Curious Question - MBP vs PM 2.5Dual

Using a PM 2.5dual and Mac Book pro 2.16Ghz with Logic pro 7 - will there be huge difference in performance between these two models?

Hi there. First post on here. Got my MBP a couple of weeks ago and it is a lot hotter than my PBs. Like the other guy said, it isnt quite as hot as the one you have just now, but it is still pretty **** hot... Installed SMc Fan control as suggested by others on here but see how it goes. My MBP can run as hot as like 90 degrees sometimes, even like 75 when just surfing the web. Gonna get an I-Rain I-Lap stad. Hope this helps some

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17 MBP curious question...

QUICK QUESTION TO THOSE WITH 17 MBPs...
Could you tell me how is your screen??? Is it stiff or loose a bit, could you please rotate the opened MBP towards you and see if the screen stays in place or moves towards you to close.
Thank you
B

Hello...I did the test that you asked and my MBP 17" screen stays at the angle I open it up to, however when I tilt the mbp towards me the screen does move a little. My screen is "loose(r)" than the 15" MBP I had. I asked the genius at the store and he said that it is typical of 17" screens to be a little looser. I don't know if he was just telling me that or what. My screen is only "loose" feeling until it gets almost shut and then it feels as "tight" as the 15" does. I hope this helps! I love the 17" and as long as the screen stays open and at the angle I put it at on a flat surface...it really doesn't bother me as to how loose it is. Thanks.

Quick Question - just a curious question really...

I got a new iMac last month and had previously owned an iMac G5 and had been using the Mail feature - having my comcast e-mail transfered to it. When I opened up mail on my new computer - all I did was type in my e-mail address and password, and everything set up automatically - I remember having to do a little more work than that in the past - not much, but changing a few settings so that I can bring up my e-mail with this application.
I'm curious as to how all of my contacts are still in the previous recipients - people I e-mailed a year ago - are still in there - It was if I never changed computers - I thought this would be computer specific and that when I deleted my hard drive on the other computer that these would all be gone and i'd have to start from scratch - I'm happy I didn't - but I guess this is the way it was supposed to happen?
so, not really a question - but I guess this is the way it works? I didn't import my old mail or anything...

No, it is not a .mac account.
Thanks for the info...I just found it strange how I could start on a new computer as if I never switched - I thought that stuff was stored on the hard drive - sort of. So, to me, that meant that I would lose all of that information once I started fresh on a new system. How does the mail application save this information? just by my logging in? is this why set-up was so easy? My address book does not have even half of those addresses in it - I do no that they are integrated though. I backed up my address book and was able to easily restore it with my new computer...so those addresses I expected to see - just not ones that I used while using the other computer only.
If that makes any sense - it's hard to explain.
Thanks again.
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Curious question about tab key selecting?

I'm not sure how to word this query so try to bare with me.
I sometimes use the tab key to select the next file or folder instead of the arrow keys, but I've noticed that when I have a series of folders and/or files that are in numerical order, the tab key doesn't select the files and folders in the order that they are listed it selects them in a order that is similar to alphabetical order.
Such as this:
This is an example of the file names and the numerical order they're listed in:
9
28
29
30
40
300
2006
2025
A
This is the order the tab selects the same files:
2006
2025
28
29
30
300
40
9
A
If the 9 file is selected then I hit tab key to select the next file, the next files selected is A it will skip over the other files. The arrow Keys don't do this.
My question is why is this the case?
Not really a big deal but I was curious why it does that.

You are correct for the use you've described - using tab in list view, also in icon view. The tab key moves in alpha-numeric sequence but the numeric is by 1st numeral, 2nd numeral, etc if two or more have the same first numeral not by total number size.
The arrow keys are essentially directional. In icon view you use L/R to move to the next item and up/down to move vertically.
This is the standard use but individual applications use these keys differently. In a table/database it's common for the tab to move from cell to cell and the arrow keys to move through the characters in a cell but even these can depend on the particular software package.
This is all part of the learning curve for computer users!
Neville

Curious question about sleep light.

