of 64 bits! (They finally admited that they need to make a 64 bit chip after AMD ate their lunch! -- and the IA64 is still a joke... the current version is a dog, and the IA64 with "Alpha Inside" (the technology Intel bought from Digial/Compaq) isn't due now until 2006.)

It depends upon which case you get if you can add cards or not.

Mac OS X is a Unix based operating system. The core system is called Darwin, is open source, and is based on FreeBSD.

Anything you can run on Unix (let alone Linux) has probably already been ported to OS X via the Fink and Darwin Ports projects. Fink tends to be command line only, while Darwin implements things with the Aqua GUI.

If you are set on running Linux, there are any number of ports which run on the PowerPC chip.


>I dont know much so forgive me if I am wrong
>Also I wouldnt know how to rate macs, I use the pc mainly for >video editing which is cpu intensive
>I currently have a p4 3 GHz 800 MHz FSB cpu with HT, what >kind of cpu do mac use


The current PowerPC G5 chips are used in the third most powerful SuperComputer at the University of Virginia. The first version of the machine used stock G5 "deskside" units. The current version (they have just finished swapping them out and you can buy the old units from MacMall) uses the new Xserve G5, which is a 1U rackmount server.


I also capture video with my radeon card...what kind of video cards for mac?


Pick your favorite -- both ATI and nVida support OS X.

However, you don't even need to go that far. I use my Sony Digital Video Camera connected to an 800 mhz G4 via FireWire. Granted, I 'm not doing Pro work, just Prosumer.

Don't forget -- Pixar is owned by Jobs.

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T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
# Beige G3 - Rev A motherboard - 768 Meg
# Flat-panel iMac (2.1) 800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg
# PWS433a [Alpha 21164 Rev 7.2 (EV56)- 64 Meg]- Tru64 5.1a
# XP1000 - [Alpha EV6]
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Posts: 2 | Registered: Saturday, March 20 2004 08:00
When are scripts loaded? in Blades of Avernum Editor
magill
Apprentice
Member # 4129
 written Saturday, March 20 2004 20:13 Profile #2
See Chapter 2.1.5 Dealing With Errors (page 79) of the BOA Editor manual.

"Reloading Scripts." -- describes your problem directly.

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T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
# Beige G3 - Rev A motherboard - 768 Meg
# Flat-panel iMac (2.1) 800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg
# PWS433a [Alpha 21164 Rev 7.2 (EV56)- 64 Meg]- Tru64 5.1a
# XP1000 - [Alpha EV6]
magill@mcgillsociety.org
magill@acm.org
magill@mac.com
Posts: 2 | Registered: Saturday, March 20 2004 08:00
When are scripts loaded? in Blades of Avernum
magill
Apprentice
Member # 4129
 written Saturday, March 20 2004 20:13 Profile #2
See Chapter 2.1.5 Dealing With Errors (page 79) of the BOA Editor manual.

"Reloading Scripts." -- describes your problem directly.

--------------------
T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
# Beige G3 - Rev A motherboard - 768 Meg
# Flat-panel iMac (2.1) 800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg
# PWS433a [Alpha 21164 Rev 7.2 (EV56)- 64 Meg]- Tru64 5.1a
# XP1000 - [Alpha EV6]
magill@mcgillsociety.org
magill@acm.org
magill@mac.com
Posts: 2 | Registered: Saturday, March 20 2004 08:00