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Dock Icons in Mac OS X Lion	1,042 Views / 0 Replies
I'm not a fan of Mission Control at all... i prefer the Snow Leopard way; I find it easier / faster to switch apps than having the Spaces across the top. When I have multiple applications open in...
Posted by parasbuy, on Jul 26, 2011 at 08:17 AM, in macOS

why would you say that? my Canon's great with my...	3,560 Views / 59 Replies
why would you say that? my Canon's great with my Mac.
Posted by parasbuy, on Jul 26, 2011 at 08:09 AM, in Consumer Hardware & Components

Hi Folks... back again with this (unfortunately)....	3,384 Views / 45 Replies
Hi Folks... back again with this (unfortunately). shortly after the last post, the Mac Pro started acting up and the SBBOD would come again and again. this time, the Apple guy suggested I might...
Posted by parasbuy, on Jul 22, 2011 at 03:41 PM, in Mac Desktops

Hi All, thanks a lot for your posts over the last...	3,384 Views / 45 Replies
Hi All, thanks a lot for your posts over the last couple of months. I did end up bringing the Mac Pro into Apple. Apparently the problem had to go up a few levels to the Head Genius; took a couple...
Posted by parasbuy, on Apr 8, 2011 at 02:16 PM, in Mac Desktops

Ok. will do... thanks! Paras.	3,384 Views / 45 Replies
Ok. will do... thanks! Paras.
Posted by parasbuy, on Mar 23, 2011 at 11:42 AM, in Mac Desktops

OK, thanks very much... will I be able to use a...	3,384 Views / 45 Replies
OK, thanks very much... will I be able to use a RAID array even if one of the three HDs is Windows 7? The other two are just the primary Mac drive and its back-up. Is there a way to adjust the OS...
Posted by parasbuy, on Mar 22, 2011 at 08:38 AM, in Mac Desktops

Thanks for the advice. I've shut-off the...	3,384 Views / 45 Replies
Thanks for the advice. I've shut-off the energy saver and it did help a little bit, but is still noticeably slow. The SBBOD does not come up much, but changes from one window to another or...
Posted by parasbuy, on Mar 18, 2011 at 08:36 AM, in Mac Desktops

Thanks a lot, reader50. I 'finally' feel that...	3,384 Views / 45 Replies
Thanks a lot, reader50. I 'finally' feel that we're on the right track here... here are the results from the last week. - when only one drive is hooked up, the Mac Pro works like a champ! ...
Posted by parasbuy, on Mar 9, 2011 at 11:31 PM, in Mac Desktops

yup.. you guys are right. it needed a software...	4,131 Views / 4 Replies
yup.. you guys are right. it needed a software update... agree with the annoyance, the blinking amber is just overkill. thanks a lot, guys. Paras.
Posted by parasbuy, on Mar 6, 2011 at 09:00 AM, in Networking

Airport Extreme Keeps on Blinking	4,131 Views / 4 Replies
hi folks... the light on our Airport Extreme continuously blinks Amber. I've tried resetting it by unplugging it and it'll stay Green for a couple of days and then goes back to the blinking Amber...
Posted by parasbuy, on Mar 5, 2011 at 12:16 AM, in Networking

Been keeping track per above.... noticed that the...	3,384 Views / 45 Replies
Been keeping track per above.... noticed that the SBBOD will come up from anywhere between 5 to 60 seconds or more, while all the resources noted above (CPU, RAM, HD, etc) are showing adequate...
Posted by parasbuy, on Mar 1, 2011 at 06:34 PM, in Mac Desktops

Thanks for the analogy... ;) Any more...	3,384 Views / 45 Replies
Thanks for the analogy... ;) Any more thoughts on the other stuff? - VM size? - anything else to look at?
Posted by parasbuy, on Feb 26, 2011 at 11:26 AM, in Mac Desktops

Thanks, PhilCat... I'm not using a fan...	3,384 Views / 45 Replies
Thanks, PhilCat... I'm not using a fan controller, if you think this would make a difference, I will look into it and find and install one, etc. if you can recommend one, i can look at...
Posted by parasbuy, on Feb 26, 2011 at 10:32 AM, in Mac Desktops

Thanks for the info... - after getting...	3,384 Views / 45 Replies
Thanks for the info... - after getting frustrated with this, i finally bit the bullet this week and did a clean install. completely formatted and reinstalled everything. i also made sure to...
Posted by parasbuy, on Feb 26, 2011 at 10:30 AM, in Mac Desktops

Thanks for the info... it seems strange to me, as...	3,384 Views / 45 Replies
Thanks for the info... it seems strange to me, as well, that I have to go to such lengths for this. I have completely formatted and reinstalled Mac OS X. The RAM and HD seem to be working fine, but...
Posted by parasbuy, on Feb 18, 2011 at 06:23 PM, in Mac Desktops

As you suggested, I've been trying to analyze my...	3,384 Views / 45 Replies
As you suggested, I've been trying to analyze my I/O data over the last few days. I try to use the Disk Activity tab in the Activity Monitor, but I mostly use the up/down lights showing disk...
Posted by parasbuy, on Feb 12, 2011 at 03:04 AM, in Mac Desktops

OK... tried to do some searches... What are some...	3,384 Views / 45 Replies
OK... tried to do some searches... What are some things I could look into further so that I could split a single thread across cores? Although I'm an engineer and have done quite a bit programming...
Posted by parasbuy, on Feb 12, 2011 at 02:50 AM, in Mac Desktops

Transfer Files via Two Ports?	898 Views / 4 Replies
I have a Mac Pro and a MacBook Pro. I use my MBP as a portable extension of my Mac Pro and need to copy about 300GB of files from my desktop to my laptop. The MBP still has just (2) slow-pokey USB2...
Posted by parasbuy, on Feb 10, 2011 at 02:16 PM, in Mac Desktops

Thank you, gentlemen, for your replies... -...	3,384 Views / 45 Replies
Thank you, gentlemen, for your replies... - added the Windows drive into the privacy pane of Spotlight so that it will not index the windows drive. also included the mac back-up drive. so, only...
Posted by parasbuy, on Feb 9, 2011 at 04:35 PM, in Mac Desktops

The Activity Monitor is only showing an average...	3,384 Views / 45 Replies
The Activity Monitor is only showing an average of all the CPUs, so the CPU% is nominal, less than 10% even for the top process. I couldn't figure out how I could get it to show a particular CPU, so...
Posted by parasbuy, on Feb 6, 2011 at 01:48 PM, in Mac Desktops

Slow Performance on 6-core Xeon Mac Pro	3,384 Views / 45 Replies
:\ Hi All, I have a 3.33GHz 6-core Xeon Westmere Mac Pro with 16GB of RAM; it has 1TB, 7.2k RPM hard drive with about 300GB used on it. The issue I'm having is that I get the SBBOD too...
Posted by parasbuy, on Feb 6, 2011 at 12:19 PM, in Mac Desktops

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