Recent content by Kernos

Yeh, I'm waiting for the new Intel chips to come out in the Mac Pro and hopefully MacBook Pro (with a 500 gig 7200 rpm drive - with SATA 2)! :sigh:

I generally keep an external drive as a startup drive for situations like this. If you have another Mac with Firewire running OS X, you could also install on the problem drive using T-mode. Startup the problem Mac while holding down the T-key and it should mount as a Firewire volume. Bill

I have a 2.7 ghz Dual G5 Mac Pro, I primarily use for video. It takes many hours to encode a 2 hour video to a DMG. It seems the bottleneck is more drive I/O than cpu, as neither of the latter are maxed when encoding. The internal drives are SATA I. I have 2, I TB drives I could start up as...

Other suggestions before going the erase and install: •Try safe boot (start up while holding the shift key), it will repair your drive •Unplug any peripherals before starting up •Get and use Diskwarrior to repair any directory damage •Reapply the most recent COMBO...

Argghhh! I am new here, but have been on Mac forums and lists for decades, since MUG BBSs. Been searching here for the sig option for an hour till I found this thread. Seems this info should be in the user CP "This function is not available until you have made 20 posts..." or some such.

My 17" MBP is the computer I use the most (seems like 24/7). I only use my Mac Pros and various Power Macs for doing video and other CPU and IO intensive things. That said, I would really like a portable workstation which can encode a 2 hour video in a couple of hours, while I am doing...