>> A few more things re: my broken iMac...
>>
>
>> The tech is going to try one more time - the third power/analog/video
>> board - the consensus is that it is more likely to have two bad
>> replacement p/a/v boards than a bad CRT. So we should know the final word
>> later today, coincidentally the same day as Steve's "keynote address"!
Tom, I have to tell you that it is basically "Caveat emptor" or buyer
beware. If you didn't know that your iMac was something that could be
taken apart and parts like video cards replaced, etc. then you just didn't
do your homework. If that is what you want you should have bought (or can
now buy) a G4 or G3 tower. They are much easier to get into than probably
any PC and replacing parts or is a piece of cake. If you haven't seen one
you should visit a local store that will show you how easy it is to take it
apart, etc.
True plug and play was invented with the mac, long before anyone had that
option on windows.
>See this is the one thing I think pcs have over the mac. If I burn
>anything out on my pc's , it's usally my video cards, and it's cause I have
>them overclocked and there way too hot. They usually die if one of the fans
>I put on them kicks the bucket.
You are also not the average user. iMacs are basically made for most of us
that surf, do email, use Photoshop, other great graphics programs, publish,
etc., etc. These computers IMHO are not made for overclocking or tinkering
beyond upgrading hard drives, ram, replacing batteries, etc. They don't
have PCI slots for adding peripherals. If we want to do that we add thru
USB or firewire components.
>None the less, changing a vid card is a matter of goign out, buying one, and
>popping ol one out, put new one in, run install program lol. The guy at the
>mac store almost had a stroke when I told him I'd upgrade the ram myself. He
>was trying to pimp off some pc-100 ram for about twice the price the pc
>store has it at. ( mitsubishi ram I think too ewww,) I told him, no thnaks,
>I'll go buy my 512 meg dimms next door, and get micron.
>
>BUt thats the only thing that spooks me, not being able to service my own
>computer. That and the high cost of getting it repaired.
>
>Two side notes though, anyone notice there Imacs are really hot? I put my
>hand where the "handle" with the vents is, and was like damm. I ran a small
>utility I found to get the temp and it was 49 degrees celcius. Thats very
>hot for pc standards, is this normal for macs?
>
>Second, well, i decided that the mac os, 9 and X, weren't for me. 9 just
>isnt stable enough, and X, well it looks like a cheap X-Windows rip off to
>be honest. I decided to put YellowDog linux with Gnome as my windows manager
>on instead. I figure if I'm gonna be using a unix like environment, I might
>as well get something solid. Maybe I'll try Mac OS after the next revision,
>but for now it's linux kernel 2.4 for me :)
>
>5:30 am, done at the office finaly. I left a dvd encoding on my mac last
>night to DivX and aparently it did it in under two hours, very impresive.
Believe me 9.0.4 or 9.1 is stable if you aren't using beta programs. I
rarely have my computer hang up anymore. I also know how to maintain the
program by running DFA, trashing certain prefs. from time to time, running
Techtool Pro (if I were starting today Diskwarrior would be the first 3rd
party program that I would buy), rebuilding the desktop, etc. All of these
are much preferrable to running a windows machine and seeing the blue
screen "fatal or error exception" (or whatever, I conveniently forget the
title of the screen) on your Windows machine.
OS X is the future, it just isn't there yet, but surf over to Macsurfer
(www.macsurfer.com) at the end of the day and see what new software is on
the horizon at MacWorld in NY. I'm sure you won't see a Mac emualator for
any windoze machine because it won't be stable enough. :>)
BTW, how's the linux and what machine are you running it on. You might
want to answer that off list as I'm sure most here don't care about the
specifics.
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Joe
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