HT1338 Need more speed...I have a iMac OS X, version 10.4.11

I have a iMac OS X, version 10.4.11 with 'no updates needed'.
To upgrade do I have to purchase each upgrade or would purchasing the latest upgrade include all previous data?
What is the highest upgrade my system could endure?
1.83 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
2 GB 667 Mhz DDR 2 SDRAM
Thank you kindly for your consideration~

Find out some info. about your computer first. Click on the Apple, and select "About this mac"
- what is your processor type
- how much memory (ram) do you have?
Leopard System Prequirements - (10.5) - http://support.apple.com/kb/sp517.
This operating system is quit old, and you would need to seek it out on places like "ebay" or "amazon"
See if you system will take these first......
Snow Leopard System Requirements (10.6) - http://support.apple.com/kb/SP575.
Lion System System Requirements (10.7) - Mac OS X 10.7 Lion System Requirements
Mountain Lion System Requirements (10.8) - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5444.

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Need more speed

Hello!
My setup:
- I'm using Aperture 2.1.4 on an iMac 3.06 GHz with 4GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, 1 TB harddrive and Mac OS X 10.5.8.
- Right now I have 8 Projects with 3.250 photos. The Aperture-Library - 3.62GB - is on the internal harddrive.
- The originals are all RAW-files (from my Canon EOS 450D) and are stored on an external FireWire 800 iomega 2 TB drive. The folder containing the 8 sub-folders (coresponding to the projects) is 67.4GB.
- I have about 820GB free on the internal harddrive and 1.82TB free on the external harddrive.
My problem: I need more speed while editing! Highlights recovering, levels adjusting, changing the saturation or contrast - only to name a few - are realy slow!
I've renounced to generate any previews, but I'm not very sure I see any diference in speed. I even close ALL my other apps while editing in Aperture!
What can I do to accelerate working with Aperture?
Do you think holding only the current photos in the Aperture-Library (managed while editing and referenced after this) will bring an increase in speed?
Thank you for any advice!
Regards,
Vlad

It's hard to visualize without some sample data and the table definitions, but there's a chance this will work. I'm assuming this isn't dynamic SQL, but multiple reports, each report with a version of this SQL?
USE MyDB
SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE 1 = 1 AND Factor = '1' AND varVE = 'XYZ'
AND varS + varL + CONVERT(VARCHAR(100), aDate) IN
(SELECT varS + varL + CONVERT(VARCHAR(100), aDate, 121) AS SLA FROM MyTable WHERE varD = 'val1' AND varE = 'val2' AND varC > 'val3'
UNION ALL SELECT varS + varL + CONVERT(VARCHAR(100), aDate, 121) AS SLA FROM MyTable WHERE varD = 'val4' AND varE = 'val5' AND varC < 'val6'
UNION ALL SELECT varS + varL + CONVERT(VARCHAR(100), aDate, 121) AS SLA FROM MyTable WHERE varD = 'val7' AND varE = 'val8' AND varC = 'val9'
UNION ALL SELECT varS + varL + CONVERT(VARCHAR(100), aDate, 121) AS SLA FROM MyTable WHERE varD = 'val10' AND varE = 'val11' AND varC LIKE '%val12%')
This should be somewhat faster, unless it's the last "LIKE '%VAL12%'" that's really the root cause of all the performance problems.
Provide some sample data and a little additional info, perhaps we can help more?
EDIT: Also, although I use it myself during the authoring/development phase of a query from time to time (where I have to make lots of changes to the WHERE clause on the fly), the "Where 1 = 1" should go away for real life production use. (Even
though interestingly enough, the optimizer rarely seems to complain too much about it from a performance perspective, it's the SQL equivalent of forgetting to take the price tag off of a gift.. ;-)

I have a IMac - Mac OSX version 10.4 and présently i see only verticals lines on my dashboard and my mouse still mouving but with a little square with vertical lines at the right. This appen when i was talking with a friend on Skype. I need help to unlook

