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New iMacs around the corner, Store is down (Page 2)
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Originally Posted by OldManMac
There is no grace period, and there is no guarantee that they're going to do a summer i-Pod promotion. The reason they did one last year was because of the new video Nano announcement; they offered the non-video Nano as a way to clear inventory of an end-of-life model.
Ahh I see. When I purchased my first Mac in April of 2005, Apple had the back to school iPod promotion in June and I was a bit bummed out. But when I went to the Apple store on Monday to pick up the iMac, they still honored the free printer promotion (which I needed!) so I was pretty excited!
Now I am debating if I should pick up 2x2GB RAM modules... I think the answer is yes
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My 3.06Ghz BTO iMac is shipped, but no Saturday delivery. *sigh*
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Originally Posted by Full-Auto
Isn't it kind of funny how their picture of the iMac makes it look like it has a matte screen?
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Got myself the 24" one. Absolute stunner.
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Received mine yesterday, but now taking back to the store.
Need to visit the Genius Bar due to faulty video card or screen.
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Originally Posted by CharlesS
And I really, really, wouldn't recommend getting that option. Stick with ATI, unless you like your Mac locking up all the time.
Originally Posted by CharlesS
...I should have mentioned that this problem occurs in 10.5.2 with the Leopard Graphics Update. If you're running Tiger or something, you probably won't see it, as the dodgy drivers showed up, as I understand it, with the LGU.
So after the initial denouncement of all that is NVidia we find out that it's one rarely reproducable bug in one freaky program under specific circumstances on one specific computer with the new driver update that makes people lock up "all the time". Geez no wonder only nerds have the stomach for forums like this. I guess the fatal NVidia problem never hit the new iMacs anyway. *whew*
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Originally Posted by mrtew
So after the initial denouncement of all that is NVidia we find out that it's one rarely reproducable bug in one freaky program under specific circumstances on one specific computer with the new driver update that makes people lock up "all the time". Geez no wonder only nerds have the stomach for forums like this. I guess the fatal NVidia problem never hit the new iMacs anyway. *whew*
Where did you get that idea? It occurs in OS X 10.5.2 with the Leopard Graphics Update, which are both preinstalled on all new Macs. That's not "specific circumstances."
And Front Row isn't the only program that triggers it - far from it. It's just the easiest way I've found to reproduce it (which I can do 100% of the time - not "rarely"). Every time any app uses the 3D features of the graphics card, you have a possibility for a lock-up. If you Google this issue, you'll find that some people get the lock-up just by browsing iTunes' CoverFlow view (so far, I've been fortunate enough not to have this one happen to me yet). I have, in fact, been doing a little beta testing off and on for an app being written by a well-known member of this board, and one focus area for a while was improving performance to lighten the load on the GPU so that it wouldn't lock up the NVidia card quite as frequently (originally, just zooming in on an object was enough to cause a lock-up). Again, I don't play games, but I'm sure that if I did, this thing would be locking up left and right.
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Have you had a chance to test if 10.5.3 fixes the problem?
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Sorry, I didn't notice this thread had been updated. No, 10.5.3 didn't fix it. Let's hope for 10.5.4 (and let's hope it doesn't take until 10.6).
Incidentally, I believe that the problem described in this thread is probably the same issue that I described in this one.
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