Re: Movies on a G4 iMac

2010-10-03 Thread Dan
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

Movies on a G4 iMac

2010-10-02 Thread Midnight rider
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.

Re: Movies on a G4 iMac

2010-10-02 Thread Elliott Price
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

Re: Movies on a G4 iMac

2010-10-02 Thread Midnight rider
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