Oh, so the iMac is running again?
Wow, I must have touched a nerve or something. I post a simple story about a crappy Mac and you guys start the Spanish Inquisition. So that's how it works, eh? If a guy has a horror story about a Mac that can actually be verified (all the issues I had with the Leopard are known problems), gang up together and spread FUD about *him*. Macheads... knives out since 1984.
Fine, here's the chronology (please don't complain about "whining" -- you asked):
December 07: Bought an iMac that I used at a client's office until May 08, when I brought it home and put it in my living room. Created a user account for my gf. Retired the old 2002 Dell PC laptop she had been using. May 08-January 09: iMac still sitting in our living room. Gf using it daily, myself using it sporadically. January 09: iMac breaks down. After calling AppleCare I stick it in its box and put it away for repairs at some unknown time in the future, and dust off the old PC for my gf so that she wouldn't be computerless for X amount of weeks.
"These days" was an vague reference to the timeframe from May 08 to present day, i.e. the time she's been using it more than I have. Not "these days" as in "she fired up the iMac
yesterday and it was great!". I guess I could have been more precise but I didn't realize I was in court.
I'm sorry that you had original teething problems with Leopard. Of course, all early adopters always do ... technology and vendor independent ...
Yes, except that when the same company has total control of both the hardware and OS, and the OS is designed to work with maybe a dozen video card models, not 5,000 of them, and the platform in question "just works" according to its devotees, you don't really expect it to be about as stable as an early beta.
Similarly, we also know that people aren't happy when change is forced upon them, which is what your client did to you.
I wasn't new to Macs so it really wasn't much of a change. The client knew perfectly well it wasn't my platform of choice (they've known me since the mid 90's), but as I would be working in tandem with their main designer who is a long time Machead who won't touch a PC with a 40 ft pole, rather than have minor cross-platform issues with fonts and stuff they just thought it would be smoother if we were both on Mac.
Yet if the 'Dell guy' who was here just mentioned this, how is it that you somehow knew this information a half year earlier?
What? You're not making any sense. The Dell guy replaced the motherboard on my XPS desktop just days after the iMac broke down. While he was working on it I pointed at the iMac box and told him about my recent streak of hardware failures, he then started talking about having been a Mac technician once and went on about some story involving having 28 "Performas" in his home... so I asked him if he knew anything about the current Macs and he said he knew a little, so I asked if taking the hard disk out falls under 'user servicable'(ish) and he said 'did you ever take an analog clock apart when you were a kid?'. He then went on to say that it's supposedly easy to damage the screen. What part of that did I know "half a year earlier"?
Sure, I could have moved the secret files off the machine had I know it would break down, but A) this is the first time that a computer (two in two days, actually) has broken down on me and I've been on computers since C64 in the early 80's, and B) I took for granted that AppleCare was just like Dell's CompleteCare and that the hard disk would never leave my home.
Now, detective, if you have any further gripes with the chronology or maybe want to collect some physical evidence like hairs or fingerprints, please use PM so that we don't clutter up the thread with this nonsense. OK?
