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From: Woody on 20 Mar 2010 20:38 Peter James <pfjames2000(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > I saw a 24" iMac in the Apple refurb store yesterday and quite fancied > it. Alas it's gone this morning. But I can wait until another comes > up. > Does anyone know of any reason why they wouldn't buy it, other than > shortage of cash that is? None at all. I have a 24" refurb iMac. Great machine. -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: Peter James on 21 Mar 2010 04:31 Peter James <pfjames2000(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > I saw a 24" iMac in the Apple refurb store yesterday and quite fancied > it. Alas it's gone this morning. But I can wait until another comes > up. > Does anyone know of any reason why they wouldn't buy it, other than > shortage of cash that is? > > Peter Well, after all of the advice, for which I give a collective "thank you", this morning after my 1st cup of tea of the day I ordered a 21" refurbed iMac. My present iMac is a 17" so the replacement will be that much bigger a display. I did fancy a 27" but looking at the tiny spare bedroom it sits in, and the tiny space available for it to "strut its stuff" and the lack of a 24" iMac, I just got sensible. I think. I might live to regret it, but I think not. The new toy arrives in 7 days or so. I'll start another thread regarding the use of a firewire cable to transfer stuff between old and new. Peter -- He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled. P.G. Wodehouse 1881 -1975
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 21 Mar 2010 05:57 On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:33:19 GMT, Martin S Taylor <mst(a)hRyEpMnOoVtEiTsHm.cIo.uSk> wrote: >Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote >> Actual measurements for your checking-it-fits pleasure - >> 25.5" wide > >I would have bought one, but the window it needs to sit in is {fetches tape >measure} 25.25" wide. Even if it had been a touch different, remember the optical disk and SDcard slots are up the right side. I have to move my speaker out the way to pop a CD in. Which I do *very* rarely, so that's not a problem. Cheers - Jaimie -- Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood... blood... blood... blood..." -- Douglas Adams
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 21 Mar 2010 06:12 On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:31:11 +0000, pfjames2000(a)googlemail.com (Peter James) wrote: > I'll start another thread regarding the use of a firewire >cable to transfer stuff between old and new. Dead easy - just follow the prompts. Have the old and new firewire-cabled together. Boot up the oldmac in target disk mode (hold t from bootup chime until the firewire symbol comes up). Boot the newmac. Once it's over the silly animation and registration stuff, it'll offer to migrate data - choose the "from another disk" option, since that's how the oldmac is currently attached. Next, and tick the bits you want to migrate. Probably everything. Once it's all finished (about an hour per 60gig for fw800), dismount the oldmac disk, and power it down. Reboot the newmac. There may be a few low-level systemy things (drivers, virtual machine apps, that's about it) which need reinstalling to get going again. I find the ethernet-based migrations can be more trouble to get going, and occasionally fall over mid-stream and you have to do them all over again. FW target mode is the simplest. Cheers - Jaimie -- "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read" -- Groucho Marx
From: Hugh Browton on 21 Mar 2010 14:34 On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:30:13 +0000, Ian McCall wrote (in article <80jmdlFalsU1(a)mid.individual.net>): > On 2010-03-20 10:11:28 +0000, David Kennedy > <davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> said: > >> There are few downsides to buying a refurb > > There's two upsides too - price is obvious, but the other is that this > one has had to be tested by someone in order to prove it now works. It > might actually be a safer bet then than just buying new. > > > Cheers, > Ian > The last 20" iMac I bought on refurb was a whole two weeks old since manufacture - it had been switched on in Amsterdam I think. Very little downside to refurbs � I buy them as much as possible -- regards hugh hugh at clarity point uk point co (by the sea) (using Hogwasher) "The question of whether Machines Can Think... is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim." Edsger Dijkstra (1930-2002)
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