Mac OSX and iMac

I have used Windows machines from the earliest days. With BootCamp and virtualization, I decided to make the jump to Mac. I really like the Mac and all I can do with it. The user interface is the best. Unfortunately, from a stability standpoint, Windows wins hands down. I converted my wife to Mac (iBook G4) 2 years ago. I have to play games with her machine weekly if not more often to keep it running. My iMac needs constant attention. Thank goodness for the likes of Applejack, Macaroni, DiskWarrior, etc to keep things going. Have I missed something or are theses Macs not all what they were cracked up to be?

Well I can only speak from personal experience. I'm fairly new to Macs, having made the switch from Windows to OSX in September 07. My machine has been 100% stable. I don't run BootCamp but I do run VM Ware Fusion along with XP Pro and so far have had no problems at all with either OS on my iMac. From my point of view your experience seems the exception rather than the rule. I normally let my machine run 24/7 and just let the monitor sleep and HD go idle when inactive. Other than that no maintenance other than the automatic OSX maintenance done nightly, weekly and monthly.
I upgraded from Tiger to Leopard and that went smoothly however I will be the first to admit that while Leopard was cool it wasn't as stable as Tiger. I have upgrade to 10.5.1, 10.5.2, 10.5.3 and now am on 10.5.4 and have seen the system become more and more stable with each upgrade.
Sorry to hear you haven't had the best luck but I do think it is an exception.

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Also im sorry if this has been posted in the wrong area of this forum, i couldn't seem to find an accurate forum title for this issue.
Thanks
Barny

barnyiz2cool wrote:
Hi. I would like an expert opinion from an apple representative on this matter because i really need an accurate answer.
You aren't going to get an Apple Representative here, this is a user to user forum. All the people that post are volunteer end users just like yourself.
OK basically my college just got 60 iMacs which are awesome and me and two mates are allowed to have the restore discs for Mac OSX and iLife because they dont need them. This is we reckon we could make about £4000 selling them which would be great but we are not sure if it is legal to do this and we dont want to break the law.
I suggest you read the SLA on OS X, while it may (I'm not saying it is or isn't) be legal to sell them they are pretty worthless as the discs are specific to the hardware that they shipped with. For example lets say your college bought all Mid 2010 21.5 iMac's with i3 processors. Unless you find a buyer with identical (and I MEAN IDENTICAL!!!) specifications the discs won't work on the buyers machine and are therefore of no value. In addition selling them is very short sighted, at some point those machine may need to be restored with the original OS and iLife applications then what do you do?
IMHO it's a nice idea to try and earn some additional revenue for your college (I'm assuming that's the intent) however it's short sighted and overall a bad idea.
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Thank you very much All (devildance, and Frank).
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Hello,
I am looking into getting 3DStudio Max which is a Windows only program but will need to flip flop between 3DSM and Photoshop. I am wondering, can I install my Adobe apps on both Operating Systems so that I can have them on my regular Mac OSX for normal work and in Windows Bootcamp for when I do 3D renderings? I rather not use a Virtual Machine considering both of those programs are going to take a lot of RAM already. Adding another program to that mix I feel will just overheat/slow down my machine.
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Sarah

that's interesting. it may be a problem, but give it a try.
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