From railfan at telus.net Tue Dec 4 17:16:07 2007 From: railfan at telus.net (M.Milligan) Date: Tue Dec 4 17:16:14 2007 Subject: [iMac] Thanks re:iMac viewing distance Message-ID: <8f73287b6f0046a35181be4b82c90344@telus.net> I thank all who supplied info and viewpoints on their respective iMacs. Cheers. Murray From lists at wizardling.geek.nz Fri Dec 7 15:09:10 2007 From: lists at wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) Date: Fri Dec 7 15:09:20 2007 Subject: [iMac] Newbie with viewing distance question In-Reply-To: <1557260c9538471187cdb265b45ee82f@telus.net> Message-ID: <1i8sxjb.15drvp1gxjy5eM%lists@wizardling.geek.nz> M.Milligan wrote: > Hello all. I'm new to this list. I've used Mac notebooks for many years > now. Soon we're buying an iMac. > > Our concern is the viewing distance required for the 20" & 24" screens. > Is there a minimum viewing distance one should be from the screen? I find the old standard of keeping the screen an arms's length away from your eyes works well for me. > I want to use the iMac for home computing, web browsing & email and > also for Photo Shop work on my digpix. > > Should I max out the ram to 4GB? Is a 20" 2.4GHz clock speed suitable > for digital photo correction and related work, or is there that much of > a difference with the 2.8GHz? > > Any help is greatfully accepted. I thank you all in advance. Cheers. > > Murray I'm finding 2GB on my 2.8GHz 24" iMac is enough, though I might upgrade someday to get that little bit of extra performance... *is utterly broke after just buying this Mac* ...still, it's FAR from necessary. 2Gb is FINE. Regards, Jamie Kahn Genet -- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. From mendinfences at yahoo.com Mon Dec 10 17:15:23 2007 From: mendinfences at yahoo.com (bertani thomas) Date: Mon Dec 10 17:15:31 2007 Subject: [iMac] Airport signal strength issues Message-ID: <4365.40570.qm@web52506.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Hello All. We recently changed to satellite internet and set up a router for my office. I have been having quite a few issues with the lack of signal strength on my iMac. In addition to it being low strength, I frequently get dropped. I did purchase an adapter from a company that specializes in Macs and I am at least getting service (at one point, I couldn't connect up at all). It is definitely the location of my iMac as I've moved it out to another area and it will hook up to the router. I have a Macbook and it gets a strong, steady signal -- though, also, not in the office area where I need it. We've checked all the "interference" issues we can. My question is if iMacs simply have a weak signal option and if anyone has found something that will resolve that? Thanks so much. ~linda iMac 17" 1.83/1GB ram OS X 10.4.10 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs From jwegriffin at mac.com Mon Dec 10 20:12:43 2007 From: jwegriffin at mac.com (John Griffin) Date: Mon Dec 10 20:13:04 2007 Subject: [iMac] Airport signal strength issues In-Reply-To: <4365.40570.qm@web52506.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <4365.40570.qm@web52506.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <980288D6-D5A5-4323-A495-43EFF93568F7@mac.com> We have satellite Internet access on our iMac here in my home office. It is with Telesat (Xplornet) in Canada (same as Wildblue in the US). I have one of the more expensive packages for SOHO use and it works very well and I seldom get dropped. I have an Ethernet cable strung between the Satellite modem and my computer which may account for the good connection, but I would think that a decent WiFi connection between the iMac and a wireless router should work as well. Perhaps if you were to get an add-on antenna or repeater to the router it would work better for you. jg On 10-Dec-07, at 8:15 PM, bertani thomas wrote: > We recently changed to satellite internet and set up a router for my > office. I have been having quite a few issues with the lack of > signal strength on my iMac. In addition to it being low strength, I > frequently get dropped. I did purchase an adapter from a company > that specializes in Macs and I am at least getting service (at one > point, I couldn't connect up at all). It is definitely the location > of my iMac as I've moved it out to another area and it will hook up > to the router. I have a Macbook and it gets a strong, steady signal > -- though, also, not in the office area where I need it. We've > checked all the "interference" issues we can. My question is if > iMacs simply have a weak signal option and if anyone has found > something that will resolve that?