Hi! I'm new here!

#1 Sat, 25 Jul 2009 - 05:55 68kMLA

Hey, I created this account in case I get an iMac G3, and me and my brother share a PC, so as you can see I'm a bit of a beginner when it comes to computers. :-/

If you have any good recommendations for a good, easily-obtained computer that can get on yahoo and youtube, preferably more, let me know. Thanks.

-Isaac

#2 Sat, 25 Jul 2009 - 06:06 68kMLA

If you have any good recommendations for a good, easily-obtained computer that can get on yahoo and youtube, preferably more, let me know. Thanks.

Any modern computer with broadband can do that.

Here we tend to specialise here in computers that can't do any of that.

#3 Sat, 25 Jul 2009 - 06:28 68kMLA

If you have any good recommendations for a good, easily-obtained computer that can get on yahoo and youtube, preferably more, let me know. Thanks.

Sorry, I must have worded that wrong, I was just generally introducing myself, but I was actually implying that I'm looking at getting an iMac G3, which this forum includes.

#4 Sat, 25 Jul 2009 - 08:56 68kMLA

I have iMac G3s starting at about $20. If you want to load YouTube though you would need at least a 500 MHz iMac G3 with OS X, and at least 512 MB RAM, and then you would still need to use a few workarounds for the movies to play smoothly.

#5 Sat, 25 Jul 2009 - 13:20 68kMLA

and then you would still need to use a few workarounds for the movies to play smoothly.

...QuickTime bookmarklet?

Code:

javascript:void(document.getElementById('watch-player-div').innerHTML='');

(this is not QTYoutube, it's the adapted output of some JavaScript Apple uses mixed with the download-in-HQ code, so it works on both "worlds")

#6 Sat, 25 Jul 2009 - 15:52 68kMLA

My 700MHz iMac G4 with 512MB of ram can't even do youtube anymore without copying the URL to VLC. Which even that, not all video's will work with. :-/

But that's why I use it for strict iMovie editing. Very solid.

#7 Sat, 25 Jul 2009 - 22:01 68kMLA

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and then you would still need to use a few workarounds for the movies to play smoothly.

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...QuickTime bookmarklet?

Code:

javascript:void(document.getElementById('watch-player-div').innerHTML='');

(this is not QTYoutube, it's the adapted output of some JavaScript Apple uses mixed with the download-in-HQ code, so it works on both "worlds")

QTYouTube should work in most cases. In any case it will be faster than Flash, but sometimes the QuickTime version of the video is like 512x384 or 640x480 so that increased size slows it down again.