From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: May 16, 2012 10:47:09 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] fast!

Hi Alan;

Glad to hear it and thanks for the compliment. A 7200 rpm hard drive should be able to keep up with the 80 megabytes per second through put of the Large Format FW800 Grasshopper cameras.

One thing that can screw throughput up is SpotLight indexing stuff. I have basically disabled it on my Capture Macs AND external media. The simplest way to do this is to add your hard drive(s) to the list of locations it can not search (launch "System Preferences" app, click on the "Spotlight" icon and  then clicking on the "Privacy" tab). There are other draconian means too, using the command line tools and altering certain system level config files to permanently disable it - but those are much more involved.

On a side note, if any of you are not thrilled about being forced to use Lion with your new Laptop, there are reports that you can instal Snow Leopard:

http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/macbookpro/index.html#d16may2012

on them too.

For testing purposes, I have at least two versions of OS X installed on all my Macs. My old G4 Laptop is the current champ for most installed versions on a single hard drive with 10.2, 10.3, 10.4 and 10.5 installed in different partitions.

HTH..

Milton Aupperle

On 15-May-12, at 8:44 PM, Alan Friedman wrote:

I just brought home a new MacBook Pro… I'd been losing a lot of dropped frames on the newer Point Grey cameras and five year old laptop. Astro IIDC absolutely screams on the new I7 quad core processor stacking movies. I hadn't anticipated such a dramatic speed increase. I haven't had a moment to capture new movies yet, but can hardly wait.

Thanks for this, Milton!

cheers,

Alan