On Aug 27, 2009, at 2:56 PM, 2monet wrote:
>
> My mac is .8 GHz Power PC G% 512 MB RAM
>
> 1. Is that sufficient for sketch up?
I'm guessing you mean an 800 Mhz G4, and it's very marginal, per their
requirements page:
Minimum hardware
• 1 GHz PowerPC™ G4.
• 512 MB RAM.
• 160 MB of available hard-disk space.
• 3D class Video Card with 128 MB of memory or higher. Please ensure
that the video card driver supports OpenGL version 1.5 or higher and
up to date.
• 3 button, scroll-wheel mouse.
If you have the stock video card in it, I'd say no, it will not run
Sketch Up acceptably, if at all.
I've run Sketch Up on a 1 Ghz G4 with a gig of ram and it ran
acceptably, but I'd upgraded the video card to an ATI Radeon 9200;
that's the big thing. I'll wager it will be usable if you do that, and
kick up the RAM to at least a gig.
>
> 2. What brand mouse should I buy. I can't find anything in the Apple
> store.
Any old two-button scroll-wheel USB mouse is supported by OS X out of
the box. (including the scrollwheel click, which serves as the third
button.)
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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
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