News for Sunday, 13 November 2005

Barefeats has compared a PMG5 Quad 2.5GHz with a PMG5 dual 2.5GHz : the new high-end model of the PMG5 is indeed a "beast".
Cinebench and After Effects rendering tests are almost 2 times faster with the Quad; whereas the Photoshop test is completed in 17.6s while it took 25.8s with the Dual 2.5GHz.
If those first test are confirmed, Apple will have deliver a really powerful PMG5 allowing professional to wait for the MacIntel transition without any stress; the current PMG5 being really powerful allowing real productivity gain in a Pro-environment.

The new Safe Sleep function has been thoroughly explained on Hardmac. It allows the RAM content of the latest Powerbooks to be saved in case of power shortage. Good news: thanks to a hack found on http://matt.ucc.asn.au/apple/machibernate.html , this function can also be set to work on most Macs running OS X 10.4.3 (server excluded). Here's how you should proceed... of course at your own risks! Launch the terminal and run each of the following commands sequentially:

sudo nvram nvramrc='" /" select-dev" msh" encode-string " has-safe-sleep" property unselect'
sudo nvram "use-nvramrc?"=true

Reboot. In order to activate the function, you may then run the following command:

sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 3

If you want the safe sleep mode to become the default setting, replace the 3 by a 1. If you want to deactivate it, set this argument to "0" instead.
If you want to undo the previous commands, just run this one:

sudo nvram "use-nvramrc?"=false

Please let us know how it worked for you.