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Archives => 2009 => Topic started by: daryl66 on March 25, 2009, 06:34:29 PM

Title: bullet byting
Post by: daryl66 on March 25, 2009, 06:34:29 PM

After several months of teeth grinding, miss-steps, agonizing and hours of frustration  trying to revive the IMAC G5,(a whole story in itself),  I bit the bullet today and ordered a Refurb Mac Mini .  

Apple, in its infinite wisdom, would not budge on a 4th fix for the Imac, or any kind of replacement consideration, however the kindness and generosity of their "Corporate Executive Relations" department "awarded" me a $100 "Gift Certificate" towards the purchase of anything priced $300 or more.  

Mini out the door for $338.

So now it begins. I have been REALLY happy with Tiger and have purposely  been putting off the Leopard leap, but I guess all good things must come to an end.  

Probably just get it under control about the time "SNOW" leaps out of the mountains.

Daryl

Title: bullet byting
Post by: Xairbusdriver on March 25, 2009, 08:16:27 PM

You'll love Leopard, honestly. Wish I hadn't waited so long, myself. Quicklook alone is almost worth the price! I would certainly check any tutorialson Leopard at Apple, especially one that might show the differences. Time Machine is another big help, might as well get ready to buy an external HD! Make sure it is at least as big as the internal.

Title: bullet byting
Post by: gunug on March 25, 2009, 09:23:32 PM

I have recently had my hands into 3 G5 iMAC's (w/ iSights) and out of three that didn't work I managed to get two that did: one was a bad hard drive (easy), one with a bad power board (not too bad) and one with a bad logic board (very bad because a replacement costs as much as a whole refurbished computer ($500 or so) and so we won't be fixing it.  I took the power board and hard drive out of it to fix the other two so we got two repaired with no cost except for my time and trouble.  I had another of these on my desk (I'd had the logic board replaced under the extended warranty last December) so I'm using it to replace the one I couldn't fix and putting a iMAC dual core from elsewhere in the office on my desk to take its place.  I can say that I'm not really impressed by these things.  I suspect that the Mac Mini will probably be a little more robust simply because it is more simple!  Good luck with it!

Title: bullet byting
Post by: daryl66 on March 25, 2009, 10:12:28 PM

QUOTE(Xairbusdriver @ Mar 25 2009, 08:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Time Machine is another big help, might as well get ready to buy an external HD! Make sure it is at least as big as the internal.

Well I got that part covered at least.  I have a firewire hd that I have been using for bu plus I put the hd from the IMAC into an external usb case.