[Leonis]

Can someone take a photo with both Graphite and QuickSilver G4 side-by-side???

I want to see how much brighter the QS compare to the graphite tower.

[MadMacs]

[Cobra]

Nice setups fellas!

Makes my G4 400 Sawtooth look pretty pedestrian.

Mine is hooked up to a Graphite 17" Studio display, Epson Stylus color 740i printer, and HK Soundsticks.

Sorry no pics. Scanner crapped out a month ago. Need a new one.

Been itching for a Quicksilver put think I will hold out for a G5 whenever that comes out. Hopefully within the next year. Not much point in going with another G4.

Its called discipline.

[VirFighter]

Leonis: I was over at Compusa today and they had them almost side by side. It really is a big difference. The QS gray is much softer and after looking at the older G4 for awhile the white plastic and the QS gray almost seemed to blend in. Looked very nice.

Nice setups everyone!

[blakespot]

Bit of an upgrade here!! The bottom photo is my new dual 800 happily sitting amidst and upgraded system. The speed... The speed...








...so fine!

blakespot

[vmarks]

Originally posted by Bodhi:
<STRONG>I work at a record company </STRONG>

Bodhi,

Know of any job openings at your record company?

(PS I like your wall decor!)

Victor Marks
[email protected]

[ 08-23-2001: Message edited by: vmarks ]

[Leonis]

UPDATE!!!!

My 17" Apple Studio Display is gone and it got replaced by my very old 14" Apple monitor

A few days ago I finally sold my single processor 450Mhz G4 and I bought in the Dual 500 G4 Tower for $2300 CDN. I sold my old one for $1700 CDN therefore I only paid $600 CDN for this tower

I transferred all the RAM and HDs, Radeon card to this 'new' six month old box and it runs like dream

I will get the Apple Care in October

The image here looks like the same but the tower is totally a different one



Updated spec:
-G4 Dual 500
-1.5GB RAM
-Two 47GB IBM Deskstar Hard Drives
-21" Apple Studio Display
-14" Apple RGB Display (spray painted into Silver and grey)
-Sound Sticks
-Epson 1200U Photo USB Scanner
-HP Deskjet 932c printer
-LaCie 16x10x40 Firewire CD-RW
-Wacom 6x8 Intous SE tablet
-Contour UniMouse
-Actions figures and toys like Doraemon, Shrek, Biohazard/Resident Evil, Akira, Final Fantasy, Buffy, Trigun, Garfield, Toy Story (not shown)
-The MWNY badge

BTW....the DP tower doesn't come with Zip drive. I bought an generic beige zip drive for $60CDN and get the bezel for $27CDN....when I got the drive I took off the front face of the zip and painted it in black with felt pen....after the ink dried I put the face back to the drive and installed into the tower.....people can't really tell this is the Apple branded or the PC OEM drive


[ 08-26-2001: Message edited by: Leonis ]

[Leonis]

Hey, MacMac.....what's the total cost of that shelf?

I want to build one for myself too.

[MadMacs]

bump

[muttfree]

http://homepage.mac.com/bowwowman/Personal.html

enjoy !

[ 08-31-2001: Message edited by: muttfree ]

[Han's Hands on Leia]

All my other stuff like Que CD Burner, Router, Firewire Zip, Orb Drive and scanner are on the lower shelf on the right.

[Leonis]

Originally posted by muttfree:
<STRONG>http://homepage.mac.com/bowwowman/Personal.html

enjoy ! </STRONG>

Hey muttfree, how did you do the handles?

[murbot]

My latest Mac:










867 MHz G4
60 GB HD
768 MB RAM
CD-RW
G3Force 2

17" LCD

[ 09-04-2001: Message edited by: murbot ]

Ha murbot you go through macs like I go through socks.

[Scrod]

Stylin', Murbot!

[Leonis]

Well....looks like the SoundSticks have the longest life in Murbot's house

Murbot, what is that clear thing under your desk? I've seen it in pictures of other people's set ups.

&lt;Just wondering&gt;,

Thats an "iSub" from Harmon Kardon. It's the sub woofer to go with his matching sound sticks.

[muttfree]

Originally posted by Leonis:
<STRONG>

Hey muttfree, how did you do the handles?</STRONG>

same as the rest.......from the inside/backside p.s.......the white on the screws & apple is porcelain touch-up paint (like you use for sinks & tubs)

HTH

[no use for a nick]

If you believe that more is better...then hang on to your hats.

Coming Soon

nick

[no use for a nick]

As promised, I present...the Mac Lab:







Yep. That's where I work. Too bad I don't have a need for that much power!

nick

[ 09-19-2001: Message edited by: no use for a nick ]

[dfbennett]

I'll try and post some pictures of my setup soon but in the meantime, my college just got an entire lab of Quicksilver G4s! I haven't actually seen them in person so I don't know the specs, but I'm continually impressed with the support Macs get at my college.

