Some on this list may recall my ongoing problems with my new eMac One person was kind enough to write me off list with the comment "eMacs are why school boards are returning to PC's" Thing is, he was correct! Lots of problems with these computers. Notwithstanding mine came with a combined CD ROm with both OSX and OS 9.2 on the same CD.
Pre-OSX I am comfortable with. OSX not. I think Apple may well have shot themselves in the foot, but then isn't that they way of computers these days? Lots of bugs and lots of problems regardless of the manufacturer of the hardware or the supplier of the software. In any event my emac died again, locked up completely and it would eject he CD or do anything else. After numerous visits to the dealer the eMac finally died, in their hands. I had been trying to tell them of the various problems however either the computer would not die when they reloaded the software or I'd get it home again and it would die a few days later. Told them either fix it or give me money back. On the seventh visit, the CD ROM took the disc and kept it, and it wouldn't load either. Some checking including an overnight testing session showed a very unhappy logic board and, an equally unhappy 40 meg hard drive. In all the rpior testing sessions nothing wrong had appeared, so the retailler simple reloaded the software and continued from there, sometimes. Both have been now replaced under warranty; biggest problem was getting the dingbats at Apple to admit the eMacs have been plagued with problems. And finding an available logic board; seems they are in very short supply. Seems RAM is a problem; for some reason RAM is very sensitive to happenings in the eMac; why I don't know. In any event now have 512 K of ram as well, also new. The orignal 128 K of RAM in the eMac was also faulty! Picked up the eMac March 26 and so far things seem to be OK. The computer is very fast, almost faster than the previous setup; speed I don't need. I do though find my hand responds to actions on the keyboard or via mouse faster than the computer responds, I keep getting these Type two errors. All the alloted memory in the world won't always work I guess. Often wish comanies could get it through their thick heads that man of us want just a bsic machine, not one loaded with all of the toys. I used my computer for work, not for fun. Games on computers are not fun; there are not reality, but these days, waht is? Bryce Lee, Burlington, Ontario Canada An eMac is an iMac, on steroids! -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
