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    IMac’s are so userfriendly…

    Got a Imac in for repairs with the description that it didn’t boot.
    Strangely it wouldn’t boot from CD when I tested that (Imac’s don’t have a Floppy drive ).
    After testing all the tricks in the book and some that are not in the book I realise that I haven’t heard any hard drive sounds…
    So I check through the little access panel if all the connectors are as they should be and discover that the hdd is a quantum…
    Now I now that something is amiss, Quantum’s usually sounds like a blender with a dozen ball bearings inside
    Even when their running all right
    So I disassemble the Imac…(not a hard thing to do, the hard thing is to not touch anything that is charged or hyper hot ) and when I pull out the quantum I see that one of the control chips on its PCB is burnt out

    Why couldn’t the Mac be a nice idiot and tell me that like any well behaved PC??

    Case closed! (or assembled )
    New HDD and the Imac starts from the CD without complaints and tomorrow I will se how “userfriendly” a MacOS9 installation is
    If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

    Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."
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    Re: IMac’s are so userfriendly…

    Originally posted by Technoid

    Case closed! (or assembled )
    New HDD and the Imac starts from the CD without complaints and tomorrow I will se how “userfriendly” a MacOS9 installation is
    I redid a couple older Mac Classics with Mac OS 6 or 7....wasnt too pain full...but Apples are still Festering pieces of Shit...
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    • #3
      I haven't had good experiences with fixing Imacs, especially the older ones. They had a bad habit of burning out their monitor boards and those were the hardest to get at. Did something like 20 in a month. And I was only interning there once a week.

      (Damnable techs left them for me)

      At least I wasn't getting paid...
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      • #4
        Make good door stops though.
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        • #5
          Well, now its fixed and out of my workshop
          If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

          Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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          • #6
            With a boot. I hear they good fish tanks.
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            • #7
              Well, they are HEAVY suckers, would not want to heave around with one filled with water

              And the handle is a POS!
              If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

              Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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              • #8
                read a litle skit at the bbspot some time ago.... they turned those imacs in to some sort of bisexual toy ......

                being a person who actualy started doing "real" work on a mac i strongly belive that PC are far better to handle and use with any given task (almost) i cant stand macs.....
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                • #9
                  Well, their better at one thing:
                  Burning a wide hole in your wallet
                  If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

                  Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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