On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 10:12 PM, Bryce Lee wrote: > This was a 350MHz computer, 6 gig hard drive, 128k of ram, and NO FAN. > > They then showed me similar iMacs, all without fans, all dead on a > shelf. > Seems the fan-less > iMacs die, especially if said computer was used for > long periods of time; in my own case sometimes nine and ten hours at a > stretch.
i have dozens upon dozens of fanless iMacs that all run 24/7/365 ... some of which are more than 3 years old. the only reason he probably has many fanless iMacs that are dead... would probably because he sells more of them than anything else. > My dealer has now seen this eMac three times as I have preceded to mess > up the hard drive once (killed it no less), tried to install a > network which wasn't there, and finally removed the wrong printer files > thus killing the machine. there's absolutely no reason that removing a printer driver should kill the machine. can you be more specific? > Somebody gave me a digital camera for Christmas, canon. Nice toy, no > drivers for OSX and it appear none are coming. > Appleworks Six is OK, but no roaring hell. may not need it.... iphoto supports most Canon cameras without installing anything. > If this e-Mac is a standard Macintosh, and a virgin with nothing on the > hard drive, what is to prevent me from getting my retail shop to wipe > the > hard drive (and on my iMac, the 6 gig hard drive had 5.6 gig free when > it > died, yes, I keep my hard drive empty); > and install ONLY 9.22? nothing. nothing at all, really. > Guess in the long run I am frustrated by forced to utilize an > operating system that is neither ying nor yan and I am not happy with, > that is > OSX Jaguar and all the small kittens that it has taken on. no one's forcing you. in fact, you can go to System Preferences->Startup Disk, select OS 9, and boot to it, this very INSTANT, without going to an authorized service center, and never go back to OS X if you don't want to. -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
