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Today I did some heavy Photoshop work on my 2006 iMac and I could really feel the poor thing struggle with the countless of styles I was using on my text and shapes 😬
I wouldn't want to edit a huge 1080p psd on here or anything. I does manage InDesign a lot better though and I used to to a lot of school work on here in that.
I have also edited video before on Premiere Pro and that always worked well for most tasks (except rendering lol)
Lots of fun to push this iMac which was never a powerhouse to begin with
I wouldn't want to edit a huge 1080p psd on here or anything. I does manage InDesign a lot better though and I used to to a lot of school work on here in that.
I have also edited video before on Premiere Pro and that always worked well for most tasks (except rendering lol)
Lots of fun to push this iMac which was never a powerhouse to begin with
today i made a video about my 2008 mac pro, which was of course edited and rendered on my 2008 mac pro
you can see the video here:
you can see the video here:
For gits and shiggles i wanted to see if SnowMonkey/SpiderWeb/InterWeb would work with Discord on 10.6. It does, mostly. The discord UI is a little laggy, but it works (without audio/video support). I suggest using @B S Magnet 's emoji workaround and going in to about:config and creating an override for discord.com.
Restart the browser. Log in and start chatting.
Code:
general.useragent.override.discord.com
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0
For gits and shiggles i wanted to see if SnowMonkey/SpiderWeb/InterWeb would work with Discord on 10.6. It does, mostly. The discord UI is a little laggy, but it works (without audio/video support). I suggest using @B S Magnet 's emoji workaround and going in to about:config and creating an override for discord.com.
Restart the browser. Log in and start chatting.Code:general.useragent.override.discord.com Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0
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1) NICE
2) “a bit laggy” on a 12-core Xeon box would translate to “laggy” on a Core 2 Duo Penryn box.
Heh, well maybe. It's not cpu-spike laggy. I think it's just a bit much for 52.9 to draw/redraw at a decent speed when faking FF78 (which is needed otherwise discord says unsupported browser). I did test it on my c2d macbook as well. Same result. It works, but a bit laggy. Better than nothing though.
Heh, well maybe. It's not cpu-spike laggy. I think it's just a bit much for 52.9 to draw/redraw at a decent speed when faking FF78 (which is needed otherwise discord says unsupported browser). I did test it on my c2d macbook as well. Same result. It works, but a bit laggy. Better than nothing though.
Ah ok, having just tired it, I now see what you mean.
The redraw thing invokes the main window and nav wndows to “blank out” for a moment to re-draw with new info (such as when someone’s status changes or someone posts to the main window). It does, at least, work.
Also, given the Aqua scroll bars of 10.6.8, they really show themselves on the Discord UI.
I was on vacation with my A1342. Which was used mostly for picture transfer \ youtube watching . At home High Sierra now thinks that Ethernet cable not connected, so it works with WiFi (Time Machine back-ups). Will dig a bit at free time.
. At home High Sierra now thinks that Ethernet cable not connected, so it works with WiFi (Time Machine back-ups). Will dig a bit at free time.New old mBP 17 late 2008:
Upgraded RAM
Installed SSD
Installed Mountain Lion
Issue: failed to install Snow Leopard. The install DVD is crossed out when in Finder or would eject the DVD when started up from DVD directly.
If I try to set the DVD as startup disk, it complaims that the bless tool failed.
PRAM reset did not help (3x)
I successfully installed SL on a different MBP just the other day using that same DVD.
Any ideas?
Upgraded RAM
Installed SSD
Installed Mountain Lion
Issue: failed to install Snow Leopard. The install DVD is crossed out when in Finder or would eject the DVD when started up from DVD directly.
If I try to set the DVD as startup disk, it complaims that the bless tool failed.
PRAM reset did not help (3x)
I successfully installed SL on a different MBP just the other day using that same DVD.
Any ideas?
Possible workaround: set up target MBP in FireWire TDM, then connect to the MBP on which you successfully installed SL. Then install SL from that MBP’s DVD drive onto the TDM MBP’s drive.
Yes indeed, Mountain Lion installed just fine.
Thx @B S Magnet for the tip, I‘d rather find out the issue though. It should work, there must be something I overlook.
