Re: Google Earth Beta - please reply off-list

2006-01-10 Thread Peter Apockotos
On Jan 9, 2006, at 10:14 PM, Dylan McDermond wrote: On Jan 9, 2006, at 11:34 AM, Peter Apockotos wrote: Maybe Google Talk will follow soon as well. Google Talk already works with iChat via Jabber. Google's help page shows you how to do it step-by-step. -Dylan Yes the IM function do

Re: Google Earth Beta - please reply off-list

2006-01-09 Thread Caleb Cupples
IMHO, Google Earth is hard on system resources, even on high-end Wintel machines, so I can see where the G5-native stock tuning would be about right. I know I wouldn't try it on my 400MHz Lombard, though. Caleb -- Lombard 400MHz, 192 MB RAM, Mac OS 10.2.8 On Monday, Jan 9, 2006, at 21:32 Amer

Re: Google Earth Beta - please reply off-list

2006-01-09 Thread Dylan McDermond
It worked a whole lot better after I turned it down from some of the high-end video settings which seemed to be more in line with a G5 desktop system's capabilities. Turned down to the medium-type settings, it runs nicely on my 1.25ghz Powerbook/1gb RAM/64mb Radeon 9600 and also pretty well

Re: Google Earth Beta - please reply off-list

2006-01-09 Thread Dylan McDermond
On Jan 9, 2006, at 11:34 AM, Peter Apockotos wrote: Maybe Google Talk will follow soon as well. Google Talk already works with iChat via Jabber. Google's help page shows you how to do it step-by-step. -Dylan -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electroni

Re: Google Earth Beta - please reply off-list

2006-01-09 Thread Peter Apockotos
On Jan 9, 2006, at 12:44 PM, Amber R. wrote: Hello, Just wondering if anybody has the Beta version of Google Earth for OS X ? If so, could you please contact me off list. I just want to know how well it works on your Mac, etc etc.. I am aware that this Beta version was recently pulled

Google Earth Beta - please reply off-list

2006-01-09 Thread Amber R.
Hello, Just wondering if anybody has the Beta version of Google Earth for OS X ? If so, could you please contact me off list. I just want to know how well it works on your Mac, etc etc.. I am aware that this Beta version was recently pulled but a number of people were able to download i