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And you'd know that how exactly? I have a... 19,577 Views / 99 Replies  
And you'd know that how exactly?

I have a similar setup: a 1.7 GHz ThinkPad T41p and PowerBook 15" AU 1.33 GHz. There's no application I regularly use that isn't noticably faster on the ThinkPad...
Posted by fhammond, on May 11, 2004 at 10:01 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Re: Power Mac G5 Fan Control Update 1.0 posted 1,151 Views / 3 Replies  
This update isn't needed on a G5 that already has 10.3.3 installed; must be included in the big update.
Posted by fhammond, on Mar 16, 2004 at 12:51 PM, in Mac Desktops
Hmm...I though he said that he expected that 80%... 17,375 Views / 177 Replies  
Hmm...I though he said that he expected that 80% value to decrease as more processors were added. I don't remember where I read that but it would make sense that the overhead is going to increase as...
Posted by fhammond, on Oct 19, 2003 at 12:00 PM, in Mac Desktops
No. You need Acrobat for that. 3,760 Views / 44 Replies  
No. You need Acrobat for that.
Posted by fhammond, on Oct 19, 2003 at 11:56 AM, in macOS
Re: Which PC laptop... 1,687 Views / 26 Replies  
I'll add my voice to the chorus and say "get a ThinkPad". Best battery life, fast, best design, best keyboard. I love mine.
Posted by fhammond, on Oct 16, 2003 at 12:38 PM, in Mac Notebooks
I love the trackpoint! IBM has both on their... 2,094 Views / 37 Replies  
I love the trackpoint! IBM has both on their latest laptops and both the trackpad and the trackpoint work really well. The additional benefit is that if you just want to use one pointing device...
Posted by fhammond, on Oct 16, 2003 at 12:25 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Re: Re: Re: Re: Good news: battery life and Panther 1,775 Views / 17 Replies  
That's very interesting. I'll have to try it out. Of course, when I really get down to it, it's kind of a hard thing to test, as I so rarely need more than 2 hours of battery life. I guess that's a...
Posted by fhammond, on Oct 12, 2003 at 10:19 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: This is the best Panther feature: 3,938 Views / 34 Replies  
So my reply actually made you mad? My reply that wasn't even to a question *you* had asked? Please tell me what exactly I'm harming by telling him that I don't think upgrades are a good idea; I think...
Posted by fhammond, on Oct 12, 2003 at 10:17 PM, in macOS
Re: Re: Good news: battery life and Panther 1,775 Views / 17 Replies  
Wow, you're the first person I've heard who gets more than 3 hours. Amazing. I wonder why there's such a difference between computers? I might have got more life if I'd turned down the brightness of...
Posted by fhammond, on Oct 12, 2003 at 04:47 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Good news: battery life and Panther 1,775 Views / 17 Replies  
I got 2 hours and 45 minutes of battery life on my 1.24Ghz 15" PowerBook today. I'm using the completed version of Panther. I didn't do anything special; just left the energy saver setting on...
Posted by fhammond, on Oct 12, 2003 at 04:15 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Re: Re: Re: Well the ADC Apple Relationships Rep called me today. 2,271 Views / 36 Replies  
Yeah, sure, whatever.
Posted by fhammond, on Oct 11, 2003 at 03:04 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Re: Re: Re: This is the best Panther feature: 3,938 Views / 34 Replies  
I haven't used it and wouldn't. I think a clean upgrade is always the best policy.
Posted by fhammond, on Oct 10, 2003 at 12:25 PM, in macOS
This is the best Panther feature: 3,938 Views / 34 Replies  
The initial setup! I love it! Once you've installed and rebooted, the initial setup screens are very cool. Good music playing and Fast User Switching-style rotation as a transition between each...
Posted by fhammond, on Oct 10, 2003 at 11:56 AM, in macOS
Exactly: which means getting the computer fixed,... 2,271 Views / 36 Replies  
Exactly: which means getting the computer fixed, not replaced.

I think I hear the waaaaaam-bulance coming to pick up Sakino. Apple's policy is to repair a computer and he hasn't given them the...
Posted by fhammond, on Oct 10, 2003 at 11:31 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Re: 15" al w/ adc-dvi converter. 527 Views / 2 Replies  
I think you have it 'round the wrong way: the connector on a 15" PowerBook is a DVI connector. Power Macs have both: DVI and ADC. I suspect that Apple puts DVI connectors on the PBs because this is...
Posted by fhammond, on Oct 10, 2003 at 11:10 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Interesting. I have a 9600 in my G5 right now and... 596 Views / 3 Replies  
Interesting. I have a 9600 in my G5 right now and I've really got no interest in the 9800 (I don't play games on my Mac). It's really too bad this functionality isn't available in the OS or that...
Posted by fhammond, on Oct 10, 2003 at 11:06 AM, in Mac Desktops
Support for pivot monitors? (retail 9800 perhaps?) 596 Views / 3 Replies  
Does anyone know a way of using the pivot feature of some LCDs with OS X? NEC's LCD monitors can rotate 90 degrees to a portrait mode but there doesn't seem to be any software available for OS X that...
Posted by fhammond, on Oct 8, 2003 at 11:02 PM, in Mac Desktops
G5 & RAW image conversion speed. 655 Views / 2 Replies  
Converting a digital photograph from RAW format to TIFF has traditionally been an area of strength for the PC. I was curious to see how the new G5 compared, so I did a simple test tonight.

