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 11/24/2009 04:17:53 PM · #51
Originally posted by TrollMan:

Yikes! I'm SO happy that I'm only using Mac at home! No worries about what's under the hood, how it works or how to get it to work. I worry too much about that at the office as head of IT :)


LOL!
So because Win7 provides backward compatibility settings for old software that may not be compatible, that's somehow a "worry?" As an IT professional, you can't be bothered to right-click an icon and change compatibility check-boxes?
While Win7 is certainly not perfect, it is an OS to be reckoned with. MacOS is far from perfect too, FWIW. Need I bring up the total data loss scenario associated with log-in to old guest accounts? It's really disconcerting to see people lashing out at something apparently just "because it's Microsoft." Get a life.
 11/24/2009 04:47:43 PM · #52
Originally posted by kirbic:
Originally posted by TrollMan:

Yikes! I'm SO happy that I'm only using Mac at home! No worries about what's under the hood, how it works or how to get it to work. I worry too much about that at the office as head of IT :)


LOL!
So because Win7 provides backward compatibility settings for old software that may not be compatible, that's somehow a "worry?" As an IT professional, you can't be bothered to right-click an icon and change compatibility check-boxes?
While Win7 is certainly not perfect, it is an OS to be reckoned with. MacOS is far from perfect too, FWIW. Need I bring up the total data loss scenario associated with log-in to old guest accounts? It's really disconcerting to see people lashing out at something apparently just "because it's Microsoft." Get a life.

Hehe - was someone lashing out here? we should find him and give him a good ol' spanking while we shout BAD lashing!!

But nevertheless; I DO worry much more about the stability of PC's than I do with the newer Intel based Mac's. Take it as bashing or whatever you like but that is exactly how I feel :) Others with sufficient experience in both worlds may have other experiences. I work with PC's every single day (for almost 30 years now) and love it most of the time. And believe me - life's too short to have strong enough feelings for a PC or Mac to get emotional about it ;)
 11/24/2009 05:00:53 PM · #53
Yes, I agree. I switched to the Mac from November 2007 through Oct 2008. I discovered that Mac's are better because:

1) They have a black screen of death instead of a blue screen of death. And it says "You're screwed" in many different languages.

2) There are fewer software programs to crash.

3) There are fewer things you can do in many software packages, so there's less to screw up! But they look MAH-VEH-LOUS. And Simplistic Simple.

4) There are fewer hardware choices, so there's much less incompatible hardware. (You can have any graphics board as long as it's the one they sell and certify for your particular release date of your Mac Pro!)

5) You can use any keyboard, but if it's not configured like an Apple, the keys won't work as labeled. (E.g., you can't num lock a numeric keypad to give you cursor functions).

6) You can resize a window from any corner as long as it's the bottom right.

7) You can have a menu at the top of the screen, on either screen. No matter that the window you are using is on a different screen.

8) And the best feature of all: you can run Windows on it!

I could go on extolling the virtues of the Mac, but I'm way off topic here.

Message edited by author 2009-11-24 17:01:44.
 11/24/2009 05:29:17 PM · #54
Originally posted by nshapiro:
I could go on extolling the virtues of the Mac, but I'm way off topic here.

Yup - Mac's are definitely a piece of crap - much worse than I thought actually after reading your academic facts. With such a lousy product they'll definitely be out of business in a year or two - max. Those Apple stores will soon enough be converted to donut joints and the movie and music industry will soon switch to the newest Dell's. (/sarcasm off)

But for the record: I never mentioned once that PC's are bad and that Mac's are better although it seems like some PC folks here are getting very defensive and ranting. It's very disappointing entertaining to watch :) But thanks for all the excellent info about Mac's in general. My personal opinion is that both has its own uses and mileage varies. I wouldn't want to limit myself by pushing one out - not necessarily a wise chess move.

You go boys! Down with the Mac's and their people! LOL
 11/24/2009 05:40:39 PM · #55
Originally posted by nshapiro:
Yes, I agree. I switched to the Mac from November 2007 through Oct 2008. I discovered that Mac's are better because..................................

I could go on extolling the virtues of the Mac, but I'm way off topic here.


LMAO!!!!
 11/24/2009 06:09:54 PM · #56
Sorry, I usually just bite my tongue when that comes up, but I just couldn't resist...the Mac has a few nice features, but I couldn't live with it's limitations. My $3000+ investment lasted me 11 months before I gave up on it. And it felt so good to switch back!

I was going to sell it, but it does make a nice software test machine for Windows apps under Parallels. Nothing like being able to bookmark a virgin install of Windows and go back to it with a click of a button to test repeated installs!
 11/24/2009 06:29:31 PM · #57
Originally posted by nshapiro:
Yes, I agree. I switched to the Mac from November 2007 through Oct 2008. I discovered that Mac's are better because:...Etc.

Hope you don't mind if I save those little bits of wisdom to toss out when needed!
11/24/2009 11:32:31 PM · #58
I'm going to have to replace my 10 y/o dell PC. I have CS3. For CS3 I understand that I would need the Win7 Professional or Ulitmate to run CS3. Is anyone running CS3 with the Professional or Ultimate Win7 in the XP mode?
[/quote]fwiw, i ran cs3 and cs4 on xp on a 6 yr old laptop. my laptop ran cs4 without a hiccup in win7. i find cs3 to be snappier than cs4. cs3 in xp is snappier than cs4 in xp or win7 (on the same older machine).
i don't know about compatibility with cs3 and win7.
i would be completely happy with cs3 on an older machine. on a newer machine, i would want cs4 because of the vid card accelerator but it isn't a huge deal. [/quote]

Thanks for the info, I'm going to stick with CS3, get the Win7 Professional and see how it works out. Adobe says that CS3 should work with all Win7 versions.

