From: Lauren Sauve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi, Chris, My iMac died a couple of days ago, too. I called our local Mac specialists and they said from the sounds of it, it is a done deal- I blew up some type of board. (lots of cackling for a few days, then a kind of a large pop, then no boot at all - nada, zilch!) I had a G3, bondi blue, 233 mhz, that I'd put 386 megs of ram into and had upgraded the hard drive to a 40gig. (I loved that baby and am in mourning :(
First off, I'm sorry to hear of your loss. I know how you feel!
I'm wondering if I overtaxed my little Bondi Blue iMac with OS X.
OS X does not "tax" the system any more than anything else. Most of the "work" an OS does is done in RAM anyway.
Seems like a lot of the older iMacs are biting the dust lately.
"Dust" is a key phrase here. It is the enemy of electronics, along with cat hair and the detrius of daily life. I suspect it is the culprit behind many a dead iMac. My next office is going to have a large air ioniser (on the other side of the room, mind you!) as well as a powerful UPS unit. These two items, I'm convinced, add years to the life of computers.
Do they just have a lifespan of four years or so, or is it that I souped it up too much?
You didn't soup it up too much, though I suppose it's possible that you put in a hot-running hard drive that might have keep the temperature on the upper end of the acceptable spec (very unlikely, btw).
These computers are not meant to last forever, and particularly without a UPS I think the electronics get slowly stressed by the tiny ebbs and flows of electric power until they finally crackle and snap. I'm not talking just about surges -- most people are bright enough to take some minimal measure to protect against surges -- but of "brownouts" as well, fluctuations in power levels so small we may not even detect them but which are hell on sensitive electronic components.
_Chas_
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