Currently loving my new 2011 17" MBP, it's been completely great, no problems at all.
I'm just curious about one little thing. My sleep light, seems a little dimmer on the right half. Looking at it at different angles seems to make it look "full". I was just wondering if this is the normal?
Like I said, I love the computer, and I don't plan on returning it because of this, I'm simply curious if this is what it's supposed to look like.
I'm thinking perhaps there's some dust or something in there affecting how it looks at certain angles.

I just got the new 15' mbp myself an have had no problems.
Except the issue you have. Although mine seems like its lost lighting on left side. Its very very minor but I can tell, which bothers me becuase I'v paid $2000 for it brand new for a reason (to look brand new).
Have you had problems with it since than?
An also wondering if you could would you exchange it for a brand new one because I do have 14 days to take back?

New Owner T61 Think Pad w/ curious question

I have never owned a laptop. I have used desktops for over 20 years.
This is very new for me. Question is within the port that you input the battery.
Curious ??
There is enclosed card inside the battery port that has a pull tab "tape" with arrows which extends where the card is loaded within the laptop.
What is this?
Is the tape to be removed or left in place.
I have not touched it. Thank You.

You mean under the "pins" in battery slot ? this is propably sim card reader (if you have a GSM/EDGE or any other WAN module inserted) this tape is for makeing you easier to eject the sim card ..
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2nd hard drive questions MBP 2011

First and foremost, I want to say thanks to everyone who's been a help... Got my [now] secondary 2011 MBP running smoothly without the fans blaring or the SSD read/write time slowing down insanely.
So backstory, When I bought an SSD, for a couple bucks I also picked up a hard drive mount to replace a somewhat functioning optical drive. I did replace that, and I just put my old HDD in its place. The old HDD brings up a couple of issues.
1. I am fairly certain the old HDD is going to fail soon
2. It's "loud." After getting used to an SSD on my new macbook, as well as an SSD on this old one I am typing on now, the HDD is relatively loud in quiet environments.
3. It's battery use. I am well over the 1000 cycle recommended for MBPs but the battery is still holding a good charge, maybe not as efficient, but it works well. But, I did notice shorter battery life with the 2nd hdd.
I was able to somewhat fix 2 and 3 by going into terminal and having the HDD stop spinning after 1 minute.
TLDR:
Which brings me to my questions:
1.What HDD is recommended for quiet performance (and would be faster than my 5400 rpm drive with 40 mb/s read/write speeds in real world tests)?
2. Would an SSD be recommended? I mean the optical drive is sata 2 so there will be a bottle neck.
3. If I went the SSD route, how would I enable trim on the secondary drive? or will the trim support from my main drive transfer over? (I simply downloaded trim enabler rather than going into terminal to enable trim).
4. low price is always a bonus.
BONUS QUESTION:
So on my old HDD i had MS office 2011. It isn't working with maverick and I lost the install CD. Any ideas?

6 g/sec SSD or a 6G/sec mechanical hard drive.
If SSD then go to OWC and purchase it. Then you will not need Trim Enabler. Purchase most any other SSD and you'll need Trim Enabler. Any modern mechanical drive will work although much slower than SSD but you obviously are used to it.

