Software :: Unused - Use "fastest" Or "slowest" As Server?
Mar 13, 2009
I am obsessed with Mac Minis, and have bought at least one of every generation. Now that I bought a couple of the newest ones to be my new HTPCs, I have a bunch of unused ones. I do some web design and 3D work as a hobby. I bought OSX Server 10pack and a 10.5 Family Pack. I want to cluster them in some way with X-Grid and also use one as a media server. Here is my question: Should I install OSX Server on all of them? Should I only put it on 1 as a main server? Should I use my fastest one (1.83 Intel) or my slowest (original G4 of some speed) as the server? How would you set this up? They will all be headless and controlled remotely.
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Mar 4, 2012
I recently upgraded to os 10.7 from the App store, along with all the various things that need upgrading as well (.e.g Microsoft Office, etc), on a 2.53 GHz 4GB/500GB Macbook Pro (1.5 years old). The systems is the SLOWEST and most ponderous I've used in 20 years!! It can take 10 minutes to start up when opening a couple of programmes (Mail, Word, Excel), the Office programs crash incessantly, switching between applications is slow, starting up Parallels is GLACIAL, applications freeze all the time. I've still got over 100 GB free on the hard drive.
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Aperture 3, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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I replaced the 2600 XT that came in my mac pro with a 3870 HD. But I feel like the 2600 XT is being wasted just sitting on its own gathering dust. I was thinking about putting it in a Hackintosh, or just a new PC with Windows 7. Does a mac video card work in a PC?
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Jul 15, 2010
I could get a Macbook Air Rev B with 1,86Ghz, GeForce9400 and 120 HDD (4200rpm) for about 500€. It has some external scratches and discoloration, but other than that it works fine and is unused.. it is an original apple product with some product external faults, that's why it's so cheap. The scratches don't bother me at all, I don't need my laptop to look brand new, it has to get the job done.. Actually I'm fine the machine in my sig, although I'd love to have a lighter laptop and backlit keyboard + a nicer screen, but I just got this offer and began to wonder if it would fit my needs... Although I'm studying computer science, I'm not doing intense processing nor multimedia work. The programs I use on a regular basis:
- Xcode
- Eclipse
- Adobe Acrobat 9
- Omni Graffle
- Omni Focus
- RemoteDesktop
- TexWorks
- Skype
- Adium
- Safari, Mail, iTunes, iCal etc.
- iWork apps
some other apps too, but just occasionally... My main concern is obviously the 2 GB RAM.. I have 3GB DDR2 RAM 667Mhz right now.. How much "worse" will it get with the 2GB DDR3 RAM with 1066Mhz? The disk space is not that big of an issue to me... so, what do you guys think? I would try to sell my Macbook for some € too and of course, sooner or later, replace the awful HDD with a SSD...
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Aug 29, 2010
I know back in old days when i used Windows there were many tips how to "speed up" windoze, by disabling unused services that take up time loading at start up and generally use cpu in the background. Does anybody know of a compilation-list-site and how to disable unused OS-X services?
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Mar 7, 2008
I just got my new Mac Pro and I'm trying to install some extra drives to it. I've read about the unused SATA ports on the motherboard but I can't seem to find them. I tried searching but I had no luck. Anyone know where they are and how I can access them easily?
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Apr 7, 2009
Im still kind of new to mac, i have my HDD almost full. What program should i use to find the realy big files i can delete? Ive done alot of video editing and what not so im sure i got some stuff i can delete just dont know where its at.
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I do not have any programs like App Zapper. I may have deleted one or two apps by dragging them to the trash. Is there a program that seeks out unused files that may have been associated with those apps. I do not remember which apps they were though.
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May 16, 2012
I have an older Mac Pro with 16 GBs of RAM and I'm trying to get Lightroom 3 to stop running ridicualously slow. I've checked the activity monitor and with just a browser & LR3 running I have just over 10 GBs of Free memory. LR3 is using 1.72 GBs. Back in the day you could allocate RAM to a program like photoshop so it wasn't such a dog. Is there anyway to do this in MAC OS X?
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Feb 21, 2008
Looking at my system profiler, while there is nothing attached to it, it does report the presence of a SATA port. Is that correct? Can it ever be used with another internal drive?
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Mar 27, 2012
I am running out of disk space on my Mac Mini. I want to know if there a way to search for and delete unuded file. Maybe an application or other way to do this.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Apr 28, 2012
I purchased an icloud storage upgrade in anticipation of using it to manage my apple email across two systems - desktop and laptop. Teh desktop is snow leopard the laptop testing lion. Unfortunately the chance in how apple manages email proved a showstopper and I am NOT prepared to upgrade my desktop to lion - yet - as I have key applications that would require additional upgrades and purchases I dont want to make yet. So - how do I get the upgrade (as yet unused) cancelled and refunded. In speaking with support it seems the downgrade options only apply AFTER the annual period has elapsed.
