Mac PC the Ultimate Experience??

The great mac as said by many people to surpase & provide a much better experience than windows. I on the other hand am a little on a fine line. I love mac but I have received a numerous amount of problems, sudden program shut downs, unexplainable errors etc. Also to the point where my mac reseted itself to default settings for some reason.
I have only used 1 mac in my lifetime and this one has not been an amazing experience as all seem to claim (without crashs and gliches that is to say, everything else is a dream)
So I would like to know the following:
1) Under normal web browsing, program ussage and downloading why is it that I have been getting programs that shut down for no reason, computers freezes when using only 2 small applications and so on?
2) Is there a mac maintanance tool that I need to use you on a daily basis?
3) Could it just be this computer that is the issue or the operating system?
4) What is a book that someone can recommend that explains how to keep your mac in absolute top notch shape
I use my mac for all sorts of things and I would love for it to be in good performance on a daily basis but I just can't seem to understand why it does strange things at times.
If anyone can help, suggest or advise on this issue it would be most appreciated. Thank you very much.
Dorian

1. What is the RAM configuration? How much and is any of it self-installed third-party RAM?
512 MB Ram straight from Apple. They put it in themselves when I bought the computer.
2. How large is the hard drive and how much free space on it?
250GB total size, about 30GB occupied
3. How old is the computer? How long have you been having problems?
About 2 years only and I have problems ever since I purchased the Mac
4. Have you ever taken the computer to a repair shop while it was still in warranty or did your problems begin after the warranty expired?
No never to a shop and problems started before warrenty ended
5. Which specific programs have been shutting down? Are all programs exhibiting this same behavior?
Bit Torrent, Safari, iphoto, idvd, imovie, Adobe Photoshop and I can't remember the rest.
6. What "unexplainable errors" have occurred?
When the programs shut down for no reason a screen pops up and says that they will or have closed due to an "unexplainable error"
7. When problems have occurred were any error messages presented? What did the error messages say?
The error message said "an unexplainable error has occured and the following program will close. We are sorry for the inconvenience". I can't remember the exact wording
8. What if any troubleshooting efforts have you made and what were the results?
I run Ony X on a regular basis and have used Disk Utility to fix, verify and repair permissions quite a few time.
9. Have you tried booting into safe mode to see if the problems cease or persist?
No I have not but I reinstalled the Mac OSX opperating system twice (the Mac OSX is 10.3 Pather not Tiger. I should change that in my name)
10. Have you tried creating a new temporary user, then logging out of your account and logging into the new user account to see if the problems cease or persist?
I have but it's not every day where the problems occur so I haven't spent enough time on the other account to see if the problems happen over there as well.
A problem could happen every week or sometimes every couple days.
Thank you very much for the support and I hope my responses help. I hope to hear from you soon.
Dorian

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The Enterprise Mac: What works on a Mac based on my experience at SAP.

I've been a Mac User at SAP for 4.5 years and here's what I have running and what I know of that should work.
First, the stuff that I rely on everyday:

SAP Portal in Firefox - almost everything works. The navigation panel has a scroll bar in it, but is usable. I have imported my SSO certificate from Secude's SSO solution on PC into Firefox, so I can access SAP's corporate portal.
Firepass and Contivity VPN- Both VPN solutions work with my PowerBook G4, although I heard that Intel based macs don't yet work with F4 networks Firepass. At TechEd Las Vegas '06 F4 claimed that this is now fixed and SAP has yet to deploy it.
Windows Networking, File Servers- This works exceptionally well (except the resource links on mac use slashes (like web addresses) and in windows they use whacks (\). Annoying. I can authenticate agains the domain and even change my NT login password. I use Dave from <a href="http://www.thursby.com">Thursby Software</a>. For proxy serving I use auto-configuration using a PAC file.
Desk-top to desk-top sharing- I use this everyday because I have both a Widows Machine (for Netmeeting) and I need to share files back and forth. I can open the Mac from the Windows machine and the reverse. Again I use Dave from <a href="http://www.thursby.com">Thursby Software</a>.
Remote Desktop- Working for a software company inevadably need to access servers via . It works great!<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/mac/otherproducts/otherproducts.aspx?pid=remotedesktopclient">Remote Desktop from Microsoft</a>.
Microsoft Office- I love it on Mac!
Email- I use Entourage, the Exchange client in Mac Office. Over all a good program but suffers from not being fully featured. My top two gripes are: You can book resources in Meeting Requests and you can't forward meeting requests!
Wireless-I use <a href="http://www.ipass.com/">iPass</a> for Mac and it works great when I travel! I can also automatically authenticate against SAP's corporate wireless network using 802.1x.
Corporate Printers- I use Dave from <a href="http://www.thursby.com">Thursby Software</a> again. It works very well. Others have had success without Dave.
Collaboration- Webex works very well, and I have heard that NetMeeting has a Java client. I haven't used it though. Anyone?
== What I heard works ==
SAPGui Java client- I also heard that it is far behind the Windows version. Any comments?
Secude SSO Java client- Apparently the version we're using inside SAP is not an officially supported version by Secude. My contacts there say that they are working on an official version in the near future. Stay tuned.
Windows Messenger- Apparently it was working in SAP, but it was taken down for security reasons... Don't know much else. It sure would make my life easier when its up since the entire company is now using it.

