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New to Mac mini and 10.5 and HATE it HELPPPP

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scratchfee

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Nov 14, 2009
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ok just bought a mac mini G4, 1gb Ram, 80gb HD, SuperDrive, 1.5ghz with 10.5 leopard...

now the problems, crashes when safari gets a little busy, (moved to firefox same problems)

idvd says cannot work with this Osx

ichat icon bounces but then doesnt open up, the top bar changes from finder to ichat but all options are faded out and are un-clickable.

discs never eject..

WHAT the hell is going on never ever had a problem with my 8 yr old PC

Thanks James
 
yes it is used... idvd now works after update, i had to update all ilife 06 programs but download speeds are coming thru at about 100kb a min !!!!!!! when i have 4.5mb d/l speeds... so i cancelled them all and did just the idvd one...

I have original Mac Install disc with 10.3.7 and a copy of 10.5 but that is on a random dvd not a mac original one..

thanks
 
I would also recommend a clean install. If you bought it used, there's not saying what the previous owner did with the software. Same goes for buying a used XP machine.

A clean install is an essential starting point with any used computer (and most new PCs as well).

doing a clean install should help tremendously. If the problems continue, there's a larger issue, but I doubt they will.
 
Clean install. Start from scratch. Also, since the 10.5 DVD is not an original Mac one it may not actually be for that model. Buy a retail copy of 10.5 (should be cheap at resellers since 10.6 is now the current OS. 10.6 won't run on your G4, so don't bother with it). Good Luck. If there are no hidden hardware problems then you should have better experience, though do know that you have bought a very old (in Mac years) system.
 
comp seems alot better now but god damm download speeds doing mac software updates speeds of 4-5kbs utorrent 6-8kbs getting 4500kbs on download tests
 
scratchfee said:
comp seems alot better now but god damm download speeds doing mac software updates speeds of 4-5kbs utorrent 6-8kbs getting 4500kbs on download tests
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Is this over wireless or with an ethernet cable directly? If its wireless, are you set up correctly? How many bars of signal is OSX reporting?
 
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