About to Buy The iMac (Stop Me?)

I am about to buy the iMac, possibly today. I was wondering a couple of things.
-Should I wait for 10.5 to come pre-installed on them?
-How are they, work wise, look wise, function wise (for the owners)?

*Hi CA..., Welcome* to Apple's Users Help Users Forums.
*Francine Schweider* a |||| bar poster in these forums has what I think is an excellent thought.
"I plan to buy my next computer before Leopard comes out. Why? Because generally new Mac computers will not run any system older than the one they ship with, I want to be able to use the fully mature Tiger system, rather than having to rely entirely on Leopard. Who knows whether the software I own will be fully compatible with Leopard? Or how long it will take for developers (think Adobe) to update if there are incompatibilities with Leopard. Or even just how stable and reliable and all like that Leopard will be.
Francine"
Enjoy your new Mac, JP
*The specifics:*
http://www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/
Enjoy

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I am about to buy the new iMac, but do I have to buy all the software I have in my old one, like Aperture, pages, etc.?

No, you don't. If you got it from the Mac App Store, log into it with the same Apple ID and redownload it for free. If you got it from CDs or DVDs, reinstall it from those; having the DVD version of a program does not get you a free download of it from the Mac App Store.
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Just installed Mac OS X 10.8.5 on a Mac Pro 2010 platform. The App Store shows there is an upgrade, so I click the download button. After about 2 hrs the process stops and an Error (102) appears on the screen. Any idea what goes wrong? THX

Just installed Mac OS X 10.8.5 on a Mac Pro 2010 platform.
The App Store shows there is an upgrade, so I click the download button.
After about 2 hrs the process stops and an Error (102) appears on the screen.
Any idea what goes wrong?
THX

ahstephen wrote:
Thank you for the response.
The upgrade I'm interested is for OS X v.10.8.5...
...The App Store page shows 2 different upgrades:
Mountain Lion (10.8.5) Software Upgrade, and
Yosemite FREE upgrade
If the App Store is showing 10.8.5 as an update, what do you currently have installed? The final update to Mountain Lion was 10.8.5, and since the basic OS installation of Mountain Lion is no longer offered in the App Store, that would suggest you're currently at an earlier version of Mountain Lion - 10.8.x where x=less than 5. If that's the case, I'd suggest getting the 10.8.5 update. There is also a Supplemental Update for 10.8.5 and that may be what the App Store is offering.

I have created a slide show with music but when i view it or attempt to burn to a CD or even copy to hard drive after about 15 sec the program stops working and it shuts down

Elements 10 was deactivated on desktop and installed on new laptop. Have on
y used it for photo editing until yesterday. Created a slide show with music but every time I try to burn to cd or move it to hard drive after about 15 sec, it says windows has encountered a problem with this program and must shut down.
I Also can't sign in to adobe with the program. It simply spins and I had to force close the program.
help!?

I am using photoshop Elements 10 under the create tab...slide show.
Used it on my desktop several times. Deactivated it and installed on new lap top about 5 months ago. Had not used it other than for photo editing until today.
I can also not login in thru the program. It simply spins and I finally had to force close the program
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On Jun 27, 2014, at 7:03 PM, Chris Cox <[email protected]>
I have created a slide show with music but when i view it or attempt to burn to a CD or even copy to hard drive after about 15 sec the program stops working and it shuts down
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Photoshop doesn't do slideshows… What software are you using?
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I'm about to buy the MacBook Pro Retina 15 inch in USA. I will be using predominantly in Europe. What accessories should I be buying?

I'm about to buy the MacBook Pro Retina 15 inch in USA. I will be using predominantly in Europe. What accessories should I be buying?

We can't discuss what Apple is going to do or new products, but it does make a lot of sense if your gut feelings tell you to buy now.
I got a really bad feeling and ran out and got the last of the 17" MBP's with anti-glare and Snow Leopard.
Turned out I was right in listening to my gut, the abortion of OS X Lion came out killed my 15", Cupertino HQ was pwned by Flashback and Apple pulled the 17" MBP completely off the market.
Apple has purposely put the Retinas front and center in their stores, so the majority of the know-nothings buy those. If they thought a bit about buying a machine with future options in upgrade options they would, like you, choose the non-Retina.
Really if you want choice in hardware, your going to have to switch to a PC. As you can pretty much get anything you need on that platform. Apple's hardware choices have been sealing up and their OS X is turning into iOS, soon it's going to be nothing more than a dumbed down iPad.
Windows 8 Pro can be downgraded to Window 7 even, and since Win 7 is supported until 2020, you should be set for quite a few more years. The choice of software is vast on Windows and it's sort of the next eveolutionary step up actually.

Should I buy the imac with expandable memory slot for future os upgrade size?

Should I buy the imac with expandable 8gb memory slot for future os upgrade size?

I Always try to have a little more RAM on my computers that I think I'll need when I purchase them. Either have more ram installed when you order the iMac or purchase one with open slots for upgrading.
I Purchase my iMac 5K with only 8 GB RAM but it had two open slots. As soon as I received the iMac I purchased two 8 GB modules form Other World Computeing. That brought my RAM to 24 GB. I run multiple applications and the iMac runs smoothly.