Hi Eric,
My experience on an Intel Mac is this:
- Any SAP website that requires a security certificate does not work in Safari. I've been led to believe this is Apple's problem, and I can work around it by using Firefox, but still. In Firefox, there are issues with SAP's websites. In the forums, for example, and page will open in the middle, in stead of at the top.
- Windows networking: the usual problem is OS X's inability to remember logins. It's fairly annoying to have to re-type my login and password every day. And at my current client I can't get to the network at all. I'll have a look at Dave, see if that helps.
- Office: it works well, now that I've upgraded my MBP from 1 to 2 GB. Before it was sluggish, and in tandem with Parallels, it was physically painful. Now, even when both programs are running, they run just fine. Although Office could use some more of "the snappy".
- I use Mail, Address Book, and iCal. It does what I need. The only thing I'd be interested in is some way of plugging into my customer's address book to find e-mail addresses.
- SAPGUI for Java: this works, mostly, but it is slow. Embarrassingly so. It's slow in general, but anytime a longish list needs to be loaded, it gets real bad. Try working in the ABAP editor with an include of 3,000 or more lines... Apart from the slowness, there are a number of missing functions for which I keep Parallels handy. Drag and drop is one, and on the 6.4 version, there was a GUI control that would make the GUI crash.
- Parallels. I can't say enough good stuff about this. Parallels. Parallels. Love it.
Some other points:
- I'd be interested if anyone has installed NetWeaver 2004s under Boot Camp. I'm a bit wary of dropping $300 on a license for WinXP when it may not ever work (Parallels is running W2K, in case you were wondering).
- At TechEd, I had the hardest time connecting to the Internet, even with Firefox. A few sites I could get to, if I disabled images, JavaScript, and Java, but most, even the common ones such as Yahoo or Google, I could not. I ran into someone else using a MBP, and she had no problems whatsoever. So obviously the problem was with my machine, but I couldn't for the life of me figure out what it was. Most frustrating!

I bought my Mac Air 13' in August. Black screen problems constantly happens. I asked some of my friends who also use Air. They share the same experience. Overall, it is a pretty good computer. But it bothers me when I do work and it suddenly goes black.

I bought my Mac Air 13' in August. Black screen problems constantly happens. I asked some of my friends who also use Air. They share the same experience. Overall, it is a pretty good computer. But it bothers me when I do work and it suddenly goes black. What should I do about it?

without more information, I assume you mean a blackout from sleep issue.
Go to system preferences > energy settings > raise the "turn display off" setting up to as needed, say 5 mins. or 10 mins.
AND ...
unchecked the "Put hard disks to sleep when possible" in both the battery and power adapter tabs.
test it and check back

When i update my iPhone 4s through iOS 7 with my mac, i tunes told me that an upgrade was necessary to sync with the new iOS 7 and of course i updated my iTunes to the ultimate version but my mac didn't work with this version of i tunes. What can i do

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Hello,
Only option is upgrading your Mac's OSX, since Apple will not allow iOS to go backwards.
Snow Leopard/10.6.x Requirements...
General requirements
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    * 1GB of memory (I say 4GB at least, more if you can afford it)
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    * Some features require Apple’s MobileMe service; fees and terms apply.
Which apps work with Mac OS X 10.6?...
http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/
Call Apple Sales...in the US: 1-800-MY-APPLE. Or Support... 1-800-275-2273
Other countries...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HE57
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Can't network Mac with W7 Ultimate 64 bit (but W7Pro32 and WXP work)

