27-30" Monitor to accompany 2011 MBP

I'm looking to upgrade desk monitor now that I've got the 2011 MBP with the Radeon HD 6750M. Primary use is video editing, with some standard home-office activity. I do have some light coming into my study, so antiglare has become more important to me. Here are the options I've been mulling over...
1. Dell U3011
2. 27" iMac (although not antiglare and facing refresh soon)
3. 27" Apple Cinema Display
If I have the patience I'm inclined to wait for the iMac refresh to see if they come with antiglare along with the better hardware. But I'm also very interested in the real estate of the U3011.
Thoughts?
Thanks.

I'm using a 2010 15" MBP with apple's 27" cinema display mainly for Final Cut Pro and Aperture / Photoshop works. The experience couldn't be better. This screen is massive, and unless you get a spotlight or a window right behind your shoulders pointing directly to it, it's own brightness would eliminate any other reflections in your room.
If you find a way to test it in you'll stay with it, I guarantee that.
regarding the dilemma of buying an iMac or a new MBP, I would buy the latter and here's why:
an iMac will never come in Matte, so there's no difference between an iMac screen and an apple cinema display.
an iMac is still limited and not expandable as MacPro is, so choosing between a desktop configuration and a portable-cinema configuration would make sense only if the desktop configuration is a MacPro.
The latest generation of MBPs is being reported as fast and powerful as today's MacPros model and even better so why limiting yourself to a desktop workstation while you can have the best of both words by opting for a MBP-Cinema display configuration!

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What is the best way to run dual monitors with a 2011 MBP?

I have a 2011 MBP and i want to run dual 1920x1080 monitors. what is the best way to accomplish this? i also have a PC attached to the monitors with the DVI connection (but would be willing to change this to the analog, if necessary). so i have teh analog and HDMI connections available on the backs of the monitors.
what i would like to do is hook the MBP through the HDMI if possible and then i would just be able to change inputs on the monitors depending in which computer i want to use (PC or MBP).
any ideas would be greatly appreciated. thanks.

csb814 wrote:
I have a MacBookPro 17" 1.5 GHz running OS 10.5.7 with 1.5 GB Ram and would like to load Windows XP SSP2 so I can run several specific windows programs that are not Mac supported without a dualcore system.
Ok, you either own a MacBook Pro with an Intel Processor, or a PowerBook with a PowerPC Processor.
If your stated speed is correct, then you own a PowerBook, which will not run Windows natively. development & sales for Virtual PC has ceased. The only emulator still around, I think, is iEmulator & is terribly slow on G4s.
Boot Camp does not work on PowerPC Macs.
Please correct your signature & descriptions so we can identify the correct machine. Thanks!

Dual non-Thunderbolt monitors on Late 2011 MBP

I just purchased a new MacBook Pro 15" (Late 2011 model) and am trying to figure out how to connect it to two external monitors. I could probably use 2 USB video cards but I would like to at least have one monitor capable of movies and moderate gaming. On older models with the mini Display Port, I could buy DVI adapters, but I don't see anything for Thunderbolt. Does anyone know if there is a good way to do this? I have two 28" HD monitors that I cannot afford to replace with Thunderbolt monitors. Surely Apple doesn't expect everyone who upgrades their MBPs to the latest model to also have to purchase new monitors...do they?
**Note: I have DVI and HDMI options on both monitors ***

eww - very nice!
I was told today by apple care that I should be able to come out of the mini-display port to hdmi... Then get a hdmi splitter and run hdmi cables to each monitor...
I asked if the macbook pro graphics cards would recognize that there are 2 monitors and that they would not be mirrored - they would be like an extended monitor.
But I asked another person at apple and they told me that they didn't think that could be done...
So after talking with 4 or 5 people today I am not sure which direction to head in plus I didn't want to invest the $$ yet until I was more sure of a solution...
Hopefully someone that has this working or a solution will come along... I have read many of the discussions and haven't found the answer yet.

120hz Monitor with early 2011 MBP?

