Simultaneous booting of the iMac G5 and iMac Intel

fmass · Post by **fmass** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 10:00 am

apologises if u seen this already ...

interesting

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ixd1X9nzW60

minimal · Post by **minimal** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 10:32 am

you guys you use computers to boot or make music.... get a life.. people are producing records with 800 € laptops...wtf?

Or I miss the point?

fmass · Post by **fmass** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 7:06 am

u are right

u miss the point

Digi V · Post by **Digi V** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:13 am

thats incredibly geeky. you gotta love it.

my macbook boots up pretty damn fast.

smutek · Post by **smutek** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:46 pm

My G5 boots quicker than the intel imac.

smutek · Post by **smutek** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:55 pm

minimal wrote:you guys you use computers to boot or make music.... get a life.. people are producing records with 800 € laptops...wtf?

Or I miss the point?

Well, in my new band, mac nightmare, four of us use 16 macs to run a four/four beat. The only sound source is the boot sound the mac makes when it starts up.

So, in short, we have to time it right and start them at exactly the right moment to maintain the

gong
gong
gong
gong

As soon as you have gotten to your fourth mac you have to hurry back to the first, shut down all four, run back to the first again and restart them all to keep the cycle going in perfect time.

gong
gong
gong
gong

In order to do this we have to know how fast our macs are going to boot and shut down. We are able to play for 45 minutes like this and maintain speeds up to 30 bpm! It's expensive as fuck and a pain in the ass but it works.

minimal · Post by **minimal** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:59 pm

Digi V · Post by **Digi V** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:07 pm

smutek wrote:My G5 boots quicker than the intel imac.

what is your clocked time?

forge · Post by **forge** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:56 pm

yeah, is it just me or was the G5 in that clip unnaturally slow any way? Maybe it's just the perception of time, but it certainly looked alot slower than I would expect - I think my athlon 2200 boots quicker!

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:59 pm

even my iMac G5 boots quicker than that iMac G5.

slowlygrowl · Post by **slowlygrowl** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 12:00 am

smutek, seriously thats hilarious!

smutek · Post by **smutek** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:56 am

Digi V wrote:
smutek wrote:My G5 boots quicker than the intel imac.

what is your clocked time?

48 seconds. So, its actually slower than the mactel by about 10 seconds. I don't know if it matters. but I have stuffit deluxe and adobe version cue as startup items.

I do agree that the G5 imac in the video seemed unusually slow. It took almost as long as my wifes G3 graphite to start up. Well, not quite that long but something did not seem right.

Digi V · Post by **Digi V** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 5:21 am

anything over 40 seconds wont beat any intel macs.

gregpharez · Post by **gregpharez** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:43 am

this is important because...?

smutek · Post by **smutek** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:51 am

Well, see my post above about my band that uses 16 macs. Other than that it is important because........

umm........

well.....

shit.

its not really.