Hi all,
I posted a long (probably too long) issue recently but despite nearly 200 people viewing it, no-one offered a solution. So I am re-posting a shorter, clearer statement here but below I also enclose the long full diagnostic information (at the bottom).
At home we have 4 computers: a Macbook Pro with OS X 10.7, a Windows XP desktop machine, a Windows 7 Professional 32-bit laptop, and a Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit workstation. As a result of my extensive experimentation and testing I found that:
- Networking and sharing drives between the Macbook and the XP machine worked fine in both directions
- Ditto for the Windows 7 Professional 32-bit laptop - everything "just worked" exactly as it should
- However the Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit machine simply would not work from the Mac to the PC (I was however able to access the PC from the Mac)
- All PCs were of course able to inter-operate in both directions across the network with each other
My conclusion therefore is that the Mac is set up and working correctly, there are no connectivity problems, and almost certainly this is an issue relating either to 64-bit W7 (versus 32-bit) or it's an issue relating to "Ultimate" versus "Professional" (or both). I have not 'fiddled' with anything, the only setting changes made which could be considered low-level were the 'secpol' change on the W7x64 machine which I read in many posts might solve the issue (it didn't).
I am not a technical expert although I have some ancient history in the field. I just want it to work. Everything I read tells me that it should - now Windows and Mac both use SMB, etc etc. But it doesnt.
Absolutely desperate to get this solved quickly now. I would even happily have paid someone, but finding an expert in Switzerland who can come to the house, speak English fluently plus (of course) be fluent in Windows 7 Ultimate x64 and Mac... it's proved to be a test too far. So if anyone out there can help... thank you in advance.
Alastair
ORIGINAL DIAGNOSTIC DETAILS
CONCLUSIONS
There appears to be a fundamental compatibility problem between Mac OS X and Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.
The problem actually appears to have a degree of randomness / instability about it (see below when, during diagnostics, the workstation actually disappeared, then reappeared!).
I can only presume this issue relates in some way to the “enhancements” either related to Ultimate versus Professional, or to 64-bit versus 32-bit variants.
At the moment there is only one solution I am confident would work, which is to revert my workstation to 32-bit… however this is not an option for me as it would render around 21GB of RAM unusable and remove the whole raison-d’etre for purchasing a powerful workstation in the first place.
I am therefore stuck and in need of help!
PRECONDITIONS
In all cases I am using connectivity between three different PCs and a Macbook Pro 2.53GHz Intel Core Duo, 4GB RAM, Mac OS X running version 10.7 (Lion). BTW I know Lion is new but it was exactly the same with 10.6.
I have three PCs: an XP Pro machine, a W7 Pro 32bit machine and a W7 Ult 64bit machine.
All three PCs are running the same antivirus and firewall (Norton Internet Security 2011), this was left ON for all tests on all machines.
I have already been through all the myriad of advise on this subject: as you can see from the below, file sharing etc has all been enabled. The “secpol” changes etc have also been made on the W7 Ult 64bit machine only (but these were only made because it didn’t work without the changes and everyone seemed to think this was needed).
All my Windows computers are configured to workgroup “WILF” and also set this Workgroup name on the Mac in the WINS settings dialogue. No homegroup exists on the network.
No other “tinkering” has taken place. Although I have some tech skills, I am just a bloke who wants to use his computers, not a computer genius. As such the Tosh laptop is pretty much fresh out of the box, the Mac has nothing non-standard and the only setting change is the WINS setting for the Workgroup name. The workstation is a little over a year old so but I have not poked around with anything deep inside it, so if there is anything wrong it should be superficial – the kind of thing a basic user could have changed by mistake and can easily be changed back.
DIAGNOSTIC TESTS
Connecting between Macbook and old Windows XP machine (XP Pro 2002 SP3):
-        Open ‘Finder’ on Mac, PC immediately visible under ‘Shared’.
-        From Mac: Single click on PC icon indicated “Connecting” then “Connect as Guest”, opens a list of all shared and public folders. Am able to copy files from Mac to PC, am able to copy files from PC to Mac.
-        From PC: Opening “My Network Places” and clicking on “View Workgroup Computers” shows all my networked computers including the Mac, double-clicking the Macbook icon opens a list of all shared and public folders. Am able to copy files from Mac to PC, am able to copy files from PC to Mac.
-        In short: this appears to work as it should.
Connecting between Macbook and new Windows 7 machine (W7 Pro 32-bit 2009 edition, Tosh laptop w/ Intel Core i7 M620 @ 2.67GHz, 4GB RAM):
-        Open ‘Finder’ on Mac, PC immediately visible under ‘Shared’.
-        From Mac: Single click on PC icon indicated “Connecting” then “Connect as Guest”, opens a list of all shared and public folders. Am able to copy files from Mac to PC, am able to copy files from PC to Mac.
-        From PC: Opening “Windows Explorer” and single-clicking on “Network” shows all my networked computers including the Mac. This time I decided to try logging into the Mac drives as me, rather than as a guest:
Double-clicking the Mac icon opens up the ID / Password dialogue box.
Inputting my correct username and password for the Mac immediately opened up all the folders on the Mac I have access to (the shared / public folders but also the folders for my login account on the Mac).
Am able to copy files from Mac to PC, am able to copy files from PC to Mac.
-        In short: this appears to work as it should.
Connecting between Macbook and fairly new Windows 7 workstation (W7 Ultimate 64-bit 2009 edition SP1, Supermicro workstation w/ 2 x Intel Xeon W5590 @ 3.33GHz, 24GB RAM):
-        Open ‘Finder’ on Mac, PC WAS INITALLY immediately visible under ‘Shared’… however while carrying out the testing for the XP machine and the laptop, it has disappeared! The other two machines remain visible.
STOP PRESS: It reappeared… for how long, is anyone’s guess…
-        From Mac: A single click on PC icon almost instantaneously indicates “Connection Failed”. Repeated attempts produce the exact same result. To verify the basics some elementary diagnostics:
Mac IP address 192.168.0.11 can be successfully pinged from the PC.
PC IP address 192.168.0.3 can be successfully pinged from the Mac.
From PC entering comment “ping MACBOOKPRO-598A” (the latter being the computer name of my Macbook) works successfully i.e. name resolved OK, no packet loss, 1ms round trip.
From Mac unable to run the reciprocal ping test for EITHER PC since I don’t know what to put into Ping to allow it to resolve the computer names.
However I note that all 3 Windows machines remain visible in the Finder, only the two which work (the XP machine and the W7 32bit laptop) have the “Eject” symbol next to them and they are still the only two which work both ways without problem.
In the Finder window after clicking on the PC icon in the left column, I get another instance of this icon in the next column with “Connect As” underneath and presently “Connection Failed”. If I click on “Connect As” I receive the error “There was a problem connecting to the server ‘alastair-ws’ (which is the PC name of the workstation).
Finally if I use the GO -> Connect to Server option in Finder, using SMB://alastair-ws I receive the same error as above. I get EXACTLY the same error if I use the IP address of the workstation 192.168.0.3 as above.
-        From PC: Opening “Windows Explorer” and single-clicking on “Network” shows all my networked computers including the Mac. Again I decided to try logging into the Mac drives as me, rather than as a guest:
Double-clicking the Mac icon opens up the ID / Password dialogue box.
Inputting my correct username and password for the Mac immediately opened up all the folders on the Mac I have access to (the shared / public folders but also the folders for my login account on the Mac).
Am able to copy files from Mac to PC, although naturally not the other way around.
-        Therefore the PC-to-Mac seems to work OK, but the Mac-to-PC does not no matter what I try, although the IP is visible and it’s clear the connectivity exists (or Mac copy onto PC would also not work).
[END]