Hello. I have this question: I want to buy a 120hz monitor for playing Quake Live, so the gaming is smoother. My question is if the AMD Radeon HD 6500M will be compatible with the 120hz of the monitor, since I know some graphic cards don't support those much hz.
I know I have to use a Dual Link DVI cable and not an HDMI. My question is if my graphic card will hold on. I have an early 2011 15' Macbook Pro. Thanks.

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Disconnect all wired peripherals except those needed for the test, and remove all aftermarket expansion cards, if applicable. Start up in safe mode and log in to the account with the problem. You must hold down the shift key twice: once when you turn on the computer, and again when you log in.
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Test while in safe mode. Same problem?
After testing, restart as usual (not in safe mode) and verify that you still have the problem. Post the results of the test.

2011 MBP + Thunderbolt + DVI 30" Display

Hi,
Trying to attach one or two monitors to my 2011 MBP but have run up against a wall.
1) My one Thunderbolt port is attached to a Sonnet Thunderbolt-to-CardBus adapter. The adapter only has one Thunderbolt port, so no possiblilty of daisy-chaining.
2) I want to hook up a 30" NEC 2560 x 1600 DVI display (and if possible a 23" ACD as well)
3) There do not seem to be any Thunderbolt Hubs or Splitters available yet. Am I missing something?
4) The only solution I can see is to use a USB-to-DVI box. Took a look at the StarTech model which supports the high resolution. Is this my only option? What are others doing in this situation?
Can't wait till Thunderbolt is more widely adopted and the cable/hubs/enclosures/etc finally become more widely available.
(FYI- The Sonnet Thunderbolt-to-Cardbus adapter is great. I've got a 10-bay eSATA raid hooked up via this and it is WAY faster than FW800)
Thank you...

Yes by running a USB cable from the Mac to the HUB input port on the display.
The product disscription states the cable has connectors on it to connect to USB.
Connectors and cables
Apple Display Connector carries digital video, USB, and power
Two-port, self-powered USB hub

Early 2011 MBP 17 Random Shutdown and Battery Behavior

Hi all, new to the forums here.
I recently purchased a refurbished early 2011 MBP 17' 2.2 Ghz i7 with 8gb and 10.7.5. Out of the box, machine looked great, but I noticed that the power cable was different than the one I had for my early 2011 MBP 15' I have for work. This raised an immediate redflag (buying from a refurb site outside of apple is always a cause for concern IMO) so I abstained from using that charger until I knew a little more. I plugged in the machine and booted it up and everything worked great. The batter was close to 100%, so after charging for approximately 20 min, I unplugged it, and the laptop immediately died. I powered it back on, and the harddrive began to spin for a few seconds, then the same result, total loss of power. Started up again, and I was able to boot into OS X and play around for a bit for a period of time before again, shut down.
For the next few days, same story. I was able to at one point, drain the battery completely and do a full cycle charge. The first time I did this, no change in behavior. Again, a few days later, I was able to drain the battery and perform a full cycle charge, but this time, a major change in behvior. Since the second full cycle charge, I have had absolutely no power problems. I haven't really "pushed" my MBP to see if fully utilizing the CPU/RAM/GPU will produce the similar results I had early, but it appears that everything is working great.
Here a few interesting notes to my situation.
When I was first operating the system (when plugged in, there were no shutdowns, only while on the battery) I pulled up my system report, and noticed that my battery cycle was very low (~5). This seemed odd, because I had opted for a used battery instead of a new one.
Prior to reinstalling Mountain Lion, my volume up key would trigger a few strange events. The screen for briefly get quite bright, then all open applications + the doc and widgets would restart (similar to killing explorer.exe in the windows task manager).
Since performing the fresh install, I have had abslutely no issue with my MBP and I love it, its a beautiful machine. However, as I purchased refurb, I'm hesitant to proceed (I will exceed my return period in ~2 weeks) without knowing my machine is in prime working condition. I have read issues about early 2011 models having issues with batteries and GPUs, but my symptoms were dissimilar to those described by others with those particular issues.
Any thoughts?
I have a genius appointment tomorrow evening for a general diagnostics check, but if others have experienced these issues, I would appreciate some input.

