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FS: Morphos Macmini G4
« on: March 05, 2015, 12:37:03 PM »
Hi I am selling my custom Macmini G4 as I am now running a PowerMac g5 with Morphos.

This machine has been upgraded to 1gig ram and had a custom skin printed by skinit.com
It is the 1.5ghz version with 64mb VRAM
It comes with a full license copy of morphos all installed on the 100gig internal sata drive.
The case is not fully fitting on the back ( thats down to Dan wood :P but I am sure with some fiddling you can make it fit)

This is ideal for anybody wanting to cheaply join the world of morphos.

I am asking for £13 postage (Uk) and £150 ono

Pm me if interested

Cheers
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Re: FS: Morphos Macmini G4
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2015, 04:23:04 AM »
You don't mention what model, i.e. the faster 1.5GHz one with 64MB VRAM?
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Re: FS: Morphos Macmini G4
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2015, 05:18:36 AM »
He did, but not on this site (yet).  I believe it is, "Yes and Yes."
 

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Re: FS: Morphos Macmini G4
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2015, 10:04:05 AM »
yes I can confirm it is the faster model of 1.5ghz will have to check the vram when I get home (at work at the moment)
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Offline theformulaTopic starter

Re: FS: Morphos Macmini G4
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2015, 02:23:39 PM »
Yes it is 64mb vram
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Re: FS: Morphos Macmini G4
« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2015, 02:46:16 PM »
How much does the extra VRAM help MorphOS? In general or do specific programs benefit from it?
 

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Re: FS: Morphos Macmini G4
« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2015, 04:43:15 PM »
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How much does the extra VRAM help MorphOS? In general or do specific programs benefit from it?


It mostly matters in general. Especially if you want to use new 3D accelerated layers (Enhanced mode), and especially with modern resolutions. Multiple screens also consume memory.

With Enhanced mode you get some eyecandy (window shadows and other transparency effects) and smoothness to window moving (no tearing, no slowdowns with many overlapping windows), but it consumes quite much graphics memory. 32MB could be enough only for 1280x1024 or so, but not much higher resolutions many want to use nowadays.

With 32MB you probably have to switch fully to traditional 2D layers, or at least reduce the color depth for screens or something, unless you're using small resolutions.

In my opinion 64MB is the minimum to be able to use the system fluently. You notice it running out occasionally too, but you can live with it. I have 64MB Mac mini with 1920x1080 resolution and I have one Enhanced mode screen (Ambient), but then I have other screens with 2D layers, and I can have two of them simultaneously before it starts to swap to main memory. It's a quite good compromize with eyecandy and usability/speed.
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Re: FS: Morphos Macmini G4
« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2015, 04:52:04 PM »
Thanks for all the info. That explains some of the strange behavior I have seen sometimes with my 32MB VRAM mini.

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It mostly matters in general. Especially if you want to use new 3D accelerated layers (Enhanced mode), and especially with modern resolutions. Multiple screens also consume memory.

With Enhanced mode you get some eyecandy (window shadows and other transparency effects) and smoothness to window moving (no tearing, no slowdowns with many overlapping windows), but it consumes quite much graphics memory. 32MB could be enough only for 1280x1024 or so, but not much higher resolutions many want to use nowadays.

With 32MB you probably have to switch fully to traditional 2D layers, or at least reduce the color depth for screens or something, unless you're using small resolutions.

In my opinion 64MB is the minimum to be able to use the system fluently. You notice it running out occasionally too, but you can live with it. I have 64MB Mac mini with 1920x1080 resolution and I have one Enhanced mode screen (Ambient), but then I have other screens with 2D layers, and I can have two of them simultaneously before it starts to swap to main memory. It's a quite good compromize with eyecandy and usability/speed.