You can give this a try on your Ultimate machine. While these are said to be for Vista, I used it on my Win 7 machine just fine and it fixed the problems I was having. Hope it works for you.
The problem is that Vista, by default, will only use NTLMv2 for authentication, which is not supported by Mac OS X's Windows Sharing service.
The other problem is the Minimum Session Security for NTVLM SSP based Clients.
To get around this:
1.     In Vista, open the Control Panel
2.     Switch to "Classic" view
3.     Double-click Administration Tools
4.     Double-click Local Security Policy
5.     Or Secpol.msc
6.     Expand "Local Policies" and select "Security Options"
7.     Alternate : Type secpol.msc to get editor up then
8.     Locate "Network Security: LAN Manager Authentication Level" in the list and double-click it.
9.     Change the setting from "Send NTMLv2 response only" to "Send LM & NTLM - use NTLMv2 session if negotiated"
10.     Network Security: Minimum session security for NTLM SSP Based (including secure RPC) Clients
11.     Change the setting from "require 128 bit" to unchecked (No Minimum)
12.     Click OK
the real difference between vista and windows 7 procedure is 10 and 11

Need help setting up the ultimate video editing system!

Hi,
I own a cinematic wedding film business. We have pretty significant client traffic, about 40 wedding films per year and still growing. We've decided to switch our post production studio from FCP to Premiere. We've also decided to start from scratch and invest in all new equipment for this switch. We are an apple based facility and will stay that way. We don't really have money/budget limitations. We don't allow budget to to bottle neck our company's efficiency or productivity. We want this editng system's speed, efficiency, and reliability to be priority #1!
On to my questions....
1. We will be purchasing a new mac pro as the primary editing station. What is the fastest, most efficient, and most reliable setup for running the entire adobe creative suite on a Mac pro? Or maybe another way of asking....what is the ultimate Mac pro setup for Adobe CS, and why?
2. I would like to go with an external raid system for all our projects. (We'll use the internal drives primarily for running applications only.) For the external raid, we'll need about 9-12TB of usable space. We need this system to be extremely reliable. What is the fastest connection for achieving the fastest read & write transfer rates between the raid system and the computer (esata, scsi,etc)? Also, what raid systems do you recommend that will meet our needs and why?
3. I would like to make a backup of all current projects twice a week to a seperate hard drive. My business partner will then take this drive home at the end of every day for safe offsite keeping. What do you recommend we do for this? Should we buy another duplicate raid system (same as the primary) and just mirror it, or should we buy a different type/name hard drive system? Should we make the backup system Raid 0 for easier access to files if needed? How should execute the backing-up process...drag and drop, time capsule, or some third party solution?
As you can probably tell, I'm hoping to get specific equipment recommendations and well as process recommendations. Advice in any of these areas would be much appreciated!
Thanks so much!