MobileMe Gallery Widgets - 3 Curious Questions

Have created and published an iWeb site which basically consists of one page, onto which I’ve positioned six MobileMe Gallery widgets. In the window for each of those widgets I’ve selected a particular MobileMe Gallery published from Aperture, each of which already has one particular image designated as its Key Photo.
So now what’s left -- and what I’ve searched extensively but still can’t figure out -- is:
1) How do I turn OFF the automatic “slideshow preview” going on inside each of those six Gallery Widgets, and make it so they each display only the Key Photo for that Gallery (at least until the user mouses over a particular widget, activating the scrub/scan feature to manually preview all the images contained in that Gallery)?
2) How do I set each widget window to “fit” all the preview thumbs inside its dimensions, rather than arbitrarily hacking off the tops and bottoms of all the vertically-oriented images, which for many shots just looks arbitrary, amateurish, and really ugly?
3) What is the current status of that ridiculous bug which didn’t allow the Gallery Widget to display a Gallery which had been published using the “Hide album on my Gallery home page” option? I do ultimately need to have that option checked, but have left it unchecked for now just to make sure the iWeb site containing the widgets would actually publish.
So -- have the iWeb people and the MobileMe people FINALLY got this bug fixed, or do I still need to hold off activating that “Hide album...” option, and just let my professional Galleries be all mixed together with my personal ones? (Which again just looks arbitrary and amateurish, and encourages one to check out third-party solutions -- at least until such time as the different programming groups at Apple decide to actually talk to each other, and make programs which can interact in truly fluid, intuitive, and meaningful ways.)
My 2¢ -- on top of 3 questions. Any advice or suggestions greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
John Bertram
Toronto

Old Toad wrote:
John:
#1 - are you referring to the "skimming" of photos as you move the cursor over the gallery? That's javascript controlled I believe and would require knowledge of javascript and widgets. You might ask Cyclosaurer as he's the resident expert on javascript and widgets.
No, no, no -- I'm fine with the skimming, in fact I like that feature. I'm talking about the fact that EACH of the six different MobileMe Gallery widgets, from the moment I dragged each one onto the iWeb page I was creating and selected which already-published Gallery it should link to, began showing each of the different images contained in that Gallery/Album, changing to the next one every second or two. This happened completely on its own, I did not (at least not intentionally) select or activate anything, and it happens in ALL the widget windows, even though the mouse is not skimming over ANY of them.
It continues (again, in every widget window, and completely on its own) when I save the page, it continues when I publish the page, it continues when I visit the page online. The only thing which does stop it -- temporarily -- is when I do mouse over a particular widget window and manually skim. But the moment I stop skimming, this "automatic slideshow preview" (I don't know what else to call it) kicks back in.
Is this normal? Or is this some weird aberration peculiar to my system?
The added annoyance is that when you click on one of the widgets, instead of going to that Gallery in its full album view, it goes to a single frame view of whichever image happened to be being displayed at the time you clicked, requiring the user to then click on the "Back to Album" button in the upper left to get their bearings. Which again makes me wonder -- is this normal?
#2 - Again, you're referring to the skimming, right? Since it's a square shape the photos would have to be square to be able to be scaled exactly. Since it's only a "skim" of what's inside being perfectly scaled isn't that necessary.
It certainly wouldn't be as annoying if I could switch off this "automatic slideshow preview" behaviour as described above. (Though even for the skim function, I still think it would make sense to have the option to have the images auto scale to fit completely within the widget window -- which is not square, by the way -- or at least on my system appears to only be sizeable as a horizontal rectangle, to a maximum size of 320x260 pixels. This orientation works fine for previewing horizontally-oriented images, but looks butt-ugly when completely decapitating various groups of people in vertically-aligned shots, of which I happen to have many.)
In any case, if an auto-scale option to fit all image preview thumbs within the widget window (even for mere skimming) is something I need to add to my Feature Request list, that's fine. It's this bizarre, completely on its own "automatic slideshow preview" behaviour I'm still trying to understand.
#3 - it still exists. If you don't want it to be displayed in your overall MMe gallery with the rest of the individual galleries Apple isn't letting it be published alone.
Just to make sure we're talking about the same bug, in an ideal world I DON'T want these particular Gallery/Albums to be displayed as part of my overall MMe Gallery page, but I DO want them to be the designated content of the MMe Gallery WIDGETS which I'm including on the specific iWeb page in question. And if this bug still has not been fixed, then it appears I and many others are still S.O.L. for what should be a simple and obvious bit of formatting.
Send your 2¢ worth to apple via http://www.apple.com/feedback/iweb.html. We're just users like yourself and can't do anything about it.
Rest assured I will. What's one more page after the hundreds I've already sent them?
I'm just a bit stunned that this particular bug hasn't been dealt with already. And it only reinforces my firm belief (see the thread at
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1996786&tstart=0)
that Apple desperately needs an Inter-App Czar, someone with the carte-blanche power to literally FORCE different programming teams to make all Apple apps not only play nicely together, but to play intelligently and intuitively and creatively together!
jb

