17 Nov
2004
17 Nov
'04
3:21 p.m.
Zane H. Healy wrote:
My work is done, here. :)
Just to rub it in a little, this was a "brother-in-law deal". I paid
less for the whole rig than the 1600SW sells for on eBay. And no stuck
pixels.
Man, this
thing is a close runner-up to an Apple Cinema Display for
color and crispness. Since I don't *have* a cinema display (or a
thousand clams to get one) I'm very seriously considering a MultiLink
adapter. My current tube is a SGI GDM-4011P, and the flat-panel makes
it look like cheap Sampo junk.
Oh, you just had to tell me that didn't you. I probably wouldn't even
have to work that hard to talk my wife into a 1600SW, as she wanted one
when I got the o2! Is it possible to put Linux on one of these?
That's what it would take
to make them really interesting for me (though I'd prefer Solaris x86 on
one).
Neither OS supports the accelerated graphics. I think it'll run
Linux, but only in text mode and maybe unaccelerated VESA graphics mode.
I'm looking into video capture software. There are some things I'd
like to do, and I think between the 320 and the Octane with EVO I have
the hardware to do the capture (from VHS, 16mm, and mini-VHS), then I
can do the editing on the G5.
Doc