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ArchiCAD 10 on Mac G4 400mhz cpu

Anonymous
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Is it possible to run ArchiCAD 10 on Mac G4 400mhz cpu if memory is increased to over 1GB
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Thomas Holm
Booster
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!)
AC4.1-AC26SWE; MacOS13.5.1; MP5,1+MBP16,1
Aussie John
Newcomer
i did run v9 on a 400 powerbook. Was slow but it did work.
Cheers John
John Hyland : ARINA : www.arina.biz
User ver 4 to 12 - Jumped to v22 - so many options and settings!!!
OSX 10.15.6 [Catalina] : Archicad 22 : 15" MacBook Pro 2019
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