Copy and Paste your question to either the Adobe or Creative Cow forums and you'll probably get a great deal of ideas about what's ideal..
Russ

Insight the Ultimate Weapon, MSI GT60 2PE Dominator Pro 3K IPS gaming notebook!

Just hands on this ultimate gaming machine of MSI GT60 2PE Dominator Pro 3K IPS version with Super Pack from the market, it took me over $2500 but really more than worth of it after I got great gaming experience!
Let’s take a first look on the packing; GT60 Super Pack comes with big carton.
Open the carton; it comes with big color box and a gaming backpack.
Take both of them out, the box design is real gaming style with fantastic dragon logo, so as the gaming backpack.
Take a look at the sticker on the box, it exposure why this GT60 Dominator Pro so valuable and special.
Items   Description
CPU:   Core i7 4800MQ @ 2.7GHz, boost to 3.7GHz
Graphics:   GTX880M 8GB GDDR5, CUDA Core 1536 Unified
Display:   2880x1620, 3K resolution IPS vivid panel, 350nits.
Storage:   3xSSD 384GB Super RAID 2, 1TB HDD, BluRay Combo
Memory:   8GBx4, 32GB DDR3L-1600
System:   Windows 8.1 64bit English
Internet:   Killer Doubleshot GB LAN, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
Display Output:    2x Mini Display Port, 1x HDMI, 3+1 display at same time
IO ports:   3 USB3.0, 1 USB2.0, Aux In, Mic In, Headset out, Aux Out
Dimensions/Weight:   395 x 267 x 34~55mm, 3.48kg with 9 Cell battery
Open the color box you will find 2 black boxes inside.
One on the left is the GT60 Dominator Pro 3K IPS, the right side one is full of surprise! These gaming style accessories only comes with Super Pack version, not every GT60 Dominator Pro will have these great gaming gears together.
The gift box comes with Gaming headset, Gaming mouse, Gaming pad and Top Player Top Choice stamp tool. SteelSeries is really great and famous on gaming gear devices; MSI is also great on gaming notebooks, they are too professional to co-work with SteelSeries!
The SteelSeries KINZU gaming mice, 3200dpi/1600dpi, very accurate optical mouse for 3K resolution monitor.
Put the mouse on the mouse pad, with the fancy Dragon tattoo makes me feel I am ready to play games, Top Player Top Choice!
The SteelSeries SIBERIA V2 gaming mouse, this is high quality headset and customized version for MSI gaming notebooks with fancy MSI dragon tattoo!!
Take a look on the customized artwork, the dragon tattoo on the metal cover of both set, and the Dragon gaming logo in the headset as well, that makes this headset more gaming style and looks powerful!
This Gaming headset belongs to MSI notebook accessories! The sound quality is really good, detail is clear on mid and high frequency, subwoofer is powerful and really suitable for gaming, even you wear for hours still feel comfortable and stable, overall quality makes me feel it’s over $150 value!
Very special stamp tool, I would like to put chocolate on this and stamp on the Dragon Gaming Cake!!
Let’s start to reveal the first lady, no, the real steel of GT60 Dominator Pro!!
Look at the surface of the design, Dragon logo with light from darkness on the cover, and the metallic material on top cover and palm rest side, which makes the GT60 Dominator Pro looks high quality and gaming style.
Take a look on the cover side, the Dragon Gaming Logo is really fancy and stylish with backlit. Brushed metal design makes the cover looks high quality and solid.
Sound by Dynaudio speaker system, the best famous mobile sound system on this top level GT60 Dominator Pro gaming notebook is really amazing, great on sound detail and real good acoustic of human vocal and great sound stage presents!
We put all the accessories together and boot up to check further detail on GT60 Dominator Pro 3K IPS version! The display quality is vivid.
Let’s take a look on the detail spec., 384GB SSD Super RAID, Intel Core i7 4800MQ @ 2.7GHz, top level GTX880M 8GB GDDR5 graphics, 32GB RAM. It’s all top level and could use for 3 more years of ultra-quality games!
When first time to use MSI gaming notebooks, you will feel amazing about the SteelSeries keyboard is really good typing feeling and solid based. It comes with multi-color backlit and move the windows key to right side, that really professional design as a gaming notebook keyboard, and the only one with real gaming design.
Take a look in the SteelSeries Engine, the exclusive gaming software only for MSI gaming notebooks. This macro keys software built in Keypress macro, Text macro, 1 key launch program and Disable key function, besides F1~F12, all other keys could be used for macros setup, and 4 layers of keyboards o setup 4 sets of macros with 4 sets of different backlit combinations, so this is really a great software for smarter and stylish gaming experience.
With CPU-Z tool to check, the upgraded Intel Core i7 4800MQ @ 2.7GHz, TDP 47W, 4 Cores 8 Threads is really great performance, CPU Boost could up to 3.5~3.7GHz.
