Peter McCulloch

I recently purchased a new MacBook Pro and on startup it gives you 

the option to transfer over old files and settings, which is very 

convenient. I wanted to benchmark my new machine against my old 1 

Ghz G4. I opened up the pitchshiftingplayground patch and cranked up 

both. My G4 was 25% faster than the 2.2 Ghz machine.

I did a clean re-install of Max (same version, 4.6.3) and that 

finally took care of the issue. (and the Intel machine is now 

Has anyone else experienced this? Is this some sort of emulation 

bug? (where it's acting like it's running on a G4?) Trashing the 

I recently purchased a new MacBook Pro and on startup it gives you  
the option to transfer over old files and settings, which is very  
convenient.   I wanted to benchmark my new machine against my old 1  
Ghz G4.  I opened up the pitchshiftingplayground patch and cranked up  
both.  My G4 was 25% faster than the 2.2 Ghz machine.

I did a clean re-install of Max (same version, 4.6.3) and that  
finally took care of the issue.  (and the Intel machine is now  
definitely faster)

Has anyone else experienced this?  Is this some sort of emulation  
bug?  (where it's acting like it's running on a G4?)  Trashing the  
preferences did not seem to help.

macbook-pro-speed-issue-with-switchover

Apple's Migration Assistant isn't very reliable. I would stay away from 

Apple's Migration Assistant isn't very reliable.  I would stay away from 
it when possible.

having just done this very thing, and having problems getting pluggo 

to show up in pro tools since the switch, does anyone have 

suggestions on what might be jiggered by doing a migration and how to 

On Oct 16, 2007, at 1:04 PM, andrew benson wrote:

> Apple's Migration Assistant isn't very reliable. I would stay away 

"Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.."

having just done this very thing, and having problems getting pluggo  
to show up in pro tools since the switch, does anyone have  
suggestions on what might be jiggered by doing a migration and how to  
fix it?
thanks
bruce

> Apple's Migration Assistant isn't very reliable.  I would stay away  
> from it when possible.
>
> Best,
> Andrew B.

"Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.."
Philip K. Dick


Migration Assistant has been a problem now that there are PPC and Intel macs out there now.

My guess is that some PPC files/apps were put on your new MBP, and were thus running under emulation. Once you reinstalled, this cleared the problem, howver if I were you, I may make a backup and reinstall my entire system from scratch just in case there are other PPC things that made it on there.

Migration Assistant has been a problem now that there are PPC and Intel macs out there now.
My guess is that some PPC files/apps were put on your new MBP, and were thus running under emulation.  Once you reinstalled, this cleared the problem, howver if I were you, I may make a backup and reinstall my entire system from scratch just in case there are other PPC things that made it on there.


yes, i thought of that, obviously a PITA and something that 

will take me many hours to do. generally, when i have used migration 

ass't (granted g4 to g4) it has performed well, with the only issues 

being with reauthorizing certain apps. i had some trepidation about 

migrating from ppc to intel, but it seemed to work fine - though of 

course it can take a few days for problems to show up as one uses the 

On Oct 17, 2007, at 4:37 PM, Eric Sheffield wrote:

> Migration Assistant has been a problem now that there are PPC and 

> My guess is that some PPC files/apps were put on your new MBP, and 

> were thus running under emulation. Once you reinstalled, this 

> cleared the problem, howver if I were you, I may make a backup and 

> reinstall my entire system from scratch just in case there are 

> other PPC things that made it on there.

 yes, i thought of that, obviously a PITA and something that  
will take me many hours to do. generally, when i have used migration  
ass't (granted g4 to g4) it has performed well, with the only issues  
being with reauthorizing certain apps. i had some trepidation about  
migrating from ppc to intel, but it seemed to work fine - though of  
course it can take a few days for problems to show up as one uses the  
system.
b

>
> Migration Assistant has been a problem now that there are PPC and  
> Intel macs out there now.
> My guess is that some PPC files/apps were put on your new MBP, and  
> were thus running under emulation.  Once you reinstalled, this  
> cleared the problem, howver if I were you, I may make a backup and  
> reinstall my entire system from scratch just in case there are  
> other PPC things that made it on there.

MacBook Pro speed issue with switchover