Can anyone justify buying the iMac in spite of these problems?

Can anyone justify the iMac for Logic 8?
I've been weighing the option of getting an iMac for using Logic 8 but it's hard for me to ignore that large quantity of posts that deal with a) iMac display issue and b) Apple not doing much about it.
I've heard some of you say there is no worry because these negative posts represent a small minority. My question is this:
1) Are you sure this is a "trivial" minority? Have you seen the numerous pages of posts about iMac display issues?
2) Where are you getting your proportion data from? What source tells you that "most" iMac user do not have display issues?

Let me tell you something...I am obsessive compulsive...and if I like mine then your fine.
I have no display issues.
A little bit of bleed, but with a backlight it will happen...

Will 4k be enough to buy the imac 27"? the upgrades total is $3,649.00, how much is tax in usa chicago?

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the whole total of it

Hi,
Agree with the 3rd prty upgrades, especially RAM...
The sales tax in the City of Chicago, Illinois is:
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currently the highest amount in the United States.
On July 1, 2010, the sales tax decreased from 10.25%
Read about the vote to decrease the Cook County portion of the sales tax.
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i love my new msi board yes i could have waited , for something better...but there is always something better. i upgraded/from a amd 2100 ati aiw 9000 756 ddr2 rig, which i gave to my brother becuase he was having problems with newer games, and my new msi rig blew the pants off the old setup, especially in games..loadtimes, and everything else. when i load bf1942 i am always the first ione in my usual server, and using tteam speak, everyone always say, man you laoded fast,... :like:my msi k8t neo fisr2...
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hello, i found a good deal on the ati card for the mac pro. i read a lot about the card and there have been mixed reviews. to me it seems the card doesn't bode well when playing high-end games. at least that's what i get from the reviews, the fans get louder and the card overheats. i use my computer for video and graphics. i think im going to buy it but i wanted to check something before i buy.
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There are two sides to this argument.
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Can anyone justify buying the iMac for Logic Pro8 despite display prob's?

I've been weighing the option of getting an iMac for using Logic 8 but it's hard for me to ignore that large quantity of posts that deal with a) iMac display issue and b) Apple not doing much about it.
I've heard some say there is no worry because these negative posts represent a small minority. My question is this:
1) Are you sure this is a "trivial" minority? Have you seen the numerous pages of posts about iMac display issues?
2) Where are you getting your proportion data from? What source tells you that "most" iMac user do not have display issues?

I have a relatively new iMac ( 24",2.8, 4 gigs ram, 10.5.6). I'm not privy to these display discussions but I will tell you that my machine has never had the smallest problem displaying Logic Pro 8. For that matter neither did my previous iMac (17", 2 gigs ram, 10.4.11). There may be issues with regard to more graphic-intense applications but not with Logic. Are you a high-end gamer? Do you plan to use your iMac to edit pro-quality images? If not then an iMac will do fine.

A question about gaming on the imac

So i just got a 17" imac (2.0ghz) version with the 1gb memory and radeon x1600, and i was wondering, if it will be able to work good with unreal tournament 2004, and also if it would possably work with Counter strike source if i downloaded boot camp. Thanks : ).
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The Universal patch is for the full-game, not demo.
Here's some infor about the patch and link for the patch BTW...
http://www.macnn.com/articles/06/02/03/unreal.tournament.2004/
http://www.macgamefiles.com/detail.php?item=18155
I do not own the game, so I cannot comment on the widescreen thing, my games play fine on my 24" iMac. Are you looking to have the black bars on the top and bottom? I guess it would depend on the resolution you set in the settings.
If this helps, please award points accordingly. Thank you.
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About to buy the Mega 180

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for starters, if you are not using a seperate video card, then i wouldn't have bothered getting DDR400 memory, as it will only run at 333 anyways
the Mobile XP2500+ SHOULD (in theory) work, but note elsewhere that people have had problems with it
if you are looking to overclock this system then i seriously wouldn't bother, as the cooling system is poorly designed and temperatures run higher than normal - even at stock speeds
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I'm about to buy an iMac and am looking to put an old version of photoshop on it. How far back would be compatible EG Photoshop CS2?

Old version of photoshop compatible with new iMac?

Well,
If you are a NOT regular and expert Photoshop user, the you really do not need full Photoshop.
As has been stated you can use Photoshop Elements OR Pixelmator, then use LemkeSoft's Graphic Converter to do CMYK conversion.
Graphic Converter is not that expensive an app to add to your arsenal of Mac graphic/art tools.
These two graphics apps are still cheaper together than either an upgrade version of Photoshop CS3 OR much, MUCH cheaper than a full version of Photoshop.
http://www.lemkesoft.de/en/products/graphicconverter/
Also, what type of digital art do you do? Do you work more with images or are you a digital painter?
You could look at Painter 5 Essentials or full version of Painter which is my painting app of choice which is a lot cheaper than newer versions of full Photoshop and has CMYK support and, also, has the ability to integrate images into its application and has layers, also.
It's pricey, but it is still cheaper than full versions of Photoshop.
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