Since I put Mountain Lion on my MacAir my PowerPoint and Keynote Presentations freeze up when I am presenting. This is so unacceptable when I have 75 - 500 people I am presenting in front of. I can no longer use my presenter tool either. Is there help
Since I put Mountain Lion on my MacAir, my Power Point presentations freeze up when hooked to an LCD projector. I can no longer use my presenter clicker tool that moves my slides as I walk among my audiences. This is totally unacceptable in the kind of work that I do. The Genius Bar person told me to try Keynote but that is even worse. I wanted to go back to Snow Leopard but because I have backed up my information on an external hard drive she said I cannot go back to Snow Leopard. Does anyone know of a solution to this problem? I have several presentations coming up in the next six weeks.
You need to move to Windows 7, because Apple is now releasing a new OS X version annually and it's playing havoc with people's hardware and software.
Windows 7 will get support until 2020, that's 8 years of software stability, however you do need to make System Restore disks, boot disk and another on a hard drive to self restore (like TimeMachine is for OS X)
Apple has no plans to change their currrent behavior as all they care about is selling new hardware with a shiny new OS X verison on it.
If you wait to move, what will happen is you'll lose that full 8 years and will have to swtich to a newer Windows sooner
Windows 7 machines are still widely avaialble, despite Windows 8 (a failure) being pushed currently.
Running three OS X operating systems on one machine is quite a chore reserved for only seasoned computer geeks, then it's only going to last X months as the next OS X version will be released, then the next a year after that.
Another method would be to get a virtual machine software (virtualbox is free) and install Windows 7 into that to ease your transitition if you cant' spring for a Windows 7 machine, preferablly a tower that will last a long time.
Here is a method to run Snow Leopard in Parallels, however it's a unapproced hack and not for the comptuer newbie.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439
We have no control over Apple's OS X release cycle, nor the third party developers who make their own decisions what to support.
Our only choice as users to stop using both products and seek software/hardware stability.
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https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3521
http://www.reedcorner.net/mpg/
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10798
http://osxdaily.com/2012/10/11/mac-running-slow-reasons/
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4542409?start=0
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4122175?start=0
http://www.speedtest.net/index.php
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3289614?start=0
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3928756?start=0
http://www.whyismymacsoslow.net
http://www.slowmac.net
http://www.all-about-apple.com/slow-mac-performance-learn-how-to-solve-it/
http://www.chriswrites.com/2009/04/17-reasons-why-your-mac-is-so-unbelievably-sl ow/
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