On Wednesday, April 3, 2002, at 06:48 PM, David Deckert wrote:
> I'd read somewhere (here?) that because of the second processor, the
> 840's
> OS can completely crash and video will still run. Not certain of the
> particulars there.
It's true. I've done it. The video is handled by the off-CPU AV
sub-systems and so keep going even when the OS crashes. In the setup in
your video app just set it to draw over the menus and then crash Mac OS
using your favorite method (I have a dodgy video viewing app that has
locked uo a time or two) and the video keeps showing.
> Not surprising. The portable probably has a teeny power supply for the
> audio
> amp so as to not require so much juice on the road.
You'd be surprised how bad most Mac sound ports are, the one in my G3
B&W I had was not great either. They suffice for normal computer
speakers but I got a USB digital audio module for xmas and the
improvement in quality is astounding. I agree the amp in th iBook is
probably pretty low-powered, I know it distort if you turn the volume
right up, I generally think it's just a rubbish amp, lets be honest it's
only driving headphones or a poxy single speaker!
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