[rescue] 3D machines

[Zach Malone]

The iMac DV's work very nice, however, look out, the power buttons are
worthless.  At one point I was admining two of them, within a month of
purchase, the power buttons on the fronts of both got really flaky and began
causing random shutdowns.  I believe they have fixed that now however,
personally, I would suggest a 9500 with a firewire card, they are more
upgradable then any other mac out there (Outside of those dual chip machines
that were 3rd party), and they are fast enough for most things, especially
once upgraded.
    Zach
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua D. Boyd" <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 7:51 AM
Subject: Re: [rescue] 3D machines


> I'm sure if that is old, but it certainly wasn't low end.  Low end had a
> r5k @180mhz.  As you can see, that is an r10k @ 175.  Much more expensive
> to purchase used.  For most people at least.
>
> Now, I do see the video option listed there, but I'm not clear on what
> Vice: Tree means.  Would someone who has the video option mind posting a
> hinv of their machine, for comparison?  The O2 I use is currently powered
> down while my computer science department moves buildings.
>
> As to upgrading the Studio bundle.  The answer is no.  Not because they
> don't have an upgrade program (which they don't), but because there are no
> upgrades.  Photoshop 3, Premiere 4.2, and what ever illustrator included
> are the most recent versions that Adobe has put out for Irix.  Thing is,
> anything better than the Adobe products is thousands of dollars (to my
> understanding).
>
> As to the iMac DV, everyone I've known to use one has only nice things to
> say, except for when they start banging their head against what is
> essentially a non upgradeable machine.  From what I've seen, firewire
> video on Macs (B&W G3 tower), it works really well.  And, I picked the
> iMac to recommend since you just pull it out of the box, hook your camera
> (or whatever device you are going to use to connect to the firewire), and
> away you go.
>
> Try getting things to work that simply on a PC.
>
> --
> Joshua Boyd
>
> On Thu, 5 Jul 2001 sambo at charm.net wrote:
>
> > "Joshua D. Boyd" wrote:
> >
> > > Your best bet would be to find an old O2 (as low end and old as
possible).
> >
> > And upgrade around the video. OK.
> >
> >
> > > If it is old enough, it will have the Video option already (since it
> > > originally wasn't an option).
> >
> > How do I know? Like what's this one got?
> > --------------
> > %hinv
> > FLASH PROM version 4.10
> > On-board serial ports: 2
> > On-board EPP/ECP parallel port
> > 1 175 MHZ IP32 Processor
> > FPU: MIPS R10010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0
> > CPU: MIPS R10000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.6
> > Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
> >  Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
> > Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 1 Mbyte on Processor 0
> > Main memory size: 448 Mbytes
> > Iris Audio Processor: version A3 revision 0
> > Integral Ethernet: ec0, version 1
> > Disk drive / removable media: unit 5 on SCSI controller 1: 720K/1.44M
> > floppy
> > Disk drive: unit 2 on SCSI controller 0
> > CDROM: unit 4 on SCSI controller 0
> > CRM graphics installed
> > Integral Ethernet: ec0, version 1
> > Integral SCSI controller 1: Version ADAPTEC 7880
> > Integral SCSI controller 0: Version ADAPTEC 7880
> > Vice: TRE
> > ---------------
> >
> > Is that old and/or low end?
>
> >
> > > you need software.  Your best best is the SGI Studio bundle with is
> > > outdated versions of Adobe software, but the cheapest way to edit
video.
> >
> >
> > OK. Can I upgrade the versions of Adobe stuff?
> >
> >
> > > My obsession
> > [...]
> > > normal goals,
> >
> > Heh. I wish you success.
> >
> >
> > > recommend getting an iMac DV and a svideo/composite->firewire box.
Then,
> >
> >
> > Really? Why?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > ----sambo
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