I have a IMac - Mac OSX version 10.4 and présently i see only verticals lines on my desktop and my mouse, i mean the arrow and still mouving but with a little square with vertical lines at the right. This appened when i was talking with a friend on Skype, by error i did click on the video and slowly the vertical lines appeared and covered all ma desktop. Since then, it still there and the only things i see it is the vertical lines and the arrow with the little square.
How can i fix this problem ?
En français: j'ai un IMac - Mac OSX version 10.4 et présentement je vois seulement des lignes verticales sur mon bureau et ma souris c'est-à-dire la flèche, bouge mais il y a un petit carré avec aussi des lignes verticales à sa droite. Je pense que ce bug est survenu lorsque j'étais sur Skype avec une amie et que par erreur j'ai cliqué sur l'image de la vidéo et peu à peu les lignes sont appurues et tout l'écran est envahie par ces lignes.
Comment corriger le problème ? Merci à l'avance.
Réjeanne Blouin

Hello, sounds like Video card and/or heat problems.
Have you blown the dust out lately? Let it cool for an hour or so.
Get Temperature Monitor to see if it's heat related...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12381/temperature-monitor
iStat Menus...
http://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/
And/or iStat Pro...
http://www.islayer.com/apps/istatpro/
One way to test is to Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, Test for problem in Safe Mode...
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive
Reboot, test again.
If it only does it in Regular Boot, then it could be some hardware problem like Video card, (Quartz is turned off in Safe Mode).

Have new iMac with latest version of quicktime. But still have FCP5. When try to make a quicktime movie this version only processes 8 sec of a 7 minute sequence. What's up?

Have new iMac with latest version of quicktime. But still have FCP5. When try to make a quicktime movie this version only processes 8 sec of a 7 minute sequence. What's up?
Mike T.

It is strange. I thought 10.x might be the more recent but it also locked up when I tried to the web export. I ran into the no autoplay issue with the webpage so I'll need to look elsewhere to replace a Flash gallery... oh well. Looks like there are probably JS option that might work.
Thanks.

Help! I have an iMac 24" OSX version 10.6.8 my iphoto is having problems. It will not open properly. All I get is the little wheel going around and around. My iphoto is iphoto'11 version 9.2.3(629.52) What should I do to make it work properly?

Help! I have an iMac 24" OSX version 10.6.8. My iphoto is having problems. It will not open properly. All I get is the little wheel going around and around. My iphoto is: iphoto'11 version 9.2.3(629.52). What do I need to do to remedy this? I recently installed InstallMac. I don't want this on my computer. I don't know how to get it off. I'm afraid that is what scrogged my iphoto. Can anyone tell me how to correct this situation?

Re: iPhoto:
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
Regards
TD

I have an iMac OS X Version 10.5.8 but I also have a MacBookPro 10.7.5 version, why software updates are not the same? For example, when I want to know how much memory can not store in the same way in either computer.

I have an iMac OS X Version 10.5.8 but I also have a MacBookPro 10.7.5 version, why software updates are not the same? For example, the way to see how much memory I have in my iMac is diferent than MacBookPro. And where I can see the memory of the disc I've got in my iMac? Than you very much.

If you want everything the same on both computers you need to be running the same OS X version. You can't because your iMac is a PPC machine, not Intel.
But to see information about your hard drive is the same for both. Simply select the drive icon on the Desktop. Press COMMAND-I to open the Get Info window. Disk information is in the upper panel.

I have an IMAC snow Leopard version 10.6.8 How do I update Safari?

I have an IMAC snow Leopard version 10.6.8 How do I update Safari?

What version of Safari are you running now (click on safari in the menu bat , about Safari)
5.1.10 is the latest version for SL.If you are getting a message from Yahoo saying you need to update Safari, ingnore it, it is an issue at their end.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1678

I have an iMac OS X Version 10.4.11. Can I download any new version with this?

I have an iMac OS X Version 10.4.11. Can I download any new version with this?

Choose About this Mac from the Apple menu and check the processor.
If it's a G3, no further upgrades are available.
If it's a G4 or G5, buy a retail Mac OS X 10.5 DVD from a source such as Amazon or eBay; Apple still might have copies in stock if you phone them.
If it's an Intel Mac, buy a Mac OS X 10.6 DVD from the online Apple Store.
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I have a iMac OS X version 10.4.11 can I connect it to my hdtv?