Do a SMC reset:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
Run an Apple Hardware Test:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1509
You may need to use OPTION D to start it.
Install iStat pro and open Activity Monitor. Set Activity Monitor to show 'All Processes' and '%CPU' to display values from high to low. Post images of the two such as these:
Ciao.

Considering going from late 2011 MBP to MBA. Seeking advice on performance.

I currently have a late 2011 MBP with 4GB RAM, 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5 and am running into some performance issues. My main issue is that it takes time to switch between apps and sometimes to open a new tab in chrome. I have a lot of apps open for work purposes and I'm thinking the slowness could be due to not having enough RAM. When I look at Activity Monitor>System Memory, I see that I have about 1GB in Inactive, 1 GB in Active, and 2 GB in Wired. Then I'm seeing 5.62GB of swap used (that doesn't seem good).
I like how compact the MBAs are and am thinking of getting either the i5 or i7 with 8GB of RAM. I'm thinking that the increase in RAM as well as the flash storage would help with the type of slowness I'm seeing, but would hate to buy it only to have the same problems.
I would love to get some advice on this.

I HAD the same 2011 MBP you have, and HAVE the current Macbook AIR,....theres almost no comparison between the two. You should possibly go use one for a bit at the Apple store etc, however regarding your question "will it be a difference/ big upgrade" the answer is of course yes,....definately so.

2011 MBP with 8GB of RAM, generally slow under Lion, possibly thrashing

I have a 17" 2011 MBP with 8GB of RAM and the fastest CPU available at the time. It came with Snow Leopard, and it was really fast with basically everything I threw at it.
Since the upgrade to Lion, it has a general tendency to get really unresponsive. My workload hasn't fundamentally changed. Rather than just hope it's bugs in Lion that will get fixed, I'd like to see if anyone can advise me on things I might investigate, either to fix things myself, or to be more intelligent about identifying bugs I can report.
One thing I notice is that Time Machine backups will bring the system to its knees. Everything will be going along just fine, and then TM will kick on, and all my apps will stop responding. Once TM has finished, things will slowly come back to normal. There's a lot of disk activity, which I have assumed was swapping. Another thing that causes trouble is that mds (and a whole bunch of mdsworkers) will frequently kick on, and will slow down the system.
CPU load is always quite low, but free memory is always very low. (However, in some OS's Free Memory is misleading, because a lot of disk blocks are cached in RAM, so it's not really "used" either..)
What I can't really distinguish for sure is if the system is slow because of swapping/thrashing (which is what I assume) or if it's slowed down for some other reason related to disk activity.
Here are the apps I typically run:
- NetBeans (which is a pig, taking up over 1GB or real memory)
- Safari (which is also a pig, often taking up more than 1GB between the main Safari process and the Web Content process)
- Sometimes Parallels (2GB for the VM, and probably another 1GB for other stuff, because it's also a pig)
- kernel_task typically reports taking up over 1GB of real memory
- WindowServer also reports using 280MB
- various other small apps like Mail, NetNewsWire, Preview, Terminal, Adium, Smultron, Colloquy, none of which use much memory
I got the 8GB, because I knew I was going to use a lot of memory for stuff, and it was great under Snow Leopard. But with Lion, it just doesn't seem to be enough. Even with all of those huge processes, I can't believe that their working sets are really as big as their virtual and physical memory footprints seem to be. I mean it's not unusual for a process to have 2GB of virtual space but only a few 100MB of real memory, and some of that is shared object libraries, where the same physical memory is mapped into multiple processes. (Have shared object libraries stopped being physically shared under Lion?)
Are other people having similar trouble? Any suggested remedies? Any suggestions on how to investigate so I can see if there are any actual bugs?
I would like to understand why my system went from zippy to slow after I upgraded to Lion. Actually, quite a few things have broken. Time Machine has become a pig, bluetooth doesn't work reliably anymore, airport doesn't connect reliably anymore, and lots of little annoying bugs. But this is common for early point releases of new OS's, so I can't complain too much. But for Lion to have really regressed in memory management is definitely not good.

