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  1. you can upgrade the RAM yourself, it will not void your warranty, AS LONG AS YOU DON'T BREAK ANYTHING.

    you can't add internal Bluetooth or Airport wireless because they require a daughtcard and antenna connections. You can add externals if you are really excited about it and can't wait.

    Some blogger is complaining he can't get the internal add-on done, I wouldn't expect them to be available until Apple has caught up with demand for build-to-orders.

    there is only one RAM slot, so you will end up with whatever it was you started out with as a leftover.

    Sounds like you already have a monitor? then the mini is good for you.

    Yes the upgrade to change platforms policy sucks doesn't it?

    But you will never look back< I assure you.

  2. FONTBOOK willshow you all your installed fonts.

    diameter symbol is a greek character, you get it by typing OPTION-O, O, you get ?, for a bigger one, shift-option-O, O for ? !

    plus-minus might be a ding-bat?

    OOPs! this applies to Mac. I reread the question, to which this is not the answer.

    [ 02-24-2005, 05:40 PM: Message edited by: wv_vectorworker ]

  3. it will be a long time before the mini gets a G5. Upgrades are driven by sales, as long as mini sales are strong and Freescale can provide speedbumps . (G4 upgrade board makers are up to 1.8Ghz. now, for towers of course) G5 makes too much heat!

    The mini is more powerful than any Mac that predates the G5, how many thousands of people are using VW with those machines? Pretty much any G4 but the duallies.

    Only problem with the mini would be lack of dual monitor support, but it does support the 23" cinema display. Would that be big enough?

  4. I an wondering what is the speed issue everyone is talking about, a bit of lag when selecting an object to it showing up in the info box, or much more importantly, the time you wait for a render?

    if rendering speeds ( of Renderworks rendering) are an issue, then I would get the fastest dual processor you can afford.

    the faster video cards will give you faster video, gui, opengl rendering, and the like. Tiger will have some nice new imaging tech called Coreimage, you might want to read up on that.

  5. I had some printing share problems (could not turn off printers sharing) so I wiped the drive and reinstalled my system.

    Much to my dismay I could not get out of VW demo mode.

    After searching the forums I got very frustrated before finding a suggestion By Katie to trash the VW prefs in the ~library/prefs.

    trashing your VWprefs and then reinstalling you will get prompted for the serial # and then all will be fine thereafter.

    are you are stuck in demo mode because VW does not find your dongle?

    did you re-install your system?

    did you re-install VW but not get prompted for a serial number?

    find your prefs in your user folder/library/ trash, empty etc.

    enjoy

    hope this helps.

  6. I have done this type of work successfully in West Vancouver. We had to prove that the view over a new building from a particular balcony would not be impaired. You need to experiment a bit to get it right. Model a known set of buildings and compare your "set 3D views" produced with photos of the same existing scene. You can show that the models are accurate with this kind of comparison.

    As for hand drawn perspectival renderings, there is a young man in England who is able to do exactly that, he was shown on a BBC program taken on a helicopter ride over London, and then later making an accurate rendering of the city in a couple hours.

    About two miles square and thousands of buildings!

  7. there could be something wrong with your file.

    VW 11 is now multi-processor aware, you can check the online brochure.

    Renderworks (sounds like you are not using it) uses the cpu for rendering, not sure about Artlantis. I am using Renderworks and I am pretty impressed with the speed, with 15-30MB files.

    I have a 1.6 G5. There is a lot of differences between G5 tower models and imacs in the bus speeds and other internal systems, they may look comparable at a glance but . . .and higher end models need matching pairs of ram, and so on. The towers are easier to set up for multi monitors, but you can hack the imac for monitor spanning, According to somewhere on the VW site, Open GL in Panther is done by the video card, so a an up to date card will make a difference, your iBook is not upgradeable in that regard.

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