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Trippy
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Quicktime X's player app only plays half of the files the old Qicktime player did.
Which ones can't it play? Are you sure you didn't have something like Perian installed on the old setup? Edit: you |
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« Last Edit: August 28, 2009, 04:23:17 AM by Trippy »
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stray
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Yeah, qt by default hardly plays shit unless you have perian. qt x is an improvement over it.
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stray
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I respect your wishes on these matters, this being your playground and all. But keep in mind this @ usage is older than fucking Twitter. So people using this could well be no Twittiots. If it were one of the resident neckbeards, I'd agree. MAYBE. But this is Stray. He's not a neckbeard and he knows better. It's a habit I've gotten from ProBoards (quick post window). I don't use Twitter. As is ^ or ^^ If it bothers you guys, I'll stop. edit: Sorry for the double posts too!  |
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Trippy
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Bought and installed already . I am so far very impressed with the speed upgrades. Of course that may also be the new laptop with the solid state HD, haha. |
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Prospero
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Macresearch.org has a nice piece on OpenCL. Skip to the last 10 minutes to see a demo that shows off OpenCl in a real world app. It's damn impressive.
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Jain Zar
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I'm probably gonna wait till 10.6.2 comes out as my only main need to upgrade from Tiger is to get Boot Camp and I have so many damn console games to play I really don't need it right yet. Nice that I don't have to actually buy the 160 dollar set as my Intel Mac doesn't really do much actual productivity stuff. My G5 does. (Which needs a nice OS reinstall.. its slow and clunky now.) The new suite of iLife/Work apps are sweet, but not 100bucks plus sweet. Even if I would like to learn some music instrument basics in Garageband.
A shame Boot Camp can't be installed on an external drive according to the FAQ. I swear the Boot Camp Beta is what killed my iMac's internal drive and I have some hesitations because of it.
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stray
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I'd recommend Snow Leopard if you're using Intel, definitely. It's snappier. A lot smaller too since PPC code is gone. I'm sure that even that contributes to speed improvements.
QTX is not what I'd thought it'd be though. I was under the impression that it'd incorporate playback of more codecs, but it's just better "support" for modern codecs. i.e. better performance at QT already did. That's fine though, Perian covers just about everything. What Quicktime X is basically just a rewrite (Quicktime is almost 20 yrs old). I believe though that the Perian plug is still connecting through the old QT layer. Quicktime X is still so much in it's infancy that it can't even handle plug-ins yet.
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« Last Edit: September 03, 2009, 11:57:52 PM by stray »
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Trippy
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Yeah you can have both the old QT and the new QT X installed and running at the same time. The software for the old QT is actually on the disc if you want to install it manually (e.g. you have a QT Pro license and need to reinstall that).
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Prospero
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The one on disk is the pro edition. They finally got rid of the stupid 20 dollar fee to make it useful. Also, for an amazing look at Snow Leopard check out John Siracusa's write up on Ars. Get a big cup of coffee, it's 23 pages. |
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Kitsune
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The industrious hackers out there have already released the mods necessary to hackintosh 10.6. So my copy's on the way from Amazon now. I'm contemplating selling my macbook and just keeping the netbook. Normally I foster at least a mild hatred of Dell products, but I have to confess that the mini 9 netbook is a little ass-kicker. For all of the mobile computing stuff I do, it's been more than sufficient, at least as a Windows 7 machine. We'll see how well it handles Snow Leopard when the disk arrives.
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Oban
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Well, I bought the upgrade but apparently there are issues with installing it on MacBook Air computers at the moment so it is about to go on to my MacBook Pro.  Update: It fucked my hard drive, had to format and install the OS from scratch. Now, I get to spend time restoring my files from a backup. Joy. |
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« Last Edit: September 04, 2009, 09:59:27 PM by Oban »
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Palin 2012 : Let's go out with a bang!
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Samwise
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Update: It fucked my hard drive, had to format and install the OS from scratch. Now, I get to spend time restoring my files from a backup. Joy.
Fucking Bill Gates. |
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stray
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probably better off doing a fresh install anyways  |
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Surlyboi
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Better than you'd think.
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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