Safari, for what ever reason, has become a huge memory
pig. The longer you are using it the more memory it
gobbles up.
In Activity Monitor, check the Page outs and Swapped used.
This will tell you how much memory swapping is going on.
As for Time Machine, you may want to set your Parallels
HD image not to get backed up by Time Machine. May
help since it is a huge collection of files. But there have been
issues reported with Time Machine and Lion. I don't
use it myself and opt for the cloning methodology and
seperate data backup strategy. Also, in Spotlight
preferences under the Privacy Tab, I have added
my Windows VM folders, for same reason. Unless you really
need to find something on the windows VM volumes when you
don't have the Windows VM active, it just eats up alot
of disk access time.
For solving airport issues check this article:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20117247-263/fixing-airport-problems-in-os- x/?tag=mncol;txt
For Bluetooth devices, try removing them, and have them rediscovered if you
can.
Hopefully, this gives you a start on cleaning things up.

Early 2011 MBP Slowing Down

Hello, I have an early 2011 MBP (15-inch), system report below:
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011)
Processor: 2 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory: 16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Startup Disk: Macintosh SSD
Graphics: HD Graphics 3000 512 MB
Lately, my MBP has been slowing down a lot.
I tested out a bunch of flash sites, but it does not seem to be the problem. Like I said, I have 16gb of RAM (combined with what I have located above, i7, etc), and have had numerous flash sites up, but no slowdown. The problem is recent, in that I've noticed it in the past 6 months. Nothing changed in that period at all to cause this problem.
I've run this setup for a couple years without issue (SSD where the DVD player used to be, and the HDD where the old HDD was located), without issue.
My MBP gets so hot that I have to move it frequently for scare of erythema eb igne (stupid technical term, but I might not be joking, and would rather not joke around about something like that.but seriously it get that hot where your only option is to shut off the MBP. I know that might sound extreme. But my MBP gets that hot. Especially if you are running a program like Premiere. I understand the power and RAM that it takes to run a program like that, but it was shocking. This is a program (Premiere) I ran without problems previously..
Checking activity monitor (and iStat), RAM does not seem to be the issue. CPU seems fine 88-90% usage,
Usually have 7-8GB of RAM available, and the CPU usage under 90%.
I have no idea, but I will be taking a can of compressed air to the MBP.
I was just wondering if anyone had any other ideas or had similar situations to help me out?
Thank You,
T

When you see a beachball cursor or the slowness is especially bad, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.
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External display locked to 640x480 after Windows 8.1 upgrade on 2011 MBP 17 in

I just upgraded to 8.1 from Windows 8 in Bootcamp on my 2011 MBP 17in. Windows 8 ran fine and I was able to connect my Mac to an external display just fine.
After the upgrade to 8.1 when I connect my external display it will only support a resolution of 640x480 and only shows a resolution 640x480 as the is the maximum res it can go. I have also loaded the Windows display driver to the Dell E228WFP to no avail. Any external display I try only shows a resolution of 640x480.
I have removed the AMD Radeon HD7400M from device manager and re-installed the drivers from boot camp 5 but this doesn't resolve the issue.
Any others havng this issue?
Thanks.

Hi,
I ran into the same problem but I found out a solution for my early 2011 15-inch MBP.
Basically, with the 8.1 upgrade, the OS mistook my graphics card for another. More specifically, it saw my Radeon HD6490M as one from the 7400M series.
What I did to solve my problem was go to the Device manager, find my graphics card, right-click to get to the 'Properties' panel, and revert to the previous driver (the option should be available). Thanks to this, it reverted to the driver that was used when I was running Windows 8, and my external monitor is working great now.
I hope this will help you!

My Early 2011 MBP Has Just Started Running Extremely Hot.

