[rescue] 3D machines

[Joshua D. Boyd]

Well, since iMovie is free, really, just get whatever will provide decent
performance inside your budget, and your ready to go.  If a 9500 isn't
already tweaked out, doing so could be costly.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Tue, 2 Jan 1996, Zach Malone wrote:

> 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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