Re: [9fans] [OT] 43 MB installer to share CD/DVD drive w/ MacBook Air

2008-01-25 Thread Christopher Nielsen
Actually, one of the first things I noticed about Leopard is that it is noticeably faster than Tiger on the same hardware. YMMV. On Jan 25, 2008 7:18 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One wonders at what point the law of diminishing returns kicks in when > > it comes to software... > > It didn't

Re: [9fans] [OT] 43 MB installer to share CD/DVD drive w/ MacBook Air

2008-01-25 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
Question: are you running this natively/Boot Camp or on Q/Parallels/ VMware? If natively, how did you get it to work? I got stuck on ELCR: 0003 and it didn't go far. I have an Intel Core 2 Duo iMac running 10.4.10. On Jan 25, 2008, at 10:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One wonders at

Re: [9fans] [OT] 43 MB installer to share CD/DVD drive w/ MacBook Air

2008-01-25 Thread dave . l
One wonders at what point the law of diminishing returns kicks in when it comes to software... It didn't kick in: it snuck in a while ago. I'm writing this on a 2GHz 2 core machine with 2Gb RAM and a stock OSX 10.4 install. it _should_ fly like a sparrowhawk: it's more like a dodo. I wonder ho

[9fans] [OT] 43 MB installer to share CD/DVD drive w/ MacBook Air

2008-01-24 Thread John Barham
I found this Engadget story amusing: http://tinyurl.com/363ojs Summary: Since Apple's new MacBook Air doesn't include a CD/DVD drive, they bundle a program to enable sharing of a disc drive from another machine. Apparently the (Mac) installer is 43 MB. It would be interesting to know why it ne