Re: Movies on a G4 iMac
At 12:28 AM -0400 10/3/2010, Midnight rider wrote: ObQuip: Asking performance questions without providing real details of the hardware or software involved. What response are you actually expecting? Without real information all we can do is throw pasgetti in the dark. I recently played the new Star Trek 2009 movie on my G4 iMac 1.25Ghz [gleaned from later in the OP]. Memory? Internal HD speed and free space? OS? Fully updated? Video player? In what format is the video? DVD? Some ripped file, etc? and I wanted to know if I can somehow boost the video card. The movie runs smoother than a freshly shaved face, but not when I run several programs in the background. I am an expert on macs, but the G4 iMac is a little new to me. Enlighten me with options, I am all ears. Can't upgrade the hardware. So you'd need to reduce the i/o, cpu, and gpu load of playing the video. Or reduce the load of running those other apps. Can't suggest more because you provided no details. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Movies on a G4 iMac
I recently played the new Star Trek 2009 movie on my G4 iMac and I wanted to know if I can somehow boost the video card. The movie runs smoother than a freshly shaved face, but not when I run several programs in the background. I am an expert on macs, but the G4 iMac is a little new to me. Enlighten me with options, I am all ears. Note: This was originally a 700Mhz machine, but someone swapped it with the 1.25Ghz logic board after the video died on the original board. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Movies on a G4 iMac
Nope. The GPU is soldered directly to the board. That's one of the disadvantages to the iMacs. No graphics expandability. -Elliott On Oct 2, 2010, at 9:28 PM, Midnight rider wrote: I recently played the new Star Trek 2009 movie on my G4 iMac and I wanted to know if I can somehow boost the video card. The movie runs smoother than a freshly shaved face, but not when I run several programs in the background. I am an expert on macs, but the G4 iMac is a little new to me. Enlighten me with options, I am all ears. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Movies on a G4 iMac
Oh wow, how nice that surely is. I might as well have this machine doomed for anything graphics intensive, except for photoshop. my iMac G4 recently became my main machine over my sawtooth because of processing power superiority and looks, but my sawtooth had a stock ATI Radeon 9800 pro AGP 8x 128MB from a G5 Power mac, and it had 2GB of RAM. the specs still remain the same on thew sawtooth even though it's no longer my main machine, except the blu ray drive was moved to my G4 iMac, and sop was the main HDD and the backup HDD to remove hassles of CCC. I also moved my 14TB HDD array to my iMac G4. I have so much use for it you know It has 3 USB ports on the back, but since I use sooo many USB devices these days, I plugged one port into a Hub over a DVI monitor, that bumped it to 7. I plugged in a Apple keyboard, that got it to 9. I plugged in another hub onto the monitor hub, and now have 13 USB ports on the iMac. As normally with me, I only have one port spare. Everything else is used up. Port 1: iPod connector port 2: 320GB HDD backup Port 3: plug to USB hub on DVI monitor Port 4: Writing stylus pad Port 5: Bluetooth Port 6: Apple keyboard Port 7: Printer (HP photosmart C3100) Port 8: Mighty Mouse Port 9: USB Flash drive 8GB by sandisk Port 10: USB Hub 2 Port 11: Webcam Port 12: Smartcard interface Port 13: SPARE -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
