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Quote: Originally Posted by hmm As I've said, the bloggers were all trolling us. They would talk about Apple questioning its future. Do you really think they had a source among Apple's upper management where such discussions might tak…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Bergermeister I'm all for something with a small form factor that packs more power than an iMac. I used to have an Mac Pro till it died a painful death last summer; replaced it with an iMac with SSD and am…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil I'll finish that sentence: "…I was not talking about the Xeon, but rather a mythical chip that could somehow provide the power of a Xeon in the case of an iMac". Intel, as far as I know, …
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While I've riled a few spirits with the notion that it's the end of the MPro, today I saw the following: http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-apple-parts-leaked-20120606,0,4312732.story (their source is 9to5Mac) in…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Nowhere did I say that in any capacity. When you suggested "Because it's physically impossible to put the dual chip platform in the iMac case and no new chips suited for this purpose…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Because it's physically impossible to put the dual chip platform in the iMac case and no new chips suited for this purpose are slated to be created… ever? Cabling mess, I …
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Quote: Originally Posted by shawkin New Pro announced. Uses many, many ARM processors. I wouldn't laugh. I think very soon we'll see a "thin client" OS X from Apple on top of a multicore ARM.
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmm Are you a troll or just ignorant? Consumer devices are not going the direction of multi socket configurations. They're headed in the opposing direction. You need dual socket compliant cpus to make this …
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Wizard69 wrote: As to BluRay I avoid that like a crack whore on the side walk. Do you mean as media for computing or generally?
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The "Mac Pro" is due to die. Whether a quick kill or withering death is TBD. I suspect sales of the Mac Pro are now so low as to not justify the continuation of the line. Apple is a "consumer" oriented company now - that's where all the do…
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Quote: Originally Posted by digitalclips K, just checking. It sounded like an admin / privs issue. Have you tried booting to an alternative drive and using this as a slave to update? Also anything been manually locked? "Manually locked"? …
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Quote: Originally Posted by digitalclips Are you logged in as administrator? Yes. The message I describe could not occur if the update were not underway. The update requires the admin PW which I entered. The error occurs deep into the up…
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I tried installing with updater and by DLing the dmg. But it failed to install.\ Digging in the console message, I get: 11.01.06 13:31:36 \tinstalld[236]\tPackageKit: Install Failed: (null) Error Domain=PKInstallErrorDomain Code=114 UserInfo…
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I tried installing with updater and by DLing the dmg. But it failed to install.\ Digging in the console message, I get: 11.01.06 13:31:36 \tinstalld[236]\tPackageKit: Install Failed: (null) Error Domain=PKInstallErrorDomain Code=114 UserInfo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. H The download you tried is the underlying QT architecture and the player. Install 7 from the SL disk, which will be just the player. There's no need to remove QT X, it and 7 can coexist peacefully. But se…
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Where I'm at now: 1. Moved Quicktime Player into a DMG. Deleted it from apps. 2. DL'd QT 7 and tried to install. Got a "Can't install because Quicktime X is already present" message. Queer setup if I can't run "Pro" at all 'cause I can't …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Rokcet Scientist Salespeople at 3 Apple resellers I visited today and yesterday advise to NOT install SL yet. Too many bugs and probs. They say better to wait until OSX.6.1 or OSX.6.2, which might be a few months... …
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Quote: Originally Posted by SFSwitcher but VMware has a Snow Leopard friendly update, VMWare Fusion runs fine under SL w/o an update AFAICT (VMWare Fusion 2.0.5).
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Thx Marv & Mr. H. I'm new to Mac (18 months or so) and I couldn't believe Apple would do something so lame... I guess it's not exclusive...
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I second CyberDuck. Further you can add a CyberDuck widget to the dashboard and shortcut into it quickly.