> > From: Michelle Klein-Hass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/01/13 Thu PM 12:53:51 CST > To: "G-List" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Interesting use for a G5 iMac > > On Thursday 13 January 2005 09:03 am, Mikeal Palulis wrote: > > http://www.saturnfans.com/photos/showphoto.php/photo/17693/sort/1/cat/ > > 12189/page/1 > > Bitchen. However, such an application would be better suited to a Mini mac > and > a touchscreen. There are plenty of touchscreens out there that are Linux > compatible...it would be a breeze to recompile a Free/Open Source touchscreen > driver for MacOS X. Darwin is pretty much a BSD (mostly FreeBSD) under the > hood anyway. > > Ford and...um, what's the Japanese partner that went in with Ford to create > Saturn?...certainly have the bucks to blow on a 17" iMac G5 for such an > application. However, The Rest Of Us (tm) don't usually. > > I can't get past the waste of such a powerful, cool computer in such a lowly > use, dammit... > -- >
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