[MacGroup] Mac's in History

2008-10-23 Thread Ed Wiser
Here's a Computer Chronicles on the original Mac. http://www.archive.org/details/TheMacin1985 ___ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be October 28 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address:

Re: [MacGroup] macbook locking up

2008-10-23 Thread Eric Hammond
A followup to the question I posed before (below): What do I tell the mac repair guy? The lockups happen now and again. It may run for hours and then lockup. Or it may only take a few key strokes. Since I've had 3 batteries, a power manager, logic board, speakers, new case, and now

Re: [MacGroup] macbook locking up

2008-10-23 Thread Ed Wiser
When going to the Genius Bar bring all the paper work on all the various repairs to the MacBook. Has this been the same problem all the time? If so they are shooting in the dark. Have you created a new user account and used that account? This will let you see if it is a hardware or a software

Re: [MacGroup] macbook locking up

2008-10-23 Thread Eric Hammond
Ed, New User account? On the mac or at the Genius bar? The lockups are a new issue. it only appeared after the logic board/speaker replacement. And then only in the last two weeks. All the repairs are under my applecare. Another friend suggested formating the hard drive and starting

Re: [MacGroup] macbook locking up

2008-10-23 Thread Profile
Ed, I had similar problems with an iMac that had software on it that was for a PowerPC instead of the Intel. It mainly happened when I had iTunes open at the same time I had Now Contact open (the Calendar portion of Now Contact). All the lockups stopped when I reformatted and

Re: [MacGroup] macbook locking up

2008-10-23 Thread B. Eric Bradley
My PowerBook had that problem for the first year I had it (along with relentless kernel panics) and it actually was the RAM. MacMall sent the machine with a RAM upgrade that wasn't, as it turned out; the offbrand they installed didn't work, nor did the Viking or Kingston replacements I

Re: [MacGroup] macbook locking up

2008-10-23 Thread Eric Hammond
Eric, Maybe. Just got a new logic board. That means new slots. . . Maybe. Eric On Oct 23, 2008, at 6:12 PM, B. Eric Bradley wrote: My PowerBook had that problem for the first year I had it (along with relentless kernel panics) and it actually was the RAM. MacMall sent the machine with a