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This Benchmark style table was customized to be 42"wide x 120"long x 42"h with the standard 2" thick top. Planking, medium distressing, hand worn edges, and Ruff Sawn sanding were options chosen.
The coordinating stools chosen were 10) 30"h Richland stationary sides with wood seats. Medium distressing and worn edges were done to match the table.
Brown Maple/Kona stain
More of the same. The new thing is a Final Cut Pro HDV 1080i60 render. Final Cut Pro is not universal yet, but just the render? That sounds pretty contrived to me too. Could be the crappy memory bandwidth of the G4 for all I know.
Where is the Photoshop benchmark? Where are the other tasks in Final Cut Pro? Motion? Aperture? MacOffice? and other Pro apps that haven’t been ported?
The strange thing here is the floating point delta is larger than the integer one. Anyone know why? Maybe the extra core doesn't benefit this mark, I seem to remember something about Apple turning of hyperthreading in their Intel v. G5 SPECint marks a couple years back because it slowed SPECint down. Related? If so, it shows why contrived marks like this are full of shit.
(Not that I don’t think the MacBook Pro is a fast computer, or has the potential to be much faster than a G4 Powerbook here. But let us remember that I am typing this on a 1.5Ghz Powerbook that is one and a half years old. Today’s fastest Powerbooks are 1.67Ghz—a whole 10% faster. It’s easy to blow away a computer that sits at least a Moore's Law doubling behind you.)
Digital image captured with an Olympus XZ-1 compact
Editing done with Photoshop Elements 12 and Topaz Labs plug-ins
Found and admired in downtown St. Charles, Missouri, USA
Elderly couple relaxing on a bench in a plaza in Puerto de Mogán, Gran Canaria. Puerto de Mogán is a picturesque resort and fishing village in the municipality of Mogán, set at the mouth of a steep-sided valley on the southwest coast of the island of Gran Canaria and attracts many tourists either to stay or on day-visits. Canal-like channels linking the marina to the fishing harbour have led to it being nicknamed "Little Venice" or the "Venice of the Canaries". Restaurants and bars fringe the marina and the beach front. On a Friday there is a very popular market which brings in tourists from all over the island..
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Puerto de Mogán has very few buildings over two storeys high, and the government of Gran Canaria restricts new buildings taller than this..
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Puerto de Mogán is linked with the motorway GC1 several kilometres to the east in Puerto Rico by means of a coastal road (GC-500), and is on several bus routes. The mountains almost surround the urban area of the town..
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The town is linked to Puerto Rico and Arguineguin by minor ferry routes from its small port, and is also a major stop for ocean going yachts beginning their journey across the Atlantic to the Caribbean. The smaller, mainly single-storey, homes and inaccessible streets are on the northern slopes; the larger inaccessible houses, a forest and a square lie in the northwest; and near the port and more to the northeast. There is a small enclosed beach which has golden sand imported from the Sahara. There are two or three hotels and many holiday apartments available for rent.
The kit and its assembly:
This fictional Heer '46 is based on the fact that the famous German post-WWII MBT Leopard 1 – at least the Porsche prototype – was based on designs from the WWII era. So, why not spin this story further and retro-grade a Leopard 1 into a Heer ’46 tank, as a kind of grandfather design with then-state-of-the-art technologies…?
Well, that job could be easily done with a Leopard 1 kit built more or less OOB and just painted in typical WWII colors – I have actually seen such things in simulation games like World of Tanks, and it did not look bad at all. But for the ambitious modelers, this would be a bit too simple, wouldn’t it?
For instance, there are some features like the running gear on the Leopard that are very modern and would IMHO not fit into the late WWII timeframe. The general lack of high quality materials and design simplifications everywhere would certainly also take their toll. As a consequence the starting basis for this whiffy tank model actually became an 1:72 Leopard 1 (to be exact, it’s Revell’s Leopard 1A5 kit), but from this basis only a few parts were actually taken over.
Work started with the upper hull, which received the transplantation of the complete upper rear deck from a leftover Hasegawa Panther, including the turret’s attachment ring. Internally the whole affair was reinforced with styrene profiles along the seams. The basic idea behind this move was to get rid of the rather modernistic, raised engine cover of the Leopard, and the Panther’s armored cooling fan covers would add a very familiar, German touch. Furthermore, the Panther turret is set relatively further back than on the Leopard, resulting IMHO in a positive side effect for the vehicle’s proportions. The front with the driver’s hatch and the side walls of the Leopard hull were taken over, just the glacis plate was cleaned from the moulded snow claws for the modern Leopard track.
