Merry Christmas, My "New" PB, First Impressions...

My first post and first Mac:
Not new to computers, but new to Macs. As a rule, I try to help other users as at least as much as the help I receive. That won't be the case on this forum, as I'm a total Mac noob. Perhaps, as time passes, I'll be able to field simple questions, but that may take a while.
This Christmas we replaced our son's two year old PB with an MBP. We got the hand-me-down. We wouldn't even own a Mac, except it's required by his college for digital design. This is also my first notebook, so I guess many issues are unique to that fact.
After one day of ownership, I've had the following observations:
1. During file transfer over airport, application "locked up", or was "unresponsive". My son used the equivalent of the Windows Task Manager to close it.
2. iTunes was unusable because, "The folder iTunes is on a locked disk or you do not have write permissions for this folder." Resolved by changing properties of... something, didn't get the full story yet, but it has to do with changing administrator of the computer.
3. Bluetooth does not have A2DP protocol... bummer!
4. Saw the DVD unable to be ejected from his MBP during OS installation. Sheesh!
Well, that's it so far. I will be back with questions, because he'll be going back to school in a couple weeks. I generally find answers via Google, but sometimes that's not enough. My first impressions are a little disappointing, but maybe that's because I've heard too much hype, such as "It Just Works", and "Switch to a Mac and You'll Never Go Back". I own it, now I'm gonna use it by hook or by crook!

0rnery wrote:
One other point I forgot to mention was regarding the rubber feet on the bottom. One was lost, so my son removed a second in order for it to sit level. Online, I found the price of replacements at $20.00! I'm using a couple old mouse feet in the mean time, but is there not an aftermarket source for such items at a reasonable price?
Probably not, but who cares? If you can let go of having to have the exact size, thickness, and material, you can do what I've done for years: Go to your neighborhood hardware store or drugstore and pick up a $1 sheet of little self-adhesive rubber feet. There are many kinds, of course, mostly hovering around one dollar for more than you'll ever need. The ones I picked are clear, so no one notices they don't quite match, and thicker, so they absorb shock better and raise the back another millimeter or two for better bottom ventilation, and they "grab" better so the laptop no longer slides around with a slight nudge. These are actually better than the original equipment feet.
0rnery wrote:
...I can't wait to see what iTunes does with this 4GB of MP3's.
My PowerBook G4 has 13.29GB of music in iTunes, doesn't seem to be any problem. On the Mac Pro I've got 30GB of audio and video.

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Merry Christmas: Beginners Guide to the Basicest Questions

Merry Christmas Everyone..im sure everyone's got a bunch of questions about thier new iPod ( there's a new thread every 5 secs about adding/removing songs) This is bascially a retelling of a thing called the MANUAL
concept of the " hold" switch
-it is located on the top of the iPod
-when it is showing the red part, that means all the buttons are disabled
-when it is showing the white part, that means all buttons are functional
-this is used to prevent accidentally pressing a button on the iPod
Turning it on and off:
to turn on: press any button
to turn it off: hold the play (>) button untill the screen turns off
-notice- the click wheel may still click after it's off, don't worry, the iPod IS off
-to prevent accidentally turning the iPod on, move the hold switch to show the red
To add a song from CD:
1: insert CD
2:on the top-right, press "burn disk"
3: let the songs be added to the iTunes library (this step is automatic)
4:assuming software has been installed, attach iPod
5: iPod icon in the source list (left side) will appear
6: the mp3's from the library should automatically sync with the iPod(all the music in the library will be copied unto the ipod)
7:press the eject button next to the iPod's icon and disconnect the iPod
8: listen to the music!
To remove a song:
1: go to the library
2:select song to be deleted
3: right click ( control - click on a one button mouse in mac)
4: select clear
to fast forward a song in the iPod, go to "now playing" (shows up if you're playing a song) and press the center button until you get to a bar with a diamond. Use the scroll wheel to choose where to fast forward or rewind ( this is also applicable with videos)
-the thing to remember (if you selected the iPod to autosync with your library) is that anything in the library is what will be in the iPod-
video part coming soon...
if there's any inconsistensies to fix or anything you want to add, go ahead
some very helpful links (for video compatibility)
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/5929/
-lastly, please, don't overcomplicate yourself, the answer to your question may be REALLY, REALLY basic-

