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My caution in the last post has been fully justified! The lappy has gone belly-up again!
This time, I am not even trying to repair it myself -- shall march into the office of the ASP tomorrow and demand attention!
Is this something to do with the Leopard? Because, my Tiger NEVER did crash all this while whereas the Leopard has done it now abut eight times over a period of just ten days!!
I can tell you -- I am one unhappy/ angry bear right now!!
I have an eMac from 2004 (same as an iMac really) and it has probably accumulated it's fair share of dust and shite in there judging by the look of the fan from the back.
I have noticed it is slightly slower than it used to be so is it:
Worth stripping the case off to blow all the crap out or no?
I know I have to beware of the voltages from a CRT display
on the same subject, (or well nearly), i want to upgrade a macbook's ram. it has 512mb already. i want to upgrade to at least 1gb maybe 2. is the process easy? i have installed chips on PC's and it is simple, but im a mac virgin, and i have no idea what do do, i dont even know ehre to take the back off!!
RAM upgrade dead easy if using intel macbook - first, go to crucial.com and run their scanner. this will tell you how much memory you can put in. then buy it (from them or someone else) - if you buy it from crucial it normally comes pretty quickly and they show you exactly how to install it. this took me 1 minute and worked first time.
Apple Knowledgebase instructions on how to perform the upgrade here.
I recently upgraded mine with RAM from Crucial and followed these instructions. The whole thing was a breeze and the lappy is performing much much better with 3Gb than it did with 1Gb.
Right Apple eMac (similar to older iMac) in an enclosed case. Over the years has gained a bit of dust inside and wondered is it worth stripping it down to blow the crap out?
Am aware of the dangers on an exposed CRT display with the high voltages....
Trying to update Office mac 2008. Update SP1 gets as far as writing script and then hangs forever. Found one website saying this is a known snag but their remedies didn't work. Any ideas please.
Well had my new MacBook Pro for a week now - and it is fantastic.
The aluminum body makes it feel much more of a professional tool than the old plastic ones. New LED screen is much brighter and seems to be 'sharper'. The glass touchpad feels beautiful and the 'gestures' are very handy.
Although basically the same the 'click' feel of the keys does not feel quite as smooth as my previous MacBooks but apart from that I really cannot fault it.
Our AIMS system has never worked properly with Safari on the Mac. Sometimes, a beta version of the next version of Safari has worked, but stopped once the release version appears. Now, it won't even work with the betas.
Firefox for the Mac works in every way on our company's AIMS system except for the Vacation Bidding page. You can see your vacation, select days to book leave, but the button to submit the days doesn't work. It's ludicrous. I ended up doing it at work, rather than home.
I have MacOS 10.5 (Leapard) on an intel iMac and use Opera to access my roster (AIMS eCrew). However, Opera won't let me access the company on-line e-mail system so I use Safari for that. All a bit of a nuisance.
Now, that's at home - in my lodgings I have an older iMac running MacOS 10.4 (Tiger) and can run all aspects of eCrew, e-mail and most other things the company wants me to view. It's all beyond me so I just put up with it.
I went on to the AIMS help site once and it said that wireless internet connections are not supported - seems to work though!
