Google Earth officially available for Mac OS X
With all the
cool new goodies from Apple distracting us today, we almost missed the fact that Google has officially made Google Earth for Mac OS X
available. After the rumor and
then the leaked beta, it sure is cool to
see an official version. I played with it only briefly this afternoon (I could only pull myself away from the day's
Apple news for so long) and found it very smooth and responsive on my G5 iMac. Check it out.Thanks for the tip, Ben!
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I have downloaded the google earth on my 12" Powerbook however it will not run , i have not figured out the problem !!!!
My powerpook Specs are
12.1-inch TFT Display with 1024x768 resolution
1.5GHz PowerPC G4
512MB memory (DDR PC2700 SDRAM)
80GB 5400 rpm hard drive
Slot-load 8x SuperDrive (DVDRW/CD-RW)
NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 graphics card with 64MB DDR memory
There does look to be some teething problems with image overlays, I'm having real difficulty getting overlays using JPEG to work as advertised. Have a look at http://www.babilim.co.uk/blog/2006/01/google-earth-for-mac-os-x.html for details, or better yet have a go yourself and tell me what I'm doing wrong.
January 11 2006 at 4:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThank you Google, thank you, thank you.
January 10 2006 at 5:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySo, here's a question some techie should be able to answer: Will it work fine on the new Intel Macs? i.e., without Rosetta?
January 10 2006 at 5:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySo, here's a question some techie should be able to answer: Will it work fine on the new Intel Macs? i.e., without Rosetta?
January 10 2006 at 5:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAgree with the comment about it seeming much quicker on a Mac. My little Mac mini is doing a phenomenal job with rendering.
I forgot how addictive this one little program can be.
It runs perfectly on my 1.25 Ghz Mac Mini (32 Mb video, 1024 Mb RAM). Is so much better that the leaked version. The quality is amazing.
January 10 2006 at 4:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyBeen playing around with it, it seems to run more smoothly on my G4 PowerBook than when I first saw it on PC. And that was a 2.8 GHz monster. Good ol' mac :)
January 10 2006 at 4:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyfinally. my life is complete.
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