A question for apple mac users

halfmoonray wrote in post #2404601
To answer your question about when does the beach ball appear, I have to say it appears all the time.

Do you leave your mac on 24/7? There are a number of cron jobs that run at nightly, weekly, and monthly to keep your file system in order. Shutting the computer down will circumvent this maintenance. Also, you might try running Disk Utility (in Applications:Utilities folder) and do a "Repair Disk Permissions". If the problem persists, then you might have to boot from your installer disk and run Disk Utility from it to do a "Repair Disk". The only times that I get the beach ball is with some web sites that implement a non-standard version of JAVA and when Rosetta's been idle for a while.

Photoshop CS runs faster on my Intel Mac Mini under Rosetta than it does on my G5 iMac. Not sure why yours is running so slow.

Alternatively: Use OnyX to clean up the mac.

Quote:

"This is easy.

1. Buy a mac, be sure to have 1gig memory and large disk
2. Buy Parallels
3. Enjoy both at the same time at full speed"

David, good answer, nice and simple(a bit like me) and straight to the point.

Thanks for all the replies, food for thought, will now wait until after christmas and then decide, in the meantime i will research Parallels.

Tony-S wrote in post #2404694
Do you leave your mac on 24/7? There are a number of cron jobs that run at nightly, weekly, and monthly to keep your file system in order. Shutting the computer down will circumvent this maintenance. Also, you might try running Disk Utility (in Applications:Utilities folder) and do a "Repair Disk Permissions". If the problem persists, then you might have to boot from your installer disk and run Disk Utility from it to do a "Repair Disk". The only times that I get the beach ball is with some web sites that implement a non-standard version of JAVA and when Rosetta's been idle for a while.

Photoshop CS runs faster on my Intel Mac Mini under Rosetta than it does on my G5 iMac. Not sure why yours is running so slow.

Thanks Tony! Yes, I do leave it on about 12 hours a day. I will turn it off more frequently AND perform a repair disk permissions. I'm excited about it working faster now. Thanks!

Glenn, like you I was a long time PC user. I switched to a Mac Pro about four months ago. I am very happy and I am really enjoying the change. Parallels will let you run Windows XP (and many other OS) on your Mac desktop. Its really cool to have a full windows machine in its own window on your mac desktop. If you want Windows horsepower then Boot Camp is the way to go. It will let you boot in a real Windows XP environment.

The most pleasing thing about the switch is program Aperture. I like it a lot and I prefer it to Lightroom (beta) and CS2 Bridge. Upgrading from 1 gig of memory to 2 gigs made a huge difference in Aperture. Programs like CS2 that were not desgined to run on the new intel macs take a bit of a preformance hit. It is not to noticable on my mac pro, but it is on my wifes imac (also intel version). CS3 is in beta and will be out soon (I hope). CS3 will be a major upgrade for mac users.

I cant see myself switching back to a PC anytime soon. My Mac Pro has NEVER locked up and seems so stable under heavy load. I just love it.

halfmoonray wrote in post #2406031
Thanks Tony! Yes, I do leave it on about 12 hours a day. I will turn it off more frequently AND perform a repair disk permissions. I'm excited about it working faster now. Thanks!

You should leave your mac on 24/7 - the cron tasks (maintenance programs) run late at night, when the computer is not likely being used. For my Mac, the daily tasks automatically run at 3:15 a.m. If your computer is not on, then the tasks cannot be executed, thus filesystem errors can accumulate over time. You can change this time (and dates for the weekly and monthly tasks) if you feel comfortable editing files under UNIX. As of 10.4, these files are kept in /System/Library/Launch​Daemons and require sudo to edit them. If you're not sure what this means, then you'd probably better leave them alone, or buy a GUI interface to access them, such as Macaroni from Atomic Bird.

Regardless, you should leave your Mac on all the time.

Guys- vitrual PC is a thing of the past.. you can literally install windows on the mac.. it runs at full speed.. CS3 is due out first quarter 2007 which will be intel native on the mac

Photoshop is made to run on the Mac. Period.