Because of Core i7 4800MQ and GTX880M, the 3D benchmarks comes with breakthrough scores than ever on the notebook platform, 3D Mark Fire Strike: P5351 pts.
The GT60 Dominator Pro on 3D Mark 11 gains P8461 pts, it’s whole new level of the gaming notebooks, and It’s over 15% faster than GTX780M!
The 3D Mark Vantage boost up to P33115 scores, it’s 14% faster than GTX780M!
Then we check on other software of DirectX11 3D performance, the Heaven Benchmark is world’s 1st software tool to test DirectX11 effects, this time we use Heaven Benchmark version 3.0 to test.
Set the Tessellation on normal to enable DirectX11 effects and run Benchmark, the Full HD resolution could get 78.2 FPS(Frames Per Second) high score result.
Since this GT60 is 3K IPS panel edition, of course we have to try 3K resolution, you could see that the result block is smaller at 2880x1620 resolution, the result is 42.7 FPS with same setup, so we could say that 3K resolution will reduce over 45% of the FPS rate in this test, but GTX880M is too powerful, so still over 40FPS, and most games we need to get over 30 FPS to play and feel smoother, at least 20 FPS to play a game, if lower than 20 FPS, that will makes people feel lag obviously and feel dizzy easily.
Since we tried some benchmark, of course we have to try at least a famous game to the real world experience. Battlefield 4, the biggest FPS game title since end of 2013, is one of the heaviest loading games on PC platform.
First we made Battlefield 4 detail at 1920x1080 with Ultra Graphics Quality setup.
The gaming frames is 46 FPS, really smooth and around 20% faster than GTX780M.
Once we tune up the resolution to 2880x1620, the FPS drops a lot because the Ultra mode also set 4xMSAA (Anti-Aliasing), that will impact the performance a lot in higher resolution, also make graphics memory demand around 3GB~4GB, seems the 8GB GDDR5 with GTX880M is prepared for upcoming games with such as 3K or even higher resolutions!
We could see it’s about 24~28 FPS under 3K resolution with Ultra Graphics Quality, most time it will reduce over 40% FPS rate of the gaming performance.
Seems to set the Battlefield 4 with “High” graphics quality on 2880x1620 resolution is more suitable to play the game smoother in every theme.
It’s about 42 FPS, close to the 1920x1080 Ultra graphics quality. So if we want to play heavy loading games at 2880x1620 resolution, set to High graphics quality setup is a good option for 3K gaming!
After these 3D and gaming tests, let’s take a look on the temperature of the cooling system. The room temperature is 25 degree C, the temperature of fan out part is 71.2 degree C, it’s not a surprise because of GTX880M and Core i7 4800MQ, even it’s a bit lower than most gaming notebooks with this 2 combinations. The palm rest and keyboard side is 30.6 degree C, it’s really cool for users to hands on.
After the fabulous experience of great 3D performance, let’s take a look on the benefits of “Super RAID 2”, normal 2.5” HDD is about 80~100MB/s, single SSD is about 400~550MB/s, BUT, GT60 Dominator Pro boost over 1536MB/s and average is 1477MB/s, that’s 15x faster than single HDD, almost 3x faster than single SSD.
If we check on the AS SSD Benchmark tests, you could see more detail of the storage access performance is amazing, the Sequential read is 1116.76MB/s, write is 786.79MB/s. 4K-64Thrd read is 665.09MB/s, write is 461.18MB/s, it’s ultra fast!
The GT60 Dominator Pro 3K IPS edition comes with Killer Doubleshot LAN and WiFi, it provides faster response time of gaming experience, when you at different LAN/WiFi environment, Killer software will ask you to make an internet speed test, this will fine tune your LAN/WiFi for smoother and faster online experience.
MSI also got a new software tool called “Dragon Gaming Center”, this tool is also good for hardware monitor and utility launch tool. Also could show the status of Hybrid Power enable or disable.
The ultimate weapon for enthusiast gamers:
The GT60 2PE Dominator Pro 3K IPS version is extremely powerful, it comes with most of the features that a great gaming notebook could have, 3K IPS panel is really great effect of vision quality, SteelSeries keyboard with SSE is amazing for gamers to play their games smarter, Sound By Dybaudio present really good detail sound quality, Killer Doubleshot is faster for online gaming, of course the GTX880M is awesome for gamer to play Full HD even 3K resolution games, the backlit of Dragon logo and keyboard is really beautiful.
Conclusion:
The overall score I will give this GT60 2PE Dominator Pro 3K IPS edition with Super Pack is 95 out of 100, this is really great machine for any hard core gaming or power user usage, I would recommend any one to must-have this notebook if it’s affordable for you!!
Game Performance:   ★★★★★★★★★★
Storage Performance:   ★★★★★★★★★★
Gaming Design:      ★★★★★★★★★☆
Sound Quality:         ★★★★★★★★★★
Keyboard:         ★★★★★★★★★☆
Online speed:         ★★★★★★★★★☆
Price Range:         ★★★★★★★★☆

