Question, IIlustrator CS3, Mac Pro

Can't find where to allocate more memory to Illustrator, HELP. Thank you.

There is no feature such as a preference setting but there is supposed to be a line in the preference file that one is suppose to be able to alter that would accomplish this for you but it requires opening the file in a text editor and manually changing the file and resaving it.
I do not know of anyone that does this.

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Hi, I'm strongly considering buying a new Mac. I've looked at the iMacs, but I am more used to Tower PCs. The Mac Pro's design and expandability is what I am used to. My question I have is concerning the graphics ability of the Mac Pro. Currently, I have a HP vs17e LCD monitor and an old Envision EN910 CRT monitor. I am very pleased with both of these monitors. Recently, I hooked up the HP monitor to this old 400MHz G3 8MB Video iMac, and it looked really good except the text sometimes looked a little blurry. I figure that the 8MB video might have had something to do with that. I do not care that much about widescreen displays or high performance $700 displays. I like to use simple, old style monitors. Would I be able to use either one of these screens on the Mac Pro with a GeForce 7300 card? Also, my next question is concerning the use of a TV as a secondary display. Our TV is a big Toshiba that has the old style CRT format. It accepts the yellow video connector and another connector that I think is called the S-Video (black connector). Can I buy adapters that will allow me to use the TV as a second display?

I would venture to say that if the monitor has a digital input capability, then the cable that would be used, is not like the output from the Mac. But, if you want to use the digital to analog adapter that comes with the Mac Pro, or is a purchased item for some of the lower priced Macs, the monitor will work as an analog VGA monitor. The gal that cuts my hair was telling me the horror story abount how they had to spend $200 to connect their Apple Cinema Display to their PC. I am pretty sure you won't have to spend that kind of money. So, if your monitor will accept an analog input, it should work. Many LCD monitors were only analog when they first came out years ago. I took a short look at yours. It appears to only have an analog input. My Mac Pro manual says to use the adapter if you want to hook up an analog VGA monitor. You can verify this at an Apple store before you purchase. I don't see any issues, but it is always best to "get it from the horses mouth".
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1. The hint may appear after you've made three incorrect password guesses.
2. Restart your computer with the Option key held down; if you see a screen with a padlock icon, an Open Firmware password has been set on the machine and the C key shortcut is disabled. You will need to know the Open Firmware password or a Mac OS X administrator password to restart your computer from the DVD, which can be accomplished from the Startup Manager, which is what you see when the Option key is held down at startup. If the screen you see does not have a padlock icon, click on the DVD and then on the button with the straight arrow. If the DVD isn't in the drive, insert it and press the button with the curly arrow.
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I have a Mac Pro 12-core and 24gb of memory ram, the question is on MacPro there is a grapgic 1ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB, if I buy other 1 graphic ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB, in total 2 graphics ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB it mean that the improves the graphic and speed or change only how many monitors i can connect?
Because, I have buy yesterday the game DEUS EX on APP STORE, it is beatiful, the graphic is excellent but, gaming it is equal to console X-BOX 360 and PS3, for you it is normal and it is the game that is heavy?
I expected that my MacPro so extremely POWERFULL, how it is possible that this game, gaming a little slow...

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are you in the US? I think, it might be best to telephone Apple direct, as their offers and recycling and refund policies vary from country to country to comply with trading standards and other (e.g. EU regulations).
If it was EU law, the following applies:
1) the "shopkeeper" (Apple) offered a machine at a certain price.
2) you like the good and advise the shopkeeper that you are prepared to pay as asked and purchase the machine.
3) Apple accept your offer and sell the machine.
4) You accept the machine at the conditions of the sales offer and take it home
5) contract complete and UNLESS you were knowingly misled or the machine was not the one on offer as per 1, you are the legal owner and have no recourse to complaint.
Secondly, there is psychology: you will never ever be happy if you always look for better (my washing machine is 20 years old, but washes - and that is all I expect from a washing machine). Is your machine performing? Are you happy as such? If not, there is always something "better" and "improved". That is what the market economy want to make us believe.
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For professionals using Adobe CS3 on Mac Pro about how much RAM is needed to run all 6 programs together efficantly? I'm looking into upgrades and really need some advice- Any out there to give?
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It depends. If you work with files greater than 1GB, almost as much RAM as you want/need (8GB would be good).
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Are you use to using a large fast scratch RAID to help?
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I recently posted a question about my Mac Pro's kernel panic issue on startup. After a call with AppleCare they determined it was a hardware issue. Since I no longer have AppleCare I took it to a local shop that is certified to work on Macs.
Their conclusion was that the video card went bad.
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I have a new Mac Pro. I would like to simply pull the boot HD of my old MP (a 1.1), and stick it in the new one (a 5.1 hex). Bad idea?

