first experince working on a mac today

[QueBert]

I fix PC's every day, but a friends mom needed an iMacs hard drive replaced. I figured I'd get it a shot, it's one of the white Intel ones. I looked at the PDF service manual and underestimated how much work this would be. And to top it off I'd studied the Aluminum ones service guide, and it's much different inside lol. I had no magnetic torx driver so it took me forever and a day to get the LCD screws back in. Any ways, Installing OSX was pretty simple once I figure out how to get past a big folder with a question mark icon when I'd turn it on. I've used OSX a few times, but never installed it. Wasn't as straight forward in the beginning as installing Windows, but was was damn easy once I figured out how to partition the HD. I thought it was installing when it was verifying the DVD. I noticed this at 90% and noticed the skip. Is it fine to skip this? It took longer than the rest of the install almost. Anywho, I was pleasantly surprised at how smooth it was, getting the thing apart wasn't too bad for an all in one. BTW: I made one big partition (1tb drive) is that right? I know in Windows 2 is better, but I don't know jack shat about OSX.

Moral to the story is I now want to get an iMac, the 27" one that's coming out will be pure bad ass! I better start saving my pennies now. ha.

 

[Tyranicus]

If you know the disc is good, skipping the verification is fine. I almost always do. A single partition should be fine.

 

[QueBert]

Good to know if I ever have to install OSX again, the verification took a looooooooong time.

 

[Kmax82]

Yea.. from my light reading it seems the screen is the hardest part about switching components in the iMac. I definitely want one of the 27" iMacs, but really like the portability of my laptop. I might try and grab one for home and just sync my laptop for days when I'm away.

As for installing OS X.. yea, it's a bit different than Windows. I'm not really sure why they can't make the boot up a little simpler to understand. I mean, I don't like the way it LOOKS on a Windows BIOS, but at least you get that line at the beginning "Hit F11 to go into BIOS". Where as, the Mac looks pretty, but you have to hunt for the documentation to tell you to just hold down the OPT key to boot from a disk or drive.

Glad your experience was good.

 

[sourceninja]

I love the disk verification. I've had a bad OS disks with windows and hated when the install would get 90% done then fail missing a dll file.

 

[sjwaste]

Originally posted by: sourceninja
I love the disk verification. I've had a bad OS disks with windows and hated when the install would get 90% done then fail missing a dll file.

Dude, you don't even know. When Windows 95 came out, I went to the store in the mall (remember when Software ETC existed?) and bought the retail box. On floppy.

I think the disks eventually got corrupted. I had them backed up, thankfully. I think I eventually downloaded the Win 95 ISO from a BBS. Burnt it on my 2X SCSI burner that cost me $225 refurbished.

Those were the days.