Hi there. As in the title I have an early 2011 MBP, 15 inch, £1550 model. I've been playing Football Manager a lot recently, and sure it runs at around 50-60 degrees but that's fine. However now i'm just on FireFox, been on for around 30 minutes, and my battery is being sapped as if I were playing a game and i'm at 60 degrees average with SMC at 5000 RPM as well as a notebook cooler which has a fan built in. Usually I run at around 30 on the internet, 40 is fine though.
Any reasons why it is doing this? Nothing is running at over 5% in the Activity Monitor. FireFox seems to be spiking though, at like 30%. It's really annoying because I want to play Football Manager but when I put it on, it's at like 70/80 degrees. Super, super hot considering I have lots of cooling stuff. Any clues anybody, please!?

"Nothing is running at over 5% in the Activity Monitor. FireFox seems to be spiking though, at like 30%."
Do you have "All Processes" selected in Activity Monitor? If not, select it in the drop-down menu and then see whether there's something using a large percentage of your CPU.

2011 MBP i7 running slow. Hardware limitations?

I have a early 2011 MBP 15" with 2.3 GHz Core i7, 8 GB RAM, 750 GB HD. I purposely put in as much RAM as possible as I usually run a lot of apps simulataneously.
I will usually have either a number of Microsoft Office (2011) programs open at once, Windows 7 64 bit running in Parallels 7 (also running a number of apps), or a combination of both. I have noticed that my computer seems to be running fairly slow, especially given the i7 processor and the RAM upgrade. When booting up windows in parallels, it can sometimes take upwards of 15 minutes to get the windows side of things to work. While windows is booting up, the mac side tends to be extremely slow, pinwheeling quite a bit. Additionally, Microsoft Outlook 2011 is almost unusable on the mac side of things (I realize this may be a result of the software). Even after shut down Windows, the mac side can still tend to run fairly slow.
750 GB HD with 100 GB partitions for Windows. WIndows HD is 70GB/100GB used.
Designated 4GB RAM for mac side/4GB for windows.
When viewing activity monitor, the processors are rarely above 50%, usually down around 10%, or less. RAM is almost always fully utilized (less than 20MB free).
My question is: do you think this is a software related issue, as it relates to windows/parrallels/microsoft programs? Or is this a hardware limited issue? Do I need more RAM? Could I possible benefit from an SSD/Hybrid drive? I use my computer for work and for personal use, so it is essential that I am able to use both Windows and Mac simultaneously.
Thanks for the help!

Also... be sure to balance your allocation of RAM between your Windows virtual machine and OS X. If you allocate too much to your virtual machine, OS X will take a significant performance hit... which would in-turn cause your virtual machine to slow to a crawl. Depending on what you're doing, you should probably not set your virtual machine to more than 4GB. The amount of RAM you allocate to the virtual machine is basically taken whether you need it or not. For example, if you allocate 6GB to your virtual machine, as soon as you launch the virtual machine, regardless of what applications you are running in it, only 2GB will be available to OS X. Making sure both OS X and your virtual machine have enough RAM allocated to them is important.
If you're RAM has been balanced in your settings for your virtual machine and your performance is still poor, you may need to go with more RAM. 8GB is generally more than enough for most people, but your usage / expectations are on the high side. Keeping in mind everything you have running... opening this applications, modifying this file, etc... you're also working your hard drive pretty hard. An SSD would make a significant difference in performance. Of course there is a premium associated with a high capacity SSD (which I would imagine you would want).

2011 MBP fan is running a lot

Lately I have noticed that my fan is running a lot more than it used to on my 2011 MBP. I have tried propping it up on something that will allow the air to circulate. But it doesn't seem to help. Is this a bad thing?

