Fairy Tale Story Ending! iMac Related!

I would like to share my story from this past Christmas.
So I buy my daughter the Imac21.5 for Christmas. I'm on detail away from home for the past year so I wanted to get her something special, she's 16.
So since i'm in Georgia and she is in NY i'll need to fly the Imac on the plane. I want to take no chances so I want to carry it on and keep that thing in my lap. The baggage lady says, since it is Christmas travel, it will have to go in a carry on. I go out and buy 3 pillows and tape them all to the monitor ensuring a safe trip. The baggage lady assures me that the baggage will be handled carefully, and nothing will happen to it.
So I get on my plane leaving for my first leg of trip to Chicago. I get stranded there for 30 hours in the airport, meanwhile my daughter's Imac is enroute to Syracuse NY. Weather finally clears Chicago a day later and I get to Syracuse.
I find my luggage (which arrived a day earlier) and immediatly check on my daughter's Imac. Wham! Smashed, glass top broken etc. I goto the baggage desk and show them, the twit says, "thats not my problem". I said, "oh yes it is". And she refuses to give me a claim form saying that it is not covered. She would not even give me a baggage claim form at all. I ask for her name, and she only gives me her first name, and refuses to give me her last name stating that she doesnt have to because company policy states she doesnt. I ask for a manager, and she states she is the one who deals with this stuff and its too bad too sad. Well, little does she know, I just happen to be a federal agent who takes photographs for a particular agency which needs not mentioned. So I take pictures right there of my stuff that is smashed (and the lady who denied me a claim form), and displaying that I indeed took serious pre-cautions to safeguard the computer. My bags had to be tossed around violently for damage to have occured.
So here I am, having been stuck in Chicago and now my daughter's Christmas is ruined.
Like the good dad, the moment I arrive in Syracuse, I take the computer to the Apple Store. They fixed the computer and I had it back 2 days after Christmas. So it ended with my daughter still getting her computer.
Heres where it gets better. When I left the airport, I immediatly called customer support line for the airport and they assured me that the lady should have given me a claim form and that she will be disciplined. I was given a email to send my complaint to, and I sent a detailed write-up of the incident and the pictures to go along with it.
They responded that the lady in question had been unprofessional and terminated. I also received a check in the mail to cover the cost of a new Imac plus 500.00 to cover any lost software.
NICE!
So, I'll be going to the Apple Store again to get yet another Imac. Btw, it cost me 130.00 to fix the other one!
Score one for the good guys.....

I usually avoid speaking to agents of your government like they have the plague! But a Mac guy could be a good guy (so no one tell me if the terrorists are using Macs) so I will make an exception.
Good on you that you did not let that Grinch completely steal your Christmas. Good on your airline/airport for honoring your claim.
Have a blast with your new Macs!
Dah•veed

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Hi:
You can do it using a script. Take the DVDSP User Manual and look for the topic Jumping to a Menu's Loop Point (Chapter 14 - Creating Scripts) and you'll find a detailed description of how to do it.
DVDSP User Manual download page
Hope it helps!
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Alberto

Leaking G5 with fairy tale ending...

No wonder Apple consistently scores high on all consumer surveys for customer service!
June 2004 Dual 2.5 G5 tower almost one full year out of Applecare warranty. Fans on full bore, shutting down occasionally. I took it to my local Apple specialist for diagnosis. As I was carrying it in the door we noticed liquid leaking out the back end. Technician confirmed it was coolant. Two days later got a price estimate of between $800-$1000 for repair IF the logic board was okay. The technician suggested I call Apple to see if they would help me out with the repair. No harm in trying but the machine is four years old and a year out of Applecare warranty after all.
Called Applecare. No rants, no nastiness, no screaming. I simply told my story and asked if Apple could help me out. I was transferred twice and wound up telling my story to what may have been a third tier technical support rep. He told me to ask my technician to open a repair case. Then he gave his personal extension number and told me to have the technician call him. A few days later I got a call from my Apple specialist informing me that Apple had agreed to repair the G5 at NO COST. The cooling system (with processors) and the power supply were replaced. The logic board was okay. All is well. I was flabbergasted to say the least. Since the G5 was getting close to replacement anyway we wound up buying a new 24" iMac too. The newly repaired G5 will get a new life as either a file server or an upstairs client in my wife's sewing room.
Why did Apple agree to fix a four year old machine a year out of warranty? Was it because I've been a loyal customer since 1982 and have purchased eight machines over the years (they had the records)? Was it because there's a secret warranty extension plan in place? Was it because they just wanted to make me happy? Who knows and who cares. Way back in 1982, when I purchased an Apple II+, I knew I was going for a ride with a different kind of company and it's been a wild and crazy ride for 26 years now. In all those years I've had exactly three repair cases, a disk drive controller card on a 5.25" DuoDisk floppy drive, a power supply on a Power Mac 8100 (first generation PPC machine), and now the G5.
So for those who fret and worry about what they read in these forums I'm here to tell you that, as a 26 year veteran, you have nothing to fret over. This is a special company when it comes to customer service and care. It builds amazingly reliable hardware and then stands behind it.

