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Can someone please send me his pc-save.rom file? Thanks a lot! bender@swf.ch

Got it! Suitcase made it crash ...

Word runs till "optimizing font performance" the crushes ...

Hmmm... all I did was installing MacOS 10.1.4. and the Office Update. Have you already installed the MS OfficeX updater?

After updating to 10.1.4. Word, Excel and PowerPoint doesn't start anymore. I've already installed the MS Updater, but no way ... :mad:

Thanks for your post. I guess that's the solution. I've tried to extract the DVD Player.app from the Installation CD and patch it withour installion of the drive but failed. I definitly need to put the Drive into my Mac, install the software, patch it and deinstall the drive...

That's right Biff. Apple should focus on optimizing MacOS X especially since it is the preinstalled OS. Users that have for example a Mac at the office running MacOS 9 might decide to buy an iMac for home business and get a newer machine that's "much slower" than the older one in the office...

Does anybody know how I can install Apple's DVD Player without internal DVD-Drive?

I definitly hope so. Is it right that the current finder has been programmed in carbon and the reprogrammed finder will be built up with cocoa? Or am I mixing up something here?

10.1.3 I start thinking that there's something wrong with my new Mac ...

I've been working for one month now with my new G4/800 and MacOS X. I have to say that the OS itself and its functionalities are great. Nice crossplatform networking and some other nice and well thought features. But it's simply too slow to be used as a professional machine. Finder speed...

Does anybody know where I can downlod the full Apple DVD Player.app package (not only the update)?

"Dave" is definitly worth to be considered. http://www.thursby.com

As much as I understood is that the finder has been programmed in carbon so far. Apple propably choose carbon to finish MacOSX as soon as possible. A cocoa version might be on the way and we will see a significant speed boost in the (near) future... I hope so ...

It's right, many tasks on MacOS X are much faster than on Mac OS9. But it's a matter of fact that what you mostly do is opening, resizing or scrolling windows. And that's what you see and feel at work and have to wait for being finished. I don't care about fast ripping a movie or...