"About Aperture 2.1.2
The Aperture 2.1.2 update improves the printing quality of books, cards and calendars ordered through the Aperture printing service. The update is recommended for all customers using Aperture 2."

The Aperture 2 updates download page requires a login/Serial number.

" Running ATI Radeon HD 2600 along with NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT. Works fine in Quad-Core Intel Xeon/3.2 GHz. I originally bought the NVIDIA 7300GT but could not get it to work on most current machine. Apple tech finally told me it won't work and I bought the ATI.
OS 10.5.5, Three monitors, No problems.
-Paul"

"Running a 8800GT and Radeon 2600 in 2008 Mac Pro - no issues.
The ATI 2600 drives two 20" dells and the 8800GT drives a 24" dell monitor.
Works as expected in OSX and Windows Boot camp.
-Stacy"

" I've been following your site for years and I wanted to give you a few bits of info on the new MacBook Pro. I ordered mine last Tuesday night about 9pm and it was delivered yesterday (Friday) before 10am. That's pretty amazing.

The laptop itself id beautiful and very sturdy. The jury's still out on the glossy display but it is much brighter than my previous MacBook Pro. I haven't run any benchmarks yet, but if you have any specific requests, I'd be happy to try them this weekend and get back to you with the results.

Some important points:
1) Dual Graphics sets: You must logout when you change from "Better Performance" to "Better Battery Life." (Mentioned in an Apple doc I've linked to a couple times last week - MacBook Pro (Late 2008): How to set graphics performance-Mike) So, you can't set one setting for use when on A/C power and the other when on battery and have the system switch automatically. To me this really hinders the usefulness of having two GPUs. Naturally, one would want to use the fastest GPU. But it is a pain to have to logout to change to the slower one to save battery. (new model battery is about 15% lower capacity rating than previous model) Perhaps Snow Leopard will change this.

2) Track pad. One word, amazing. You do wonder very quickly how you did without it for so many years. The "Button" action does take a bit to get used to as does the double-tap and drag gestures. But doing a "reverse-pinch" on a webpage increases the font size. Very cool. (Apple has a kbase doc on Using the new trackpad.-Mike)

3) Keyboard. Much like the latest Apple external keyboards. So far I like it. Unlike my previous MacBook Pro, the backlight seems to be either always on or always off. I haven't yet found the preference to make it only come on in low light. Perhaps, I just haven't found it yet or my desk area is too dark for it to go off. Will need to look into it more.

4) DisplayPort. In my business, I travel to customers' locations and often have to connect to their displays or projectors and this is one of the dumbest things Apple has done in years. Supposedly this is an open standard. That may be the case, but I wish Apple had spent the couple of dollars to put a DVI port on the MacBook Pro. Instead I'm forced to be $30 for a DisplayPort to DVI adapter, plus another $30 for a DisplayPort to VGA adapter. Oh and I can't get a DisplayPort to Composite/S-Video adapter because Apple doesn't make one. And that "Open Standard" is implemented by apple with a 'Mini-DisplayPort" connector that as far as I can tell only Apple uses. I've seen it asked if one could just buy a DisplayPort to DVI adapter and then use a DVI-VGA or DVI-S-video adapter from the previous MacBook Pros. That was my thought as I had invested in both of those adapters. Guess what - the answer to that questions is no. As you can see in the attached image (not shown here), the DisplayPort to DVI adapter does not have the correct pins to accept the DVI-VGA adapter. (A DVI to VGA adapter requres a DVI-I connector with the analog pins intact for VGA mode. The apple adapter doesn't.-Mike)
Now at first glance, one might say, big deal so you have to buy another $30 adapter (that has DVI-I/analog pins). I don't know one that has anything that can use DisplayPort, let alone a Mini-DisplayPort. So, I need to buy the DisplayPort to DVI adapter and DisplayPort to VGA adapter and carry them with me in my travels. At my home office I have a Dell 24" Display. No DisplayPort there, so I need another DisplayPort to DVI adapter for that, unless I want to disconnect and take it with me every day. So I need to spend nearly $100 so Apple can save what is probably less than $1 per system on licensing a DVI connector...
(I don't think cost was a factor - I think it was DisplayPort's features (for future use/products, including new Cinema Display) that was a primary factor. Displayport has higher bandwidth, audio, an Aux channel (for USB, Camera, Touchscreen, etc.) and DRM features, although Apple is one of the first users of it (including on the new LED 24in Cinema Display). Some reference links on DisplayPort: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort and http://www.vesa.org/.-Mike)

Lastly, the configuration I have is MacBook Pro 15" 2.8GHz, 4GB Ram, 250GB 7200RPM drive, 512MB VRAM. If you have any questions I may be able to answer, please let me know.
-Chad H.
Computer and Multimedia Services"

A couple new MacBook Pro owners replied to an earlier post regarding Bootcamp/Windows installs/use:

" Just finished installing XP Pro SP3 on my new MBPro (the 2.53 GHz/4GB model). I had a few minor hiccups in the install (e.g. not being able to eject the Win XP install disc without going back to OS X, one driver oddness, apparently fixed by a BootCamp "Repair") but nothing major so far.

I did note the prior comments from Paul regarding the right click problem. (in Friday's page here) He is right - even though the secondary click option is checked by default in the Trackpad pane of the BootCamp control panel, a two-finger click does not produce a windows right-click.
However, I noticed that a *three-finger* click seems to do the job...!

Not as convenient as with two fingers, but at least it doesn't require you to have a mouse plugged into those closely spaced USB ports while we wait for Apple to fix the problem! (I had trouble plugging in my spare Dell USB mouse next to a Sandisk Cruzer micro).

So far, the MBP is a sweet machine, with an incredibly solid feel, and an incredible advance over the aging G4 Powerbook that it replaced.

(he later wrote)
As an interesting update, I just virtualized my boot camp with VMWare last night; when running as a VM, Windows XP recognizes the two finger click as a right-click (not 3 fingers as when booted natively).
Regards, ML "

Another reply with the 3 finger tip:

" I just installed WindowsXP on my new 2.53GHz MBP, and can confirm that right-clicking with 2 fingers, or control-click does NOT work. However, a poster on the Apple discussion forums discovered that if you click with THREE fingers, it works. I've tried this, and am happy to report that it DOES work, however it sometimes takes 2 or 3 attempts to get it right, or to make the right-clicked context menu stay on the screen (it often vanishes quickly).
-Craig"

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