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Rig of the Day: Now that's a TV
Who says you need a fancy new Mac mini to power some serious TV hardware. Here we see a G4 450 'Sawtooth' (remember the G4's?) powering a 60" Sony SXRD HDTV. That's one big tv, and one Retro Mac (now), I mean that thing can't even run Windows!
60" Monitor for my Mac by mactarkus.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
John Russell said 12:27AM on 9-16-2006
That's a good idea to have the second screen, so that the dock and menubar won't clutter up the TV screen.
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John Russell said 12:35AM on 9-16-2006
Anyone besides me notice that it was uploaded on the 24th of January?
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Gregory Andrew said 12:42AM on 9-16-2006
I have that exact set up! I love it!! It works so nicely, especially with my wireless keyboard and mouse. My living room is huge so it works out well that i can sit on my couch and still read my IM's. I also LOVE watching all of my music videos and movies i just downloaded from iTunes Movies. I've bought 10 so far!!
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Gregory Andrew said 12:44AM on 9-16-2006
Actually, i can't say the exact setup, because i actually have my Intel Core 2 Duo iMac on it now. Still Amazing~
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Brandon said 12:48AM on 9-16-2006
this is the same one as the other day...
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Brandon said 12:53AM on 9-16-2006
whoa, before it was the big hi def projector picture, now its this... weird
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Scott McNulty said 12:56AM on 9-16-2006
I accidentally gave the picture in this post the same name as the one that other Rig of the Day post. So the wrong picture was showing up, but now it is all fixed. :)
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Henry said 1:22AM on 9-16-2006
I've got a sawtooth just like that. Too bad it's too slow to run iTunes 7, although it can run FCP 4.5 pretty well. I guess the AGP Graphics (lol, ATI 128 Pro) can't handle CoreImage...
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schmod said 1:41AM on 9-16-2006
I still keep around a G4-450 at home, and I've gotta say that with enough RAM, it certainly doesn't "feel" like a 7 year old machine.
In fact, it keeps up with my 12" powerbook pretty nicely, and makes a nice accompaniment as a desktop machine (packed full of storage, of course)
As another poster here pointed out, FCP 4.5 runs really well on it, even with the latest OS. Surprisingly well, in fact. Kudos to apple on that one.
I'm not so thrilled about iTunes 7 having so much useless crap that can't be disabled, but it's still not all that bad.
In terms of longitivity and usefulness, the machine's paid for itself at least three times over. I intend to hang on to it as long as it's still running (and right now, runs just about everything one would run on a newer mac).
(I've also got to brag that the hard drive has never been reformatted or repartitioned (nor has it ever needed to). There are a few OS 9 artifacts lying around on it. PCs hardly last a year before needing to be completely wiped)
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:: sninesix :: said 5:48AM on 9-16-2006
Um. That TV is worth how many times that old G4? 12x? I'm too lazy to look that pricing up, but that 12x figure is about right. That's some serious "I don't know what to do with all the money I'm overpaid" if I haven't seen it. Not busting balls. Just seems like if you're going to drop that chunk of change on a TV you would have a computer of comparable value.
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Richard said 9:39AM on 9-16-2006
@10: Or, like me, he just used whatever he had lying around. Which just so happened to be a g4 450. The machine is just fine for what he's using it for and it keeps it from the trash.
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eric f said 10:21AM on 9-16-2006
It's all coming together..the only way to get your rig chosen is to put TUAW on the screen.
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Ilya Smirnov said 2:32PM on 9-16-2006
"I mean that thing can't even run Windows!"
Who wants to run Windows anyway?
Anyways, awesome setup, wish I had the budget to have a TV that big!
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Brandon said 5:15PM on 9-16-2006
well now that you guys have posted a billion setups with mac minis hooked up to tvs, how bout an overview of the best way to go about doing it?
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martin said 5:30PM on 9-16-2006
Sweet. I'm getting this TV or a different Sony SXRD soon.
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Eli said 2:24AM on 9-17-2006
Wow, a rig of the day that's not a MacBook or a Mac Mini :P
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om. said 8:34AM on 9-17-2006
those G4s are loud as hell! how can one keep something like that in his living room?
i like the tv, though...
om.
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Noticias Mac said 9:30AM on 9-17-2006
Nice screen, I would like to buy one like that :)
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