Please see this article:
Runaway applications can shorten battery runtime, affect performance, and increase heat and fan activity - Apple Support
The article has not been updated to reflect the procedure for OS10.9 and 10.10, but that only affected Step 3. In step 3, the "Show All Processes" option required has, in 10.9 and 10.10, been moved to Activity Monitor's View menu:

Endless mini-freezes on Mountain Lion, 2011 MBP

My 2011 MBP decided to bring in the new year by freezing endlessly for small amounts of time - from 5 to 180 seconds at a time.
Each freeze generally only affects one application, but sometimes spreads to other running applications. The overall effect is to create a machine that lags behind what I'm doing, rendering it agonising and dangerous to use (eg, if a window has moved but the display has not updated, the click may be going somewhere else other than where your eyes tell you it is going).
I checked the forums here, and a few other people had this issue, though it seemed to relate to machines with out-of-date SSD firmware (this machines is using a traditional HDD).
One suggestion was to use Onyx, and to clear out every single cache. This seemed to work for a short while (hours?), but once spotlight had reindexed, the machine was pretty unstable again.
Another suggestion is that the graphics drivers are flaky - this seems to be a common pattern over the last few OS updates. I tried installing gfxCardStatus and set it to use "integrated only", bypassing the discrete graphics card. This seems to have stopped the hangs, certainly over the last few minutes.
Apple? Any chance of a fix? Is this something for 10.8.3?

Hi Linc,
To be honest, the results were pretty inconclusive.
I logged back in as guest, and there were no problems, at least for the 5 minutes I logged in as guest as. The problem is that Guest has 0 email accounts, with 0 unread messages, no browser history, no IM accounts, etc etc. So it wasn't much of a realistic test. There's just no load for the guest user.
I tried safe mode. It was impossible to open a safari window to post here, as it just constantly refreshed the thumbnail display, with very slow background gradient rendering and a vertical blinds effect re-painting the screen. It was impossible for me to start up the console or activity viewer, again because of the slow rendering of the launcher gui, and spotlight's non-availability.
I pasted the log from safe mode below, but it didn't really get to the point where it could exhibit any symptoms.
28/01/2013 16:35:04.194 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Console" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:35:04.195 WindowServer[125]: disable_update_likely_unbalanced: UI updates still disabled by application "Activity Monitor" after 23.89 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 7.68 seconds). Likely an unbalanced disableUpdate call.
28/01/2013 16:35:16.042 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Activity Monitor" after 35.73 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 7.68 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:35:17.904 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Console" after 29.92 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 16.21 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:35:19.781 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Activity Monitor" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:35:19.781 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Console" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:35:19.784 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Console" after 1.87 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.87 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:35:21.615 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Activity Monitor" after 3.71 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.87 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:35:23.489 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Console" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:35:25.385 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Console" after 3.77 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.87 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:35:27.235 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Activity Monitor" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:35:27.235 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Console" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:35:27.236 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Activity Monitor" after 1.85 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.85 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:35:27.237 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Console" after 1.85 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.84 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:35:29.132 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Console" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:35:29.140 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Console" after 1.90 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.89 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:35:31.024 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Activity Monitor" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:35:31.024 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Console" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:35:31.029 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Console" after 1.89 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.88 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:35:32.876 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Console" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:35:32.877 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Activity Monitor" after 3.74 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.88 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:35:32.882 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Console" after 1.85 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.84 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:35:34.843 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Activity Monitor" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:35:34.844 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Activity Monitor" after 1.96 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.96 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:35:35.005 PTPCamera[336]: waitForCallbackThreadConditionSignalWithTimeout: pthread_cond_timedwait() failed, status = 60
28/01/2013 16:35:39.285 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Console" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:35:39.285 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Activity Monitor" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:35:39.286 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Activity Monitor" after 1.90 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.89 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:35:39.294 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Console" after 1.91 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.90 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:35:43.069 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Console" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:35:43.071 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Console" after 1.89 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.89 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:35:48.826 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Console" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:35:48.828 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Console" after 1.88 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.88 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:35:49.192 com.apple.usbmuxd[23]: _handle_timer heartbeat detected detach for device 0x28-192.168.1.68:0!
