Which of these cables is better for the current Macbooks?
I have a 2008 Macbook, with the mini displayport that can't output audio. I decided to rectify this by buying this cable, which combines video from mini displayport and audio from USB into an HDMI cable:
http://www.kanexlive.com/products/iAdapt20.html
now, I might be getting one of the new Macbook Pros that will be coming out in the next month or so, or one of the current models if the new ones take too long. so i'm wondering if I should replace the cable I have with one of these:
http://www.kanexlive.com/products/mdphdmi10ft.html
or
http://www.kanexlive.com/products/iAdaptV2.html
should I go ahead and get the upgrade? I figure it would be an improvement since those give better quality audio. I'm also wondering how my current cable would perform when plugged into a MDP that send audio on its own. could that cause a problem, since I would be out putting audio through 2 ports into the same cable? also, I wonder if the newer cables might have any problems due to getting power from the MDP instead of USB, I don't know whether that makes a difference or not.
It doesn't matter which one you get since the Atom CPU has a 667MHz FSB.
If you install 800MHz RAM, it will simply run at 667MHz.
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Be strong as a ship and wise as a whaleThese questions are really best in the Microsoft Office Forums.
These are MS Office Questions not ZEN Questions.
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I have nothing against snapshots, but it does not work great with the Office
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Novell Knowledge Partner
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"KentFSmith" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> Thank you, Grimlock (-Grimlock?-)
>
> Through a google search I encountered a very close suggestion, and the
> poster said they couldn't remember the name of a MS utility but that
> there was one that would break out the individual MSIs from the Office
> 2007 setup.exe bundle. The dependent app appears to be a simple and
> possibly elegant solution, but without a good way to break out the MSIs
> I don't see how to do anything other than with a config.xml ('Config.xml
> file in the 2007 Office system'
> (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc179195.aspx)).
>
> Do you know of that utility and where I can find it?
>
> There is a lot of history here now of just doing the individual
> applications. Everyone gets Word and Excel, but much fewer get
> PowerPoint and Access. All other reasons aside, a compelling one is the
> reduced number of help calls to the Help Desk here. Occasionally we
> also just run the whole Office install for someone who needs some of the
> odd utilities, but that is easily cost-justifiable for us to break them
> out as exceptions. Otherwise, we focus 90% of our support on just Word
> and Excel and it pays off nicely.
>
> If we switch to putting full Office 2007 on all PCs then there may be a
> better approach that include other tools than ZfD, such as the fact that
> we replace 1/3 of all PCs in the organization each year (so that no
> hardware is more than 3 years "behind"). We could put 1/3 of all Office
> 2007 installs into the new PC image. But we still need to support all
> the use of the apps after the install, so ZfD MUST work well, it simply
> MUST work well or we're screwed, to use the vernacular. Also, just
> switching from what we've been doing for years -- single app orientation
> -- means introducing new-ish issues that have to discover and explain to
> our comrades, and to adjust our orientation with unknown future costs.
>
> But that may end up being the simplest adequate solution. And that's
> what I want.
>
> -K
>
> grimlock;1883526 Wrote:
>> Craig Wilson wrote:
>> > You should really focus on #1.
>> > Snapshot is not the way to go.
>> >
>> > Details about what is Not working or what random behavior may help
>> folks.
>> > Ask in the MS forums may help too. dont' mention zenworks.
>> > Just say you are installing as Administrator from a share and getting
>> these
>> > errors.
>> >
>> > While not 100% accurate, it should be good enough to get some good
>> feedback.
>> >
>>
>> Nor is installing 1 app at a time. Install the whole suite, have an
>> icon for each app that runs the exe for that app with a dependency on
>> the another app that points to the installer msi.
>>
>> If any user runs any app, it will run if the executable is there
>> (meaning it's been installed). If the executable is not there then it
>> calls the dependent application (the installer app) and installs it,
>> and
>> then runs it.
>
>
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