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Quicksilver uses

llecount

New member
So I've got this Quicksilver that I've had for quite sometime now, but unfortunately, its spent more time occupying my closet floor than being used. What is this thing good to use for now a days? I've got enough computers in my house (main desktop, work laptop, old thinkpad laptop), so I don't really have a use for it here other than dabbling on it.

I run a performing arts center on a local college campus, and I occasionally do audio recording for some of the concerts that perform there. I've got an older Dell dimension that i use for that purpose right now, but I think this may be a better option? I dunno, tell me what you guys think. What kind of recording software can I run on this thing? What other things could I do with it? I don't want to sell it as I kinda have a nice little mac museum collection starting again. :lol: Specs are below:

G4 733 Mhz

1GB PC-133 RAM

40GB and 100GB ATA Hard Drive

CD-RW and Zip 250 (yippee, lol)

Firewire, and PCI USB 2.0

ATI Radeon 8500LE (DVI, VGA, Svid)

Runnning OSX.. but I can't remember what version (wanna say 10.4)

 

Christopher

Well-known member
You could use it as extra processing for re encoding videos and such. Or as a remote iTunes player.

Or extra processing for someone else. Check out Folding@Home.

 

waynestewart

Well-known member
I use my quicksilver with EyeTv as a PVR. Occasionally I import a tv show into iMovie and burn it to a DVD for someone.

Wayne

 

Hrududu

Well-known member
It should handle audio work just fine I would think. Since you've already got 1Gb of RAM in it and a decent sized hard drive, I would definitely use it instead of an old Dell. As for software, I couldn't tell ya what to use.

 
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