28/01/2013 16:35:50.714 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Console" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:35:50.728 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Console" after 1.89 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.88 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:35:52.618 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Activity Monitor" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:35:52.618 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Console" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:35:54.675 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Activity Monitor" after 3.95 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.89 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:35:55.689 com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.iCloudHelper[321]) Exited: Killed: 9
28/01/2013 16:35:55.000 kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 321 [com.apple.iCloud]
28/01/2013 16:35:55.000 kernel[0]: (default pager): [KERNEL]: ps_allocate_cluster - send HI_WAT_ALERT
28/01/2013 16:35:55.000 kernel[0]: macx_swapon SUCCESS
28/01/2013 16:35:56.769 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Console" after 6.04 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.89 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:35:56.000 kernel[0]: (default pager): [KERNEL]: ps_select_segment - send HI_WAT_ALERT
28/01/2013 16:35:56.000 kernel[0]: macx_swapon SUCCESS
28/01/2013 16:35:58.906 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Console" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:36:00.000 kernel[0]: (default pager): [KERNEL]: ps_select_segment - send HI_WAT_ALERT
28/01/2013 16:36:00.000 kernel[0]: macx_swapon SUCCESS
28/01/2013 16:36:12.022 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Console" after 15.25 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 2.13 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:36:35.655 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Activity Monitor" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:36:35.655 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Console" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:36:35.659 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Activity Monitor" after 7.87 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 7.86 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:36:40.567 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Console" after 12.77 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 7.86 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:37:54.575 com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.audio.ComponentHelper[303]) Exited: Killed: 9
28/01/2013 16:37:54.000 kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 303 [com.apple.audio.]
28/01/2013 16:38:00.533 com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.audio.SandboxHelper[302]) Exited: Killed: 9
28/01/2013 16:38:00.000 kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 302 [com.apple.audio.]
28/01/2013 16:38:01.641 WebProcess[335]: CoreAnimation: failed to create OpenGL context
28/01/2013 16:38:01.794 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[173]: (com.apple.pbs[242]) Exited: Killed: 9
28/01/2013 16:38:01.000 kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 242 [pbs]
28/01/2013 16:38:34.936 lsboxd[235]: @AE relay 61657674:72617070
28/01/2013 16:40:17.709 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Activity Monitor" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:40:18.166 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Activity Monitor" after 8.13 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 7.68 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:40:20.877 Safari[325]: CGContextClipToRect: invalid context 0x0
28/01/2013 16:40:28.777 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Activity Monitor" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:40:28.779 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Activity Monitor" after 1.70 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.70 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:40:33.594 WebProcess[352]: CoreAnimation: failed to create OpenGL context
28/01/2013 16:40:41.467 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Console" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:40:42.316 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Console" after 2.64 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.79 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:40:46.819 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Activity Monitor" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:40:46.819 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Activity Monitor" after 1.91 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.91 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:40:50.260 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Console" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:40:50.260 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Activity Monitor" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:40:50.261 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Activity Monitor" after 1.05 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.05 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:40:50.262 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Console" after 1.06 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.05 seconds)
28/01/2013 16:41:27.117 WindowServer[125]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Activity Monitor" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
28/01/2013 16:41:27.118 WindowServer[125]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Activity Monitor" after 5.84 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 5.84 seconds)
After rebooting as myself, I had the familiarity of a 20 minute startup time, with mail freezing as it started, and lots of whingeing.
It seems to happen a lot with mail.app - I have about 20,000 messages sat in there, but I wouldn't have expected this to cause these symptoms.
Apologies I couldn't recreate the problem in safe mode.
HTH
Dave
Message was edited by: Dave Mee (clarified description)

HT1338 Left hand side of monitor dims on 2011/intel based iMac-any suggestions?

Left hand side of monitor dims on 2011 /intel based iMac-any suggestions? Called apple support. Restarted-didn't help. Unplugged my second monitor from the thunderbolt port-didn't help. Unplugged center cord in the middle on the back of the monitor-waited 15 seconds, restarted, held down option-command-p-r and this didn't help. Apple support thought that it was most likely a video card/hardware issue, but would like to hear of any other trouble shooting suggestions.

Not a hardware issue, since it shows up in a screenshot. Please boot in safe mode, launch Safari, and test. Same problem?
Some things won't work in safe mode, possibly including wireless networking.
After testing, reboot as usual (not in safe mode.)
Mac OS X: Starting up in Safe Mode

27-30" Monitor to accompany 2011 MBP

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