May 28, 201016 yr Apple treated me right, tho I ordered the wrong replacement memory, so now I have to wait.
June 10, 201016 yr An old interview I can across on longform.org this morning where Jobs sounds very different. Thought some of you might enjoy too. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.02/jobs_pr.html "The problem is I'm older now, I'm 40 years old, and this stuff doesn't change the world. It really doesn't." Edited June 10, 201016 yr by blessingx
June 10, 201016 yr Author just get a 27" i7 iMac. Mine came last night. Planning on migrating everything over this afternoon then repacking for transit down South next week. May run a few benchmarks just for fun!
June 10, 201016 yr "The problem is I'm older now, I'm 40 years old, and this stuff doesn't change the world. It really doesn't." Oh yes it does! It changes everything [again]. Did he use the words "magical" or "revolutionary"? Mine came last night. Planning on migrating everything over this afternoon then repacking for transit down South next week. May run a few benchmarks just for fun! Sweet. That thing must smoke. Maybe you can post a few more times a day again with its increased speed.
June 12, 201016 yr Author Sweet. That thing must smoke. Maybe you can post a few more times a day again with its increased speed. After migrating all my data over, now it won't boot! Faaaaaaaaaaark. Beginning troubleshooting process. If it's anything more than a disk issue, it'll have to go back for refund as the movers come Monday and it's a little big to fit in hand luggage!
June 12, 201016 yr Bummer, Stretch. How did you "migrate"your data? Time Machine via Migration Assistant? I've had good luck with that in past. Sorry to hear ... just what you (don't) need at final weekend before an intercontinental move.
June 12, 201016 yr Author Yeah, I used Migration Assistant and it went fine. New Mac was working fine. When I restarted, though, it was White Screen Of Death. So far, managed to boot from install DVD and repair the startup volume -- but that didn't fix the issue. Now running the hardware test. Last resort will be a full reformat and restore from Time Machine, assuming it can see the external drive.
June 12, 201016 yr Author Good news is it doesn't seem to be a hardware issue. Doing a clean install and if it boots OK after that then I'll sink the nine hours required into a full restore. Pray for mojo!
June 12, 201016 yr FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Total Apple Rape at the last second. So so sorry.
June 12, 201016 yr That blows, Stretch. Probably better that it happened now than after the move, I suppose.
June 12, 201016 yr Author It's not over until the fat naked lady sings no longer displays her boobs as my wallpaper.
June 12, 201016 yr Author This is a weird one. The bugger booted perfectly out of the box and seems physically perfect (awesome display, no yellow tint, no dead pixels, diagnostics OK), but something clearly went awry in the migration process. I nuked the HD from orbit a second time, booted from the install DVD, repaired the startup disk and was finally able to get up and running. Now migrating again from a separate backup volume. Fingers crossed! BTW, this is my 4th iMac and first ever issue with going from one to another.
June 12, 201016 yr If I ever get another, the only migration will be moving over music ripping stuff; XLD / MAX, maybe VLC. Or I can just download it. Do you have your itunes music on the OS drive? Or external?
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