Trying to see if it's possible to connect my old iMac OS X Version 10.4.11 (White Desktop) to my HDTV? I tried, but all I get is a blue screen. I'm thinking it's not compatible with HDTV's but I'm not sure. Help please! Thanx.
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Need to know exactly what model iMac you have. Look in Apple > About This Mac > More Info > Hardware. What does it say for Model Identifier?
Also what make/model TV are you using?
Also how are you connecting your iMac to your TV? What adapter are you using?

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I HAVE A IMAC OS X VERSION 10.4.11 AND I WENT TO UPGRADE TO MAC OS X SNOW LEOPARD AND A BOX CAME UP THAT SAID I DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH MEMORY WHAT DO I DO TO FIX THIS TO BE ABLE TO PUT LEOPARD CD IN AND UPGRADE?

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If you are going to upgrade from Tiger to Snow Leopard, then I recommend doing a clean install. You can backup your current system to an external drive which I strongly recommend, but that has nothing to do with your RAM (memory.) The error refers to the amount of RAM installed in your computer which I'm guessing is only 512 MBs while Snow Leopard requires a minimum of 1 GB. And, I would recommend installing the maximum your model supports which should be at least 2 GBs. This all assumes your iMac is an Intel model.
Open System Profiler in the Utilities folder and report what you see displayed for the Model Identifier.
BTW, please post using mixed case. All upper case is the equivalent of shouting, and it's harder to read than mixed case.

Need help speeding up my old iMac from 2008 - defragment?

I have an old 20 inch iMac from 2008. It is a 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4 GB of Ram. Its still running Leopard 10.5.8, which is te last version of Leopard (I believe).
I have several questions, but I will start with the biggest one.
How can I speed it up? It runs very sluggishly and I've tried just about everything to try to get it to speed up. I've done all the recommended things, such as removing unnecessary startup programs, repairing disk permissions, freeing up hard drive space, monitoring the task manager for processes that take up a lot of CPU power and I've added more ram. The CPU can be at 90% idle and it will still act slow.
I know its not the software because its as old as the OS, so the system should be able to handle it, for example, I am running Adobe CS3. A friend told me that maybe I need to defragment. I read that after a certain OSX version the system does not need to defrag because the OS prevents the hard drive from fragmenting in the first place. Plus, there is no utility to defrag in the OS. I also read somewhere that if you do happen to fill up your hard drive to the very brim the data will fragment regardless. I did fill the hard drive to the brim -- to about 500 MB of free space. Since then I have freed up about 100 GB, but its slow.
Should I find a way to defragment? If so, is there any 3rd party software that is recomended for an old system like this?
I have tons more questions, such as:
- How to upgrade the OS to Snow Leopard, Lion or Mountain Lion.
- Should I backup the system via Time Machine before upgrading the OS to Snow Leopard, Lion or Mountain Lion?
- If I do upgrade my OS will my software be incompatible and do I need the original software discs to reinstall them?
- Why does my Time Machine take so long to backup?
I'd like to start with an answer about defragmenting.

