hi
Teresa Ascencao wrote:
Hi Mark and Iohannes,
as this is my first time to interactive video and your software, i'm hoping you could tell me if the two computers i'm considering for purchase will be powerful enough for my interactive video art installation. it will consist of a series of twenty 2-minute clips which will be projected onto a wall, and the video clips will change with a remote control. i'm looking at a used and a new ibook as
mark has retired from active Gem development several years ago... (but it is nice to be reminded of one's roots now and then ;-))
USED ibook: processor - 500 MHz RAM - 640 K
"640K are enough" is this famous b.gates quote. however, i don't believe you here.
bus speed - 66 MHz hard drive - 30 GB full specs: http://www.lowendmac.com/pb2/ibook3.html
NEW ibook: processor - 1.33 GHz RAM - 512 K
and here i believe you neither.
bus speed - 133 MHz hard drive - 40 GB full specs: http://www.apple.com/ibook/specs.html
Gem is based on openGL, which means that you need a graphics card which has openGL-hardware acceleration to get good performance. thus you might experience problems with the USED iBook, but the NEW one should be ok.
since i am not using apple-computers i am forwarding this mail to the gem-dev mailing list, where some people using osX are subscribed who might give you better advice than me.
and remember that you have to run osX in order to work with pd/gem
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