Apple at Mars

MacSA · Mar 24, 2006

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrived at Mars March 10th and early this morning took it's first test images, the team are all using Apple computers:

Take a look at the blog:

http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/first_images/

Prof. Alfred McEwen and the HiROC team
look at the first image of Mars taken by HiRISE (camera)

Kingsly · Mar 24, 2006

That is awesome. Good to see NASA funds are going to something useful.

jsw · Mar 24, 2006

Sadly, they're just checking out this, not Mars pics.

Sharewaredemon · Mar 24, 2006

jsw said:
Sadly, they're just checking out this, not Mars pics.

OH. MY. GOD.

People say mac users are paying for design?

I wonder how much those sweet flames add to the price of that rig?

EDIT - can that thing drive 4 30 inch displays?

Kingsly · Mar 24, 2006

jsw said:
Sadly, they're just checking out this, not Mars pics.

Insanity at its finest.

dmw007 · Mar 24, 2006

MacSA said:
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrived at Mars March 10th and early this morning took it's first test images, the team are all using Apple computers:

Awesome sight to see; all Macs.

dmw007 · Mar 24, 2006

jsw said:
Sadly, they're just checking out this, not Mars pics.

And wondering just how fast it can crash or how many fps you can get during the "blue screen of death".

Sharewaredemon · Mar 24, 2006

dmw007 said:
And wondering just how fast it can crash or how many fps you can get during the "blue screen of death".

1 FPS???

but you are achieving that with a quad GFX card. so that's pretty impressive....

dmw007 · Mar 24, 2006

Sharewaredemon said:
1 FPS???

but you are achieving that with a quad GFX card. so that's pretty impressive....

Impressive indeed.

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