Keynote Buggy

I haven't had any kernel panic issues like those mentioned in the article but I can't display presentations since my 1998 laptop has 4MB of VRAM, not the required 8.

I wonder what Keynote is doing to crash the entire system? I thought it was impossible under OS X, unless buggy kernel extensions were installed which Keynote (to my knowledge) does not do.
 
"Keynote crashes every time I try to run a presentation on my PowerBook G4 500MHz," wrote a user by the name of "Don Hume." "I know I only have the minimum (video memory) required...but the presentations I'm trying to run are quite simple (including the sample presentation)."
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Right there is the problem. If your system is barely scraping by, you are going to have issues. Minimums mean it SHOULD work...not work great.


Cardinal rule is never have the minimum requirements for anything. Hes prolly REALLY running 10.2 on an old performa with a sonnet g3 card in it, not a g4 powerbook:p :p
 
I just received my copy of Keynote the other day. I've been waiting to install it, but I might find time to do that this weekend.

I work for a very "pro-Apple" company and they will no doubt make Keynote mandatory in the near future.

Let's hope it lives up to it's name.
 
I've been using Keynote for two presentations so far, and it hasn't crashed my computer once. Keynote itself crashed one or two times, but other than that, it's been great. I've exported to QuickTime for the presentations, because they were non-interactive (just running forever in a loop), but presentation mode worked fine, too, as I've been testing it with it.
 
I've got an iBook 500 and Keynote crashes it on every presentation. It's an issue with the particular ATI graphics chip that is inside this generation of iBooks. The problem does not lie in Keynote itself, but probably within the interaction between MacOS and the graphics hardware and Apple has officially acknowledged the bug in a Knowledge Base Article.

Just because the iBook has the minimum VRAM, it should not crash! That's unacceptable! It is really slow and jumpy on complex transitions, but that should be it! And if you put it in 800x600 and thousands of colors, transitions are as fluid as they should be! They are awesome!! And then the mac crashes... :(
 
Originally posted by Pavao
transitions are as fluid as they should be! They are awesome!! And then the mac crashes... :(
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lol that sounded funny for some reason !_!_!_
 
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