According to Everymac minimum OS is 10.5.2, but its not clear if this is for both early as well as late 2008 models. Is it possible that SL won‘t install on late 2008 models?
If you’re installing from a retail version of SL, then no, there is no reason why it won’t install on an early 2008 MBP, 15- or 17-inch, or late 2008 MBP, 15-inch. The retail install of SL should install on any Intel Mac produced before August 2009 (if the install DVD is 10.6.0).
Mactracker puts the minimum OS for the Late 2008 at 10.5.5 - but that implies any version of 10.6 is also fine.
After a lot of tinkering, failed attempts to burn the .dmg I downloaded from Apple and head scratching:
Somehow I managed to burn a bootable SL DVD. So basically it seems the DVD I used previously was corrupted.
And its a royal PITA to burn a .dmg image. A lot of howtos out there did not work (including Apple‘s). Now, as said, I got a bootable DVD that seemed fine, however, installation failed (system could not find required support files).
I now try again. I am running out of ideas. Maybe I try with a different brand of writeable DVDs
Apart from SL installation issues: Installed SSD and Mountain Lion on the second MBP.
Software Installed: Updates, Xcode, Qt SDK
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In the future, if you just want to skip the time and hassle of burning SL or L to a DVD, an alternative is to set up the intended Mac’s HDD or SSD with two partitions: the first for the eventual OS install, and the second partition with the install DVD dmg block-copy-cloned (with Carbon Copy Cloner or even DiskUtil) to it — making that latter partition the “DVD installer” from which you can boot to run the actual install onto the first partition. Afterward, you can use Disk Utility to live-remove that second partition with the cloned installer on it.
Also, did you mention which retail DVD installer/installer dmg you were using? I recall the three retail versions were 10.6.0, 10.6.3, and 10.6.6.
In Disk Utility, this is the two-step process of:
1) dropping the .dmg into the left bar, selecting the image, and under “Images” in the menubar, selecting “Scan Image for Restore”
2) After the “Scan Image for Restore” step completes, open the “restore” tab in Disk Utility (if you haven’t done so already), then drag and drop the dmg to the “Source” window and the destination HD partition to the “Destination” window, and selecting the “Erase destination” window.
Hrm. For sake of… science, try using the 10.6.3 retail DVD image on Archive-dot-org.
Thanks all. Thx @B S Magnet for the explanation. I'll probably try this on MBP 17 No 2
Fyi: Turns out it the issue really came down to cheapo no-name DVD blanks.
Purchased some Verbatim DVDs, burning and installation went without issues. Writing this post from Snow Leopard - trying to compile Qt 5.3.2 from source
Fyi: Turns out it the issue really came down to cheapo no-name DVD blanks.
Purchased some Verbatim DVDs, burning and installation went without issues. Writing this post from Snow Leopard - trying to compile Qt 5.3.2 from source
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I'm not aware of a retail 10.6.6. A "final" retail 10.6.8 release would have been awesome.
Ah. Okay. For whatever reason, I thought the final DVD version of Snow Leopard which remained on sale for several years afterwards was a final pressing of Snow Leopard using 10.6.6. Thanks for the correction.
The 10.6.7 discs for 2011 iMacs or MBPs, deprived of their machine check, are probably as good as it gets in terms of Snow Leopard.
Huh. I hadn’t been aware of 10.6.7 install discs which lacked machine check. To double-check whether this was something I might have overlooked/forgotten, I dug out the “Hello.” user manual (034-6051-A) which shipped with my early 2011 13-inch MBP.
I must have an oddball right on that cusp, as I bought it as an Apple refurb in August 2011, which was just less than a month after the release of Lion. Sure enough, the manual shows that a DVD did not ship with it (since the OEM HDD came bundled with 10.7.0). It was mostly a blur to me because when the MBP arrived at the time, I promptly yanked out that HDD and dropped in the 10.6.8 HDD transplanted from the mid-2009 MBP it was replacing.
So in short, I would like to get a hold of that 10.6.7 OEM as an image. I know Archive has it, so I’ll be heading there for that.
Fresh install of Snow leopard on an aluminum unibody A1278.