Any ideas on what I should do with my old cyan G3 - i just don't think i can part with it (even tho the thing is 100% dead). Maybe fill it with skittles or turn it into a toaster?
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― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link
there were other small bugs including the fact that my audioscrobbler wouldnt work (it kept asking for my password and when i provided it a dialogue box would come up telling me it was already saved in my keychain followed by another DiagBox asing for my password).
most importantly for me, but not for you, was the fact that my arch drawing package powerCADD wouldnt run at all.
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― carson dial (carson dial), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Do you not realize that Apple basically ships computers with JUST enough RAM to run the OS and core apps??? The first generation G4 towers had 64 MB for Chrissake!!!
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Now he's replacing the RAM and running SECRET TESTING in the back room which is frankly extraordinary, if I had taken this to the old Apple Store in Clarendon I'm sure those folks wold have just packed it up and shipped it off and not even told me they were sorry.
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link
Although I do remember there being a fairly competent Britishers genius replacing ipods left and right when I was there.
― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link
that's weird: the only remotely useful CS dude i've dealt with recently was a bloke called ryan in the states somewhere.
plus ca something-or-other, or something.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link
Based on the (admittedly) small sampling of laptops and work environments I've run across, I'll give you even odds that most MacBook Pro users are only using Microsoft Office - specifically Entourage, Word, and PowerPoint. Most of them don't care how much RAM they have, they only care that it's not the "low end" model, it runs PowerPoint, can connect to an Exchange server, will output to some sort of LCD projector, and connect to an iPod.
Even in graphic, video, film, audio freak central here in LA - most of the users I run across are Office people and that's it. The geek crowd are already going to max out their RAM from Kingston or Crucial so there's no incentive for Apple to put more RAM in it - especially given the constant volatility of the RAM market.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lmaoborghini (eman), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 22:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link
They "heard it was better."
Seriously, that's the reason they give. I wasn't going to argue with them since they were paying me to set things up, but in a few of the cases the client bought an iPod at a Apple store (because iPods are an It Item) and then decided to buy a new laptop while they're at it.
Meanwhile, they want to connect it to a corporate network via some weird VPN protocol, connect to an Exchange server, sync to their Blackberry, blah blah blah. To be fair, I like these types of clients more than the OS jihadists though.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link
it's this amazing new invention called "choice".
sorry, kyle, what's your point here? i'm not exactly a power user. should i not be allowed a mac either? fuck's sake, we should be happy people are buying the bloody things ... ten years ago i'd have bet good money apple was on the way out.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 06:43 (seventeen years ago) link
But then, nowadays they have a hugely bloated OS. My PC runs fine in 512M, and has quite a lot more stuff running on it than your average Mac.
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 07:09 (seventeen years ago) link
I've always been appalled that Macs don't come loaded to the gills with more RAM.
― don weiner (don weiner), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link
Also, grimley, I'm fairly certain his point was "Why purchase a more expensive machine if it will only run Office?" and, quite frankly son, your answer needs work.
ps the real answer is that theoretically the damn things should work better than that, kyle.
― Allyzay knows where the interfacing goes. (allyzay), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link
The video shows Ellch and Maynor targeting a specific security flaw in the Macbook's wireless "device driver," ... While those device driver flaws are particular to the Macbook -- and presently not publicly disclosed -- Maynor said the two have found at least two similar flaws in device drivers for wireless cards either designed for or embedded in machines running the Windows OS. Still, the presenters said they ultimately decided to run the demo against a Mac due to what Maynor called the "Mac user base aura of smugness on security."
"We're not picking specifically on Macs here, but if you watch those 'Get a Mac' commercials enough, it eventually makes you want to stab one of those users in the eye with a lit cigarette or something," Maynor said.
― W i l l (common_person), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link
nah, that's a "they" meaning "they", not, er, "they".
kyle?
and hey, i think keeping a major corporation alive is a dandy reason for buying a mac. i mean, it's apple! lookit the little stripy logo and ... it smiles when you turn it on! and you have to hug it to find the switch! and ... HEY, HANG ON, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE FUCKING MACS I KNEW AND LOVED?
cunts.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows where the interfacing goes. (allyzay), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 4 August 2006 12:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 4 August 2006 12:39 (seventeen years ago) link
A) Get another Genius appointment and take this [still kernel-panicking for no reason even with brand new motherboard iMac] back to the Store for more warranty-enabled service work, or;
B) Call Applecare as soon as they open at 9am EST and ask how to exchange this "build-to-order" POS for another "build-to-order" iMac without paying some goddamn restocking fee, or how to get my $2000 back.
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 7 August 2006 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Results 1 - 10 of about 295,000 for Intel iMac faulty motherboard. (0.55 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,840,000 for Intel iMac logic board replaced. (0.35 seconds)
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:09 (seventeen years ago) link
u hve probably tried this, and it's basically the same as running disk utility, but have you tried starting up in single-user mode and running "/sbin/fsck -fy" ? if that comes up clean then it definitely is not your HD (bad sectors, etc.) .and must be some borked NON-motherboard piece of hardware on the thing but it's like the time i got hives after taking dayquil, i went to the doctor and they're like "well you're allergic to dayquil" and i'm like "yes, but what specifically am i allergic to?" and they're like "we don't know, dayquil has like 14 things in it."
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Honestly I'll do that and run DU out of a sense of diligence and optimism that perhaps it really is some kind of trivial issue but I'm so, so sick of fucking with this thing already.
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― gbx (skowly), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows where the interfacing goes. (allyzay), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link