Just curious question about Text/Vector Lines

I was just curious.... I saw this image , and I'm a beginer to Illustrator. Does anyone know How to get the "lined shadow"
behind the font and is it possible to get a circle stroke like the one here, but where the first circle starts small and the last one
ends in a bigger size? Thanks!

Try this:
http://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-line-art-based-symmetrical-portrait-i n-adobe-illustrator--vector-65…
Look out for artworks by crisvector
or for the keyword guillochee or engraving
like this:
How to Create a Mountain in the Engraving Style Using the WidthScribe plugin and Adobe Illustrator - Astute Graphics

Warning: Subjective Question--MBP Zippier after SMC Update?

Anyone else notice this? My boot up and program loads seem zippier after applying the SMC update. Could be wishful thinking.
MBP 2.0, 2GB RAM, 100MB HD, 7200 RPM Mac OS X (10.4.6)

SMC stands for System Management Control. You can read what Apple wants you to know about it here
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303725
You can download the update here
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macbookprosmcfirmwareupdate.html
You can always look for updates by clicking on Software Update under the Apple Menu. Recent updates can also be found on Apples site under Support>Downloads.
The 17" MBP's do not require the firmware update, hence no listing in Software Update or Apple's Download section

Purchase Question: MBP Retina 2.3 GHz or MBP 15in 2.6 GHz? As much input as possible preferred.

I want to purchase a new MacBook Pro since mine is from early 2008 and needs replacing. I know some stuff about computers, but definitely not enough to make an informed decision, so I was wondering if anyone could help me decide between these two models: the new MacBook Pro with Retina display (the cheaper one with 2.3 GHz) or the updated MacBook Pro 15in with 2.6 GHz. I just wanted to know which one would overall be better, run faster, hold the most documents/files, etc. I mainly use my laptop for personal usage, such as social media, movies, music, and I use Photoshop & Lightroom in an editing capacity also, but really for personal use, not professional.
So if anyone could help me out, I'd really appreciate it. Also, if anyone has any recommendations for upgrades I should possibly purchase when ordering my laptop, that'd be helpful as well.

It's actually easy to install and purchase parts on your own.
Many on the forums recommend Crucial or OWC to get RAM from, I'll be picking up an 8GB kit from Crucial at some point for my MBP. Apple actually has an article instructing you on how to install your own RAM: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1270 (I should add, for 2011 models and up, 16GB can be used, but is not stated/supported by Apple on that support article)
You can also buy any 2.5 inch drive and fit it to your MBP. It's also relatively easy to install. Additionally, you can (for sure) void your warranty and remove the CD drive to have 2 HDD's in the MBP. Any problems you should run into your parts (memory or HDD) need to be dealt with by the manufacturer and not Apple. For example, if your new drive fails, don't take it to Apple without reinserting the original drive.

Quick Question: MBP and iMac G4

The optical drive on our G4 is dead. I need to install a textbook via CD for my daughter using my MBP as the optical drive. Will a simple USB to USB cable work? Thanks in advance...

USB won't work but firewire or ethernet cable would. You can start the G4 in FireWire Target Disk Mode ( http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661 ) and access the G4 drive from the MBP. Using ethernet, you set up a simple network and move files across it.

