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by **tubeswell** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 4:47 pm

My old faithful Mac finally bit that dust and I got a new iMac 2.5GHz Intel Core i5 (as of last Tuesday)

http://store.apple.com/nz/browse/home/s ... mac/select

I'm still getting over it

by **Arneb** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 11:13 pm

Sleek.

by **Blue Monster 65** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 3:42 pm

Congrats!

I just got a MacBook Pro that I'm enjoying. Honestly, though, I don't find the OS a whole lot different than Win 7 - they seem pretty much the same. I do like the build a whole lot, though, and this is the first touchpad on a laptop I've ever felt comfortable using (works like my iPod).

Still got Windows machines, too, so we now have the best of both worlds. Works for us!

by **tubeswell** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 1:38 pm

Blue Monster 65 wrote:I don't find the OS a whole lot different than Win 7

Yes Win 7 pretty much copied OS. Apple blazes the trail yet again.

(Having said that, I'm still getting to grips with the Intel Core i5 in my iMac. Was that a parting twist from the late Mr Jobs?)

by **Мастер** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 1:55 pm

tubeswell wrote:
Blue Monster 65 wrote:I don't find the OS a whole lot different than Win 7

Yes Win 7 pretty much copied OS. Apple blazes the trail yet again.

So the Mac OS freezes up all the time too? That's not good :(

by **tubeswell** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:18 pm

Mactep wrote:
tubeswell wrote:
Blue Monster 65 wrote:I don't find the OS a whole lot different than Win 7

Yes Win 7 pretty much copied OS. Apple blazes the trail yet again.

So the Mac OS freezes up all the time too? That's not good :(

Ha ha! No. It works perfectly. Win 7 is an inferior copy of OS

by **Blue Monster 65** » Fri Dec 16, 2011 4:05 am

Ha! No such luck here.

Actually, my wife's laptop (Win 7) runs quite well.

by **Мастер** » Fri Dec 16, 2011 4:19 am

Mine requires constant attention. Leave it alone for a few minutes, and it freezes up. Even if it's not running anything significant. Keep typing, moving the mouse, then it doesn't feel lonely and doesn't die.

This problem is what has finally gotten me, after years of half-hearted dabbling, to move over to Linux. All my machines are dual-boot, but once I got graphics, networking, browser, email, and typesetting working under Linux, that's a big slice of my daily activity. (Still need to get the computational stuff running.) I still reboot to go do something in Windows from time to time, but it's happening less and less often.

by **Blue Monster 65** » Fri Dec 16, 2011 4:44 am

Yipes! What machine do you have?

by **Мастер** » Fri Dec 16, 2011 6:40 am

It's some kind of HP laptop. No similar problems under Linux.

Can't get the video part of the docking station working under Linux, but new job ==> new computer, so I'm not worrying about it too much. And at the next job, I get to choose the hardware.

by **Blue Monster 65** » Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:13 pm

That's good, as it sounds like your current machine doesn't work well. I like HP - all of their models I've had have worked well for us (even running Ableton Live, which I had major trouble with on a couple of other machines).

by **Мастер** » Fri Dec 16, 2011 6:05 pm

I'd say the Windows/laptop combination is not working well. Linux/laptop seems to work pretty well. Or maybe I just haven't tested the limits enough yet. Linux/laptop/dock doesn't work particularly well, since (I think) driver support for some parts of the docking station is lacking.

So I don't know that there is any real hardware problem - all the strange behaviour I have occurs only under Windows. The Linux problems are the much more conventional "no driver for that particular piece of hardware yet" sort.

So I don't know that HP is really at fault for anything - it seems to me the OS is the problem, not the hardware. But maybe more thorough tests would say something different. And I definitely will not choose a dock - it's going to be one desktop, one laptop.

by **Blue Monster 65** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 4:48 am

Not enough memory or oomph to run the OS, eh? I hate that you need so much memory in order to get the damn thing to even start. Sheesh!

by **Мастер** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 5:48 am

Blue Monster 65 wrote:Not enough memory or oomph to run the OS, eh? I hate that you need so much memory in order to get the damn thing to even start. Sheesh!

Maybe that's it, I haven't even bothered to check the specs on this laptop.

by **Blue Monster 65** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 1:14 am

I had Live running just fine on my HP laptop for ages, then I updated to the latest version and things just went "puh!" and that was that for that program. The newer version wouldn't run with my processor speed. Ugh.

by **Blue Monster 65** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 1:14 am

I had Live running just fine on my HP laptop for ages, then I updated to the latest version and things just went "puh!" and that was that for that program. The newer version wouldn't run with my processor speed. Ugh.

by **Мастер** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:41 am

I have been using Linux most of the time now. Sometimes, I pop into Windows to do something I haven't quite worked out how to do in Linux yet.

So, I hadn't run the Microsoft Update thing in a while. I ran it a week or so ago, and it installed a bunch of updates, and I haven't had the computer lock up on me the way it used to. Maybe the problem is cured.

by **Blue Monster 65** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 12:01 pm

That would be nice.

Sometimes I feel like a mechanic, tinkering with the blasted things all the time - you, too?

by **Мастер** » Sun Jan 22, 2012 1:41 pm

If I'm a mechanic, then not a very good one, because many of the things stay broken :(

Looks like I spoke too soon on the computer. Left it up in Windows all day while out, with an application open, but idle (or nearly so). Came back, and it was frozen. Not even a mouse movement. Tried to wake it up for a good ten minutes or so, then hard reboot :(

by **Blue Monster 65** » Mon Jan 23, 2012 3:19 am

Ugh! That stinks.

Looks like we're going to have to pay for a net speed upgrade here. Bleh! Too many competing machines vying for time.

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