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<blockquote data-quote="rhone" data-source="post: 961642" data-attributes="member: 135220"><p>Ok, so I initially started an earlier thread with the same title about my initial frustrations with how Mac locked up and had a conniption fit when I inserted an old data CD:</p><p><a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/switcher-hangout/181283-switcher-excitment-replaced-frustration.html" target="_blank">http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/switcher-hangout/181283-switcher-excitment-replaced-frustration.html</a></p><p></p><p>Well, the saga continues with new issues. For all of the ways that I want to love the Mac, a new frustration creeps in everyday, seriously challenging my opinion of Mac's "it just works" ad campaign ;P. I'm still new to Mac, so despite my frustration, I am going to give this a full, multi-month chance, but my iMac is beginning to run the risk of becoming a large, cracked-LCD screen paperweight. Yes, it's just a computer, and yes there will be issues. But don't base your entire ad campaign about how these things don't happen when they do! Was 10.6 rushed to market or something? is it otherwise known to be buggy? </p><p></p><p>Here are my latest three issues:</p><p>1. It won't go to sleep. Well, it will if I go to the apple menu and select "go to sleep," but it won't pursuant to the power settings. Just started doing this 2 days ago. We've not done anything different, or added programs. Seriously, at this point, we are just using notes for 1 document, the internet, and Lightroom (which we haven't opened in 5 days since we are still loading old photos). </p><p></p><p>2. There is a noticable delay in typing response in notes. I could have typed that last sentence and been done by "typing" and the "response in notes" would lag behind. It's only notes, and we've not added something. Again, so much for the "it just works" mantra.</p><p></p><p>3. iMac locked my wife out of her work account (not directly, but because of something it did). Thanks iMac. Jerk. She was trying to log in remotely, and discovered that the username/Pw boxes don't reliably insert characters even when slowly and properly typing. I was amazed by this myself, actually, and tried it. Since the pw box fills with asterisks when you type, she tried typing her password in the username box to see what happened. There's a # in the password. If I held down the shift key and pressed the "3/#" key multiple times, here's the string I'd get (or some variation thereof): "333#3##33#33". For sanity's sake, we opened notes and did the same test: "########". Has anyone ever seen this before? We repeated the test more than once with the same results.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I just want to add with regard to this point that I realize it might be some other issue than the iMac, considering that it only happens in that context. However, I still consider the iMac a likely target for 2 reasons: 1. many of my other concerns are/were isolated incidents, and 2. most importantly, it works on my pc laptop (funny, on my Win machine, "it just works"!).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rhone, post: 961642, member: 135220"] Ok, so I initially started an earlier thread with the same title about my initial frustrations with how Mac locked up and had a conniption fit when I inserted an old data CD: [url]http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/switcher-hangout/181283-switcher-excitment-replaced-frustration.html[/url] Well, the saga continues with new issues. For all of the ways that I want to love the Mac, a new frustration creeps in everyday, seriously challenging my opinion of Mac's "it just works" ad campaign ;P. I'm still new to Mac, so despite my frustration, I am going to give this a full, multi-month chance, but my iMac is beginning to run the risk of becoming a large, cracked-LCD screen paperweight. Yes, it's just a computer, and yes there will be issues. But don't base your entire ad campaign about how these things don't happen when they do! Was 10.6 rushed to market or something? is it otherwise known to be buggy? Here are my latest three issues: 1. It won't go to sleep. Well, it will if I go to the apple menu and select "go to sleep," but it won't pursuant to the power settings. Just started doing this 2 days ago. We've not done anything different, or added programs. Seriously, at this point, we are just using notes for 1 document, the internet, and Lightroom (which we haven't opened in 5 days since we are still loading old photos). 2. There is a noticable delay in typing response in notes. I could have typed that last sentence and been done by "typing" and the "response in notes" would lag behind. It's only notes, and we've not added something. Again, so much for the "it just works" mantra. 3. iMac locked my wife out of her work account (not directly, but because of something it did). Thanks iMac. Jerk. She was trying to log in remotely, and discovered that the username/Pw boxes don't reliably insert characters even when slowly and properly typing. I was amazed by this myself, actually, and tried it. Since the pw box fills with asterisks when you type, she tried typing her password in the username box to see what happened. There's a # in the password. If I held down the shift key and pressed the "3/#" key multiple times, here's the string I'd get (or some variation thereof): "333#3##33#33". For sanity's sake, we opened notes and did the same test: "########". Has anyone ever seen this before? We repeated the test more than once with the same results. I just want to add with regard to this point that I realize it might be some other issue than the iMac, considering that it only happens in that context. However, I still consider the iMac a likely target for 2 reasons: 1. many of my other concerns are/were isolated incidents, and 2. most importantly, it works on my pc laptop (funny, on my Win machine, "it just works"!). [/QUOTE]
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