iMac anyone any advice

Re: iMac anyone any advice

David Owen — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:53:18 -500

You could use it to shield your eyes from the bright screen; wow - it’s bright.

On 27 Sep 2008, at 11:17 am, Roger Burton wrote:

Who’s a lucky boy then, i hope you didn’t make yourself look like an idiot like I did on the Apple discussions forum when I asked what the little ‘velvet’ envelope was for (I thought, as it was a refurb there might be something missing) ! - it seems it’s a little cloth for cleaning the screen dooohh !

David

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Re: iMac anyone any advice

Roger Burton — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:17:22 -500

Who’s a lucky boy then, i hope you didn’t make yourself look like an idiot like I did on the Apple discussions forum when I asked what the little ‘velvet’ envelope was for (I thought, as it was a refurb there might be something missing) ! - it seems it’s a little cloth for cleaning the screen dooohh !

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Re: iMac anyone any advice

David Owen — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:54:05 -500

Apple documentation said they sent me an iMac with a 320GB disc in it; but it’s actually got a 500MB disc in it :-)

On 25 Sep 2008, at 2:51 pm, David Owen wrote:

OK the new iMac has arrived.

David

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Re: iMac anyone any advice

chuckamuck — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:59:08 -500

I would personally install a windows system with bootcamp and then add Parallels….

Exactly what I did, but used Fusion instead.

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Re: iMac anyone any advice

max — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:29:07 -500

I would personally install a windows system with bootcamp and then add Parallels, but rather than install another operating system I would just point it at the bootcamp volume. (its a setting in the control panel) This way if you need the maximum speed that running a pc in non a emulated format woud give then you can relaunch the the machine as a full blown PC, but if you just require it to view websites you have made in IE then you can launch Parallels.

max

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Re: iMac anyone any advice

chuckamuck — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:13:19 -500

I use VMWare Fusion myself. Does a great job, especially version 2.

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WilliamMac — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:50:25 -500

thanks Walter

On Thursday, September 25, 2008, at 07:45AM, “waltd” <email@hidden> wrote: >

I got a copy of XP Pro SP2 on eBay, and upgraded to SP3 on line while resisting the urge to upgrade IE6. >

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WilliamMac — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:50:12 -500

thanks Walter

On Thursday, September 25, 2008, at 07:45AM, “waltd” <email@hidden> wrote: >

I got a copy of XP Pro SP2 on eBay, and upgraded to SP3 on line while resisting the urge to upgrade IE6. >

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waltd — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:45:24 -500

Could I find a downloadable versio of IE6 to run on a fusion machine?

I got a copy of XP Pro SP2 on eBay, and upgraded to SP3 on line while resisting the urge to upgrade IE6. There are containerized versions of IE available from a company called something like “Crossover”, and David has posted a link to another approach in one of the many threads this message has spawned (something went boink in this system).

Walter

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Re: iMac anyone any advice

b8 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:35:18 -500

I run both IE6 and IE7 on my Windows machine here. Take a look at: http://tredosoft.com/IE7_standalone

Op 25 sep 2008, om 16:27 heeft David Owen het volgende geschreven:

That interesting - We’ve already got an IE6 box here, which I’ve used to test sites, so perhaps there is not much benefit for adding essentially just IE7 to a new mac?

On 25 Sep 2008, at 15:11, waltd wrote:

Also resist the urge to upgrade to IE7, as 6 fails in interesting and useful ways and still has enormous ill-gotten market share. Of course, you could always clone your virtual machine (given enough disk space) and install IE7 on a separate VM.

David Owen

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iMac anyone any advice

Roger Burton — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:35:04 -500

Hi chaps, I’m thinking about getting one of the new iMacs to replace my excellent (but aging) G4 with 24” display, I love it but it’s starting to show signs that worry me a little - anyway - anyone any experience of these newer machines please ? I live in Southampton (UK) and we have an Apple Store so I guess I’ll buy from there - Regards Roger

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