[bender]

Originally posted by no use for a nick:
<STRONG>
Yep. That's where I work. Too bad I don't have a need for that much power!

nick

[ 09-19-2001: Message edited by: no use for a nick ]</STRONG>

You oughta run the SETI@home screen saver on those G4's when they're not use, assuming they have internet access. I know Team MacNN wants some help. Just an idea.

[no use for a nick]

Originally posted by bender:
<STRONG>

You oughta run the SETI@home screen saver on those G4's when they're not use, assuming they have internet access. I know Team MacNN wants some help. Just an idea.</STRONG>

And you know, I would if the didn't have the MacAdministrator security settings set to prevent such a thing. That's ok though, because come spring...I will be in charge of all Mac servers and labs on campus. They're even paying for me to get certified and such as that.

Lucky me. I've gone from Mac hobbyist to Mac lab attendant to Mac Administrator in the period of a year. No complaints here. It'll be better pay, free tuition and a new Quicksilver G4 in my own office. Not bad for a kid.

nick

[sek929]

Crappy picture (still from a video camera but you gest the jist...powermac info is in my sig.

[SkiBikeSki]

I little late but they're still here none the less.


[img]null[/img]











It took me almost two months to track down a friend with a digital camera I could borrow. Then, once I had it, it was a sinch to grab, edit, and post the pictures using Mac OS X and iDisk. Cool Huh? I think i focused my attention too much on the G4 and not enough on other components.

PS I have absolutly no idea why those pictures won't work. If you really want to see then try this link here

[ 10-08-2001: Message edited by: SkiBikeSki ]

[SkiBikeSki]

Hey, no use for a nick ,

Instead of running seti, you should participate in the RC5 contest. Not only could you become the most powerfull person on the team, but you can run it on the computers with absolutly no sign that its there. Also RC5 is very optimized for the G4 processor; you could really kick butt. Check out The MacNN website for RC5

I hope to see you on our team in the near future.

[ 10-08-2001: Message edited by: SkiBikeSki ]

[andymcdeee]

What macs are really made for.....

PM G4 400 Yikes with a few audio extras for good measure.

[gumby5647]

two things........ that heat sink is HUGE!!! good lord!

and murbot, well, he could start his own thread with all the pictures of computers that he's owned in the last year.......

[zos]

andymcdeee, that is indeed what Macs are made for!

That and my graphic design major.

Extra points for using the same Trackman Marble Wheel as me, which is the king of all input devices (I've used some variation of it almost as long as I've used Macs).

[sek929]

Originally posted by gumby5647:
<STRONG>two things........ that heat sink is HUGE!!! good lord!

and murbot, well, he could start his own thread with all the pictures of computers that he's owned in the last year....... </STRONG>

Yeah, those hunks o' alu-minium (British accent) are quite large...even on the 733 Models.

And SkiBikeSki, is that a 19" PerfectFlat Veiwsonic you got there?

[andymcdeee]

Originally posted by zos:
<STRONG>andymcdeee, that is indeed what Macs are made for!

That and my graphic design major.

Extra points for using the same Trackman Marble Wheel as me, which is the king of all input devices (I've used some variation of it almost as long as I've used Macs).</STRONG>

Yeah, can't even use a normal mouse any more. Although for any other punters who use the studio I have a mouse sitting there ready to go. (If you look REALLY hard).

Oh, and my heat sink is very little. Ah well.

• Originally posted by bender:
  
  You oughta run the SETI@home screen saver on those G4's when they're not use, assuming they have internet access. I know Team MacNN wants some help. Just an idea.

And you know, I would if the didn't have the MacAdministrator security settings set to prevent such a thing. That's ok though, because come spring...I will be in charge of all Mac servers and labs on campus. They're even paying for me to get certified and such as that.

A little off-topic, but you might want to read this before doing anything in that lab you are going to be running:
http://www.businessweek.com/technolo...001088_076.htm
Or:
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6740797.html

"David McOwen is losing a lot of sleep these days over his decision to participate in a distributed computing project two years ago. The former computer administrator at DeKalb Technical College in Georgia found out recently that he could face up to 30 years in jail and fines totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars because he installed some distributed computing software on the school's computers."

[juanvaldes]

Originally posted by zos:
<STRONG>andymcdeee, that is indeed what Macs are made for!

That and my graphic design major.

Extra points for using the same Trackman Marble Wheel as me, which is the king of all input devices (I've used some variation of it almost as long as I've used Macs).</STRONG>

HEY! don't count out us Computer Science majors
Having UNIX underneath is alot of fun too

[Apple Pro Underwear]

I want to see Cubes!

[Cooter]

Consider yourself 0\/\//\/3p!

