Well I received my New Mac Pro today and I ended up with the Apple raid card, 4 tb seagate hard drives and 16 gig of Crucial ram. This is my first apple machine and it is quite a learning curve for me.
I got it connected to my home windows network and exchange server and just loaded CS3 and aperture tonight. Even got mail connected to my work exchange. I am now copying about 225 gig of picture files that I have taken in the last 4 months on to my mac pro but that will take about 4-5 hours. Until then I wont have time to play with it but so far I quite l like my new baby.
After using windows for over 25 yrs it will be quite a change for me. So any tips from you guys would be much appreciated.
Perry
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
Congratulations on your new purchase! I converted to Mac about two years ago. The learning curve is minimal and you will be amazed at how intuitive (and forgiving) it is. One of the first things you will noticed about the Adobe applications (aside from being able to utilize more memory) is that the familiar gray background seems to be missing. The tools and palettes seem to float over your desktop background. This is their normal state on a Mac and you can toggle through the options to turn the gray background back on if you wish.
I just bought a new 15" MacBook Pro 2.5GHz myself and I'm finding the trackpad a little awkward to use having used a mouse or stylus for years.
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
Well I received my New Mac Pro today and I ended up with the Apple raid card, 4 tb seagate hard drives and 16 gig of Crucial ram. This is my first apple machine and it is quite a learning curve for me.
I got it connected to my home windows network and exchange server and just loaded CS3 and aperture tonight. Even got mail connected to my work exchange. I am now copying about 225 gig of picture files that I have taken in the last 4 months on to my mac pro but that will take about 4-5 hours. Until then I wont have time to play with it but so far I quite l like my new baby.
After using windows for over 25 yrs it will be quite a change for me. So any tips from you guys would be much appreciated.
Perry
Buy an AppleTV and transfer your DVDs onto that humungous harddrive (she says with an older 5gb crucial ram, 3.5 tb hard-disk.....)
Time machine sucks though.... it keeps crashing on us.
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
Time machine sucks though.... it keeps crashing on us.
I had problems with Time Machine when I had it configured for a 500gig external hard drive connected via firewire 400. It seemed to bottleneck my system eventually resulting in an unrecoverable error. Since then I have installed a 1 tb Seagate Barracuda in one of the four internal drive bays.
Time Machine now functions flawlessly and totally in the background. I have no more spinning beach balls and no errors.
Jerry
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
I'm having an excellent experience with Time Machine using a dedicated internal drive in my MacPro.
One small tip: use the view options (Command+j) in the Finder to crank the desktop icons to their largest possible size and make sure "show icon preview" is checked. The previews OS X renders for your pictures, text files and such can be quite handy.
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
I'm also having good experience with Time Machine, but all the time.
Just about every day it complains with a generic error that the backup failed. When this happens, I choose "Back up Now" and that always seems to work.
Still, this is a problem for an unattended machine. Time Machine is really a great first-level solution, but I wouldn't trust it for my regular backup; I do those manually once a week or so.
But what I love about Time Machine is being able to recover a lost file. To my chagrin, I had turned T.M. off for some drive testing one day, and forgot to turn it back on: due to a mistake I lost 3 hours that needn't have been had T.M. been enabled...
Then again, I see thousands of these sprinkled in my system log:
Nov 28 13:51:16 llcMP kernel[0]: unknown SIGSEGV code 0
Nov 28 13:51:46: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
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White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
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