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Hi Jayne_W
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Original Mac Pro vs. New High End iMac

I need some advice on whether to upgrade my system, based on the new iMacs just released. Here is what I currently own:
Mac Pro with two Intel 2.66 dual-core processors
(Early 2007 edition)
16x SuperDrive
6 GB of RAM
1 TB HD
ATI Radeon X1900 XT (512 MB)
23" Apple Cinema Display
I'm thinking of selling all of that and buying the new high-end 27" iMac...
2.66 GHz Intel Core i5
4 GB of memory (I'd upgrade it to 8 GB)
2 TB Hard Drive
ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics card
27" display (included)
I've done the research and I would roughly break even. Cost is not a concern. The following factors are under consideration...
What is the performance difference between the 4 cores I have in the 2.66 Xeon vs the 4 cores in the Core i5?
My X1900 graphics card is not supported under Snow Leopard's OpenCL. The new HD 4850 would be.
I'd like to have the larger display (27" vs. 23") and the built-in video camera for iChat video conferencing.
I am not a professional user. I consider myself a high-end consumer user, primarily doing HD video editing with iMovie, some video encoding with Handbrake, and "prosumer" work with RAW files in Aperture. The rest is basic use- such as email, internet, etc.
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If performance of the current system is acceptable, I would keep it and use it as long as possible. You have the capability to do things like replace the display (with a new one of your choosing), upgrade the video card, and add additional internal SATA drives. Having additional internal storage at SATA speed, and using separate drives to store OS/apps and user data, will increase your system's productivity.
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Peak power is not what is given. The figures represent average power consumption. Peak power is what may occur when the computer is turned on. That would usually be 1.57 times average power or nearly 180 watts. For safety allow a factor of two for any peripherals that may be used. The UPS should be rated around 350 watts.
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If anyone has a solution for getting the Mecury Playpack Engine GPU acceleration to work with Premiere Pro CS6 on an iMAC 2011, please let me know. Like I wonder if you could Thunderbolt an External graphics card somehow? Or is an upgrade possible? Ahh...not worth the risk.
Please, if you have a solution for me, let me know. Otherwise I find it pretty frustrating that I purchased a top-end iMAC, fully maxed-out in every way possible, and that the iMac doesn't support Adobe Premiere's Mercury Playback Engine GPU acceleration. Also, an old USB 2.0 Hub and thus the built-in SD card reader is slow. If you have SD cards with 95MB/s Transfer, Read and Write speeds, the iMAC will only transfer at around 30MB/s if you're lucky. Technically 480Mbs which is around 50MB/s but I haven't seen those speeds.
I figured this could at least be circumvented with a Thunderbolt SD card reader or a Thunderbolt to USB 3.0 adapter but of course no such thing exists.
Well, nothing with a reasonable price tag. This all might seem trivial to some but when you're uploading 24 hours of HD video footage from a 128GB SDXC card, the speed makes a big difference.
And come on, no BluRay support? Ridiculous. I get the politics of why but still, just ridiculous. It would be nice to be able to burn a BluRay to watch in my home theater system. There are other methods but BluRay is convenient and great for backing up large Video Files. Unfortunately BluRay looks like it's not going to make it. Maybe cable distribution companies will increase their Internet upload speeds one day and I can just store everything in the cloud and watch full length movies(that I've created) on Vimeo.
Anyways, I went and took a look at the hardware Apple stuffed inside my fancy (3.4 Ghz i7, 16GB 1333 DDR3, 2GB AMD 6970M, 256 GB SSD Internal and 2TB 7200 Internal) machine and it appears to be pretty middle of the range stuff. It's an iMAC, not a Mac Pro so why am I griping? Because my 2009 PC(which I tricked out over the last two years) is faster and does support the Mercury Playback Engine. I spent $2100 total on this PC which includes all my upgrades. I spent around $3300 on the iMAC. I feel ripped off.
Yes, I do love my iMAC on multiple levels but had I known my dated 2009 PC would render video projects faster, I would have gone with a MAC Pro or just a new PC. It seems that Mac is moving completely away from making high-end computers for niche markets(video editing) and focusing on their tiny laptops, IPADS and IPhones for the masses. Obviously smart from a capitalistic perspective(at present at least) but very frustrating for some.
I was actually told to purchase a MAC for video editing. I've been a PC guy for 15 years. I went with the iMAC because I had read many good things about it(probably just Apple propaganda) and also the MAC PRO was to be discontinued. Also the MAC Pro would have been triple the cost for what didn't seem like a whole lot more.
It's one's thing to prepackage a computer with inferior hardware(the iMAC I have is fast for most things and more than enough for 99% of the population) but to not allow us to pop open the computer and make a quit upgrade to the machine is what really makes me feel like I'm using a computer built for Grannies. I mean there is a reason my mother loves iMacs and Iphones. Amazing that I was able to upgrade my memory from 4 to 16GB but I've heard Apple has even done away with that. I get why they do it. Apple Warranty, Apple Care issues, Profit and World Domination: Apple wants a monopoly on everything.
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The major problem with Apple is you're forced to use Apple. Not sure but history has proven that people don't like to be forced into anything. Autocracies don't work. These systems eventually topple, even in the corporate world.
Amazon.com, now that's the company to emulate. What an amazing machine!
I've read that Apple may even discontinue the iMAC after 2013. Who knows?
If anyone has a solution for getting the Mecury Playpack Engine GPU acceleration to work with Premiere Pro CS6 on an iMAC 2011, please let me know. Like I wonder if you could Thunderbolt an External graphics card somehow? Or is an upgrade possible? Ahh...not worth the risk.
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2) USB 2.0 Hub with only 480 Mb/sec
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4)APPLE SSD TS256C Flash Drive. As you can see, it doesn't stack up so well against other SSD Drive.
Just average. http://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/hdd_lookup.phphdd=APPLE+SSD+TS256C