I took...
Posted by fhammond, on Oct 4, 2003 at 09:58 PM, in Mac Desktops
Re: guys, I need help!!!! 1,388 Views / 21 Replies  
I have both the 15" AU PB and the ThinkPad T40. Personally, if I had to choose one, I'd go with the ThinkPad. However, I'm not sure what type of digital photography you're doing. If you're using a...
Posted by fhammond, on Oct 4, 2003 at 03:47 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Well, this is interesting. It's working now.... 609 Views / 3 Replies  
Well, this is interesting. It's working now. Since I reinstalled 10.2.x, I hadn't tried the test in a dark room because, with Panther, it didn't matter (the first time I noticed it wasn't working, I...
Posted by fhammond, on Oct 4, 2003 at 02:45 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Backlit keyboard problems on AU 15" 609 Views / 3 Replies  
I'm 99% certain that I showed the backlit keyboard feature to a friend of mine when I first got a 15" AU PowerBook (1.25Ghz). Since then, I've installed Panther, reinstalled 10.2.7, then updated to...
Posted by fhammond, on Oct 4, 2003 at 11:38 AM, in Mac Notebooks
That wouldn't help Photoshop. If you did that,... 2,123 Views / 22 Replies  
That wouldn't help Photoshop. If you did that, you'd be no better off than if you just left the drive as a single partition. Photoshop cares about physical disks, not partitions. Now, *two* drives...
Posted by fhammond, on Oct 2, 2003 at 11:53 PM, in Mac Desktops
Actually, that is incorrect. Photoshop CS has a... 1,951 Views / 25 Replies  
Actually, that is incorrect. Photoshop CS has a 2GB memory limitation. Sorry. Of course, that doesn't mean that more RAM isn't a useful thing: if Photoshop alone is using 2GB, having another 1 or...
Posted by fhammond, on Oct 2, 2003 at 11:11 PM, in Mac Desktops
Have you considered switching to InDesign? ... 2,914 Views / 35 Replies  
Have you considered switching to InDesign?

It's funny you mention your history with MacWeek and XPress: I was production editor of Macworld in Australia in 1990 and lived and breathed XPress 2.11...
Posted by fhammond, on Sep 29, 2003 at 09:00 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Pentium M-powered ThinkPads have amazing battery... 2,914 Views / 35 Replies  
Pentium M-powered ThinkPads have amazing battery life. I get over five hours from the standard battery on my T40 and over 11 hours when I replace the DVD drive with a second battery. It's very nice.
Posted by fhammond, on Sep 29, 2003 at 01:02 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Just two big drives. The second drive will be for... 10,368 Views / 56 Replies  
Just two big drives. The second drive will be for images, a test OS or something else. I didn't got the 9800; our products typically don't care about 3D performance (I work at Adobe).

Regards,
fh
Posted by fhammond, on Sep 25, 2003 at 05:00 PM, in Mac Desktops
Dual ordered 8/28 shipping today 10,368 Views / 56 Replies  
I got an email today from Apple saying that my dual 2Ghz has shipped! A pleasant surprise because the original shipping date was 10/10. I ordered through the ADC program on 8/28. It's a CTO...
Posted by fhammond, on Sep 25, 2003 at 10:14 AM, in Mac Desktops
PS7Bench on new 15.2" PowerBook vs. ThinkPad T40 1,773 Views / 8 Replies  
I did some tests tonight using PS7Bench Intermediate, comparing the performance of an IBM ThinkPad T40 and a 15.2" PowerBook 1.25Ghz. You all know the specs of the PowerBook but the specs of the T40...
Posted by fhammond, on Sep 17, 2003 at 11:26 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Re: dp 2 G5 now est ship 10-15 days! 846 Views / 4 Replies  
Are you sure that's not business days?
Posted by fhammond, on Aug 31, 2003 at 01:42 AM, in Mac Desktops
That depends on your definition of "barely".... 2,241 Views / 31 Replies  
That depends on your definition of "barely". Putting the 12" and 17" side-by-side, I measure the top edge of the 17" screen as being 1.5" higher than the top of the 12" screen.

However (and it's...
Posted by fhammond, on Jun 17, 2003 at 10:53 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Long-life battery for PB? 551 Views / 1 Replies  
Has anyone used a long-life battery for a PowerBook? I'm talking about the type of battery that is a little smaller than the laptop itself and in theory, should provide several additional hours of...
Posted by fhammond, on Jun 17, 2003 at 10:36 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Re: Is the 23" too big?(cinema) 1,046 Views / 17 Replies  
If you're thinking about the 20", look too at the NEC 2080UX. It's a 20.1" 1600 x 1200 LCD. Its screen image looks as good as the Cinema 20" but design-wise, I think it's much cooler. The bezel...
Posted by fhammond, on Mar 25, 2003 at 10:04 AM, in Mac Notebooks
 
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