But anyone with an idle PowerPC can consider crunching for FAAH and DDDT, or even other non-WCG BOINC projects. It's official enough that I got a notification from the BOINC app that it was available for download. The Mac 32-bit Intel versions were missing from the downloadall page. I constantly use my Mac, so using it to crunch was also a bit of an inconvenience. Mac Operating system Mac OS X 10.4.0 and later Hardware Macintosh computer with an Intel x86 or PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor 128 MB RAM (Recommended: 256 MB RAM or greater) 200 MB disk space NOTE: Some older hardware or older versions of MacOS require older builds of BOINC. I mentioned that the URL for the VBox installer is incorrect in allplatforms page and that the platform for Mac 32-bit Intel installer is wrong. If your computer does what you need it to do, then it's not obsolete. Macintosh BOINCManager Version 7.16.14 Release NotesNOTE: This version of BOINC requires MacOS 10.9 or later.Installing BOINC may take several minutes please. Everything else that I use my G4 for still works perfectly fine, if not better than ever since I upgraded my RAM.Ī couple years ago, I bumped into a friend who was just thinking about upgrading from a first generation 68K Mac. I just upgraded the RAM to see if it would help it to crunch, but no luck there. In fact, my 5 year old 867MHz G4 still has several years of life in it, just not for crunching WCG workunits. I am leaving the crunching to my idle Wintel 1.66GHz Duo Core.īut a 1.8GHz iMac G5 is hardly obsolete. The procedure to change the default program in Mac OS. In part, because I could not get HCC workunits, but also because the workunits I could get, FAAH and DDDT, took a long time to run, over a day and almost two days. The most popular program for handling SAH files is BOINC, but users can choose among 2 different. Well, yesterday, I just completed the last WCG workunit that I will do on my 867MHz PowerBook G4.
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