[P1] iBook newbie...

[David Molho]

And the good news is that if there is a hardware problem, it's still 
under warranty and you have Apple tech support available to you (for a 
few more weeks anyway . . .)

-- David


On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 12:18  PM, Fran wrote:

> Paul Bernhardt wrote:
>
>> Fran said on 3/4/03 9:49 AM:
>>
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>>> I recently subscribed to this list after being on several of the 
>>> other LEM lists because I went out and got myself an iBook 
>>> 600MHz/20/128/CD I've had this for about 3 weeks and have already 
>>> had to reinstall OS 10.2.4 three times and used the restore software 
>>> to reinstall OS 9.2.2. This machine seems to like to freeze up alot. 
>>> One of the reintalls of OS 10  was because it would not boot back 
>>> into OS 10 after using OS 9 for about a half an hour. I am thinking 
>>> that I should invest in more RAM but am waiting until I can afford 
>>> to get the 512 DIMM. In OS 10 is there a way to allocate more memory 
>>> to a particular program like in earlier OSs?
>>> Thanks for any help,
>>> Fran
>>>
>>
>> The red flag I saw in your post is you have a 600 MHz iBook for only 
>> 3 weeks. Seems to me that the 600MHz machines haven't been available 
>> for several months. If I'm recalling correctly, that suggests you 
>> didn't buy that machine new. Did you buy it used?
>>
>> If so, it may be you got someone else's lemon, or worse, something 
>> they screwed up and passed off on you as if in new shape.
>> Also, do you own other Macs or are you new to the Mac platform?
>> Paul
>>
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>>  Hi Paul,
>>
>
> I got this new at a Fry's Electronics, I think they had been shipped 
> some old stock to get rid of... According to all the paperwork it is 
> original...not a refurbished return. I switched a year ago this month. 
> My first Mac was a Mac IIci that I picked up in a Thrift shop...I 
> upgraded it a bit and just recently sold it on eBay. I also have a 
> MacPlus 4MB with an external HD, also a PM6116CD, a Performa 5200CD, 
> and a LC550, and my daily use machine was a PM7300/upgraded to a G3 
> 400/4.3HD/256RAM. So, over the course of this past year I tried to 
> familiarize myself with early OSs and differing styles of machines. I 
> using OS 9.2.2 on the 7300 for the last 3 months until I bought this 
> iBook. Even with the experience I do have, I still consider myself a 
> Mac newbie.
> I too, was thinking that I was just making some bone-head mistakes 
> because OS 10 is so different from the others. But everyone kept 
> telling me how stable it is and such so I figured I was the 
> problem....I still may be! After, I upgrade the memory and do a clean 
> install of everything, we'll see what happens, I guess ;-)
>
> Thanks for the input!
> Fran
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