On Mar 31, 2010, at 16:50 , William Robb wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph McAllister" Subject: Re:
K 7 taking a long time to write to card and
I'm sitting here now trying to get the courage up to install my 6
mo. old new copy of OS 10.6 and Aperture 3.0 (and then doing the
since released updates) but have to first do some searching and see
how many other pieces of software will be broken by the move. If
it's anything I use even once a month, I will hold off, as Aperture
3.0.2 will still run under OS 10.5.8. I won't have all the
features available, of course, because they evilly tie them
together to force the constant update cycle.
Wow, and I thought Macs "just worked".
They do Robby. But they do not have the backward compatibility that
Pentax does.
Ever since they decided to use the damn chip that the PCs did, and
rewrote the OS to work with it.
Rue the day that Motorola could not get the speed without killer heat
from their chips. Apple wanted bigger-better-faster in their laptops,
and it could not be done without the huge heat sinks and/or fans that
they were having to use in the G4 models. The aluminum heat sink on my
still here but rarely run Dual 1 gig G4 Quicksilver is about the size
of a gravy boat. The case has two 4" fans, the power supply one. When
they kick in to high speed they are LOUD!
My 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac has 3 fans as well, less than an
inch in diameter, turning (at first) at 700 rpm, cruising at 1200 rpm,
and finally at 2400 rpm when a heck of a lot is going on, like the one
and only time when something got cattywompous and both CPUs were
operating at 100% overnight sending mail that someone had hacked my
account to bounce their Spam from. Still could not hear the fans, but
my systems monitoring S/W reported an internal temp of 189°F, and 2 of
the 3 fans were at 2400 rpm. The one on the DVD drive was only at 1200
rpm. Once I quit Mail, it took less than 2 minutes for the internal
and CPU temps to return to their normal 104°F. As I type this, the CPU
cores are running at 1% System usage, 2% User, and 97% idle. The fans
at 1199 CPU, 1198 Hard Drive, and 697 DVD.
Now with OS 10.6.x being a complete re-write incorporating more
machine language rather than interpretive code (Cocoa?) doing the job
of translating the old OS for the IBM chips, much of the old software
(and I mean really old) does not work as well, or not at all. on the
newer machines with the newest OS. OS 10.5.8 was the last with tons of
code that allowed the old software to utilize the Dual Core IBM series.
With my copy of Parallels I could, if I wanted to, run 10.6, then
10.5.8 in another window, and Windows and Linux in a third and fourth.
But that'd be ridiculous, wouldn't it? And I'd have to upgrade
Parallels to run under 10.6 ($50).
My today decision is to install Aperture under 10.5.8, let it spend
the night converting my several Aperture databases to their new
structure, and vaulting the resulting converted images (not the
originals, they are as copied to their hard drive) then backing up to
at least two other drives. I'll still have the v2.0.4 files in another
backup for at least a year.
Joseph McAllister
[email protected]
“ It is still true, as was first said many years ago, that people are
the only sophisticated computing devices that can be made at low cost
by unskilled workers!”
— Martin G. Wolf, PhD
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