Just got my Mac up and running.

[James3shin]

bumps for a fellow machead.

 

[oogabooga]

heh installing ram while the computer is running, hand over your comp nerd card!
(insert obligatory RIGHT MOUSE CLICK even though it's a moot issue)

heh cheers 😀 glad to see your enjoying your new rig.

 

[Toasthead]

Originally posted by: tami

Originally posted by: lnguyen
wait, you actually DID stick the memory in the comp while it was on??? I thought that was a joke in your other thread... holy crap...

i can't believe someone would attempt it.

seriously
who would DO that?

 

[LordMorpheus]

My mom is buying a mac for her business today (photographer, apparently the Mac version of Capture One is much better than the PC version).

Anywho, took advantage of the Tax Free holiday and my student ID and grabbed a 30" cinema display for 26xx.00

G5 comes soon. Fairly high end, too.

I like the monitor.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
mini 399 at frys today apparently

whoa! :Q

 

[jspeicher]

i attemted to run xp on a celeron 400 and it was a poop shoot

 

[cjgallen]

Originally posted by: jspeicher
i attemted to run xp on a celeron 400 and it was a poop shoot

I put it on all our 500Mhz PIIIs at work, it was a whole lot faster than Win 2k, especially at startup and network logon.

 

[Shawn]

yes, you are an idiot for installing memory in a running computer. you'd likely fry a PC's mobo that way too. you're lucky you didn't get shocked.

 

[yllus]

Nice. We just got a new Mac Mini at work to play with, the thing is incredibly small! It's difficult to legitimately hate Macs if one has used OS X.

 

[BrianH1]

Originally posted by: James3shin
bumps for a fellow machead.

 

[Eug]

Originally posted by: DevilsAdvocate
I know... these things are aleays supposed to work, right?

Well... not if you fry the motherboard. I scored a replacement motherboard, and I'm back up and running 🙂 And I have a few observations...

1) I'm an idiot for installing memory in a motherboard while the Mac is running.
2) Macs (at least G5s) are remarkably easy for users to fix... pretty close to a PC.
3) OS X fvcking rocks!

You did this to a G5!!?!?!?!111 :Q

And they gave you a new mobo?

 

[NakaNaka]

How can you possibly try to install hardware with the f'in computer turned on? The thing isn't idiot proof.

 

[keeleysam]

I have installed XP on a P1 133.... took like 3 hours to install.

But the slowest computer that I have had XP on that actually does anything is a P2 233.

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

Originally posted by: NakaNaka
How can you possibly try to install hardware with the f'in computer turned on? The thing isn't idiot proof.

Listening to music.