A really silly thing I did about a year ago (probably after one beer too many) was upgrading my perfectly stable Windows XP Pro to Windows Vista. Vista is really getting on my nerves, so I was in Media Markt the other week looking to see if they had Windows 7 Ultimatum in stock.
As I was walking past the Apple section, this iMac looked at me and whispered "buy me" into my ear. I thought "might as well have a look".
First impressions were what a gorgeous looking thing.
So I played with it a bit, fumbled around, found a shell, and typed
Hmm.
"I'll take one!" I mean it's perfect. Unix-based, VM Fusion for inferior, err, other, OS'.
The guy said, "you'd be better waiting, 'cos they're bringing out a new one".
So I goggled it and sure enough. But I've since read (on some Forums) that there are problems somehow with performance in the graphics department (ksh is a monster for that!!!). But no-one could give a definitive answer - was it a Flash thing, a graphic driver thing, a dodgy Snow Leopard installation thing, or even a graphic card thing (and they all seemed to have solutions to their various problems).
Does anyone have one of the new iMacs? If so, is all this a lot of hoo-hah, or is it something to think about?
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I have an older 21" iMac and I love it, but wish I had an Intel version vs. the older rapidly obsolete PPC version.
I used to run a development version of these forums on it when I wanted to try something "out of the ordinary" and it was great, a beautiful desktop machine running as a fully functioning LAMP server.
Hi folks...
(Apologies for typos.)
I have been working on a very simple MacBook_Pro/iMac centric project. I have called it Spy .
If you just want to test for fun you only need ./Spy and this defaults to a 5 second video with Medium sensitivity from the working directory whre Spy is.
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Hi,
Solid as a rock or ...
Is it possible for a program to damage an iMac (Snow Leopard) so bad that it cannot start up again, and need to be repaired?
I am asking about this, because this seems to have occurred two days ago, when I was running a popular game program.
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Hi!
I just got a new iMAC G5 (20") and I love it!!!!
Amazon dropped the price $200, and there was also a $150 rebate, making it around $1325, so I could not resist anymore
Finally!!!!
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Hallo,
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Is there a chance to adjust more then 256 colors ?
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