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Subject: How do you find out the GPU of a Macintosh?
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My friend has bought Warcraft III and Frozen Throne, which are one of a few number of Mac games, for his Macintosh. He asked me if his Mac could handle WC III, but I use Windows-based PCs most of the time, so I don't know where I can locate the GPU in a Mac.

Could anybody tell me how to find the system specs for his Mac?

  • 06.19.2006 2:46 PM PDT
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Tell him to get a PC.

  • 06.19.2006 3:36 PM PDT

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Computer: Power Mac G5 CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (2.2) Number Of CPUs: 2 CPU Speed: 1.8 GHz L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB Memory: 1.25 GB Bus Speed: 900 MHz

ATi Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition
Display Type: LCD Resolution: 1680 x 1050 Depth: 32-bit Color

Now for a useful answer:
Go to the Apple menu, (top left of the screen), drag down to "About this Mac" and release. A window opens up. In that window, click "more info...".

You'll see a list of all the hardware in the Mac. Click on any item to get the specifics about it.

  • 06.19.2006 4:02 PM PDT
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Shucks, SimonJester753, you beat me to it!

Posted by: darekster2ongame
Tell him to get a PC.


Tell him to keep his Mac, get an account on bungie.net, and come hang out with us!

  • 06.19.2006 4:40 PM PDT
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Posted by: SimonJester753
Now for a useful answer:
Go to the Apple menu, (top left of the screen), drag down to "About this Mac" and release. A window opens up. In that window, click "more info...".

You'll see a list of all the hardware in the Mac. Click on any item to get the specifics about it.


Right. The little apple icon on the top left of the main toolbar. It should be listed somewhere under "GPU" or something of the sort.

On a side note, I found that out when going to the Apple store and taking a look around and at those computers. Sad thing is, though, I asked a salesman what Mac had the most powerful CPU (Powerbook 17"), then asked him what the clockspeed was.

"Er...clockspeed? Uhh...I...don't know what that is."

-_-U

  • 06.19.2006 9:18 PM PDT
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Posted by: OmniosSpartan
^agreed, Mac's > PC's


Depends what you use it for. Video Editing-Mac. Playing games-PC.

I manage to make my videos fine on a PC so Im good to go.

  • 06.19.2006 9:30 PM PDT

tell him to trade in his Mac for as much $ as possible and that can go toward a PC.

  • 06.19.2006 9:42 PM PDT
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yea macs are good if your -blam!-

  • 06.20.2006 12:07 AM PDT
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OMG! WHO GIVES A FREAKING CRAP!? I didn't ask if he should get a PC or not, he's got a Mac, and the only two people here who helped me out were me15ter and SimonJester. Of course PCs pwn Macs in gaming, but that wasn't the point!

  • 06.20.2006 4:10 AM PDT

Don't drink to excess– You might shoot at tax-collectors... and miss

Computer: Power Mac G5 CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (2.2) Number Of CPUs: 2 CPU Speed: 1.8 GHz L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB Memory: 1.25 GB Bus Speed: 900 MHz

ATi Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition
Display Type: LCD Resolution: 1680 x 1050 Depth: 32-bit Color


On a side note, I found that out when going to the Apple store and taking a look around and at those computers. Sad thing is, though, I asked a salesman what Mac had the most powerful CPU (Powerbook 17"), then asked him what the clockspeed was.

"Er...clockspeed? Uhh...I...don't know what that is."

-_-U


That's to be expected. It's not like you get to pick and choose processors with various clock speeds in a Mac– they sell a package of software and hardware made to work with each other out of the box, not something cobbled together out of various bits and pieces that need special drivers installed just to get the motherboard recognized by the system, etc.

We had a PC tech come in and reinstall Windows and all the drivers for all the components on the one PC in our office. It took from 9:15 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. to load Windows and the color rip software and configure it on the network. I can do the same on a Mac in much less time. If I can't pick my clock speed, I don't care.

And you can overclock a Mac if you want to.

[Edited on 6/20/2006]

  • 06.20.2006 9:40 AM PDT