Betalogue

Important improvements and bug fixes. Not perfect, but already quite good for a fairly new system release.

Reports of new UI responsiveness and USB problems in Mac OS X 10.5, including from yours truly.

Mac OS X 10.4.10 update hoses my system.

Logic board swap fixes RAM problem in Mac Pro.

It’s not the RAM modules… or is it?

Yet another problem with Apple hardware…

The G5 Quad is still dead. Apple is sending me a new Mac Pro.

The red LED is back for good this time. Looks like a bad CPU unit to me.

Repair shop swaps the logic board, and the machine is still freezing.

More inconclusive testing, more questions, and no solution.

The configuration of LaunchBar that I use is quite clearly what makes the G5 Quad so slow with only 512 MB of RAM.

It turns out that running with 512 MB can be done after all… The problem clearly lies with third-party utilities.

Dvorak is getting some competition.

Damien Barrett gives a good example of the use of Google as a trouble-shooting tool. I too have been able to help people with technical problems that I had never heard of before, simply by searching for answers with Google. Damien goes on to raise some questions about the importance of Google as a search […]

It’s a bit sad that, after all the excitement caused by the introduction of “plug-and-play” technologies such as USB and FireWire to REPLACE the aging and fussy ADB and SCSI ports on Mac computers, and after half a decade of Macs shipping with these new ports, we are still experiencing far too many fundamental problems […]