Please help...this is going to sound so stupid:) But here goes---I just got my first IPOD--30GB. I'm so excited but trying to use the extras is a bit frustrating. I really did try to read how to use this but I am uncertain. Is there the calendar option through ICAL or is it through ITunes? Hope you can help. Also the contact option. I think it is just a matter of someone telling me a few things and then I think I will be fine. Thanks for any help you can give. Loved finding this site...it really is helpful to know others struggle also.
IMacG5 Mac OS X (10.4)

ITunes 11.0 First Impressions

1. My first impression of the user interface is that it's "square" and "flat".
   Esthetically I don't see it as an improvement. To the contrary, I think
   the former interface is nicer.
2. After starting iTunes 11.0 it sat there for 1/2 an hour with the message
   "Sending Information to Apple", then a dialog box displayed with:
   We cannot complete your iTunes Store request
   An unknown error occurred (4002)
   Note that three subsequent attempts resulted in the same iTunes match error.
3. Could not find a way to change the BRIGHT WHITE background. I hate the white
   background for various reasons. I'm sure many other customers preferred the dark
    background as well.
4. Tried syncing my iPhone and had to cancel. It was copying 49 apps, I believe
   some of these were from my iPad. Had to then restart iTunes.
5. Movies in grid view have large gaps in between the rows of movies.
   It is UGLY! Is it just me, or do others have these huge gaps?
6. Looking at my music, I see no way to view the songs in a list view.
   Where are the convenient buttons which quickly allowed changing views?
   Now there is just unused space where they used to be. And all of
   the menu items under View -> Column Browser are disabled.
   Why???
7. Hey, at least they brought back color icons, which Apple deemed that
   no one liked! (That was sarcasm).
Overall I am extremely dissapointed with this update, and it has me wondering how the
most valuable company in the world could release something that looks more at home
on a Linux desktop.

It's terrible. There is no symmetry in the views anymore. It is so bad, that it will take a lot of testing for me to figure out what is wrong with it. The only view that allows different views is the playlist view. I can't get an "artist list" for all my music. I can only get it for the currently selected playlist. I suppose I could make a playlist with all music. Where did sort by album by artist/year go? That's the view I used the most. I found it in the songs view. But there I can't see the album covers. It's so unsymmetrical now. Where did the status bar go that told me how many songs I selected and what the total play time is? I don't know if all my songs are there. The albums view and the videos views are worthless if you have 15,000 songs and videos. They just rearranged things. There's nothing new. There are things missing. The thing that needed fixing was synchronization. All that should be removed from iTunes, but they didn't make any changes to that. Can I go back to iTunes 10?

CS-4 First Impressions

First impressions. I know, quite out of date but with all the apparent problems...
System is a Lenovo 3000 series AMD 64x2 3800+
Power supply upgraded
Memory 2 gig Crucial (maximum for the MB)
Video card is Nvidia GeForce 7300 GS - Latest drivers. Not on the supported list.
Display is 1280 x 1024.
Windows XP Home SP-3, Net Framework 3.5 SP 1, and other Forum recommended updates that aren't handled by Windows Update.
1.05 TB in three drives. (1 K=1024)
Working with a 6144x4111 pixel 16 bit ProPhoto digital photograph:
As installed, in the trial download, GUI settings, Photoshop swap file is NOT on the system drive.
The start up time is about the same as with CS-3. Faster than CS.
Top menu bar text is rough and appears broken until I put the curser over the text. Then it clears up.
Click & drag zoom works like a charm.
"Toss" has a quarter to half second delay before the image moves.
Lag behind brush is quite noticeable even when zoomed in.
Brush border is rough & jagged. An indicator that the brush smoothness slider is set to full smooth?
I saw no delay with typing. (I have to look at the keys and when I looked up after the last letter it was there and sharp.)
A new learning curve for the palates IS going to need to be climbed. Or is there a "Look like CS, CS2, CS3" toggle somewhere? (NOTE the "First Impressions" above!)
Now for the interesting part. This test showed the same results as a test, same file but reduced to 3074 pixels width and in 8-bit color. I was doing a "see if file size makes a difference" test.
There was no difference in behavior with the system running "free" or with ZoneAlarm Pro and BitDefender running in the background. I have BitDefender set to NOT load on computer boot.
With the stock Open GL settings and a below grade video card, the brief test gave better than expected results with the main down grade being brush lag.
Just my observations with a video card that may be pushed beyond what can be reasonably expected of it and settings not tuned as per recommendations here.
One thing that I haven't seen mentioned before is the new ability to re-tune the settings in adjustment layers. There have been many times I would have wanted that ability in the past.
Bill

