Superdrive - Any Advantages?

Does the Apple USB Superdrive have any advantages over other more inexpensive external CD/DVD drives?

Not that I know of.
My desktop LG GE24LU20 takes up more space and is not as nice looking, but....
it was cheaper than the portable Superdrive
it is faster and more reliable than a portable Superdrive
it never skips the last track when I import CDs into iTunes like a Superdrive
it never spits out a DVD or CD because of a read error like a lot of Superdrives do
it never lets me down, when I need to boot older iMac's from their OS X Install disc's
it never lets me down, when I needed to install software that is on a third party disc's
it never lets me down watching DVDs, it is smoother and quieter than any Superdrive

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I'm buying a new computer for use with Creative Cloud. Are there any advantages to PC vs Mac?

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It usually boils down to personal preference.
The software is, to all intents and purposes, the same in either operating system. There are minor differences between them, usually related to the hardware or the operating system. But if you can use the software in Windows, you'll be able to use it on a Mac too.
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Any advantages to older ipod photo except capacity?

I'm thinking of buying the ipod color 20 gb--that's probably plenty of capacity for me, but I'm wondering, aside from the smaller hard drive, are there any advantages to the 20 vs. the 30 or to the 30 vs. the 20? Is the 30 less prone to scratching, for example? Are there any new features that the 20 has and the 30 lacks?
In other words, is the extra money for the 30 gb ipod photo just buying me more hard drive?

yes - the only advantage is more HDD space. I myself have the 20 gig but for the extra 50 bucks u get 10 gigs more when u compare...

Is there any advantage in performing a clean install?

I'm curious... My 80GB internal hard drive is nearly full so I will be upgrading to a 250GB.
Is there any advantage in performing a clean install of Tiger on the new HDD and then copying across files etc from the old one using migration tool? (the idea being it will cleanse any old files, code from the numerous OS upgrades as it originally had panther on)
Or will the system be just as fast by using the disk utility to copy the contents (OSX and all) of the 80 GB across to the new 250GB and then set that as the boot drive?

If you are asking if there is an advantage to doing an erase and install, then yes, you'll be able to ascertain any of the issues you've been having with Apple software are hardware related issues if before the migration assistant you have trouble with any Apple applications. Cloning one drive to another, you'll find yourself with whatever corrupted fonts, cache, preferences files you had before. I would though make a backup of your data to a second drive before attempting the move, simply because it is wise to have at least two copies of your data at all times.

Any advantage to having website hosted by a Mac OS X Server webhost?

With Leopard on it's way and the likes of iChat Server supporting relaying, is there any advantage to having our domain hosted with a Mac OS X Server webhost? For instance would we then be able to use iChat Server with our domain name?
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Any advantage to dojng an A & I with retail Leopard vs. Upgrade Leopard?

My Intel iMac came installed w/ Tiger and a "CPU Drop-In" DVD of Leopard. I need to do an Archive and Install to see if I can fix a hanging Finder. I previously bought a retail copy of Leopard for my G5, which I understand will install on either PPC or an Intel machine. Is there any advantage to using the retail version on my Intel iMac? I've read that the CPU Drop-In Leopard is not a complete version of Leopard, which doesn't make sense to me.
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a brody,
Thanks for posting and your offer to advise.
As for a backup, I have most of my data still on the G5. I've already done an A&I on the Intel iMac once witch did not fix the Finder issue. In getting ready to give an A&I another go, I backed up my Intel last night to an Ext. HD using CCC. There are three users on the machine. The other two users are not experiencing the Finder issue.
Background on why I did an A&I in the first place: ran my newly acquired updated version of DiskWarrior on the Intel iMac. Turns out this version can build the directory but can not fix permissions because it's based on Tiger. I did not know this (wrongly assumed DW was entirely compatible with Leopard).
DW tech suggested I do an A&I which did not fix the problem. An Apple tech yesterday suggested that since the Finder is only hanging on my (admin) desktop, that I create a new admin account and drag over my files either by using target Mode with G5 or getting them from the Ext. HD. However, I thought that maybe if I do another A&I, it might fix the problem. I'm also concerned that even though the other users on the Intel do not have the hanging Finder, that the previous ?A&I might not have corrected all the corrupted permissions.
BTW, initially the Apple tech guy suggested that I do a complete Erase and Install, but in thinking further on it, thought just creating another admin account would be sufficient.
What do you think?
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Any advantages to setting the AP-Manager and Management interface to an untagged vlan?

