Quick Emergency Help Needed

[HamSammich]

Hi all!

Loving the plane. Making YouTube video after YouTube video with it. Can't get enough. However, my Windows install badly needs fixing. If I remove the plane, using the Control Panel uninstaller, will I have any activation hassles re-installing it on a fresh Windows setup? If so, can anyone suggest some work-arounds? I need to take the machine down today and am obviously trying to minimize my 737 downtime. It certainly is addictive.

 

Best,

 

Marshall

[Ben Russell]

You'll be fine. We allow for activation of upto 3 machines.

Your old machine registration will fully expire in six months.

Result;

Old machine: one dead slot.

New OS installed: 2nd slot used.

3rd slot remains spare.

 

Do take the time to get your Windows install correct before activating though.

Some people seem to activate as the first thing they do on a new machine and then have "more troubles" leading to another OS install, leading to another slot being used...

Edited May 30, 2016 by Ben Russell

[HamSammich]

Ben, thanks. I certainly will.

I purely wish there were a powerful enough Mac to fly X-Plane, at 4K and do it smoothly. We're close, but not there yet. And Windows gaming rigs just keep getting faster.

I love that your plane is not a frame-hog. I hate that I'm stuck on a platform that, although improving, always manages to piss me off.

 

Best,

 

marshall

[Ben Russell]

Mac are no longer interested in serious media professionals.

The MBP line up is a joke. ALL Intel "GPU" except for the highest model costing nearly $4,000.

I miss the days of "Pro" in three sizes and "Student" in three sizes.

 

(I just bought an Alienware...)

Edited May 30, 2016 by Ben Russell

[HamSammich]

ben,

making a Hackintosh tempts me. But all the futzing ultimately defeats the purpose of owning a Mac. That and I do like to see people get paid for their work.

[Ben Russell]

1 minute ago, HamSammich said:

ben,

making a Hackintosh tempts me. But all the futzing ultimately defeats the purpose of owning a Mac. That and I do like to see people get paid for their work.

No hackintosh here. (Zero tolerance towards piracy.)

Linux.

 

I still own a mac and will still work on macs, but their place as my primary workstation has passed.

All the iCloud crap and magical files that don't really go away, yuck.

 

...and just because I'll be working in Linux doesn't mean we'll be supporting it to the ends of the earth.

Any future Linux release will be "serve yourself" there's simply too much room to make a horrible mess. (and three million distros)

 

..still sitting at my iMac, probably for a few months yet.

[HamSammich]

Well, I have more tolerance for the "magic BS". With the strong exception of iPhoto. The irony is, the big iMac has the power.. if the monitor were 3K not 5

 

ah well 

[Ben Russell]

Just now, HamSammich said:

Well, I have more tolerance for the "magic BS". With the strong exception of iPhoto. The irony is, the big iMac has the power.. if the monitor were 3K not 5

 

ah well 

Don't even get me started.

Oh you have fifteen years of memories and _like_ the way it works?

Too bad, we deleted it. Learn again.

[HamSammich]

The capriciousness bugs me but I tolerate it as long as It Just Works.

When it doesn't, that's a problem. I still think, on balance, it's the least bad of the bunch. But the divergence is narrowing.

As for learning/unlearning. Final Cut X freaked a lot of people out. As a video professional, I watched my organization rush to Premiere. However, as a video professional, I also saw Final Cut X actually develop into a kick-ass system.

But they blew it. And they broke a lot of faith with users.