MacBook Notes
I have been using Scarlett now for almost a month and I must say, the experience is proving to be more satisfactory than with Lindsay.
If course, the road is bumpier since the Intel processor is still relatively new on a Mac so there will always be some hitches along the way. That's a given.
Particularly problematic are the Flash and Shockwave objects. Flash is already universal binary but Shockwave isn't, so you really have to run stuff under Rosetta to see the latter.
That's when the trouble started for me. I installed Shockwave to run under Rosetta but normally run Firefox universal native. It affected even the Flash objects and hence, could not display them. Imagine that, I could not even see the YouTube videos I pasted in my entries.
I thought the problem was with YouTube itself since it was transitioning to the Google system so I ignored it for most of yesterday.
But then, I installed Parallels Desktop to run Windows XP (cough! cough!) last night, since I still needed to run a couple of programs that are only available there. I noticed the XP based browsers correctly displayed Flash content.
But all's well that ends well. It was just a matter of uninstalling and reinstalling everything (except Shockwave, I will just wait until it goes Universal). Everything's fine now and Flash content is already loading correctly on the browsers.
I have to say, though, that the Parallels option is just as impressive as what I imagined Boot Camp may be. I guess using the Boot Camp option will be quicker since it will not run parallel to or under OSX and it will use the hardware directly. But I really don't want to add a separate physical partition for XP as I would only use Windows XP a fraction of the time. So the Parallels option is best for my purposes.
And surprisingly, Windows XP on an Intel Mac using Parallels Desktop is still twice as fast as Jessica, which I already sold to raise additional funds to pay off Scarlett (which is not surprising simply because Scarlett has more than twice the processing power and twice the RAM as Lindsay)... although it chokes up when you run a Mac OSX application simultaneously. But that could be solved by additional memory, which will be my next project. But then again, I really don't need to run XP and Mac OSX programs simultaneously. I'm not that of a power user.
Anyway, I have to go and rest some more. I slept at 3:00 a.m. because of all of these and I still have a major document to finish and email today. Plus, that client I was telling you about is requesting for a meeting today, in far away Roxas Boulevard area... on a Sunday...
Hey! I'm not complaining. A lot of work still way better than no work...
Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
If course, the road is bumpier since the Intel processor is still relatively new on a Mac so there will always be some hitches along the way. That's a given.
Particularly problematic are the Flash and Shockwave objects. Flash is already universal binary but Shockwave isn't, so you really have to run stuff under Rosetta to see the latter.
That's when the trouble started for me. I installed Shockwave to run under Rosetta but normally run Firefox universal native. It affected even the Flash objects and hence, could not display them. Imagine that, I could not even see the YouTube videos I pasted in my entries.
I thought the problem was with YouTube itself since it was transitioning to the Google system so I ignored it for most of yesterday.
But then, I installed Parallels Desktop to run Windows XP (cough! cough!) last night, since I still needed to run a couple of programs that are only available there. I noticed the XP based browsers correctly displayed Flash content.
But all's well that ends well. It was just a matter of uninstalling and reinstalling everything (except Shockwave, I will just wait until it goes Universal). Everything's fine now and Flash content is already loading correctly on the browsers.
I have to say, though, that the Parallels option is just as impressive as what I imagined Boot Camp may be. I guess using the Boot Camp option will be quicker since it will not run parallel to or under OSX and it will use the hardware directly. But I really don't want to add a separate physical partition for XP as I would only use Windows XP a fraction of the time. So the Parallels option is best for my purposes.
And surprisingly, Windows XP on an Intel Mac using Parallels Desktop is still twice as fast as Jessica, which I already sold to raise additional funds to pay off Scarlett (which is not surprising simply because Scarlett has more than twice the processing power and twice the RAM as Lindsay)... although it chokes up when you run a Mac OSX application simultaneously. But that could be solved by additional memory, which will be my next project. But then again, I really don't need to run XP and Mac OSX programs simultaneously. I'm not that of a power user.
Anyway, I have to go and rest some more. I slept at 3:00 a.m. because of all of these and I still have a major document to finish and email today. Plus, that client I was telling you about is requesting for a meeting today, in far away Roxas Boulevard area... on a Sunday...
Hey! I'm not complaining. A lot of work still way better than no work...
Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
transcription by Punzi @ 8:01 AM
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nice, cozy place you got here :)..
dunno if this will help, but I had problems as well on my MBP with firefox 2.0 on intel. But I sorted it all out with this:
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html
Maybe that would work for you as well (it's different from the "official" flash player plugin)
Thanks for the tip, Carlo.
Apparently, it's working as I reactivated the google toolbar. And it hasn't conked out... yet.
Congratulations on your MBP purchase. Personally, I don't need the extra power of Pro. I'll just upgrade the memory and hard drive on Scarlett later on.
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