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Beta-testing of slideshow's engine for Mac


Igor

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We're working on slideshow's engine for Mac and PicturesToExe for Windows will able create both kind of executable files: for Windows (EXE) and for Mac (APP).

We need help of beta-testers who has Intel based Mac with Tiger or Leopard.

I'll send created slideshow to see how it will play under Mac with hardware acceleration.

If you want to join this beta-testing please add your post to this topic and specify model of your Mac computer/laptop, version of MacOSX and installed video card (if you know).

P.S. full version of PicturesToExe for Mac will be the next step (not in this year).

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Hi Igor, with pleasure..

iMac, Leopard 1.5

Intel Core 2 Duo 2,66

ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro

By the way, this is the Mac I use with Bootcamp for composing my PtE slideshows, not the computer I take with me for projection; in the near future I'll need a Macbook, of which I don't know exactly the performance of the new NVidia videocard regarding slideshows...

regards,

Henri.

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I would like to test this.

Have an iMac with OS X 10.5.6

2gb memory

Card as above.

Also have our Photo Societies MacBook running Windows/Mac OS X under bootcamp only 1gb memory. Not sure of graphics card.

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Hi Igor,

I would be very happy to help with the testing. Following are details of my set up using a 24 inch iMac. Some of the details don't mean a lot to me but they be useful for you.

Model Name: iMac

Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo

Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz

Number Of Processors: 1

Total Number Of Cores: 2

L2 Cache: 6 MB

Memory: 4 GB

Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz

Chipset Model: ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro

Type: Display

Bus: PCIe

PCIe Lane Width: x16

VRAM (Total): 256 MB

Vendor: ATI (0x1002)

Device ID: 0x9583

Revision ID: 0x0000

ROM Revision: 113-B2250L-259

EFI Driver Version: 01.00.259

Displays:

iMac:

Resolution: 1920 x 1200

Depth: 32-bit Color

Core Image: Hardware Accelerated

Main Display: Yes

Mirror: Off

Online: Yes

Quartz Extreme: Supported

Built-In: Yes

Operating System: Leopard Mac OS X 10.5.6 (9G55)

Kind regards

Peter

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:rolleyes:

Hallelujah - We have progress?

Hi Igor

Count me in: :D

I have an:-

iMac 2.8Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo

6Mb Shared L2 cache

2Gb Ram

ATi Radeon HD 2600 PRO Graphics 256 Mb GDDR memory

OX Leopard 10.5.6

I hope that this provides the information that you need - This was an "off the 'Apple Store' shelf" iMac from the UK in summer last year (2008).

I am also quite seriously considering the 'new' 17" MacBook Pro Laptop.

However, on a slightly different tack - I notice from quite a few above replies that people are using 'Bootcamp' to run with 'Windows', rather than 'Parallels' or VMWare Fusion'!

I think that it was Henri that suggested that this was a more efficient way of utilising the computer graphics and memory facilities?

I am not really a technical wiz on this sort of thing, but I am running 'VMWare Fusion' software and was wondering if, and why, I should revert to 'Bootcamp'? (Windows is very slow at loading/starting up through 'Fusion' - but once open things seem to work ok).

And if so, how should I go about removing/deleting 'Fusion' and replacing it with Bootcamp'?

Any guidance or explanation would be appreciated.

Regards

Geoffrey

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Hi Geoffrey,

Ask some betatesting from Igor and do a try-out with your VMWare Fusion..

I'm very curious to your experiences because (on my iMac) Parallels didn't use the graphical card in the right way; that's the reason I use Bootcamp to obtain a real Windows Intel-computer.

regards,

Henri.

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And if so, how should I go about removing/deleting 'Fusion' and replacing it with Bootcamp'?

Any guidance or explanation would be appreciated.

Regards

Geoffrey

Hi Geoffrey,

Read the thread 'PtE and the Mac'...

regards,

Henri.

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Not sure of graphics card.

You can find out Mac system information in the following way:

* press "Apple" icon at the left side of menu

* select "About this Mac" (you'll see breif information on the system and processor).

* click "More Info..." button. This will launch System Profiler applicaiton. (it can take a few seconds to gather the system information).

* select "Graphics/Displays" from the hardware list to see graphics card used by Mac.

You can also export full system information from System Profiler, by selecting "File->Save". It's better to .zip the created report file if you need to send it anywere. Don't worry, no personal information (expect for user name) is contained in this system profile report file.

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Hi Igor,

I am very interested to help in any way to test the Mac version of PTE.

PTE on the Mac should be a real winner. There's no significant competition.

My Mac Pro System :-

2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon

10 Gb 800 MHz DDr2 FB-DIMM

Graphics : NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

Operating System : Mac OS X Version 10.5.6

Best regards,

Steve Mullarkey

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Steve,

One important addition - currently it is not Mac version of PicturesToExe (please see my remark above).

PicturesToExe for Windows will able create executable file of slideshow for Mac.

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Would you please include me in the Beta testing of PicturestoExe for the Apple Mac platform.

I am delighted by this proposed development!

Computer.

Model Name: MacBook

Model Identifier: MacBook1,1

Processor Name: Intel Core Duo

Processor Speed: 2 GHz

Number Of Processors: 1

Total Number Of Cores: 2

L2 Cache (per processor): 2 MB

Memory: 2 GB

Bus Speed: 667 MHz

Boot ROM Version: MB11.0061.B03

SMC Version:

Intel GMA 950:

Chipset Model: GMA 950

Type: Display

Bus: Built-In

VRAM (Total): 64 MB of shared system memory

Vendor: Intel (0x8086)

Device ID: 0x27a2

Revision ID: 0x0003

Displays:

Color LCD:

Display Type: LCD

Resolution: 1280 x 800

Depth: 32-bit Color

Built-In: Yes

Core Image: Hardware Accelerated

Main Display: Yes

Mirror: Off

Online: Yes

Quartz Extreme: Supported

Display Connector:

Status: No display connected

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