Whining and ranting about how iMacs can't do this or iMacs/orMacs can't do that is not going to get you a lot of help here.
Your "I love my MAC" is typical of the ever ubiquitous PC whiner.
If your video work needs were that computer intensive and critical , you should've done some online research and you should have budgeted for a Mac Pro.
Mac Pros are completely expandable and upgradeable unlike the iMac.
Mac Pros have much more faster and more CPU cores than the iMac line.
iMac line is limited to CPUs with 8 cores. The Mac Pros, I believe, are up to 16 core CPUs, now.
The Mac Pros can have their GPU upgraded and you even add/expand to use specialty audio/video cards.
Mac Pros are the defacto standard for real video work.
iMacs, even the high end model, is not really designed to do really heavy and intensive video work.
iMacs do do video creation and editing. Just not on the level that is needed from a more "Pro" computer.
It seems to me you are asking your iMac to do more than it was originally designed for, in terms of professional video editing.
You get a lot more out of a Mac Pro than an iMac for any real serious video, CGI or animation work.
You just didn't want to spend that much cash on one.
iMacs are not user upgradeable or friendly to user upgrades at all!!!
If you purchased a Mac Pro, you could've had that better, faster HD, better faster SSDs.
That said, I can offer no real help to but because of the nature of your post and the fact you just simply annoyed me, I feel some advice and explanations are in order
First off, you picked Adobe video editing software suite as your video creation software on the Mac. It's no secret to long-time video content creators on the Mac that Adobe products, especially those for video creation and editing are very user unfriendly on the Mac. Even though Macs are supported from Adobe, Adobe for a long time has treated the Mac and Mac users as second class citizens.
Before purchasing and installing Adobe Premiere, did you even check Adobe's site for the preferred system hardware and software requirements? Hmmm?
This is why you should KNOW what software you are going to be running on a computer first then research what computer make and model will run said software.
That's why Apple has its own apps like Aoerture, Logic and Final Cut.
Despite your ignorance in this matter, Final Cut Pro X is alive and doing well, thank you, and using this software on your iMac would kick Adobe Premier in the you know whats.
Final Cut Pro X is a complete video solution for and completely designed around the Mac.
Why are you using USB 2.0 connections for video work when you have a perfectly good FireWire 800 connection.
In case you are not aware, FireWire 800 is called so because it has a max throughput of 800 Mbps.
Your 2011 iMac can take up to 32 GBs of RAM. Not just 16 GBs.
This changed when the 2010 model iMacs came out.
Blu-ray? I believe you can buy external Blu-ray writers that work with Mac using said FW800 connection.
So you cite one movie and one videographer using Adobe Premier for your premise that Final Cut is dead in Hollywood?
Your argument that Apple locks you into everything in their world can be countered by saying Windows and Windows PCs lock you into the Windows world. What's your point?
Apple is not discontinuing their computers platforms any time soon.
All you are regurgitating is rumor. Probably from all of the PC crowd.
iMacs and professional desktop Macs are not going anywhere.
Currently, Apple is the only desktop/laptop computer maker that is still making a profit on their Macs and increasing their market share percentages for the last 5 years during which the PC market has continually slumped/dropped in its market share.