[cube-dude]

Originally posted by Apple Pro Underwear:
<STRONG>I want to see Cubes!</STRONG>

http://newforums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/u...&f=12&t=003440

[kulverse]

[ 10-21-2001: Message edited by: kulverse ]

[SkiBikeSki]

Oh my God, Cooter! How did you get your CPU to run at 1Ghz and keep the L3 cache. I have spoken to so many people who have said that lost it at 1Ghz, and it came back at 933Mhz. You are so lucky!

[RealMac]

I have some pictures at a site created by me which hasn't been updated in Eons. Maybe due to lack of demand?

Macs Of Our Lives is where it's at. For your viewing pleasure, I've attached one pic from that site. No, it's not my workspace. I lack a digital camera, my scanner won't work with the g4 / macosx and my cheap camera still has film left in it...

&lt;img src="http://www.macsofourlives.com/images/helixblue/images/P6070117.jpg"&gt;

Hopefully that isn't too large of an image...

[Jerommeke]

Originally posted by kulverse:
<STRONG>

[ 10-21-2001: Message edited by: kulverse ]</STRONG>

i like the cat upside the scanner

could you tell me a little more bout it:

cache?
firewire?
usb?
hard disk?
ram?
ethernet?
graphic card?
etc

[davidflas]

Here's my set up as of October 28th, 2001 7:30am CST


and here's another shot...


G4/466 896MB ram, Rage128 Video, 30GB HD
Soundblaster Live! (doesn't work under X)
Intitio Miles Bluenote SCSI II (works under X)
Cambridge Soundworks 3 piece speaker system
Nikon LS-2000 Super Coolscan film scanner
Canon Canoscan 1220U
Kensington USB two button wheel mouse (works under X)
APC Back-Ups Pro 650
HP 1220c/PS printer

[kbbaucom]

Two 6100s and a StarMax

PowerMac 8600 and PowerTower Pro

Not pictured: Another 6100 w/300MHz G3, and an iMac Rev. B

[ 10-29-2001: Message edited by: kbbaucom ]

[brock76]

Originally posted by no use for a nick:
<STRONG>

And you know, I would if the didn't have the MacAdministrator security settings set to prevent such a thing. That's ok though, because come spring...I will be in charge of all Mac servers and labs on campus. They're even paying for me to get certified and such as that.

Lucky me. I've gone from Mac hobbyist to Mac lab attendant to Mac Administrator in the period of a year. No complaints here. It'll be better pay, free tuition and a new Quicksilver G4 in my own office. Not bad for a kid.

nick </STRONG>

There is a way around MacAdmin! That's how I put RC5 on the machines. You can hide RC5 really easy by using the faceless client. I will not dicuss on this board the way around MacAdmin. If you want to know, just email me. Those would rock on RC5.

[blakespot]

New machine and new camera---so an update to my picture posting.

First, the REAL old:



Now, the OLD:



Now, the NEW:



DP 800 + two 19" Sony's. Love.


bp

[Leonis]

hey blakespot

What video card do you use to hook up the second monitor?

[blakespot]

I decided the best option was a Rage 128 PCI. I found a Rage Orion (Rage 128, 16MB) PCI on eBay and got it for $110 or so back in July. It's worked perfectly, and I am completely satisfied with it as a 2nd monitor solution. (My main board is an AGP4x GeForce 3.)

The only other possibility was the Radeon VE which, at the time, was said to be coming for the Mac (fairly inexpensively) "soon" -- it's been 5 months since then---glad I got the Rage 128. The Radeon VE will drive two screens iteself if/when it's released for the Mac, so for a triple-head aspiring person, it might be the way to go.

blakespot

PS - The B&W G3 400 had a Rage 128 PCI-66 + Rage Pro 4MB PCI

PPS - Note the KDS screen on the middle picture...it, and its KDS replacement BOTH died within 3 months of getting them. I will NEVER buy another KDS screen. Everyone I know save one person, who has had a KDS screen, has had it die. It's amzining, their lack of quality control.

Originally posted by Michaelm8000:
<STRONG>http://homepage.mac.com/michael_m/PhotoAlbum2.html

there is a link to a bunch of pics of my new G4. </STRONG>

Hey Michael,

The plastic covers with the three holes on each of your speakers are only there for shipping protection. Take 'em off - they'll sound a lot better.

BTW, Nice setup! I hope to have a similar one after Christmas. (Well, after MWSF )

BTW: Any admins.. I changed my email and never got the new pass.

Anyhoot, here's my newest pic.... water your mouth, because it's what you can get hooked on

Dual 800 g4
Apple Cinema 22" LCD
Apple Pro speakers
iSub
On a nice glass desk

(I wish I had that audio rig the other dude had, but heck, this is good, and I like the pro speakers better than the soundsticks [ a few bucks saved got me some more games too!] )