Apple at Mars

[MacSA]

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]

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

 

[jsw]

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

 

[Sharewaredemon]

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]

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

Insanity at its finest. 😛

 

[dmw007]

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]

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]

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]

1 FPS???

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

Impressive indeed. 😉 🙂