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Although it's borderline trolling, I'd like to see Czachorski's rebuttal to the above. Would make for some interesting reading.

Daniel, most people on this forum realise that the Apple support forums are generally not the best place on the web to ask for help. Balloon help here is pretty good.

As for anyone with issues. Time to relearn basic troubleshooting. Start unplugging devices till the issue goes away. I have heard of RAM issues on Leopard. Apple installed nonetheless.

Daniel wrote:

rufio wrote:

Spotlight lets you quicklaunch things so easily now, Command-Space, type in Safari, just press return, and you've launched it.

You could do that in Tiger as well, and in my experience, it actually worked better in Tiger.  In Leopard, Spotlight crashes 3 out of every 5 times I use it, and it doesn't even come close to keeping up with my typing when I type into the search box -- a problem Tiger did not have.

Yes, you can do this in Tiger, but in Tiger the "Top Hit" as it's called is not the automatically selected one, so it's really command-space, type in safari, down arrow, then press return to launch it. One keystroke eliminated is cool for me.

Daniel wrote:

rufio wrote:

Spotlight lets you quicklaunch things so easily now, Command-Space, type in Safari, just press return, and you've launched it.

You could do that in Tiger as well, and in my experience, it actually worked better in Tiger.  In Leopard, Spotlight crashes 3 out of every 5 times I use it, and it doesn't even come close to keeping up with my typing when I type into the search box -- a problem Tiger did not have.

As rufio said, no, it didn't. Under Leopard the Spotlight menu is set by default to float the top hit in the Application category to the top of the list. Under Tiger an application MIGHT have made it to the top of the list but a document might just as easily have made it there.

Frank

Last edited by frankly (2007-12-03 8:39 am)

Tiger's fine enough on my eMac, albeit a little sluggish. Leopard will most likely have too much bloat for what I use that thing for.

XP with the SP3 beta is fine, I don't even want to venture into Vista with all the smurf I've heard about it.

Daniel wrote:

frankly wrote:

Daniel wrote:

Additional update: Halo will not run under Leopard, apparently.  If I discover that X-Plane is broken too, I'm going to be really pissed.

Now I'm really confused. If you have applications that will really piss you off if you are unable to run them, why in the hell would you have even upgraded to a new OS without making sure the things you use are compatible??? That makes no logical sense whatsoever.

Damn you Apple for forcing me to pay you $129 and upgrade to your new operating system!!!!!  :shakes fist:

Frank

There is no mention of Halo not being compatible with Leopard anywhere, not on MacSoft's site, not on Apple's.  It's a game, one would expect something like that to not break.

Good on you for being a condescending ass about it, though.

I wasn't being condescending. I was being absolutely serious. It is common knowledge that if you have apps that you need or want to use that you should not upgrade unless you know they are good to go.

Second, are you joking? Games are one of the things that break most often with system upgrades. Game distributors are known for moving on to the next version and not releasing (or being very slow to release) maintenance upgrades. Higher end games (like Halo) are especially susceptible to this because the more power a game needs the more it tends to include low level programming that is dependent on certain system calls or video card drivers. So your statement that a game is not something one would expect to break is very telling. And for the record, that last statement was condescending

Frank

Last edited by frankly (2007-12-03 9:48 am)

I've got an nVidia GeForce4Ti 4600, with an ADC connector.  It's not a flashed PC-version card.

Daniel wrote:

I've got an nVidia GeForce4Ti 4600, with an ADC connector.  It's not a flashed PC-version card.

From my personal experience on the PC end the GeForce4 cards have a GPU that is generally not very well supported anymore.  You really need to bump up to at least a 5200.

I don't know much about your problem, but you might check to see if you are running OpenGL as I understand there have been a lot of quirks with it in Leopard on various cards.

rufio wrote:

frankly wrote:

rufio wrote:

I have no experience or interest in Time Machine, Spaces, Dashboard, Cover Flow in the finder, mail stationary, video chat effects, photo booth backdrops, stacks, boot camp, "quicklook," or the advertised parental controls.

I'm curious. Why did you upgrade then???

Frank

A hope of performance improvements. I installed it on a secondary computer as a test-run before I put it on my Macbook Pro.

That test run would hopefully have been a one or two-day event just to make sure everything was running fine, but I have been met with more problems than I want to inflict upon my main machine, so I am not upgrading anything important yet.

Not sure if it will help your decision process at all but I have it running on my MBP and I did see a performance increase and haven't had any problems that weren't superficial.

Frank

bratboy wrote:

I've gotta say that I don't understand the 'stacks' icon.  A folder should look like a folder, not a stack of icons with something random on top.

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they should at least have a virtual "tray" with the folder's icon or something on it. Icons already are actually twopaks (include a preview icon for the sidebar of finder windows, etc.), so it shouldn't be too hard to give folders a dock icon.

iThinkIam wrote:

Uh no, it should like the last item added as the is the default sort for that folder.

"Uh no," that's what it does look like but not what it should look like, in my opinion.

Change the sort or put in a placeholder alias or icon in the home folder and sort by name.

I know the workaround, but I believe the default is ugly and should offer some other way to view the "stack" (read: folder).

The way I see it, stacks should have 2 icons...one that means it is empty and another that shows it with something in it, neither one should hide what exactly the stack (folder) contains.

The current implementation is flawed.

-mark

ScifiterX wrote:

::Drowns avkill's pet rock:: You mean like now?

When the Downloads folder stack is empty you see the download folder icon. When you add anything to that stack it (and up to 2 other priority items) replace the Download folder icon

No they need to keep the downloads folder, but change it a bit so you know that something is in the folder, like open it a bit and make it look like a sheet of paper is in there or something, or better yet, do what mail does and slap a red circle thingie and put a number on it.

I think it is idiotic to change the icon on the dock to the alphabetically first "item's" icon.

-mark

Last edited by avkills (2007-12-04 7:56 am)

iThinkIam wrote:

Daniel wrote:

I've got an nVidia GeForce4Ti 4600, with an ADC connector.  It's not a flashed PC-version card.

From my personal experience on the PC end the GeForce4 cards have a GPU that is generally not very well supported anymore.  You really need to bump up to at least a 5200.

I don't know much about your problem, but you might check to see if you are running OpenGL as I understand there have been a lot of quirks with it in Leopard on various cards.

Well, the only card I can obtain that would be worth the money spent to get it would be the high-end Radeon 9800 (or is it 9600?  I can't recall).  But, being presently unemployed, I'm not going to go blow $300 on a video card to get WoW to work -- and even if I did have the money, I'm reluctant to dump more money into this relatively old machine.

I do know that my WoW problem is not specific to the nVidia 4600, it's a problem with all nVidia cards on all PPC machines.  Blizzard is aware of the problem but says it's a driver issue that Apple and nVidia must fix.