Re: Imac - Core2Duo. Display problems

On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:53:09 GMT, Rob <patchoulianREMOVE@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


OK - can't argue with any of that! But it is *your very own bit of
logic* of course.

Not logic Rob. Fact.

I suspect I was (frighteningly!) like you a few years ago, and had
several PCs. But it got to a point where I was spending more time
fiddling and fettling than actually doing things,

Why? We (there are three of us using PC's here daily) turn them on,
use them (often all day) and turn them off again? I wonder what you
were doing wrong that meant they needed so much of your time?

and I have quite a
high pressure/long hours job that requires the use of a functioning
workhorse computer.

Yep, so did I.

And the thing with a Mac - there is very little to
fiddle about with on software or hardware.

Well I'd agree on the hardware. However for me that is part of the
fun. By that I mean I probably spend .000001 % of the time I use it,
working on the hardware, after I've spent 100% of my time building it
(about an hour or so). However, when something new comes out I can
normally just plug it in or bolt it inside and if something should go
wrong, I can fix it and do so quickly and cheaply (and where the Mac
for me differs).

It either works or it
doesn't.

Well the hardware generally works ok on all of them (PCs or Macs)
especially the PCs I've built myself.

I've got a PC still, just in case, but I've never needed it in
about 4 years of Mac ownership.

Horses for courses of course.

I use Boot Camp/XP for an occasional game.

I use Bootcamp to see if there is anything I'm missing with OSX. ;-)

My iMac has far less spaghetti,

My Mini only has less because it's less versatile / flexible.

much smaller footprint,

Check (Mini)

makes a fraction
of the racket,

Whilst my Mini is quieter than most PC's I've built, mine were never
that noisy and certainly loud enough to distract my Tinitus. Now I
have to put the TV / radio on to do the same job or the silence
(=tinitus) is too distracting.

looks a lot nicer,

Beauty is in the eye. I like the look of something I can build,
upgrade and repair easily and cheaply. ;-)

uses far less power

Are you sure? I've measured all our PCs and laptops and it's only the
laptops that actually offer any tangible saving. I was going to build
an Atom based PC but I really wasn't worth it.

and really never
needs any maintenance -

Check.

compared to a PC.

Compared with *your* PC it seems. For example. It seems every time I
run OSX I have to do a 500M update (and sometimes a couple of
reboots)?

Still can't stomach things
like fragmented disks

I rarely do a defrag and if I do it's normally because I'm bored as
there is nothing else that needs doing. ;-)

and virus database updates when I use a PC.

And that was really difficult was it? I just say "thank you" whenever
Avast tells me it's just updated itself. I don't actually have to do a
thing.

And I
like OSX.

I don't mind OSX, in the same way I'm getting to like Linux (or Linux
is getting more useable with the likes of Ubuntu). What I don't like
about both is all the familiar stuff I have to go without, or wait
years before it comes out in OSX / Linux form, assuming it ever does
etc. There are bund to be similar instances of that happening the
other way round of course and as / when that happens and I want it
I'll have to think again. It's also nice to be pretty sure that the
hardware you just bought or were given is going to work and that any
OS support (drivers / utils and the like) will be included on the CD
in the box. It is all getting better though, as is the general support
for OSX out in telephone support land (but still not 'good' it would
seem from those Mac users I've spoken to who need such).

And I have enough money/insurance for potential disaster to
not be a problem - which is conceited and makes me fortunate but here it
is ;-)

Ah, now you may have a big point! However, whilst that might work for
you (sending stuff off to get it fixed or buying new stuff to replace
summat that's broken) it wouldn't work for me. I want to be able to do
it myself, right there and then.

I don't really see downsides because

(Of course)

I'm quite happy to work round the
limitations.

And I will but am less happy about having to do so.

I like having a Mac because I like having the option to natively run
an alternative (to the most common by far) OS (Windows) just so I can
see what it's all about. I also like being able to run Linux for the
same reason. I like W7 (triple booting Vista / W7 / Ubuntu on a
laptop) but can't see any advantage to any of them over XP (at the
moment).

So what has XP done on this Mini today. It had sent / received many
many emails. It has downloaded, burnt to (external) DVD and extracted
and sent 3.5G of map update to daughters b/f's GPS. It's scanned to
..pdf about 1G (today) of my paperwork and burned to CD (internal) a
couple of ISO images. It's held several MSN conversations, browsed the
WEB and paid for a couple of eBay items I've won.

It's done all that, just as it does every day with no sign of a BSOD
or any other issues or lockups?

Not saying I couldn't do pretty well the same under OSX or Linux
except I couldn't run Agent nor make use of the Rack2-Filer or
CardMinder software that came with my new sheet fed scanner ...
because they aren't available with the Mac / Linux versions.

This PC version of the scanner does work with the Mac though (I've
tested it) but only with the ScanSnap software.

Cheers, T i m

p.s. Here's a thought. It *still* seems strange to me that with OSX
and Apple hardware being as good as you say, why it's still worthy of
announcement *here* when someone 'switches'? Why, after 20+ years of
Apple being a player in the computer market, shouldn't it be a given
that it's the first choice? I mean, people can read can't they, they
see TV / mag ads ... everyone must know someone who runs a Mac (I
don't believe that IS the case btw) so why aren't the numbers more
even?

On a similar note, how do the games consoles compare numbers wise?
.

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