Stress test for Léo. on a black Mac Book

Question

I did a commercial presentation this afertoon and also tomorrow for a french company MGS, that work for Apple France.
So I had a black Mac Book with Léo. and a external firewire drive with all my applications.
so some problems:
*screen becoming dark some time to time.
*with Spaces, 4 spaces with, one Parallel Desktop with XP pro, VLC player in anotherone, Excel2004 in 3rd, and safari in 4th:
so sometimes became very slow and froze; decide to turn off bluetooth (as I were in a Mall in discoverable with a lot of people... ) seem to improve just a little bit.
full screen in VLC, and XP: support badly wrong directions indication (if I was in up right and wanted move more right or upper), move alone from one space to another from time to time, work better whan I used spaces quickly rather than stay on a space a while and then moved. Seem to have greater problems with one space with Excel 2004
For the utilisation: Seem don't be able to knwow wich App are already lunched . No indication in the dock (I had selected prefered spaces for each application), and some windows appears at the right of the dock, some didn't. disturbing.
Did have problem time to time with Paralell for moving from one space to another one in windowed View.
As I startup again and again beacuse of scratches, I selected the App in auto start in the pref of the login. I was in admin mode. Seems not working well everytime and disturbing that the information is not reported in the dock on Crtl click where you can choose to lunch also the App at the login (for every User I suppose). Maybe it could be grear to be displayed in the same form as the users sessions logged are, in the up right, with a mark for the loggin ones and in grey for for the "at screen".. hope U understand.
That make me think it could be an idea to have an Application pref panel, as we can modify things on application on the logging pref panel, on the dock, on the parental control, on the Spaces. It could be great to have all this informations displayed or that can be modified in just one control panel pref.
so after not be able to quick browse a document in the Finder, did not find how activate it...
In Time machine tuning on and then off, without any save done, make the firewire icon of the drive not come back immediatly, came back at the next start up (wich happened, sorry, not a long time after..)
And I had a question, what happened if the save drive is not connected at he time schedulded of the save, and for several times.. Did the saves are made on start up drive and then report on the external et the next start up or the process is just returning as normal at the next schedulded save time...??
(I didn't have the 10.5.1, but was a bit surprised by the general comportement of the Mac Book, even with 2Go Ram, with Spaces. I usually have lot of App opened on an Imac 2 GHZ, 1Go Ram, full screen mode for XP Pro in appearance mode and other App runnig (P2P clients on each, iTunes, VLC and so on) with no problem)

Answer 1

Ha Ok. I did'nt have read anythong on it, but now i know.
In all casses, it's amazing to can chgange OS by just keyborad shorcut.. That impresses a lot, potentials switchers, that are very interresed to have a PC on their mac. The question, very often is why to have a PC on a Mac. By talking with pepole this afternoon, I found one good: not to buy again new softwares that they can have for PC, for the Mac, as Office or some Adobe's one for example. They just have to install Windows, and they can use their old soft without paying anything more. At the moment of choosing a computer it's quiete important not to pay more to have more... Next round today, saturday.. Big day..