Brand new iMac 24" crashes and burns playing games in bootcamp

If this continues I guess I will have to call support but for those that are interested here is the story:
I have a 24" iMac 3gig and I have installed bootcamp - although I am not convinced as to how well this worked with the driver install as I have problems pairing my bluetooth mouse and keyboard in windows - works fine in OS/X.
If I play WoW in OS/X it seems to handle this. I currently bought Warhammer Online which is PC only so I put it into my bootcamp partition. It runs absolutely fine until it gets hot and then it quite happily brings the machine down.
Symptoms.
wireless networking stops
bluetooth becomes unreliable even when rebooted into OS/X
System crashes and screen goes black - no repsonse or anything
I find this worrying as such occurences cannot be doing my system any good.
I installed fan control and tried upping the fans and my ssytem is now a little noisy but it still happens.
After spending so much money on what is touted as a robust and performant system I am very disapointed. It seems despite controlling and selecting hardware Apple are no better than PC manufacturers. Except prettier
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Consumer ? The top end iMac ? Certainly my local shop has a different definition of consumer. Agreed the Mac Pro is HIGH performance and also a high price.
For most of my needs I am happy with the Mac, a little disapointed with boot camp but that is all. Not just the game, but also the bluetooth keyboard - just can't get it to work. Works perfectly in OS/X which I guess is the main thing.
Only real niggle in OS/X is the mighty mouse seems to be a bit sporadic with the right click. Works for a time and then doesn't. Very annoying, mainly becuase when it is working properly it is brilliant - so infuriating when it doesn't.
Still - early days yet, and still learning - so hopefully I will sort everything out to my satisfaction.

Best iMac I can afford for Raw files work in Aperture 3

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Also, the 21" and 27" base models have the same graphics card with 512mb vram, is that ok for Aperture with RAW file also?
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All 2011 macs have nice performance improvements over previous models. However Aperture is a hardware hog: GPU, CPU, i/o, RAM. Those intending Aperture as an important app will do far better with the strongest available hardware in a given category.
The GPU will be key as to which iMacs are stronger, after that the CPU. RAM should be 8 GB via third party.
The second display will suck (some) power from the less-than-best GPU in the lower end iMacs. Note that every Mac is really a synergy of its parts to run Aperture, so it is hard to say how much effect a second display has onoverall Aperture performance, but I would not worry about it unless using a Macbook Air. I have a 17" MBP plus $300 Viewsonic VP2365wb and the setup works great. IMO for graphics desktop work a second display is a huge benefit.
IMO hard drives are obsolete as boot drives. If I was buying an iMac (I will not, preferring just-as-strong mobile Macbook Pros with their inexpensive SSDs instead) and could not afford the expensive iMac SSD configuration I would get an i5 model and have OWC retrofit an SSD into the Superdrive slot.
Note that iMac hard drives are not upgradable except by Apple so you might as well order a large hard drive now.
BareFeats.com has all kinds of relative graphics performance tests up (more coming), including this link:
http://barefeats.com/mba11_02.html
HTH
-Allen wicks

IMac + Sound = Help Me!

So I got a new 24" Aluminum High-End iMac 2 weeks ago. It doesn't freeze like other people have reported, but I have some another problems.
Sometimes when playing songs (mainly in iTunes) the music will be automatically paused for no reason. If I hit play/pause it continues where it left of... This I think is just a bug in iTunes + Leopard, but I would like to know if you guys think it's anything else.
My second problem is also sound related. When playing Civilization 4: Warlords I have been starting to hear a buzz coming from my left speaker (and only my left speaker). When I increase the volume, the buzz grows larger, when I mute the volume, the buzz also stops. The buzz goes away if I quit the game... it also goes away by it self after a few minutes. Is this a hardware problem or a software problem?
I should also state that I didn't have this buzzing problem until I used DivX Player to open a file and a LOUD buzzing sound came out of my speaker (both of them) when I tried to play the file Volume control's didn't help to lower the volume of the buzzing, although pausing did stop it. I have used DivX before (both on this iMac and others) but I have never gotten this problem. I have stopped using DivX Player for now, but this problem does exist. I would have to say that this is most probably a software problem because VLC can play all the files with not one hitch yet. But could this loud buzzing sound (that happened a with a few files in DivX) have damaged my speaker(s)?
Thanks for your help in advance!

