Google Blog: Cover the earth

The latest from google. Its pretty cool, but apparently resource intensive (vsmon is the only process on my computer which uses more memory, but google earth uses many more GDI resources than vsmon[10 vs 1,913], with minimal CPU usage). It loads slowly here, but I can't tell if that's the system or the internet.

Its a ~10GB download and there's a warning that older computers may not run it. and no apple version.
MAKEzine blog has a video of syncing it w/a gps (which requires the pro version, and I'm not sure how much that is), as one example of the usefullness. I am curious, but haven't explored yet (cost being the main consideration) ... what I can do w/my mapping software, and my gps logs. Cause I have a usb gps receiver with the laptop as a display for it (as I know many of y'all do too, cause you got it while we were at fry's lol ). Any takers? If so and you aren't a poster here, email tipster@oncomputers.info and we'll post them here, if permission is given. :)


P.S. I'm gonna try to post a picture of my task manager window, to show the system usage for google earth. We'll see how this goes. :) It seems to work in preview! and boy, oh boy do I appreciate preview.

[Update: I fixed the makezine blog url, doh!]