Things You Can Do To Resolve Slow Downs
If your computer seems to be running slower here are some things you can do:
Start with a visit to: OS X Maintenance - MacAttorney.
Boot into Safe Mode then repair your hard drive and permissions:
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions Pre-Lion/Mountain Lion
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
Repair the Hard Drive - Lion/Mountain Lion
Boot from your Lion Recovery HD. When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported, then click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu. Select Restart from the Apple menu.
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Restart your computer normally and see if this has helped any. Next do some maintenance:
Suggestions for OS X Maintenance
For situations Disk Utility cannot handle the best third-party utility is Disk Warrior; DW only fixes problems with the disk directory, but most disk problems are caused by directory corruption; Disk Warrior 4.x is now Intel Mac compatible.
OS X performs certain maintenance functions that are scheduled to occur on a daily, weekly, or monthly period. The maintenance scripts run in the early AM only if the computer is turned on 24/7 (no sleep.) If this isn't the case, then an excellent solution is to download and install a shareware utility such as Macaroni, JAW PseudoAnacron, or Anacron that will automate the maintenance activity regardless of whether the computer is turned off or asleep. Dependence upon third-party utilities to run the periodic maintenance scripts was significantly reduced since Tiger. These utilities have limited or no functionality with Snow Leopard or Lion and should not be installed.
OS X automatically defragments files less than 20 MBs in size, so unless you have a disk full of very large files there's little need for defragmenting the hard drive. As for virus protection there are few if any such animals affecting OS X. You can protect the computer easily using the freeware Open Source virus protection software ClamXAV. Personally I would avoid most commercial anti-virus software because of their potential for causing problems. For more about malware see Macintosh Virus Guide.
I would also recommend downloading a utility such as TinkerTool System, OnyX 2.4.3, or Cocktail 5.1.1 that you can use for periodic maintenance such as removing old log files and archives, clearing caches, etc.
For emergency repairs install the freeware utility Applejack. If you cannot start up in OS X, you may be able to start in single-user mode from which you can run Applejack to do a whole set of repair and maintenance routines from the command line. Note that AppleJack 1.5 is required for Leopard. AppleJack 1.6 is compatible with Snow Leopard. There is no confirmation that this version also works with Lion.
When you install any new system software or updates be sure to repair the hard drive and permissions beforehand.
Get an external Firewire drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
1. Carbon Copy Cloner
2. Data Backup
3. Deja Vu
4. SuperDuper!
5. SyncTwoFolders
6. Synk Pro
7. Synk Standard
8. Tri-Backup
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQs on maintenance, optimization, virus protection, and backup and restore.
Additional suggestions will be found in Mac maintenance Quick Assist.
Referenced software can be found at CNet Downloads or MacUpdate.
Additional Hints
Be sure you have an adequate amount of RAM installed for the number of applications you run concurrently. Be sure you leave a minimum of 10% of the hard drive's capacity as free space.
Add more RAM. If your computer has less than 2 GBs of RAM and you are using OS X Leopard or later, then you can do with more RAM. Snow Leopard and Lion work much better with 4 GBs of RAM than their system minimums. The more concurrent applications you tend to use the more RAM you should have.
Always maintain at least 15 GBs or 10% of your hard drive's capacity as free space, whichever is greater. OS X is frequently accessing your hard drive, so providing adequate free space will keep things from slowing down.
Check for applications that may be hogging the CPU:
Open Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder. Select All Processes from the Processes dropdown menu. Click twice on the CPU% column header to display in descending order. If you find a process using a large amount of CPU time, then select the process and click on the Quit icon in the toolbar. Click on the Force Quit button to kill the process. See if that helps. Be sure to note the name of the runaway process so you can track down the cause of the problem.
Often this problem occurs because of a corrupted cache or preferences file or an attempt to write to a corrupted log file.

I need more speed Scotty!

This is my second post so be gentle please.
I have some deadlines for videos coming up soon and the videos are 3.5, 3.0, 2.5, 2.5, 2.0, 2.0, 1.0 hours and 1 at 45 minutes. I need to deliver all of these by June 23rd and I thought that by buying a Dual 1.8 G5 using FCE HD, my saving times would be fast. But, there not. I am currently working on a save in QT 262 format, 45 minutes of video, working from a RAID and saving to the same RAID and this smallest of the videos is only 27% done and has an estimate of 9 hours.
I am new to the G5 and was hoping that the Dual 1.8 with 3.5GB RAM, 160GB and 250GB SATA drives and a HighPoint 2220 SATA RAID (300MB/s) card pushing 3x300GB 16MB cache (300MB/s) Seagate Barracudas in 0 RAID configuration would be just fine. What happened?
I am shooting from a Sony HRC-1 in HD 19:1 and capturing in the 19:1 as a standard DV and NOT HD. This video has no special effects at all. Shot straight from the camera to the timeline to the render to the export as a Quicktime 262 because I lost my MPEG 2 encoder when I went to QT7 and did not see the warnings about the encoder being deleted to make me buy another product that does not have the encoder also.
I actually feel that my eMac exports faster than this G5. Any suggestions? I am sure I have not given enough technical information to fully understand the problem or is this normal speed for my configuration?
How can I make it faster (and please do not say buy another computer)? Is FC Pro 4.5HD faster than PCE HD 3.0? Would it be better to have another, 2 or 5 SATA RAID drives added?
Thanks! Ken

