ArchiCAD 10 on Mac G4 400mhz cpu

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:36:44 GMT

Is it possible to run ArchiCAD 10 on Mac G4 400mhz cpu if memory is increased to over 1GB

Re: ArchiCAD 10 on Mac G4 400mhz cpu

Thomas Holm — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:42:03 GMT

I think so. I'm using it on a six year old 533MHz Dual G4 "Digital Audio" with 1GB RAM. But my projects are not VERY big, and i don't use it for first-class rendering. Artlantis R is quite OK though.
The Duality of this machine helps a lot. And a decent graphics card (I've got a Radeon 9000Pro with 128 MB VRAM) helps with Open GL rotation. Those cards come cheap these days.
But if you intend to use it on a Powerbook, I think you might swear. The 400MHz powerbooks had slow hard disks, and the graphics of that time wasn't very good either by today's standard. I'd much rather just buy a MacMini. Today's models are cheap and comparably fast, or you should be able to grab last year's G4 model used for a small sum. They also had good enough graphics.
(And, I've placed an order for a MBP C2D, but don't tell anyone!)

Re: ArchiCAD 10 on Mac G4 400mhz cpu

Aussie John — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 22:09:39 GMT

i did run v9 on a 400 powerbook. Was slow but it did work.

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