Any advantages to setting the AP-Manager and Management interface to an untagged vlan? Currently, our controllers have their management and ap-manager interfaces on the same untagged vlan. Would it be wise to change this? Are there any gotchyas I should be aware of?

No really, there won't be a problem. Management an AP-manager can be on different vlans.
The vlan you chose to untag is the vlan you should declare as native on the switch, that's it.
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FCP file sizes are twice the size of Quicktime's - any advantage to FCP?

When I capture footage from my Canon HV40 MiniDV using FCP, the file sizes are almost twice the size as when I capture using Quicktime's Device Native setting. Is there any advantage to capturing with FCP, as the quality seems the same in QT? Or is there a way to reduce the file size being captured in FCP?
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Hi,
>>>>Are there any advantages if we send XI consultant to MDM trianing
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Does Oracle8i have any advantages over Oracle9i when used with BeaLogic 6.1?

Do I have any advantages by NOT choosing the latest Oracle9i, but instead using
more
proven Oracle8i when working with BeaLogic?
Thank you,
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From what I understand, I believe that the statement that BEA doesn't support
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any JDBC 2.0 compliant driver for use with WLS so I don't think you will have any
problems with WebLogic so long as you are using Oracle's JDBC driver for 9i.
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jacob nikom wrote:
What does it mean "not officially supported by BEA"?
I have read in their messages that they are going
to release their JDBC driver for Oracle9i very soon.
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Jacob Nikom
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issue,
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Is there any advantage in using Vault over Time Machine?

Hi all,
Yesterday I imported around 6000+ pictures from iPhoto and consolidated them into my Aperture library. After much re-organisation into projects, folders etc. I decided to update my backup Vault to preserve all my hard work. The Vault is located on a connected external drive with plenty of spare storage. I had previously backed up successfully to the vault when there was only a few dozen pictures in my library.
After initiating the Vault update process I then left it to get on it (and to have dinner and then watch the football...) and after several hours was dismayed to find that the process appeared to be stuck at just over 50% completion. It was obvious that no further progress was being made.
I was also concerned that there appeared to be no mechanism to cancel the process and the only course of action I could take was to apply a Force Quit against Aperture - not something that I care to do, if I can possibly avoid it.
After a rudimentary search of this community I saw that several others had experienced the same problem - although some suggested that a fix had been applied in recent versions (although I am running the latest version).
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2) Does using Vault give any advantages over Time Machine?
3) Is anyone else experiencing this problem with the current version of Aperture (v3.3)?
4) Is there anyway of cancelling a stuck Vault update other than the sledgehammer approach of Force Quit?
Thanks in anticipation,
Simon.

SImon,
Vault and Time Machine address different needs. Probably you will want to have both.
The advantage of Time Machine: incremental backups of previous versions, very compact storage. And you can integrate it into your regular backup of the whole system and include the regular masters as well. But the disadvantage: Time Machine decides for you, what will be deleted, if the backup drives get full. You do not have control over what will be saved and what not from the previous versions.
The advantage of vaults: You can make full backups of your library for well defined moments in time - snapshots of important states. I'd create a vault, whenever I make a major upgrade of the system at least.
Is there anyway of cancelling a stuck Vault update other than the sledgehammer approach of Force Quit?
If the graphical user interface is unresponsive, like when updating a vault, you can use the Terminal to send the "termination signal" to Aperture: Sometimes this will succeed, even if the "Quit" button does not work:
Look for the Process ID of Aperture in the Activity Monitor (launch Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor" and click the CPU heading. This will bring Aperture close to the top of the list. Make a note of the PID number in the first column, in this case 66550.
Launch a Terminal window and enter the following command:
kill -TERM 66550 (insert Aperture's PID instead of 66550)
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