Message edited by author 2009-11-24 23:35:45.
 11/26/2009 08:47:17 AM · #59
Originally posted by Sevlow:
Having a slight problem with my 2 external usb hard drives. Sometimes they work, sometimes they dont (done all the troubleshooting stuff but they still play up). Looking at their support sites they do not have any info re Win7 64 bit support. There is a bios update due on 27th Nov for my pc, will that fix it? (Kind of think not as this appears to be driver issues)


Sucess !

This is a known problem :-

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You encounter problems when you move data over USB from a Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2-based computer that has an NVIDIA USB EHCI chipset and at least 4GB of RAM
unquote

Microsoft have a fix for it here > Hotfix - Fixes problems with W7 (With at least 4gb ram) and Nvidia Usb EHCI Chipset

Ran the Hotfix and all now working correctly.

Thanks again for all your assistance

Mike

Message edited by author 2009-11-26 08:49:36.
 11/26/2009 09:06:30 AM · #60
Originally posted by Sevlow:
Sucess !

This is a known problem :-

That was good to hear! Good job finding the fix Mike. I spent a good hour searhing for others with the same problem and a possible fix to no avail. But this was clearly a fairly rare combination of events so I guess the issue is not widespread.

There's nothing more frustrating than these types of problems. I'm happy you got it to work!
 11/26/2009 09:12:31 AM · #61
Originally posted by TrollMan:
Originally posted by Sevlow:
Sucess !

This is a known problem :-

That was good to hear! Good job finding the fix Mike. I spent a good hour searhing for others with the same problem and a possible fix to no avail. But this was clearly a fairly rare combination of events so I guess the issue is not widespread.

There's nothing more frustrating than these types of problems. I'm happy you got it to work!


Well I did not bother doing anything yesterday as it was getting on my nerves, then did a google earlier and after searching for a while came across a W7 forum > Windows Seven Forums and found a link on there to the Microsoft fix.

Message edited by author 2009-11-26 09:13:57.
 11/30/2009 01:34:22 AM · #62
I'm running it on my desktop and laptop and it works great. I love being able to verticle split screen things in a nap and multitask. CS4 is working great on both...

Desktop:
Dual core Intel 3.06ghz
4gb ram

Laptop:
Quad core Intel 2ghz
4gb ram
 11/30/2009 02:13:35 AM · #63
Discovered today that Flickr is having a problem with Win7. I cannot upload photos. It acts like it is uploading the photo and locks up at 95%. After a while it times out and I get the "Houston, we have a problem" error message. Happens with the web page upload link, Flickr Uploader app, and a third party uploader. Everything works fine if I reboot into Vista.

I did some packet captures of both the Vista and Win7 upload attempts with Wireshark and posted links to them in the lengthy thread on this problem that was already going in the Flickr help forum. I'm sure it will be resolved soon enough. In the meantime, this is why I set my system up to dual boot, instead of just upgrading the existing installation. Sometimes you don't find these things out until you start installing everything and using it daily.
 12/04/2009 07:23:44 PM · #64
Update on the Flickr problem. It is not an issue with Win7. It was a conflict with the AVG v9 link scanner. Since I installed the latest version to the new system install, that is where I saw the problem. Disabling the link scanner corrected the problem. Yahoo and Grisoft will have to bang heads and figure out where the problem is.

Message edited by author 2009-12-04 19:25:48.
 12/04/2009 07:40:12 PM · #65
To all Win 7 users if you autohide your taskbar your computer will be sulggish from comming out of sleep mode or turn off monitor mode. Just dont autohide your taskbar and this problem goes away.
 12/04/2009 07:52:30 PM · #66
I'm curious why my machine turns off every night at 6:45PM. I tried to set it to turn off at 1:00AM, but I get this instead. Don't quite know where to check these settings.
 12/04/2009 08:55:19 PM · #67
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
I'm curious why my machine turns off every night at 6:45PM. I tried to set it to turn off at 1:00AM, but I get this instead. Don't quite know where to check these settings.


Is it possible that the 1:00 AM setting is in UTC? That might be about the right offset.

Edit: I'm looking at the power settings, and I'm not immediately seeing a way to set it for a specific time, just for a delay after a specified period of inactivity. This may or may not be related to the fact that I'm still running the release candidate (yeh, I'm cheap, and the RC is solid). Can you detail the procedure you are using to set the time to go to sleep?

Message edited by author 2009-12-04 21:03:27.
 12/04/2009 10:28:48 PM · #68
Originally posted by kirbic:
This may or may not be related to the fact that I'm still running the release candidate (yeh, I'm cheap, and the RC is solid). Can you detail the procedure you are using to set the time to go to sleep?

I'm not finding anything like that in the final release of home premium either.
 12/04/2009 11:28:36 PM · #69
Originally posted by Yo_Spiff:
Originally posted by kirbic:
This may or may not be related to the fact that I'm still running the release candidate (yeh, I'm cheap, and the RC is solid). Can you detail the procedure you are using to set the time to go to sleep?

I'm not finding anything like that in the final release of home premium either.


It was actually a command prompt line I had to enter. I found how to do it on the net somewhere. It was my first suspicion, but why would the offset by some hours and then 15 minutes? That makes no sense if it's just the computer think's it's 1:00AM in some other time zone.
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