[P1] iBook newbie...

[Fran]

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
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>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?
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>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. 
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>Also, do you own other Macs or are you new to the Mac platform?  
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>Paul
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>  Hi Paul,
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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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