I have a similar problem with DivX. I am convinced it is a software conflict.
I tested DivX files that I compressed myself (with a licensed version of the DivX Pro codec) on multiple machines. I played the files with VLC and DivX Player without any trouble. However, on my machine there is a horrible buzzing sound when I playback with the DivX Player. VLC is fine. I have reinstalled the entire DivX Pro package to no avail. So far this hasn't infected anything else.
[EDIT]
In addition, the DivX Web Player is unaffected. I can play streaming videos from stage6 without any trouble at all.
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Need help with the classic question: iMac or MacPro?

HI all,
I have been tossing this questions for a little while now, high end iMac or low end MacPro? So if I can request your patience, please allow me to rattle this lot off and see if you can help.
My current spec is:
• MacPro 1,1
• 2 x 2.66 Dual Core Xeon
• I have 2 screens, 24"
• All 4 internal bays have HDs, 1 is designated for TimeMachine.
• 2 external HDs, 1 for iTunes and misc, 1 for boot HD backup.
The software I run are mostly the Adobe CS suites, some 3d, some audio, and soon some FCPX.
I have had the computer for about 4 years now, and although it has served me very well it is getting tired etc. I am a long-term tower computer fan, but I can't ignore the question.
So, I have been thinking of either:
• Going for the high-end iMac, and consolidate much of my internal HDs into an external RAID system.
or
• Getting the low-end MacPro, with the 3.2ghz Nehalem chip upgrade, and basically keep the same 'style' of system I have now.
The
What would you recommend? My concern is of course related to price, and bang for the buck, but more than that - longevity for the upcoming years. Pretty much now is the time when I will be updating, and I expect to keep whatever system for the next few years.
I don't see my uses for the Mac to be too much different from what is listed above. I have not installed anything other than additional HDs and RAM into my current Mac - so in that respect expandability isn't too much of an issue.
The price is similar enough to be comparable.
In case you wonder, the current MacPro has been earmarked for use in another task, which is likely to include usage of the screens... Hence in somerespects, this is a "starting from scratch" situation...
Thoughts?
Many thanks,
Aaron

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How Would The New iMac Compare To My Old PPC G5 Power-Mac?

I'm a bit out of the loop as far as the performance increases since I bought my G5 Power-Mac several years ago and if I'm honest, never really understood them that well anyways...
What I'm wondering is how the new iMac would compare to my old Power-Mac and would it be able to do what I need it to do. Here's what I have now (from my system profiler). A PowerMac PPC G5 (1.1) 2.3ghz Dual CPU. Bus speed 1.15ghz. It also has 4.5GB of Ram... I also have a dual monitor set-up but would obviously get rid of one if I bought the new iMac. The display I would be keeping would be my 30" cinema display. Would I be able to continue to use that monitor without too much hassle in a set-up with the iMac?
Any help, opinions or insights appreciated!

I have a 2.0 GHz dual core (PCIe slots) Power Mac G5 (the +late 2005+ model). It has 4GB RAM and the low-end 128mb NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE. The max is 16GB.
I also have a 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo 17-inch white iMac. It has 2GB RAM and ATI Radeon X1600 (128mb) for the built-in graphics. The max RAM is 3+ GB.
Both run Leopard. Both have two displays. I mostly use the iMac currently and another family member uses the Power Mac G5. These two configs feel about equal. Some apps seem to be better optimized for Intel these days. Other older apps are PowerPC-based apps, so the G5 runs those better without the need for Rosetta on Intel. In day-to-day use, I can't say that one is better than the other.
But that's with an older Intel iMac (the low end model even when it was new). For your comparison, the current high-end iMac will undoubtedly be faster. However, with both running Leopard, I don't think the new iMac will be a +quantum leap+ in better performance. Whether the actual difference is worthwhile to you will depend more on how you use your Mac. Once Snow Leopard comes out, with it's better optimization for Intel and more efficient use of multiple processors (and other technical improvements), the story may be different.
With the new iMac lineup, you can use a 30" Cinema display (as an extended desktop) with an adapter off the Mini DisplayPort. It says so on the specs page
http://www.apple.com/imac/specs.html
"Mini DisplayPort output port with support for DVI, VGA, and dual-link DVI via adapter."
"Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to a 30-inch display (2560 by 1600 pixels) on an external display."

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