let me make sure I get this; the phone, it is a phone after all, does not have good signal, and it will not pair properly with bluetooth, but you are saying 'everything else is fine'!!!!!!! Why don't you return it, and go get yourself an itouch? You will have all the apps, etc. Then get a mifi from sprint/verizon and you are all set. Then, go get yourself a proper phone with a decent carrier and you will be all set.

Just took delivery of my 2.8GHz MacBook Pro - first impressions...

Well, my very first impression was - WHO THE HECK OPENED MY BOX? It was shipped in its original packaging, which was put into a brown shipping box. As I was opening the brown box, it was very clear to me that someone opened it and re-taped it. The same was true for the Apple box. The original clear tape was cut opened and another clear strip was placed over it. I did not have anything custom configured/installed, so there is no reason any of the boxes should have been opened. My only other guess is that customs opened it?? Has anyone else experienced this?
The next thing I noticed was the battery cover. When closed and latched, it shifts up and down when shifted up and down. In other words, it's not seated solidly.... it's loose. Appears to be a flaw to me. Only wondering if it's just a flaw on my unit or if it's affecting others. Please chime in.
Last thing I feel like I should note is internet connectivity. I have a wireless router. Both my other desktop (PM MDD G4) and laptop (PB G4) are wifi. I configured my new MacBook Pro to connect to the wireless router and it all connected as seemless as could be, as expected. I also noted that the wireless reception was exceptional! My wireless router is in the living room and when in the back room of the house, my Powerbook G4 gets 2 bars and can be sporadic. This new MacBook Pro is great as it has all bars lit everywhere in the house and is always consistent! Improvement on wifi pickup! Fantastic.
That being said, I did run into the problem of losing connectivity even with the bars all lit. I checked the network config and for some very odd reason, my IP kept switching from 192.168.x.x to 169.x.x.x. After restarting both my cable modem and wireless router, it fixed itself. After 10 minutes though, it returned to the screwed up config! I reset both router and cable modem again and it was fine for another few minutes and then BACK TO the bogus config Weird! After wrestling with it for about an hour I determined that I should take it into the Apple Store and let them see what's going on... but it began working fine for the rest of the evening with no problem. I still think I'll take it in just to see if others have experienced it. Please, let me know if anyone here has experienced it.
Otherwise, my first evening with it was not too bad. I will report my good and bad (hopefully no bad) findings as they come!
Thanks!

Thank you all for your responses. I have made arrangements with Apple to take it back and send me a new one. Gotta mention that Apple customer service was very polite, but wow, I was put on hold VERY frequently and for VERY, VERY long periods of time! I'm talking like 10 to 15 minutes at a time!! And one time I was put on hold and after about 10 minutes the call was dropped and when I called back, all of the arrangements that were supposedly made for me were NOT even documented by the person who was helping me and so there was no record of the fact that I even called at all, which in turn rendered all that time I was on with them and on hold, USELESS! I had to restate the entire issue and start from scratch!! And I was promptly put on hold after doing so... AGAIN! And again! And AGAIN!! ...sigh. Then finally I was told that I would receive an e-mail from Apple tonight, explaining the steps I must follow to get my replacement MacBook Pro. It is almost 6 hours later and I have not received the e-mail. This makes me think that tomorrow, I am going to have to call them AGAIN (GASP!!!) and try to figure out why the e-mail was not sent. Oh brother!! The next worse thing they could tell me is that I have to send the MacBook Pro back to them and they will not send out the new one to me until they receive it! I hope they don't do that! ...sigh. : (