Ok either you work for MSI or you changed the settings in 3dmark11. I only scored around 5K with my GT60 2PE 3k. Any idea why I'm scoring 3k below you? Laptop was plugged in btw. Also how can you enter bios settings with this laptop? I suspect that maybe the hybrid gpu thing is affecting my score, and the Pc is probably not fully utilizing the GTX 880M, maybe in bios I can disable the integrated CPU's video card??? Please let me know. Thanks.

Only AT&T Could Kill the iPhone Experience

Ever since I saw the demonstration of the iPhone, I thought it was going to be the coolest phone the mobile industry has ever seen. In the months that followed, all the information and videos that have trickled out of Cupertino has reinforced this notion. The hype surrounding the iPhone has grown to monumental proportions. The reviews that I've been reading in the newspapers and magazines have relayed that the actual iPhone experience lives up to just about all of the hype.
I've been an AT&T or Cingular customer for just about 10 years now. When I've talked to friends and family about the iPhone, one consistent feeling that I've had is the ONLY thing that will KILL the iPhone experience is AT&T.
For me, that is coming true. I have this beautifully engineered piece of hardware sitting on my desk plugged into the USB port on my Core Duo Macbook Pro. I'm staring at iTunes 7.3 and the "Your activation requires additional time to complete" screen. The same screen that has graced the face of my MacBook Pro since about 8:30PM EST.
After getting this message, I called AT&T. I spoke with a customer service representative who told me that everything with the account was correct. My new iPhone had replaced the Treo 650 I was using previously. The MediaNET data package I had subscribed to was dropped in favor of the iPhone data plan.
I checked my Treo 650 at about 9:30 PM and it was no longer registering on the AT&T network.
At about 11:15PM EST, I decided to give AT&T another call. After my call was dropped by the IVR (I was on a land line), I finally got to speak with a customer service representative who asked me if I would mind holding while I was transferred to another group of individuals who could look deeper into my activation problems. After waiting on hold for thirty minutes, I decided to hang up and go to bed.
Here it is Saturday morning at 10:20AM EST. I've been on the phone with AT&T for 28 minutes - waiting for the "Activation Support Group". I've been told that activation can take up to twenty-four hours to complete. I find this unacceptable. When I relayed this to the CSR, she politely apologized for the inconvenience and tried to comfort me (I guess that was her goal) by saying that a large number of people are in the same boat. I was told that there are "millions" of people trying to activate their phone and it just takes time.
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Macbook Pro Core Duo 2.16Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

This is soooo ridiculous - you have to laugh otherwise you'll cry. Don't bother buying an iPhone now, wait a week. You can't do anything with it until AT&T catches up on activation.
I posted this in the AT&T apple forum but I'll post here too, just for the record:
Activation with an Old AT&T Wireless (not Cingular)
Yes. I am one of those unfortunate loyal customers too.
I have made 5 calls so far.
Once last night to find out that the department I needed to 'fix' my account is shut for the evening and will re-open tomorrow at 7am.
Second at 8:30a to find out that the 'Conversions' department I needed to 'fix' my account opens at 9a.
Third at 9am to get my old AT&T rate plan changed. Only to find out later on-line that the customer service rep changed it to a $59.99 950 minute non-iPhone plan.
Fourth, to get my rate plan changed to a $59.99 iPhone plan. The lady did not know how to do it and was going to transfer me to the 'Sync' department but dropped the call.
Fifth, call again. Lady took my IMEI and ICCID numbers, set me up with a $59.99 iPhone (at last!). Now I am waiting for the Sync department to reset my device so I can go through activation again.
Apparently its a 12-24 hours wait because AT&T was 'surprised' by the volume of iPhone purchases and I am waiting in-line behind people to be reset by the Sync department from last night.
The iPhone is a beautiful device, its only flaw is AT&T.
MacBook, Powerbook 12, Cube, iPods, iPhone (almost) Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Disappointed with the BT experience after 10 days ...

