The G3 Man

I am having an issue with iTunes on my "Fake Mac". It is a P4 1.8GHz. It always freezes in Coverflow. It also freezes in Leopard's Coverflow. It recognizes my Graphics Card fine.

Specs
Pentium 4 1.8GHz
768mb RAM
40GB HD (IDE)
Nvidia TNT2 Pro 32MB
Mac OS X 10.5.4

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John Clay

Buy a real Mac. OS X was never intended to run on those parts.

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kb244

Hmm... constructive answer...
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I don't know what the other parts are, but definitely should upgrade the video card I haven't had a TNT2 Ultra 32MB... since... god I can't even remember. Should be an easy under 100$ upgrade, the card you got not is way older than the processor you're using. And a lot of OSX 10.5.* functionality is graphically hardware accelerated, so that's your weak link.

Technically OSX (even hacked) shouldn't be able to run on anything older/slower than a P4 2.8 northwood chip (as the chipset required to run that processor is also supported by OSX-x86)

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FlaminWiz

Buy a Mac. If you need Windows that badly, use BootCamp (I suggest BootCamp because it is free, cheap like you) which allows dual booting of OS's.

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monokitty

+2; agreed.

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kb244

Can certainly feel the love in here. It's almost childish.

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John Clay

This is ehMac, not eh"Mac made of cobbled together PC parts".

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monokitty

You tell it like it is.

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rubeole

If someone poses a question offering conditions "a, b, & c = therefore?" and all you can bleat out is "BUY AN X" then you should simply resist the lure of the reply button.

You're not being helpful to the OP and you are polluting the board.

Case closed.


I think this ethic needs to be reinstilled around here. Some newer members seem to have not picked up on it yet.

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Reveeen

From:
Cover Flow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Cover Flow is a three-dimensional graphical user interface included with iTunes, the Macintosh Finder, and other Apple Inc. products for visually rummaging through files and digital media libraries via cover artwork."

You gots no 3D, at least not any type of 3D that OSx "likes", break out your wallet and invest $25 in a FX5200 (keeping in mind that "special effects" require BOTH a "real" video card, and ram, usually the more the merrier, 1g+).