iMAC: classic or dud

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My new iBook arrived after five weeks.
http://a1856.g.akamai.net/7/1856/51/d50ba6de38ddcb/w ww.apple.com/ibook/images/indexsk8rscreen.jpg
I started it up. It refused to work. Apparently something wrong with the DVD drive. So back to the iMAC it is. Those dalmatian iMACs are barking dud.

― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have three friends who bought imacs and ALL three have hardware problems. If you buy an imac, be prepared to pay for repairs. And dont think apple will cover it.

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

iMacs suck. iCubes suck. iBook rules. G4s rule. THE NEW G4s especially rule. Holy crap, did you see the mhz and the price drops last week? The lowest end model is cheaper than the old highest end and has more mhz, cdr/w and all kinds of good shit.

― Nude Spock, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

As a computer I dunno. Saw Julian Cope in concert last year and he had a couple Imacs on stage. As far I could work out they were only there so he could use them a mirror for doing his hair (what's left of it), so in that case classic.

― Billy Dods, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Good shit like not being able to use Audio Galaxy? Costing as much as a used car?

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

YES, MIKE! Exactly! I've already ordered one with a Delta Dio professional soundcard! Oh drat, I could have a cheap, plasticy, crashing, graphics-unfriendly pc instead! And a used shitass car! DRAT!

― Nude Spock, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Great laptop onstage moments #2: Cylodumputer at the Micro Music festival. Incredible FUTURE SOUNDS are being made and the audience is rapt - Cylodumputer HIMSELF is manipulating the cosmic space noise on his laptop. Tom sneaks round to have a look at the incredible software. It is MS Paint and Cylodumputer is drawing a picture of a cowboy.

Every time I look at this thread I think IMAX: Classic Or Dud but actually it's about something even duller.

― Tom, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

IMAX: do not repeat not bother going to see the IMAX documentary abt the spaceshuttle. Highlight: in the boy's bedroom, their socks are on the floor, walls AND ceiling. Lowlght: they do not even ONCE turn te camera and point it back at Earth (which up v. IMAX-big is you would have tht exactly what the fucking medium is built for). Narrator: clothed-spock ie L.Nimoy

Imacs: does the colur hold. All computer plastic does dingy and brittle after abt six months. What's the story here? (Story = I cannot possibly afford an upgrade so torture me with tales of benefits...)

― mark s, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All the new macs, G4s, iMacs and whatnot are made out of kevlar, the bullet proof substance, so they don't get brittle.

― Nude Spock, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

IMAX has already done a whopping documentary about a Dinosaur, which I didn't see given that it only has one half of the perfect cinematic equation. But it can only be a matter of time before the artform truly flowers. A space shuttle doc is not going to cut it, though.

Also it is a bit too reminiscent of Cinema 180 at Thorpe Park, with its 'scary' fire engine ride.

― Tom, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

bullet-proof? what does Apple know that we haven't been told?

I really want IMAX to be grate because it so boring pointing out that it remains rubbish. Even the doc abt the 1996 everest attempt where 12 people died is kwite lame (even after rockin' start with hot chick-on-a-rope action: I fear I find gurlz who climb like apes seXoR), not least because the doc makers v. thoughtlessly PUT DOWN their cameras when disaster struck and helped their fellow climbers. We here in the peanut-gallery were not best pleased.

― mark s, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I saw the *WORLD PREMIER* of the *First Ever* TOTALLY _3-D_ computer generated IMAX movie.

It was alright.

― He's Not Here, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

HNH this is not good enough - we need to know more about CONTENT i.e. R-Quotient and D-Quotient, for starters.

― Tom, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was in the first group of people in the country to see the Blue Dalmation and Flower Power iMacs in person (and I did eventually learn to love them). Beat that for dullness.

Can anything be more classic than the iMac? People who bitch about what's "missing" just prove that they're worthless tossers who care more about cuntish meaningless numbers than actually using the computer for anything (unless you're one of the few people who need those extra features, or like me want a laptop). God this is dull. Did I kill anyone?

Mike: I can't drive, so I'm forced to put up with a 15" widescreen one-inch-thick titanium and carbon-fibre slot-loading DVD crashproof laptop supercomputer. My loss I'm sure.

― Graham, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

sigh. This thread is a dud.

― Mike Hanley, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

YOu can shove that titanium up your ass. Who cares what the case is made of! Its what s inside that matters. You need the latest high tech Microsoft ultra secure crash proof Megu Ultra edition!You sod! AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRR!!!!!!!! Actually, I wanted a g4 tower for a long time but I just couldnt afford it so I got a $600 Compaq which suits my needs ok. WHat do you lot think of OS X?

― Mike Hanley, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

WHat do you lot think of OS X?
Completely dud. It's got some errors. OS 9,0 is also dud. I installed it in my parents' laptop and their G3 crashed three times in a row. As a result I can't seem to install the zip drive anymore. Actually come to think of it, maybe I am dud?

― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My Computer is ugly. I want my computer to look like somethign you nuke the russians with. Techonology should not be cute. It should be sleek and flirt with death.

― anthony, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think Anthony has a point. I also think in this he is a trendsetter - I have seen 3 or 4 technostalgic references lately to the old chunky hard-edged mobile phones which were the size of bricks. It would not surprise me if a nu-brutalist reaction to the minimalist tastefulness of the iMac generation were to come in right about now...

― Tom, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Let's all keep in mind however that computers always crash whether they are working or not. You can't blame an operating system for that unless you have troubleshot all possibloe causes , like extensions conflicts. Personally I get the feelin gMAC will soon not even make hardware anymore and just make the OS. Too many people are gettin g too fed up with them. Like Saab.

― Mike Hanle y, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three years pass...

classic... as aquariums!!

http://www.bloggers.it/edoardo73/itcommenti/aquarium3.jpg

― ||amateur!st|| (amateurist), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

that's be impressive if it was running still

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Awwww, I miss my iMac. Too bad the damn thing lasted only two years for me.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i h8 my iMac. as soon as i can i am going to switch back to PC. get a dell or something. anything but mac...

― Anthony Johnson (Plato Guy), Friday, 6 August 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

dell's are the biggest shitpiles ever

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 6 August 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Dell sortof sucks but the price is right. They treat biz customers well too.

Bad for home shit though

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Friday, 6 August 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, their biz support is good. pakistani love.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

seven years pass...

hullo ilx i need ADVICE!

1: my macbook is getting cranky and needs to be repaired reasonably soon: replacement keyboard plus the panel on the base has somehow got bent permanently open and needs bending back or replacing before the innards fall out entirely
2: my plan is to take it into apple and leave it with them -- it's way out of warranty and i don't currently know any reliable (cheaper) mac repairers in london (unless you do?)
3: either way it will be in dock for a week or three while parts arrive etc
4: so i thought why not migrate everything to the iMac i got free from work when they were upgrading everything -- very little used, nothing on it i need provided i can migrate stuff from my laptop, no prob overwriting anything currently on the iMac
5: laptop = MacBook 0sX 10.5.8 and iMac = 10.3.9
6: basically all i need to be able to work with is WORD and the internet (via a dongle as iMac doesn't have eg airport): doesn't matter if it's a bit of a clumsy workaround
7: is this possible? what will NOT work?

8: and if it is how do i go about the basic migration? (i have an ethernet cable)

― mark s, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 12:54 (thirteen years ago)

i know a guy, mark

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 12:59 (thirteen years ago)

the backward migration thing will possibly be an enormous pain in the tuckus

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 13:02 (thirteen years ago)

yes i kinda suspected that, the imac won't even read my back-up drives

it's not the fellow at m1cr0m3nd is it? he was always good and v.cheap and quick but you paid the price in his being the WORLD'S MOST BORING TALKER WHO WOULD GO ON FOREVER ABOUT NOTHING AND YOU COULDN'T ESCAPE BY ANY MEANS BEYOND MURDER WHICH IS UNACCEPTABLE PLUS YOUR MAC WOULD NOT GET FIXED.

― mark s, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 13:05 (thirteen years ago)

I used a Belkin Wireless G Plus MIMO USB Network Adapter to connect my old-ass eMac to the internet before I could just plug it directly into the router. For some reason most wireless adapters don't work with Macs.

― corey, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 13:11 (thirteen years ago)

no he's a breezy impossibly good-looking guy who is no muss no fuss. he may try to convince you to pay an extra £25 to "optimise" your system, which is worth it if you don't know how to do it yourself

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 14:25 (thirteen years ago)

was gonna suggest upgrading the imac to 10.5 but it's a bit expensive on ebay, bloody hell :(

― Once Were Moderators (DG), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 14:31 (thirteen years ago)

yeah i'm not sure any actual upgrading etc is worth it -- the imac is old (obv) but little-used and i got it for nothing

i have them talking now, so the dox went across sweet enough -- i think the tricky bit will be getting the internet, the dongle i usually use is baffling it

― mark s, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 14:40 (thirteen years ago)

the airport cards are cheap these days, which imac is it?

― Once Were Moderators (DG), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 14:44 (thirteen years ago)

^^^see above

― mark s, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 14:53 (thirteen years ago)

so what's to stop me just connecting the router i use for wireless (to reach the laptop) into the imac with a (longer than i currently have) ethernet cable?
is this where the problem corey mentions will kick in? what else will it fuck up?

(router=thomson tg585)

(apologies to everyone: this is dumm 101, but i have to do it out loud to get it clear)

― mark s, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 14:58 (thirteen years ago)

mark that would totes work! just need a long enough cable.

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 15:00 (thirteen years ago)

yes it does! though at the moment i have to lie on my tummy in the hall to use it -- LONGER CABLE AHOY

― mark s, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 15:12 (thirteen years ago)

iMac = classic!

― mark s, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 15:13 (thirteen years ago)

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