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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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Tushar Dayal said 4:38PM on 1-10-2006
finally. my life is complete.
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Ben said 4:38PM on 1-10-2006
Been 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 :)
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enano275 said 4:53PM on 1-10-2006
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.
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Radical Bender said 4:59PM on 1-10-2006
Agree 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.
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Jon said 5:19PM on 1-10-2006
So, here's a question some techie should be able to answer: Will it work fine on the new Intel Macs? i.e., without Rosetta?
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Jon said 5:20PM on 1-10-2006
So, here's a question some techie should be able to answer: Will it work fine on the new Intel Macs? i.e., without Rosetta?
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FoxyOrb said 5:33PM on 1-10-2006
Thank you Google, thank you, thank you.
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Alasdair Allan said 4:45PM on 1-11-2006
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.
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Rasool said 12:09AM on 1-22-2006
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
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