Merry Christmas! iTunes won't run on my desktop machine

Hi!
Operating System - XP pro
I have recieved a nice new iPod nano for crimbo. I already had a previous version of iTunes on my desktop as a friend was using it for their mini some time ago. I installed all the software which came with the new nano and for some reason when i plug the nano in it comes up with an error message saying iTunes caused an error and won't load. I have uninstalled via control panel/ reinstalled using the latest version of iTunes from apple and its the same error.
I have installed iTunes on my laptop (which didn't have a previuous version of iTunes on it) and it is working fine. It's just a pain only having it working on that machine.
Has anyone else had problems? I am guessing it might have something to do with the registry or something that cannot be removed via control panel.
Happy Christmas to all and I hope Santa was good to you!

Welcome to the discussions. Merry Christmas!
Try posting in the iTunes forum; this seems like an iTunes related question.
Good luck,
JC

Merry Christmas to our benefactors!

What would we do without the generous assistance we obtain from this forum? I can only say that I have eyeballed a few other sites, and the Final Cut Express forum seems very special to me.
What a year 2010 was! Tom soared over the 30,000 mark with responses to our questions. The redoubtable Sasha did two seminal posts on Basic Troubleshooting and AVCHD. And those other illustrious names over there to the east of this page spent time and effort getting us all back on track.
Christmas is upon us, and I have put together a few words of deathless doggerel as a modest tribute to the Final Cut Gladiators who do such great work for us Forumistas.
Very sincerely, and I know I speak for all our readers, thank you, thank you, thank you.
OK. Horns up. To the tune of “Winter Wonderland.” Everyone?
Sleigh bells ring, I’m not listening
On my brow, sweat is glistening
My audio’s shot
My video’s rot
Struggling in my FC blunderland
Gone away are my titles
Where in heck are my vitals
like nicely made cuts
with smoothed out abutts
and dialogue that people understand?
Rescue comes! On the horizon
Tom Wolsky has both eyes on
this account of my plight
A solution’s in sight
Soon a groovy movie I’ll have canned.
Sasha’s one of the heroes
Who dives in shouting “here goes”
he knows how to fix
erroneous flicks
and he stops me sinking in quicksand.
Sim-il-arly Ian R. Brown
(From Chester, my old hometown)
Has terrific advice
My movie looks nice
Hollywood and Oscar are at hand.
Martin R I am grateful
Alchroma fills my plate full.
Thanks for the help
I’ll never yelp
that kindness is absent from the land.
When I choke on a mystery
with a long dreary history
Meg the Dog is a dear
makes everything clear
so that even I can understand.
We have a personal tutor!
His name is Karsten Schluter.
Hey! What can that call be?
A reply from Bengt Warleby
My movie’ll soon be as I planned.
Problems over which I pore
are solved by R. Mitchell Fore
I’m no poisson hors de l'eau
Michel Boisson sees me through
And VJK - his help is really grand.
PieroF thanks to you. To
everyone else, you who
know who you are,
a Final Cut STAR
For ev’ry great wiz in Forumland.
(Big finish repeat)
FOR EV’RY GREAT WIZ IN FORUMLAND!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Allosaurus

Christmas, but not its warmth, I hope, is slipping behind us, and this post is sailing away to the anonymity of Page2Land.
So thank you all for the replies and good wishes, and I shall finish up with a quote from Charles Dickens:
“A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!”

HT5625 Merry Christmas , I'm trying to sync icloud to my iPad from my iPhone , please advise.