lahz wrote:
I have a new Mac Pro. I would like to simply pull the boot HD of my old MP (a 1.1), and stick it in the new one (a 5.1 hex). Bad idea?
I did what you're asking about using the same hardware and found that it booted just fine. However, I immediately ran a Lion upgrade and that Lion boot disk has run like a champ ever since. Since I was careful not to let software update do over my printer drivers, I also managed to keep some Epson legacy drivers that made the printer that worked on the 1,1 still usable. And that method also retained most of my software registrations so I didn't have to deal with the vendors.
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I'm updating my old G4 Powermac to a Mac Pro. As a front end I have a Focusrite ISA 428 with the optional ADC which gives 8 digital outputs.
Do I still need my old MOTU 2408 (Motu will sell me a PCI-424x adaptor to fit the Mac Pro) when I can lightpipe straight into the Mac Pro optical ins from the optical out of the Focusrite?
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Not being funny!
But you're post does sound funny!
At first i though you were asking a Question <Updating to Mac Pro - do I still need a soundcard? >
Awaiting to answer, it later reads
<Do I still need my old MOTU 2408 (Motu will sell me a PCI-424x adaptor to fit the Mac Pro) when I can lightpipe straight into the Mac Pro optical ins from the optical out of the Focusrite?>
Then you gave you're answer
Then i realy seems to now conclude, are you talking to yourself, Eg. asking a Question, then Quickly answer ing it.
Cool-Game!
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I will also upgrade to FCS 3.
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Will FCS 3 along with Snow Leopard utilise ALL the Octo's processors? Or am I better off saving the money and sticking with a Quad?

If your income depends on this work, then buy the biggest, baddest, most RAM-filled Mac Pro you can.
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Mac Pro vs MacBook Pro?

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The old MBP already handles pretty good, I've been using my MBP "2.66 / 8GB Ram" for heavy Final cut studio, editing lengthy HD footage, grading with Color, animation using Motion and this machine has never crashed on me not even once.
With the new generation of MBPs I think that things can be done even faster and thunderbolt technology is surly a welcome option for FCP user as it's gonna accelerate the whole editing experience.
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I am looking for a 2TB external hard drive for my Mac Pro (Quad Core 3GHz) and have a question. The Mac Pro has a 500 GB internal boot drive and three internal 500 GB drives RAIDed into a single 1.5TB drive. I would use an external 2TB drive for backing up the 1.5TB daily with Apple's Backup and will use it for Time Machine when I install Leopard. The computer is used primarily for Final Cut Pro Studio.
Costco has a Western Digital external 2TB drive with Fire wire 800 (800mb/s) for $600 and a Western Digital external 1TB drive with eSATA (3000mb/s) for $300. Either way it's $600 for 2 TB. I would need to purchase an eSATA Extender Cable to utilize the two extra SATA ports found on the Mac Pro's logic board for $25.
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Please see the details below and thank you for your help. I asked the Geniuses at three different Apple Stores and got 3 different answers.
2TB - My Book Pro Edition II (Firewire 800) $600
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=341&language=en
1TB - My Book Home Edition (eSATA) $300
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=357&language=en
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http://www.newertech.com/products/esata_cable.php

I am looking for a 2TB external hard drive for my Mac Pro (Quad Core 3GHz) and have a question. The Mac Pro has a 500 GB internal boot drive and three internal 500 GB drives RAIDed into a single 1.5TB drive. I would use an external 2TB drive for backing up the 1.5TB daily with Apple's Backup and will use it for Time Machine when I install Leopard. The computer is used primarily for Final Cut Pro Studio.
Costco has a Western Digital external 2TB drive with Fire wire 800 (800mb/s) for $600 and a Western Digital external 1TB drive with eSATA (3000mb/s) for $300. Either way it's $600 for 2 TB. I would need to purchase an eSATA Extender Cable to utilize the two extra SATA ports found on the Mac Pro's logic board for $25.
*The question is*: Could I connect two of the 1TB eSATA drives with the eSATA Extender Cable and make them a single 2TB RAID with Apple's Disk Utility... and would you recommend doing that over getting the 2TB drive which is 1/4 the speed and the same price?
Please see the details below and thank you for your help. I asked the Geniuses at three different Apple Stores and got 3 different answers.
2TB - My Book Pro Edition II (Firewire 800) $600
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=341&language=en
1TB - My Book Home Edition (eSATA) $300
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=357&language=en
eSATA Extender Cable $25
http://www.newertech.com/products/esata_cable.php

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I just bought a new Mac Pro Desktop (bye bye Windows).
I noticed there aren't any serial ports - and I'm imagining there is some clever way to facilitate it with the Pro desktop. I have a couple of serial consoles and such that I need to connect to on a semi-regular basis.
Could someone point me in the right direction. Thanks.

You can find cards at a lot of online stores like NewEgg, but I have no idea if they will work with OS X. If the card requires a driver, then you may have difficulty finding one with OS X compatible drivers.
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my mac book pro is almost one year old and version 10.7.4, after i updated this version my mac book start up way slower than before

Hi, and a Warm Welcome to the Power Mac G5 Forum!
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Think the change was made after one or two heart failures when people forgot to turn the volume down after a heavy session the night before...
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http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1124
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