I have an Apple iMac sitting on my floor. Not working. It’s making strange sounds upon startup. I get Kernel Panics every 10th reboot. The computer boots, but then shuts off after several minutes. If you restart it too many times within a short amount of time, you have shut it off for an hour before you can use it again. In short– it broke. I knew it wasn’t a RAM or logic board issue, so my job seemed targeted to a hard drive.
I had it up long enough to boot from my external drive and saw that the HDD is corrupted. I wasn’t able to repair the drive, even after booting from my external. I tried Drive Genius 2, but even that couldn’t see the drive. I wish I had Disk Warrior to try it out, but I don’t own that anymore. It was time to get to work.
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The entire iMac line now features the new Intel Core 2 Duo processor, delivering up to 50% faster performance than the previous iMac. A new 24-inch iMac with a brilliant 24-inch widescreen display joins the 17- and 20-inch models. iMac prices now start at just $999. — Apple.com
Well, Apple again shocked me by beating out the speculated day for iMac revisions, and offered a complete new line starting today. Everyone and his cousin thought Apple would release a 23″ model on September 12, at a “special event.” Looks like Apple upstaged them all!
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Update: 03.31.06 – I took the iMac to CompUSA today, and they checked it out and ordered a new SuperDrive. It should be here in three days.
My Apple SuperDrive is on the fritz. The drive will accept CDs, but not DVDs. No DVD disc will play or is able to be read. I chatted with Apple tech support and they concluded the drive has failed, or is about to fail. That’s the bad news.
The good news is that it won’t cost me anything. Although this is covered by the factory warranty, I also have the Apple Protection Plan, just incase something like this happens a day and a year after I bought it. I just have to bring it to my local CompUSA store, and they will take care of the rest.
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Having just sold my Gateway PC recently on eBay (well, actually the parts of it), I’d like to think back at all the pleasure it gave me. There were good days. However, there were too many bad days; too many even to count.
Aside from the fact that I got sick and tired of viruses, spyware, malware, and adware, my ears couldn’t take the sound of my PC any longer. I mean, this thing was a beast in size, and didn’t disappoint when it came to bark vs. bite. At the breaking point in February of 2005, I decided to buy a Mac mini, which I’ve since upgraded to an iMac.
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