Merry Christmas , I'm trying to sync icloud to my iPad from my iPhone , please advise.

Howdy Joanas,
It sounds like you would like to set up the same iCloud account on your iPad that you have on your iPhone. First I would verify the Apple ID you are using on the phone here:
Settings > iCloud
From: Using your Apple ID for Apple services
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4895
On your go to the same place, and set up the the same Apple ID to that one.
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Regards,
Sterling

Merry Christmas, Ya'all!!

From the Great State of Texas, where Christmas day it will be almost 70 degrees and no chance for snow :| .. I wish you all a Merry Christmas (Happy Holidays) and Best Wishes for a New Year!
Tony Miller
Webster, TX

Company is called ACT software.. They provide property tax software for some of the counties here in Texas.. They are a part of Linbarger, Goggin Sampson and Blair, a law firm in Houston...
They work in Oracle Forms and Reports. Was there from March to November this year... Decided I wanted to work more in APEX than Forms & Reports :p!
Before that I worked for UTMB in Galveston (Before Ike!!) from January 2007 to March 2008..
Thank you,
Tony Miller
Webster, TX

Galaxy S6 - First impressions.

I upgraded my Sim only deal to refresh deal and got myself a non edge version of the Galaxy S6 in the process - I am still playing with it but here are my first impressions. Build quality is excellent (even the packaging is very well made!), the phone feels very solid and very well made - I was worried that the glass back would make the phone 'slippery' in the hand, but the opposite seems to be the case - the phone fits very well in the hand and feels safe. The buttons are very well placed and the seperate volume buttons seem better than the rocker type. The phone did get quite warm during the initial setup and update phase, I put this down to a lot of updates and wifi activity - no sign of this since. The phone responds very quickly and is very smooth - I don't notice any lag at all. One thing I do find myself doing on this phone is catching the capactive buttons by accident, I am putting this down to me just getting used to a larger phone. Camera - I am no photographer but the camera is excellent, taking very good pictures. I took the dog out last night and took some photos see how it worked in low light and I was very impressed. Video is equally impressive and the Ultra HD video is simply excellent quality - one issue here is while the UHD video plays ok on the phone, my laptop is having issues playing the video without it breaking up - I am assuming this is a media player issue. I will try the UHD playback on the TV later to see how this works. Call quality seems much better than my A3 - and texts seem to send a lot quicker, I am assuming this is just because of the extra grunt of the S6. It came with Lollipop 5.0.2 and asked to do an update, which I did and it updated to 5.0.2! It appears O2 have rolled back the 5.1.1 update I was expecting it to update to, no doubt this will be addressed in time. Lollipop - this is the first time I have used this on a phone, and it seems pretty good - I especially the quick camera or dialer launch from the lock screen - from the lock screen simply drap the camera icon and the camera launches pretty much instantly, same for the dialer. I also like the improved notifications and the ability to do a quick reply to a text directly from the notification. It comes with a adaptive fast charger, and indeed does charge fast - while charging there is a notification of how long left - as a bit of a test today I was on about 50% and plugged it into a normal charger, it told me three and half hours to charge, when plugged into the fast charger it the notification said 48 mins! It appears you can get a full charge in about an hour and ten mins - impressive. Screen - it has to been seen to believed - I would say this is the best screen I have ever seen on a smartphone, it will be interesting to put it side by side with my friends Note 3 for comparison. One last thing that impressed me was the bundled earphones - they sound quite impressive! I will do a fuller review once I've used it for a few days but my initial opinion - everything I expected it would be, and then some!

I really like your first impressions ! Not too technical, everybody can understand it (even me!) and addressing details that are decisive for a lot of people when choosing a new mobile.I can tell that you have put "heart" in this review/first impressions....I can imagine you having like a "little" list, in your head,of things you are curious to know about the phone and trying them one by one... well done! I find it truly useful!

