Google Earth has released its version for the operating system of Apple's Macintosh (Mac for short) in January 2006. Finally, Mac users can enjoy a customized version of Google Earth to your operating system, cost them a lot of pressure on the developers of Google, but they have succeeded. In this section we will address the main REQUIREMENTS for Google Earth program, a computer, to install the program guarantees.
Requirements for Mac OS
Your system must meet the following requirements for the program Google-Earth to be installed properly on your Mac computer Failure to meet these requirements the program may malfunction or not work.
Minimum configuration for Mac:
- Operating System: Mac OS X (10.4)
- CPU: 500 MHz
- RAM: 256 MB
- Hard disk space: 400 MB
- Gáfica card charging 3D with 16 MB VRAM
- Screen: 1024x768, 32-bit true color screen
- Network Connection: 128 kbps ("ADSL / Broadband / Cable")
Recommended configuration for Mac:
- Operating System: Mac OS X (10.4)
- CPU Speed: 1.5GHz +
- RAM: 512M (or higher)
- Free Hard Disk Space: 2 GB
- 3D capable video card with 32 MB of VRAM or more
- Screen: 1280x1024, "32-bit True Color"
- Network Connection: 768 Kbits / sec or better (DSL / Cable)
Failure to meet these requirements the program may malfunction or not work. You can download Google earth for MAC OS X 10.4. The tenacity of the demand for MAC users to get the image display program has forced Google to respond. After downloading the program file, you should continue with the installation and the installation procedure is similar to other application which you install on Mac. You need to drag the downloaded files into the Application folder and that’s it. The Google earth icon will appear on Dock.
Installing Google Earth Plugin
If you want to install the Google Earth Plugin on Safari or Firefox, you must open the Finder, then the Macintosh HD, Library, and eventually the Internet Plug-ins and copying, dragging the icon Google Earth Plug-in Web.
Note that, in doing so, the system must authenticate the software you want installed in the system library for security reasons. You must click on the Authenticate button, another window opens asking the user password used to access the system (here are certainly not always be so because I suspect should be included in the credentials of the Administrator - UNIX-style - which, in my case where I am the only user, are the same user base).
If all goes well you should find the icon of the Google Earth Plugin Web in the folder mentioned above. It may be necessary to restart the browser (It worked with both Safari and Firefox) before the feature is available.
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