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icloud, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mar 21, 2007
PowerBook G4 Ti:Where can one look up the meaning of diagnostics codes? HDD diagnostics error code: ata1/6/3 HD:2,0 What does a single blinking LED on the battery mean? AppleCare does not show the HDD, chance it is ok but not connected? A friend's system wouldn't start up, he said I could take a look, asking me to recover some family photos from his Hard Disk Drive. This machine had not been used for months. So far I have uncovered two issues and would be grateful to receive further guidance here to get this machine up and going.
service history: 3/10/2005 = repaired directory errors, charged clock battery, installed optical drive. action: Remove PRAM battery and it powers up. I like to tinker, and I'm recently out of work, stumbled upon a place with step by step instructions to take apart at <http://homepage.mac.com/sysop/PhotoAlbum13.html>. Followed those steps and removed the persistent RAM (PRAM) battery, put it all back together ( except for a few screws, oops! ) and it powers up, and seems to be charging the battery as an LED lights up now. Took it apart again and checked Hard Disk Drive connections, appears ok. Put the PRAM battery back in ( battery shows: 616-0144-A, match to slide 35 ) and now the system boots ok. Maybe resetting the connections got things going, maybe the battery needed a kick, who knows............
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Jun 19, 2012
I just want to make sure my MacBook is running at its full capacity and I would like to know how to locate and remove all unneccessary and junk files?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Aug 30, 2014
I have old large projects with a lot of b roll I will not use again and want to delete each unused clip. What is the best way to delete these safely. I can go into the library, show package contents and delete the clips there, but will that upset the library. And is there a way to delete just the parts of the clips that are unused? So If I have a 30s clip, have used 5s and want to delete the rest of the clip around the 5s, is that possible? Trying to recover some drive space to save buying a new media drive....
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Sep 2, 2009
I have a nice, to me, Mac Pro 2,1.
Id like to give it a boost..can I replace the 677Mhz ram with 800Mhz?
Im not sure what the fastest RAM the system can support/use well.
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Jan 23, 2010
I downloaded a program that cleans unused files and unneeded files. Apparently it erased some kind of startup files or something cause I shut the computer down one night and the next morning I went to turn it on and it just goes to the blue screen and the loading icon comes on for 5 minutes. It is a Macbook and after sitting there for 5 minutes it just shuts down and tries to start up again. I don't know what I have to do to restore it cause it removed my thingy called "Matt" which is I guess my hard drive name. I'm not every good with computers so I dont know all the names for things.
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How I can erase my old time machine backups on my old external hard drive and re-use for something else to back up.
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iMac (21.5-inch Late 2009)
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Sep 25, 2010
i just bought a refurb off apple store, MBP intel i7 2.66 15" (on it's way) .. comes with a 500 gb 5400 rpm drive. obviously, no option to configure a refurb...
I'm Thinking to get one of the following:
A) Kingston M-Series or V+
B) OCZ Vertex Pro or EX series
C) Crucial?
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I checked each site and they are all updating on the same time slot, so I'm not sure what the problem is. Is just 10 RSS feeds too many? That would seem weird to me...
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Jun 18, 2012
I finally got my graduation money to buy the macbook pro I want. It's the low end pro, 2.3ghz with retina display. ($2200) I checked online and they say there is a 3-4 week before the item even gets shipped. I also tried calling me local apple store twice and got 2 different responses, the first one said they got a shipment earlier today but they quickly sold out nearly an hour later, and the second specialist told me I should just order it online.
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The 11inch air only has 128GB and i'm getting short on space. Since the mb air only has 2 usb ports and no firewire or ethernet ports I'm stuck with the bandwidth of USB 2.0.
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Apr 19, 2009
I need a new external drive for my macbook pro. I need 1.5TB of capacity and found the Seagate FreeAgent Desk. But I am not sure if I should go with the Mac version which features a firewire 800 connection. Is it that much faster? And will the usb 2.0 interface be enough for 1080p playback?
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Jan 17, 2010
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Mar 13, 2009
Whenever I run Software Update and download something (or from iTunes), files pretty much download twice as fast as anything else I download. I'm on cable and I get around 1.5 MBs/second for Apple downloads, and I usually get around 500kbs-900kbs for everything else. Has anyone else noticed something similar?
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Apr 17, 2012
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MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Dec 5, 2007
Since I updated to Leopard, some of my video and slideshow programs are lagging on screen. I have done a pretty good search on the forums here, but am getting some contradicting info. What is the fastest video card for my early 2005 G5 dual 2.0 with AGP 8x slot? ATI RADEON X800 Mac Edition Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra (what is the difference between the NVIDIA and the BFG cards?) I have an ATI Radeon 9650 with 256MB one single link and one dual link DVI. The ATI RADEON X800 Mac Edition has one ADC and one dual link DVI? Do both of those ports support a 30" Cinema HD display? My 9650 only supports one and it is in the 2nd port so it is annoying having my 23" be my main monitor and the 30" be the secondary.
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G5 Dual 2.0 (early 2005) 3GB RAM ATI Radeon 9650 30" and 23" Cinema HD, Macbook Pro 2 GB RAM
Mac OS X (10.5.1)
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