The service experience of being a BT customer has been incredibly poor in the brief time I have attempted to be a BT Broadband customer after begin contacted and chased by a BT sales person relentlessly.   The complete lack of responsiveness to my questions and support has been bad from the day before I switched till now.   I want to go back to my old provided and have requested a MAC code, I expect this to be a bad adventure as well.
What a shame a company I work with as a purchasing manager at a major international level treats a individual customer so badly.

Here is the response I get from following your advice.  I expect to get nothing from this email either.
Yesterday I wasted another 50 minutes using the 0800 800 150 number and still don't have a account number or view to my so called bill.
DISAPPOINTED CUSTOMER
Enquiry confirmation
Thank you for your enquiry. We will respond to your enquiry as soon as possible. Please make a note of your enquiry reference number and use it in further correspondence.
Your enquiry reference number: xxxxxx-xxxxxx

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Hi - I connected my superdrive but it does not seem to be working - now all I get is a black screen with the prompt - no bootable device; insert boot disk and press any key.
Any thoughts on this? I put an ISO image on my desktop and also created an image on a USB drive - however it has encryption software on it which did not get overwritten so Im not sure if this is why that won't boot.
Does anyone know if the Superdrive can't be used?
My macbook is 3 weeks old - it is all the latest and greatest stuff...

Unable to open PDF portfolio (Error Msg: "For the best experience, open this PDF portfolio in...)

I am having a problem opening an important PDF portfolio document using Adobe Reader (version 11.0.02) for Mac (Mountain Lion version 10.8.3).
When I attempt to open the file, I come up with the error message: "For the best experience, open this PDF portfolio in Acrobat 9 or Adobe Reader 9, or later", and I am unable to view the document. This is becoming very frustrating, as I am attempting to open the document with the new version of Adobe Reader (which I have downloaded multiple times).
If anyone has a solution for this problem that would be very helpful!
Thanks in advance.

Hi,
Thanks for the reply. No I'm not using iPad, I have a MacBookPro. I just wasn't sure which forum was best to post this question in.
I have flash but Adobe still won't open my documents.
Anyway, thanks for your help.
Lauren

Unable to open or view: "For the best experience..." problem

My system is Mac OS X (Browsers: Safari, Chrome, Firefox).
I have been trying to browse Adobe's Interactive PDF Showcase for examples of professional output. Instead of the PDF opening up for viewing, I get, "For the best experience, open this PDF portfolio in Acrobat 9 or Adobe Reader 9, or later." or the same error with "...Acrobat X or Adobe Reader X, or later." But my current reader version is Adobe Reader XI (11.0.09), which certainly qualifies as "later". What's going on?
Thanks for any help.

Have you tried accessing planning directly via 8300 port:
http://<serverName>:8300/HyperionPlanning ? and see if the application is listed thr.
Are you using admin Id to log in? if not then try using that one. If you dont have the access to that application you wont be able to see it via workspace.

Installed the new Lightroom 5 CC on a Mac running the OX X Yosemite version 10.10.3 (14D136) Lightroom starts to load but within a 1/2 sec it closes. Is there a fix?

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Why when playing downloaded music on apple tv through my distributed audio, it sometimes skips like a scratched record or just stops (in pause mode and won't play again) and yet i have full bars on the wireless in home service from the mac to the appletv?

Why when playing downloaded music on my mac through my appletv (I have distributed audio so play it through speakers not actually on the television), which is sent wireless from mac to the apple tv, does the music sometimes skip like a scratched record or stop playing (in pause mode) altogether and won't start again when I hit play? I have full bars on the wireless icon. Anyone experience this?

Full bars don't tell the whole story. These issues usually stem from interference, use istumbler to verify

Connecting to other macs on the network

When I first installed 10.5 connecting to my network computers was dead easy, I have a mini (Server) iMac and macBook.
As time went by it got slower and slower to connect. Nowerdays clicking one of those macs on the left hand side can take half a minute to decide if anythings there.
Also the VNC viewer inbuilt is a dog, plenty of times, i.e. 50% of the time control just goes and usually when shrinking the screen to fit the current screen, Chicken of the VNC work flawlessly.
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