You will find good dealers along with the thoroughly inept ones, and I'm sure we have reputable mail order firms Maya Computer had a good customer support reputation, for instance along with those that will take your money and run.
We're not trying to make a judgement call here, but are rather trying explain the situation so you can decide for yourself. Anbinder, Contributing Editor Apple pushers who have enjoyed a few months of uninterrupted multimedia advantage thanks to QuickTime are now a bit more concerned about what the other side has been up to.
What impressed me at a recent computer show at which both IBM and Apple were showing multimedia solutions was that, while Apple's QuickTime technology is capable of showing full-motion video on a fast machine in a small window, IBM's technology can actually fill the screen with VCR-quality frame-per-second video for several minutes at a stretch, reading the video and sound from the hard disk and decompressing on the fly.
This isn't to say that QuickTime is not a stunning technology; it is. It has a tremendous potential for providing multimedia at all levels, from the casual user on an LC II to the power user on a Quadra My point is simply that Apple can't rest on its QuickTime laurels. However, if already have an upgrade, you may experience strange problems. Restarting a warm boot will cause that option to appear, but the problem will recur every cold boot.
Anbinder -- mha baka. Upon arriving at the Bayside Exposition Hall on the next day, an audio-visual assault confronted me. It was loud, hot, and many booths had their own flavor of music isn't multimedia wonderful , none of which complemented each other.
No rest for the weary in this building! Overall, I felt that the show, although lacking in hoopla such as the WingZ exhibit in , was a crowded success. Due the large size of the show, I decided to write about new products that were announced and shipping at the show.
I skimmed the press packages to find those few gems, and, interestingly, found only one company who had their press information in disk format. So much for the paperless office. As it turns out, few new products were actually announced and shipping, and some of those we've already covered. Here are some notes on several more. Rodney's Wonder Window's creator, Rodney Alan Greenblat, calls his artistic work an interactive gallery exhibit.
He created 23 interactive modules offering animation, whimsical stories, QuickTime vignettes and just plain mindless fun. I found it thoroughly entertaining. Too many CD-ROMs are a compendium of unrelated art with tinny electronic music and boring snippets of marketing material, such as the Macworld ExpoCD given out free at the show. It has unity of purpose fun , focus art , and it worked correctly. The only bugs in this product are Greenblat's creations. The Expanded Book Toolkit will ship this month, and we hope to bring you more detailed information about it in a later issue.
No guarantees - I haven't even downloaded it. So I've Heard is music critic Alan Rich's five volume series of the history of music. Volume 1, "Bach and Before" covers musical history from ancient Greece to the midth century in a nine-part essay with 48 music samplings.
Apple and Microsoft have unfortunately standardized on slightly different character sets for these libraries. Consequently, the Mac version of these fonts will include the Windows standard for offices which use both platforms. You play against the computer or another player on a network.
Pararena 2. I'm not partial to this type of game, but it impressed me nonetheless. With practice, the game should appeal to those who like and are good at arcade-style games. A fifth utility, Memory Maxer, only works under System 7. Conflict Catcher, the flagship utility, is a diagnostic tool and system extension manager.
As the name implies, it helps diagnose extension and control panel conflicts at startup. I particularly like the system extension manager because it creates a disabled folder, much like Extension Manager 1. Conflict Catcher also lets you change the loading order of all extensions and control panels, no matter where in the System Folder they reside, and will also make sure the startup icons wrap neatly into two or more rows as necessary.
The promise of external GPUs appeals very much to owners of older Macs. However, those are the Macs least able to use an external GPU.
Older Macs only have Thunderbolt 1 or 2, which may not be able to move the required amount of data fast enough. A GPU helps only if the time needed to get the data out to the GPU and back, plus processing time, is less than the time it would have taken to process the data without the GPU.
These two facts make eGPUs less practical for now. You can keep track of how well the current solutions work by monitoring Mac enthusiast web sites. Thanks for the honesty. Just posted the question in apple discussion. Any idea if Mac lion can be installed on a Pc? Thanks again. I have got the logic board of my Macbook Pro 6. Since the replacement of the LB the machine has been running smooth in Mountain Lion, the thing is that due to software compatibility I will need to upgrade to Mavericks Would my MBP run it without problems?
Thanks V. It would switch over to the Nvidia GPU. But your Mac is so much newer than the minimum that I do not think there will be a problem. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account.
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I have updated this article since it was first written. Why is video RAM important? How can you measure graphics hardware usage on a Mac?
But what does it all mean? It takes more graphics card memory to display more pixels. Strange its a pro and mine is limited to Vram 8gb and my Macbook air 13" can do the trick, strange.
Although Apple can update the drivers for it if its true what i read it is possible in windows so why not on the mac. Jun 30, AM. Jul 27, AM. Jan 5, PM. Jan 8, PM. Jan 8, PM in response to kokuvi In response to kokuvi I had never heard of this before but just maybe Where can I get an eGPU for my macbook pro? Communities Get Support. Sign in Sign in Sign in corporate. Browse Search.
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