Curious question about Lightroom previews and Camera Raw Cache

Posted in the Flickr Lightroom Group as well:
I have noticed something about the Lightroom (3.6) previews and Camera Raw cache that have me puzzled.
I create a brand new empty catalog and purge the Camera Raw Cache.
Then I import ONE Nikon RAW (NEF) file with dimensions 2592 x 3872 (10 megapixels - 10,036,224 pixels).
Next I export that NEF file to an uncompressed 8-bit TIFF file. You would expect the size of that TIFF file to be roughly 30 megabytes (10 megapixels x 3 bytes per RGB value) and in fact the TIFF file is 30,135,830 bytes in size. If you export the same TIFF file but specify ZIP compression the resulting file size is 10,834,038 bytes. Obviously the compression obtained here is going to be highly specific to the image but so far no surprises.
During import I specify render 1:1 previews and I go into Loupe mode and view the entire image at 1:1 size. I also visit the develop module and do a bunch of manipulations on the image but no cropping.
At the conclusion of all of that I exit from Lightroom and examine the size of the Camera Raw Cache folder as well as the Lightroom previews folder. It would be my expectation that the previews folder should have a rendered full image and that the Camera Raw Cache should also have a rendered form of the raw data. What would you expect the size of those respective folders to be?
In fact - in my trials the previews folder totals a mere 1,675,264 bytes and the Camera Raw Cache which contains one DAT file corresponding to the one cached image is merely 267,374 bytes. This does not seem like nearly enough bits to preserve the rendered image nor is there a full size image tucked away in the actual catalog either - that file is not large enough to contain that. And yet I can use Loupe mode at 1:1 size and move from image to image with no loading delays (even when importing multiple files).
I'm wondering if I've missed something obvious in my analysis and if not, whether someone might care to speculate as to what magic Adobe is practicing here. Even if we grant them some special algorithm to compress their previews I don't see how they can achieve a compression so much greater than the ZIP-compressed TIFF file achieves.
And for those that might think to ask - I've repeated these experiments with multiple raw images and on both the PC and MAC platforms.
I look forward to some answers or interesting theories or perhaps someone might replicate the experiment and report findings.

MadMan and Hal - thanks so much.
So that was my D'Oh moment of what I was missing - the use of re-rendered JPGS as previews. That certainly does fit with the file sizes I am seeing. I had naively assumed that the previews might have tried to preserve the full fidelity of the image - But as you suggest that full fidelity is likely only there in the develop module.
This perhaps explains another observation from the Develop module - moving from one image to another might display "Loading" either briefly or across a longer duration. My guess is that the length of the loading process might have to do more with what is cached in RAM than cached on disk in the camera raw cache. More of a shame then that 64-bit Lightroom on 64-Bit Windows cannot grab more RAM than it seems to do at present.

Curious question about Interleaf to FM9 files

I have been converting Interleaf to FM for that last couple of years. I have tried different ways of doing this and all of them work, not really any problems. I can save as aschi and down to revision 5 or can save as a rtf. I like to save down because it is cleaner. But, the last couple of times it has been very strange, and I was wondering if someone has an answer.
OK, I save down to rev 5 and go through the file and get rid of all the anchored frames...ect....just because it opens better in FM. I did this to the last two files but when I opened them in FM, ALL the anchored frames and their pictures were still there!!! Even some of the pages that I had deleted!!!...lol Our Interleaf files are not linked by reference as we do the FM files. In Interleaf, the rev 5 file opens clean, none of the things deleted are there, but in FM every thing is still there.
How in the world is that happening? It's not really a problem. I can get rid of everything through FM. I just would like to know how FM sees pages and pictures that aren't there anymore.
Thanks,
ls

Thanks Sheila, I think you are correct. I can remember some of the files even holding old
logos and things. I will look around and see if there is anyway to keep the files from coming over
to FM.
ls

New processor.sys drivers curious question

i was downloading the new processor.sys file for windows xp and it failed on the install. in the ng i didnt see anyone post any troubles installing it, most likely to early. has anyone else have this problem occur? tia

It got me too.It did work when I installed it manually.
Try getting it form the MS Manual Updater It should be under (Find driver updates for hardware devices)then(other hardware)then(Manufacturer name:microsft corporation).Don't try to save it to your dektop.For some reason it won't do it.Save it to C: or anywhere but the desktop.

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