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Mik3
August 28th, 2006, 08:45 PM
I recently bought a Mac Pro. I was wondering if I could get Front Row on this thing so I did some research. What I found is that one guy (on a random forum) claimed he used Front Row on a Mac Pro (with the keyboard shortcut command-esc) but it stopped working. And I can partially confirm his story as the OS X Restore CD for the Mac Pro includes Front Row in the package customization screen. It is installed, but I can't seem to enable it. I tried using those Front Row on PPC enablers but they just screwed things up and didn't work at all. Keep in mind that Front Row keyboard shortcuts are appearing in the System Preferences menu.

Any tips on how I can enable Front Row on my Mac Pro?

And by the way, the reviews are correct, this thing is very, very fast and very, very quiet. (Not to mention very, very big. haha)

Thanks,
Michael Ishigaki.
Jeff Wheeler
August 28th, 2006, 08:48 PM
http://andrewescobar.com/frontrow/
Mik3
August 28th, 2006, 08:50 PM
http://andrewescobar.com/frontrow/

Yeah, that's the software I was talking about in my post. It does not work on enabling Front Row on Intel Macs. It just screws up the preferences pane and you have to reinstall various components of OS X to get it to work again. That's only for running Front Row on PPC Macs. The website is very misleading when it says that the software enables it on "all Macs."
Jeff Wheeler
August 28th, 2006, 08:51 PM
Hmm… I don't know. I did it on my PPC Mini… I doubt you can on Intel (they probably prevented it).

Edit: Actually, that's one of the selling-points of Leopard, so I'm betting they did.
Mik3
August 28th, 2006, 08:52 PM
Hmm… I don't know. I did it on my PPC Mini… I doubt you can on Intel (they probably prevented it).

I don't get why it comes with the system yet there's no way to activate it... Very odd...
Jeff Wheeler
August 28th, 2006, 08:53 PM
I edited my post. :)
Mik3
August 28th, 2006, 08:54 PM
Oh, I see. haha Yeah, you're right. Oh well, I guess I'll just wait.
grimdeath
August 29th, 2006, 10:18 AM
Command+Esc works on my MacBookPro it came with the OS it's very purdy
jay-em
September 7th, 2006, 08:51 AM
That is odd.. We got ours at work yesterday, and I wanted to show off some front row... So much for that. I was looking for the remote.. :D
Ya, the MacPro is waay fast. Our IT guys are jealous :pleased:

We locked the damn thing up using crossover to play games.. lol