Apple today takes the MS pain away

Sydney Morning Herald ^ | 6/13/2006 | GRAEME PHILIPSON

[Shimmer128]

"smarter and better than you" attitude so many Mac users seem to have.

Hate to tell ya, but there's a reason for that. Heeheehee!

[AxelPaulsenJr]

If he wants an Apple product with problems, get an I-pod 5th generation. Damn thing has been to the shop twice since I got it last December.

[Echo Talon]

This Apple commercial brought to you by "Swordmaker"

[Richard Kimball]

You're back!

[Echo Talon]

and the commercials continue... :(

[Swordmaker]

It's not an everyday thing but I have to log in as Admin and do a full Onyx maintenance run or my G5 iMac will start to sputter and run slow. I do an Onyx run which is followed by a reboot about 1-2 times a month.

Leave your computer on over night... it will do the maintenance on its own.

[Swordmaker]

This Apple commercial brought to you by "Swordmaker"

Sorry, but this Apple "commercial" is an editorial column from the Sydney Morning Herald.... it is a legitimate news source.

[jimtorr]

a full Onyx maintenance run

I don't even know what that is. When my G5 iMac slows down, I just launch Disk Utility from System Preferences and run "Verify Permissions" on my boot disk. Problem solved in 2 minutes.

[spower]

Did you mean "repair permissions"? I was under the impression that "verify" doesn't make any changes to the disk?

Onyx is simply a freeware/shareware suite that runs common OS X tasks...

[Ticonderoga34]

This guy sounds like me 9 months ago. Then I switched to Apple and never look back.
Nowadays, I just turn on my computer and never think about the OS.

[avg_freeper]

"Leave your computer on over night... it will do the maintenance on its own."

The computer is left on over night but in sleep mode. I figure putting it to sleep saves a small amount of power.

The chron jobs or what ever they are for some reason won't start if my computer goes asleep. I read about this in a past macWorld issue.

So I just use the full Onyx run that includes all the nightly/weekly/etc. scripts as well as some other things. That does the trick.

[mastercylinder]

[Echo Talon]

Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar disowned by everyone... even Google Video player.

Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher

[Echo Talon]

And what did Apple have back in '95? LOL

[mastercylinder]

I know but still a funny pic. :)

[Swordmaker]

Iirc, the major machines were 120-180 MHz Power Macintosh 8500-9500's.

You are right. Good memory.

The PowerMac 8500 was introduced on August 7, 1995 - The 9500 was introduced on June 19, 1995.

Windows95 was not released until August 27, 1995 and the stable Service Pack 1 not until almost a year later.

[Swordmaker]

Incidentally, the current market value for one of those first 9500s is $75 to $100. I wonder what an eleven year old PC from that era would be worth on the current market.

Another interesting thing... the 8500 and the 9500 could hold lots of RAM... 1GByte (They didn't call it that back then... 1024MBytes) and 1.5GBytes respectively. Also another one of the 9500s claim to fame was SEVEN internal hard drive bays...

[TheBattman]

Either this guy is stuck on Windows Me, or he's downloading too much porn.

Or maybe he USES his computer....

I know many people with at least a reasonable degree of computer competence, who use their computers quite a bit, who do not visit port sites, or otherwise risky interntet activities..yet they have very similar experiences to the one related in the story.

The only folks I know who don't have similar problems are those who use their computer VERY little and/or are anal about running anti-spyware and anti-virus software - and really dig around to keep caches and other accumulated rubble cleaned-up.

The writer of the article has come to the realization that teh user shouldn't HAVE to be that involved in keeping his computer working....