Got my mac mini intel singel core yesterday!! first impressions !

hi to all,yesterday i got my mac mini singel core 1,50 GHz 512 ram 60 s-ata, here are my first impressions:
of course it looks like the same;ir-sensor for the frontrow remote control is at the right side,inside the drive slot (very nice solution).It boots up faster than my old mac mini G4 1,25 Ghz 1GB ram.first of all i did a xbench test,here are my results:old mac mini g4 1,25 1 Gb ram xbench points=36,37; new mac mini intel single core xbench points=63,37 !!!Very nice and smooth system import from the old ppc os x was no problem using firewire. virtual pc 7 does not work any more.
overall rating after 1 day, very good outstanding product
greetings tobias
mac mini / pb G3 wallstreet Mac OS X (10.4.5) mac mini single core 1,5 GHZ

I also got the Core Solo and so far am very much satisfied with it. One of my highest Xbench scores was 65.40, twice as fast the score of the lowerend G4 Mac Mini. The feel of the system's respondsiveness is certainly on par with other Intel based Macs I tried at the local Apple stores. Boot time is under 30 seconds most of the time. One weird thing I noticed is that when open " About This Mac", the system identifies the processor as a 1.5GHz Intel Core Duo. However, System Profiler says it's a Core Solo. Well, I will only open "About This Mac" from now on
To answer your question, Tobias, 720p plays awesome but 1080p not looking good. The new graphic eventhough integrated is still an improvement over the graphic of the old model. Why? It supports Core Image and you get all the nice effects in Dashboard, also HD contents play much better obviously.
512MB of RAM is not enough. I'm glad that I didn't buy the Core Duo because with that $200 in difference, I can up the fund to buy a pair of 1GB DDR2 memory and a 7200RPM hard drive for upgrades. The hard drive on the Mac Mini has always been a weak link. SATA is supposed to be faster than the old IDE ATA, but from what I've seen so far, it's pretty much the same.
Powerbook 12' 1.5 | Mac Mini 1.25 | iPod Nano Mac OS X (10.4.2)

IPad 2 first impressions

First off I would like to state that I have no question.
I got my iPad today and have been setting it up and playing with it on/off for the last 5 to 6 hours. I actually had wanted to buy an iPad since it was introduced a year ago. I waited because of the experience that I had with purchasing the 1st generation MacBook Air, which was a in my opinion was a disaster. Even though the 1st gen iPad is a fine tablet, I am glad that I had waited.
Everything seems to be fine with this iPad.
No WiFi problems
No display issues
No AirPrint problems
No AirPlay problems (to AppleTV 2)
No Home Sharing problems
I haven't tried the 3G service yet, but I have tried pretty much everything else.
Photos look great, video is great, and Netflix works really well.
I really like the looks, feel and functionality of this tablet.
The only thing I would like to see upgraded is the cameras.
They don't have to be great, but they should be better than what they are currently.
Now if we could get all the websites to convert their flash to html5 all would be great.
Then I could get rid of my laptop and just have a tablet and a desktop.

My first impression of the iFad II was dismal. Stuck pixels and lots of light bleeding around the edges, even with the level at or below 50%.
I did not like the design of the unit - it's light weight, and the distribution of that weight makes the unit "feel" like with will fall out of your hands very easily.
I took mine back and got a refund for the quality control issues, and then I went to Verizon Store and bought an iFad I - 32g Wifi for $399. The 16g was $299. ATT has a sale for the 64g model at $529 (on-line only).
Those prices listed above make the unit finally worth buying given the functionality.
I am not an Apple basher, been here since 85', but the new iFad II leaves a lot to be desired in many areas....
Also spoke with someone at Apple Care and in the Tech department, and they said that Apple has ceased production of the iFad II model because of the quality control issues I listed above. They said that the factory will resume shipping on April 21st after these issue are fixed.
Just reporting what was said to me . . . .

Hostname - Merry.Christmas ???