Thanks for the information. I capture in iMovie because as soon as it captures, it will letterbox the clip for me and I then drag the clip into FCE HD. I have DVD Studio Pro, but it is the old version 1.5 from my first efforts of video. It served its purpose then but I realized it would not do what I needed now. I do have a Lacie External LightScribe DL burner (actually just put it inside my G5).
My weak points are getting the video into FCE as a widescreen video placed into a letterbox. I shot everything in the 19:6 ratio, but as DV from the HD camera. So the camera sends a wide format image in DV to my editing software. How do you get FCE HD to make everything Letterboxed?
From there I just want to save the image and tackle the next stage after knowing I can aleast make a DL DVD. I do own a stack of Pioneer DL DVD burners in an enclosure for burning in mass. I just do not know what steps to take anymore ... too many changes from simple DV for me at this time of the game.
I put up a post called "Work Flow Needed Please!" but there have been no takers.
I have 14 more tapes to capture and I need a proven way to capture with either iMovie or FCE HD and a way to letterbox each tape. Editing .. no problem, markers ... no problem, rendering or saving ... sometimes a problem. HELP

Need more speed to my PC

I recently upgraded to Verizon Fios. The house has coax wiring. As part of the install they put an Actiontec MI424WR router in the upstairs office and a Cisco CHS435HDC DVR downstairs in the family. As far as I can tell everything was working fine.
I started thinking now that I have hi speed internet maybe I should check out Pandora, Netflix and whatever else is available through my TV and AV receiver. Since I had a wireless card lying around, I pop that into my computer. With the router next to the PC, the speed was fine. When I moved the router down stairs the speed on the PC dropped significantly. It’s never more than 7Mbps and it’s usually around 3 or 4 Mbps. Up load speed are just under 5Mbps. I tried every coax connection in the house and had similar results. I also notice that the MoCA light in the ONT is flashing.
What do I need to do to get the 15Mbps as advertised on my computer and at the same time have access to Pandora and Netflix and similar items on my TV and receiver?

EasyRunnin wrote:
I also moved the computer down to the family room to see if the speed improved. It worked very well when it was near the router. So I figure the wiring is fine and that it is a WiFi issue. Is there a relative easy and economical way to improve the speed up in the office?
You might want to investigate HomePNA powerline networking. This uses your home's existing in-wall electrical cabling to create a network. You can buy a two-piece transmitter/receiver kit for around $70. Plug one side in near the router in the family room, and the other side upstairs near the desktop computer. That should deliver full Ethernet speed--much faster than Wi-Fi--with no need to run new Ethernet cabling.

Power Mac G4 – need more speed!

Hi
Regarding: G4 100/BUS 400mhz AGP.
It now has 80GB @ 7200 hard-drive with existing 10GB @ 7200, 1.5Ghz 7455 processor and 1.5GB RAM – some might say an unnecessary expensive – but I now have a significant increase in speed.
1. Can anyone suggest anything that I haven't considered for speed increase?
2. Is there any way I can convert this mac to run SATA drives rather than ATA/IDEs?
I am also hoping to replace my bulky 17" display with a slim equivalent combining good resolution with great colour/print representation. Catch is, my budget: £200. Any thoughts on this?
Can anyone help?
Stu

i have a similar setup, and asked a similar question recently...lots of helpful people around here...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=831456&tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=832907&tstart=0
i've opted to add a sata card (Firmtek-SeriTek) and a pair of 250GB WD Caviar SE16's (striped/RAID0) to expand my capacity and (hopefully) performance (the card + the 2 drives was approx $200 USD)
-i also added an updated video card (ATI Radeon 8500) a little while back, but that was so i could run quartz-extreme/openGL software, not necessarily for performance - i wouldnt have changed it otherwise.

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