[geeks] MacOS is VERY impressive

[Thomas Gallaway]

Bill Bradford wrote:

>On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 07:52:48PM -0400, Ido Dubrawsky wrote:
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>>All I can say is that this thing ROCKS!  I am quite impressed with it...of 
>>course it's going to take a little effort to get my wife used to the new
>>interface and some of the other changes, but she mostly uses it for e-mail,
>>web browsing, and some writing...nothing very powerful.  I can see myself
>>setting this thing up to do some distributed folding given all of the extra
>>cycles it will have to spare (it's an 867MHz G4 with 640MB of memory and
>>about 80GB of disk space).  I am very impressed...just thought I'd share.
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>I bought a dual 864Mhz "Mirrored Drive Doors" (aka "Wind Tunnel") G4 on 
>Christmas Eve 2002 - and its been on, pretty much 24/7, as my main desktop
>machine at home since then.  I've maxed it out to 2G RAM, put in a second
>optical drive (CDRW), installed the Apple kit with quieter power supply,
>replaced the main fan with a Panaflo L1A. 
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>I love it.  Running 10.3.3 right now.  I didnt even reinstall OS9 when I
>did the last wipe-and-reinstall a few months ago.
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>Bill
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My Dual 1.25 Mirrored Drive Doors I guess came silent from apple. Right 
now it has 2 * IDE (160gb)
and 2 * Ultra160 36gb drives inside and the machine is just next to my 
bed and I barly can hear it.
Just a bit scared that the 10k rpm drives will overheat when doing heavy 
video editing rendering.

I use the 2 36gb 10k rpm drives for capturing DV video (the IDE drives 
just didnt do it, dropped frames)
and the IDE drives to store the final's. Works pretty well.... No OS 9.x 
neither.

-- Thomas