I am a New iMac Owner!

lhibrgr · lhibrgr #1 (**permalink**)

10-08-2009, 08:20 PM

Hi! I am a retired electronics service person. I have been a electronics technician since September 1961 and worked on anything that stays on the ground (nothing that leaves the ground)! I have always used PCs and lived with the problems that they provide to the world and when my son came home to visit us this last summer ... he brought with him a new 24" iMac!! He let me play with it for about 3 weeks and I liked it. Since I am a tech by trade I went to ebay and found a disabled 20" intel duo Core 2 system that had a defective hard drive! (And pretty cheap at that) I obtain a service manual (via ebay) and did my technical thing to it. Within 1 hour, I had the defective drive out...identified it (was still under warranty) obtained a replacement from the manufacture and I am totally happy with the iMac. Of course, I obtained Snow Leopard and the iWork09 etc. Even added a Time Machine (a Vantec Firewire 800 ext case) and now I am going to see if I can provide some technical support to this forum ... if needed.
Again...I am very very pleased with my apple product!!!

iPod Nano · iPod Nano #2 (**permalink**)

10-08-2009, 08:31 PM

That's great! Welcome to the forum! Feel free to jump in! The more people here who know how to solve problems, the better! It's like free tech support where everyone is both a support agent and a product user!

lhibrgr · lhibrgr #3 (**permalink**)

10-08-2009, 08:33 PM

FYI I did serve a National Tech Support for a large computer service organization here in the USA!!

pigoo3 · pigoo3 #4 (**permalink**)

10-08-2009, 08:53 PM

Enjoy that iMac!

- Nick

Sur3Mac · Sur3Mac #5 (**permalink**)

10-09-2009, 05:24 AM

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Originally Posted by pigoo3

Enjoy that iMac!

- Nick

Ditto here....

mac747 · mac747 #6 (**permalink**)

10-09-2009, 06:54 PM

Cool! Welcome!

clayneal · clayneal #7 (**permalink**)

10-09-2009, 07:00 PM

Welcome and enjoy !

Chris H. · Chris H. #8 (**permalink**)

10-09-2009, 07:35 PM

Sweet. Enjoy it here! I'm using a Power Mac, older than the hills (so it seems, at least with the PPC processor).

toMACsh · toMACsh #9 (**permalink**)

10-10-2009, 10:15 AM

Welcome! Love your story. Too often the story from "switchers" is "This thing doesn't work! It won't do things my old Dell did so well!! I'm ready to throw this piece of junk in the garbage!" Of course, the problem is the operator not the OS.

theOneKrishna · theOneKrishna #10 (**permalink**)

10-11-2009, 06:43 AM

Welcome to the Forum!

iPod Nano · iPod Nano #11 (**permalink**)

10-15-2009, 01:10 AM

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Originally Posted by toMACsh

Of course, the problem is the operator not the OS.

No, not necessarily. Windows seems to have a mind of it's own and just doesn't do what you want it to do, and on top of that everything seems to be harder than it should.

ImageX · ImageX #12 (**permalink**)

10-15-2009, 02:56 AM

iPod, I think he was referring to OS X not Windows. Welcome to the forums lhibrgr. I like how you even fixed your first Mac and even better, you love it! Keep digging around in there I'm sure you'll find some neat stuff.

bobc4775 · bobc4775 #13 (**permalink**)

10-17-2009, 01:12 PM

I'm a retired postal technician that used to design power supplies for a living - before the job moved over to China.
I bought my refurbed imac in late 2007 and have been very happy with it. I still have 3 windows boxes and a dell laptop running XP or 2000 but use the imac most of the time.
Enjoy the ride!

