Paul, Are there any firmware upgrades for your machine? I had a terrible time with 10.3 on my B&W G3 until I tracked down the latest firmware upgrade and installed it.
-Adam Paul Stenquist wrote: > I still can't use Lightroom, because I can't get OSX 4 to install on my > G4 dual 1.25 machine. I returned my disk to Amazon and got a new one. > Same result: the screen grays over and tells me to restart the computer > while the installer is checking the installation DVD. And that happens > from either of my DVD drives. I'm going to try it with all drives > disconnected and all cards pulled out of their slots. If that doesn't > work, I don't know what I'll do. Apple refuses any tech support even > though I initially bought Apple Care because my machine is over three > years old. That's something to keep in mind when one thinks about > switching to the happy-go-lucky company in Cupertino. Support is > abysmal, even if you buy their software. > Paul > On Feb 26, 2007, at 12:26 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >> On Feb 25, 2007, at 8:12 PM, Jon Paul Schelter wrote: >>> I guess step 1 is to finally get that memory upgrade from the stock >>> 512M. :) >>> >>> I've tried several times to download and install CS2, and maybe >>> it's the >>> memory thing, but I always get install errors, and CS2 is unusable. >> Yes, get RAM in that box! 2G minimum ... I recommend pumping it full >> right to the limit. More RAM helps. I wouldn't dream of running CS2 >> on an Apple Intel system with less than 2G of RAM. >> >> If I were starting now, I'd download Lightroom on the free trial and >> work with it for a while. Lightroom has enough editing (cropping, >> rotation, spotting, tonal adjustment, color balancing, sharpening, >> etc) that it does about 95% of what I used to do in the combination >> of PS CS2 + Bridge + Camera Raw. It's meant to work with Photoshop >> when you need higher level editing (layers, selections, compositing, >> etc). You might find it does everything you need and until April 30 >> it's $199 (US Pricing). Then I'd wait for CS3. >> >> Now that Lightroom has been released, I haven't touched Bridge or >> Camera Raw much, and the amount that I use Photoshop has gone down >> enormously. >> >> Godfrey >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
