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Originally Posted by Tellurium132
Yeah everything on that video is true. I bought an iMac one weekend, it froze atleast 10 times the night I got it just doing simple things "too quickly" for it - so that Sunday I returned it. f'ing 15% restock charge 
what were the simple things u were doing.... just curious
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Originally Posted by asiandoood
what were the simple things u were doing.... just curious
Trying to burn a CD in iTunes, having that freeze for some reason then I couldnt shut it down and had to unplug it.
Setting up the network - froze numerious times and not allowing me to kill the process.
It even froze on just a regular start up once or twice.
Hell maybe it was just iTunes fault, but it was slow anyways, last generation iMac Graphite G3. It didnt like how our microsoft network was setup thats for sure.
It was a few years ago... I still like Macs in my heart but that was just a bad experience and I was pissed off reguardless since another family member decided to steal the PC I had, otherwise I couldnt use the internet without it.
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Originally Posted by Tellurium132
Playing some bundled game that came with it, caveman something... while listening to music in iTunes. And actually I went out of the game to change the song and couldnt get back into the game when it froze.
Trying to burn a CD in iTunes, having that freeze for some reason then I couldnt shut it down and had to unplug it.
Setting up the network - froze numerious times and not allowing me to kill the process.
It even froze on just a regular start up once or twice.
Hell maybe it was just iTunes fault, but it was slow anyways, last generation iMac Graphite G3. It didnt like how our microsoft network was setup thats for sure.
It was a few years ago... I still like Macs in my heart but that was just a bad experience and I was pissed off reguardless since another family member decided to steal the PC I had, otherwise I couldnt use the internet without it.
Trying to burn a CD in iTunes, having that freeze for some reason then I couldnt shut it down and had to unplug it.
Setting up the network - froze numerious times and not allowing me to kill the process.
It even froze on just a regular start up once or twice.
Hell maybe it was just iTunes fault, but it was slow anyways, last generation iMac Graphite G3. It didnt like how our microsoft network was setup thats for sure.
It was a few years ago... I still like Macs in my heart but that was just a bad experience and I was pissed off reguardless since another family member decided to steal the PC I had, otherwise I couldnt use the internet without it.
that generation of iMacs werent that great. Lemme guess, you had the hockey puck mouse with that too.
h:It was probably the network setup and lack of memory that caused all the crashes. Especially if it was running OS8 or OS9.
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Originally Posted by asiandoood
that generation of iMacs werent that great. Lemme guess, you had the hockey puck mouse with that too. h:
It was probably the network setup and lack of memory that caused all the crashes. Especially if it was running OS8 or OS9.
h:It was probably the network setup and lack of memory that caused all the crashes. Especially if it was running OS8 or OS9.
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Originally Posted by Tellurium132
It had the current optical mouse and it was OSX. I cannot recall however how much ram it had.
wow...running OSX on an iMac? Was this pre-2001?
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Originally Posted by Tellurium132
Playing some bundled game that came with it, caveman something... while listening to music in iTunes. And actually I went out of the game to change the song and couldnt get back into the game when it froze.
Trying to burn a CD in iTunes, having that freeze for some reason then I couldnt shut it down and had to unplug it.
Setting up the network - froze numerious times and not allowing me to kill the process.
It even froze on just a regular start up once or twice.
Hell maybe it was just iTunes fault, but it was slow anyways, last generation iMac Graphite G3. It didnt like how our microsoft network was setup thats for sure.
It was a few years ago... I still like Macs in my heart but that was just a bad experience and I was pissed off reguardless since another family member decided to steal the PC I had, otherwise I couldnt use the internet without it.
Trying to burn a CD in iTunes, having that freeze for some reason then I couldnt shut it down and had to unplug it.
Setting up the network - froze numerious times and not allowing me to kill the process.
It even froze on just a regular start up once or twice.
Hell maybe it was just iTunes fault, but it was slow anyways, last generation iMac Graphite G3. It didnt like how our microsoft network was setup thats for sure.
It was a few years ago... I still like Macs in my heart but that was just a bad experience and I was pissed off reguardless since another family member decided to steal the PC I had, otherwise I couldnt use the internet without it.
Maybe it just had a bad stick of RAM? I can count the number of times my old mac crashed in OS X on one hand, and two of the times I was the direct cause.
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Originally Posted by Epoch
Maybe it just had a bad stick of RAM? I can count the number of times my old mac crashed in OS X on one hand, and two of the times I was the direct cause.
i stuck some wrong RAM in my G5....only time i saw a kernal panic
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Originally Posted by asiandoood
wow...running OSX on an iMac? Was this pre-2001?
2001 on the dot. Scroll down... its the exact Graphite coloured one there, 700 mhz 256mb ram, 40GB hdd, CD-RW. Funny thing is it had both OSX and OS9 loaded on it.
I wanted to love it, I really did! haha.
If I could do it again, Id get a Mac Mini out now :yumyum:
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Originally Posted by Tellurium132
http://www.apple-history.com/?page=g...date&order=ASC
2001 on the dot. Scroll down... its the exact Graphite coloured one there, 700 mhz 256mb ram, 40GB hdd, CD-RW. Funny thing is it had both OSX and OS9 loaded on it.
I wanted to love it, I really did! haha.
If I could do it again, Id get a Mac Mini out now :yumyum:
2001 on the dot. Scroll down... its the exact Graphite coloured one there, 700 mhz 256mb ram, 40GB hdd, CD-RW. Funny thing is it had both OSX and OS9 loaded on it.
I wanted to love it, I really did! haha.
If I could do it again, Id get a Mac Mini out now :yumyum:
My mother had the precursor to that one (iMac DV SE), and it was rock solid. You just can't stick any CDs in because the drive is simply worn out
h:I think I might get a mini and turn that into a media PC, but I wanna see how the whole intel shift changes things