While I could have used the original, casted Leopard 1 turret without any extra armor, I rather reverted to a donor part: an aftermarket resin turret from the German short run producer Modell Trans. What spoke for this aftermarket piece is that this Heer ’46 turret piece was exactly that kind of add-on this kit would need: a retrograded Leopard 1 turret, with a simplified shape, a simple commander cupola, typical bulges for a late-war optical rangefinder in the turret sides and even a 8.8cm KwK barrel! The resin turret, which also comes with an AA machine gun, was taken OOB. Only the original resin gun barrel came slightly bent – this could have been corrected easily, but I replaced it with a more delicate white metal and brass piece, anyway. Additionally, an adapter for the hull opening had to be scratched.
So far, so good - but the running gear became the biggest challenge. The Leopard 1’s advanced torsion bar running gear with rubber-rimmed wheels would not make sense anymore, due to the special high quality materials needed for its construction. Since the Einheitspanzer family was to share as many components as possible, I decided to implant an E-50-style running gear with its typical cast standard wheels.
This sounds easy, but scratching a running gear is a real stunt! Work started with the attachment points for the driving and guide wheels at the hull’s ends, which were cut off of the Revell kit’s parts and glued into their respective places. The drive wheel was taken over from the Leopard, but the guide wheel at the front end was replaced by a simpler and smaller pair of wheels from a Russian IS-3 tank.
Using the E-50 as benchmark for the running wheels, I gathered twelve of them from the scrap box and from several Modellcollect kits in the stash (The 1:72 E-50 kits from Modelcollect and Trumpeter all come with the option to build an E-75, too, so that each kit offers two pairs of excess parts). Mounting these wheels to the hull, in a staggered fashion, became the kit’s true challenge, though, because I did not have a sufficient number of original wheel carriers/suspension packs. Improvisation resulted in the adaptation of twelve leftover suspension arms from a Modelcollect E-100 kit, even though they had to be tailored in depth and length to fit under the Leopard’s hull. It took some trial and error to find a proper position that would produce a plausible stance, but I think the effort of this transplantation really changes the tank’s look into something Heer ’46-ish?
The track was taken OOB from the Leopard 1 kit, and it is of the segmented IP type. It was mounted after most painting was done, starting with single track segments on the drive and guiding wheels, and then the gaps were filled with other track elements. A bit of a gamble, but the theory, that the track parts should match, was confirmed. Phew…
Brewery and tasting room in Grantville on Fairmont Ave. *Update* June 2019: Benchmark has, sadly, gone out of business.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 24: Guests attend Benchmarks NYC at New York Public Library on October 24, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Brian Ach/Getty Images for Spearhead Marketing Group)
tenaya lake is definitely full at this time of the year, but it seems that this year it is even past the usual benchmark. this is one of the best places to hang out in summer, but now it may be a bit more refreshing than most people would prefer.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 24: Benchmarks NYC at New York Public Library on October 24, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Brian Ach/Getty Images for Spearhead Marketing Group)
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 24: Benchmarks NYC at New York Public Library on October 24, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Brian Ach/Getty Images for Spearhead Marketing Group)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 24: Benchmarks NYC at New York Public Library on October 24, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Brian Ach/Getty Images for Spearhead Marketing Group)
今回のPcでのMhfベンチ
[○] OS
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 : Version 6.0 Build 6001
[○] DirectX
DirectX 10.0 installed
[○] CPU
[0x0670]Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9300 @ 2.50GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.5GHz
Number of Processors[x4]
x86 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 7 (Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.)
[○] 計測周波数(目安)
CPU CLOCK [2500MHz]
[○] メモリ
Memory(Free/Total) Physical[1902MB/3326MB] : Virtual[1887MB/2048MB]
[○] ハードディスク
[Free/Total]
C:[419.7GB/500.0GB]
D:[223.3GB/300.0GB]
E:[66.0GB/131.5GB]
[○] ビデオカード
ATI Radeon Graphics Processor (0x9442) [1914 MB]
HAL/HARDWARE VSC(256)
[○] サウンドカード
Realtek Digital Output (Realtek High Definition Audio) (ACC:基本)
[○] ネットワークカード
Realtek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0)
Realtek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0) #2
Realtek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0) #2-QoS Packet Scheduler-0000
Realtek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0)-QoS Packet Scheduler-0000
Software Loopback Interface 1
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isatap.{AA25C255-6BDE-4888-9CE8-10FC57698095}
Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
[○] マウス
マウス
(ボタン16:ホイール1)
[○] ゲームコントローラ
Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless Controller
(方向4:ボタン32:アナログ4:振動2)
[○] 日本語入力システム
ATOK 2007