Bobc

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Originally Posted by lhibrgr

Hi! I am a retired electronics service person. I have been a electronics technician since September 1961 and worked on anything that stays on the ground (nothing that leaves the ground)!
Again...I am very very pleased with my apple product!!!

iPod Nano #2 (permalink)
Member Since: May 15, 2009 Posts: 1,094 Mac Specs: White MacBook. iLife '09. iWork '09. Mac OS X 10.6	10-08-2009, 08:31 PM That's great! Welcome to the forum! Feel free to jump in! The more people here who know how to solve problems, the better! It's like free tech support where everyone is both a support agent and a product user! Chris K.
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pigoo3 #4 (permalink)
Member Since: May 20, 2008 Location: U.S. Posts: 20,667 Mac Specs: 13" MB 2.4ghz, 2gig ram, OS 10.7.4	10-08-2009, 08:53 PM Enjoy that iMac! - Nick - Computer slow, too many "beachballs", read this: Beachballs - Computer seems slower than it used to? Read this for some speedup tips: Speedup - Almost full hard drive? Some solutions. Out of Space - Apple Battery Info. Battery
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Chris H. #8 (permalink)
Member Since: Oct 03, 2009 Location: Rio Rancho, NM Posts: 2,538 Mac Specs: late 2009 MacBook - 10.7.5	10-09-2009, 07:35 PM Sweet. Enjoy it here! I'm using a Power Mac, older than the hills (so it seems, at least with the PPC processor).  lt-2009 MacBook - OS X 10.7.5  iPad mini 16 GB - iOS 6.1.3  5th gen iPod touch 64GB - iOS 6.1.3  iPhone 4 8GB - iOS 6.1.3
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ImageX #12 (permalink)
Member Since: Aug 17, 2009 Location: East Bay, CA Posts: 439 Mac Specs: 17" MBP C2D 2.8 4GB OS X 10.8 \| iPhone 5	10-15-2009, 02:56 AM iPod, I think he was referring to OS X not Windows. Welcome to the forums lhibrgr. I like how you even fixed your first Mac and even better, you love it! Keep digging around in there I'm sure you'll find some neat stuff. "The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." Remember to use the Reputation System!
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lhibrgr #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Oct 08, 2009 Location: Missouri Posts: 3 Mac Specs: 20" intel iMac MA876LL/A	10-08-2009, 08:20 PM Hi! I am a retired electronics service person. I have been a electronics technician since September 1961 and worked on anything that stays on the ground (nothing that leaves the ground)! I have always used PCs and lived with the problems that they provide to the world and when my son came home to visit us this last summer ... he brought with him a new 24" iMac!! He let me play with it for about 3 weeks and I liked it. Since I am a tech by trade I went to ebay and found a disabled 20" intel duo Core 2 system that had a defective hard drive! (And pretty cheap at that) I obtain a service manual (via ebay) and did my technical thing to it. Within 1 hour, I had the defective drive out...identified it (was still under warranty) obtained a replacement from the manufacture and I am totally happy with the iMac. Of course, I obtained Snow Leopard and the iWork09 etc. Even added a Time Machine (a Vantec Firewire 800 ext case) and now I am going to see if I can provide some technical support to this forum ... if needed. Again...I am very very pleased with my apple product!!!
	QUOTE Thanks

mac747 #6 (permalink)
Member Since: Sep 01, 2006 Location: Maryland Posts: 385 Mac Specs: 2.2GHZ Macbook Pro - 4GB RAM - 500GB HD	10-09-2009, 06:54 PM Cool! Welcome!
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clayneal #7 (permalink)
Member Since: Mar 27, 2009 Location: Lincoln Nebraska Posts: 2,146 Mac Specs: late 08 macbook 2.0 4gig 320hdd10.7.3 32 gig iPhone 4s	10-09-2009, 07:00 PM Welcome and enjoy !
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toMACsh #9 (permalink)
Member Since: Jul 30, 2009 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 4,860 Mac Specs: Mac Mini Core 2 Duo	10-10-2009, 10:15 AM Welcome! Love your story. Too often the story from "switchers" is "This thing doesn't work! It won't do things my old Dell did so well!! I'm ready to throw this piece of junk in the garbage!" Of course, the problem is the operator not the OS.
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theOneKrishna #10 (permalink)
Member Since: Oct 10, 2009 Location: Nanuet, NewYork and Lublin Poland Posts: 54 Mac Specs: MBP 17" 2.2ghz i7 quadcore 8gbRAM 750gbHD 1.0gbVRAM Radeon 6570M iPod Touch 4G 32gb	10-11-2009, 06:43 AM Welcome to the Forum!
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