Where's he getting his memory, Apple?? I got an extra two gig chip for less than that. It only takes about 30 seconds to install it once you find your screwdriver.
I had problems accessing files on my home PC via the wireless network.
I have an easier time accessing files from the PC over a wireless network with a Mac than I do using the other PC.
Turning on a computer shouldn't be a guessing game.
No, it shouldn't. Hint -- never normally turn off your Mac. He must be used to how Windows gets unstable after too many sleep cycles and is afraid to use sleep. Only turn it off to move it, are unplugging power cords, or are adding memory.
In the iMac's favor, power consumption in operation is low, at around 75 watts according to my meter. That's comparable to a laptop,
Duh, that's because it has a high-end laptop CPU/mobo in it.
Microsoft's ClearType technology produces text that has better contrast and is more legible.
I can't stand ClearType for exactly the reason he says. Font designers go through great pains to make their fonts look perfect. You'd be surprised at how much information is in a font file. ClearType has the OS guessing what the font should look like, screwing it up, making it fuzzy and unreadable. It is not enabled on any of my Windows boxes.
No, it shouldn't. Hint -- never normally turn off your Mac. He must be used to how Windows gets unstable after too many sleep cycles and is afraid to use sleep. Only turn it off to move it, are unplugging power cords, or are adding memory.
He has, however, identified a genuine, which has drawn a lot of comment on the Mac sites. Closing the lid of a MacBook, or letting an iMac fall asleep, sends OS X to standard sleep mode. It is possible to inadvertently awaken by triggering a paired Bluetooth device, such as your mouse. If this happens inadvertently while carrying your laptop, this can cause the dreaded "red hot laptop in bag" syndrome. You can, however, disable Bluetooth awakening in Preferences. There is another, related problem: if you have a laptop with extra batteries, Sleep mode is insufficient when swapping batteries. There is a "deep sleep" mode that is supposed to write the contents of memory to disk in case you do change batteries during sleep - but it doesn't work yet. For my new Santa Rosa laptop, I have to use a custom French widget to deep-sleep the machine when I change batteries; at other times, I can use standard sleep.
Let's hope they fix all this in Leopard.
Please excuse the question from a newbie Mac user - why not turn off the machine? Sleep mode makes me nervous - we get a lot of storms around here and I am nervous leaving it on and plugged in all the time.