I opened up my console today and noticed my hostname had changed to "merry" I thought this was very unusual, so took a look at the system log and found the following entries:
Dec 7 03:15:15 merry syslogd: restart
Dec 7 03:15:15 merry syslogd: hostname changed, "localhost" to "merry"
Dec 7 04:06:44 merry ntpd[318]: time reset -0.407643 s
Dec 7 04:06:44 merry ntpd[318]: synchronisation lost
This time I was definatly in bed fast asleep as my dvd was encoding and burning.
So I rebooted the machine again, this time after bootup I found the following entry in the log:
Dec 14 00:05:47 localhost configd[89]: executing /System/Library/SystemConfiguration/Kicker.bundle/Contents/Resources/set-hostna me
Dec 14 00:05:48 localhost set-hostname[477]: setting hostname to merry.christmas
Dec 14 00:06:21 localhost configd[89]: executing /System/Library/SystemConfiguration/Kicker.bundle/Contents/Resources/set-hostna me
Dec 14 00:06:22 localhost set-hostname[565]: setting hostname to merry.christmas
I have a feeling I may have my very first Mac virus.... any ideas anyone?
Dual 500mhz G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

I have the same problem - there is a discussion thread about it here: http://forums.appletalk.com.au/index.php?showtopic=15110&st=0&#entry126659
Have you had any luck since your post?

First 'impression' of Safari 3.0 Beta in the first 5 minuites of use.

I'm using Windows Vista Home Premium and just downloaded Safari 3.0 for Windows Public Beta (Not included Quicktime)
The installation is processed smoothly.
I used it 5 minuites and my first impression is nothing but BUGs BUGs BUGs.
Alway Crash:
1. When click anything concerning Bookmarks, Safari crashes. (In other word, cannot use Bookmarks.)
2. When fill in any form, Safari crashes.
3. When access any pages with Javascript, Safari crashes.
Sometime Crash:
1. When access some pages, Safari randomly crashes. Ordinary pages such as this website itself. The symtom is both CPU core work reach 100% and needed to restart computer.
2. Randomly show message like "file not found, need reinstall." in any page, of course, even this page.
Bugs:
1. Cannot click on the button on the taskbar to minimize.
2. When minimize and restore, the Safari window going in restore down state.
3. Memory leak as I monitering RAM usage: increases more than 100MB when open Safari.
4. Font smoothing shows almost illegible.
Let down function:
1. Safari 3.0 for Windows Public Beta is the slowest web browser among all of browsers in my notebook. (IE7, Firefox, Opera, Cameleon Browser.)
STOP! saying "This is just a BETA!".
I love to test beta software and report bugs. I'm not a techical geeks so my testing method is to use them just as I always use in everyday life. No tweak or special use I squeesh to the program. I understand the BETA is not FINAL and of course, have more bugs than FINAL.
But this is not what I call bugs. I call "cannot be used."
How can you guy call this "PUBLIC" Beta? Have your programmer even see it in action in Windows before release to public?
This application is the second Apple application I experienced. (The first is iTunes.) It totally let me down because when compare with Internet Explorer 7 Beta 1 I tested last year, Safari 3.0 Public Beta is not in my sight.
How can you apply guy convince me that Apple is better than Microsoft since I compare just an essential small program and found no pros, even both are in beta state?
Hope to see Beta 2 with no major crash in the first 5 minuites usage.
ASUS W7F Windows Vista Intel Centrino Duo 2.00GHz 1.5GB DDRII Ram

Downgrading via Archive and install is notoriously unreliable. It is much safer to simply retrieve your backup you made before you installed the update after an erase and install. Of course you make at least two backups. Selective file recovery may be in order, such as found in migrating from PowerPC to Intel Macs:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=435350&tstart=0

Is the Hitachi AXM209UKR Slim Micro System with docking for iPod compatible with the iPhone 4 (Xmas present bought for me)? Need to know before I open box ��. Thanks all Merry Christmas!

Is the Hitachi AXM209UKR Slim Micro System with docking for iPod compatible with the iPhone 4 (Xmas present bought for me)? Need to know before I open box . Thanks all Merry Christmas!

Not to worry took back to store and got one that works with ipad2 as well

Merry Christmas, My "New" PB, First Impressions...

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