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MacFixit posted my 30″ display problem! Here’s the page for it. You have to scroll down a bit to find it.

So as I posted yesterday, I’m having some problems with my 30″ Apple Cinema Display and my MacBook Pro. Random flashing green speckles, red lines, white dots, etc. They’re very noticeable on a black background. Anyway, I did a little troubleshooting today and the problem seems very much to be a design defect in the MacBook Pro itself.

Connecting to another MacBook Pro (a 1.83GHz model; mine is 2GHz) produces the exact same problem
Connecting to a PowerMac G4 does not produce the problem
Connecting to a PowerMac G5 does not produce the problem

So, if I connect to any Macbook Pro, I get the problem. If I connect to any other computer, I don’t.

Other people having the problem are here and here.

My gut tells me that this is something they can fix in software. I hope they get a fix out soon.

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Today Microsoft released an update for Office 2004 for MacOS that includes Spotlight support for Entourage. This is wonderful because as there isn’t another full Exchange client for MacOS, I’m forced to use Entourage, but had to give up Spotlight. I believe Microsoft originally stated that Spotlight support wouldn’t for a long while; I guess they got it out early (!! this is Microsoft we’re talking about)

In other news, I received a 2GHz MacBook Pro with 2GB RAM. It’s a very nice machine. It is faster than my Dual 2GHz G5 in almost every way - yet it’s a laptop. So far the only real problem I’ve had with it has been using it with my Apple 30″ Cinema Display. I’m getting a bunch of green and blue speckles all over the screen that sort of come and go. They’re very noticeable on a black background (like Terminal). The interesting thing here is that I don’t have the same problem when I connect it to my PowerMac. Once I tried to use a dual-link DVI extension cable with this monitor and it produced the same digital artifacts. This time I’m plugging directly into the MacBook. It’s a bit annoying. There are a few reports in the Apple discussion forums of other people having this - it seems like it may possibly be a software problem.