Well screw you very much.
If I say something happened, bet your ass it happened.
TS if that warps your personal paradigm.
*I* find it literally “incredible” that your machine has run for 7 years.
So there. Well, Salamander, my apologies. If you say it happened. OK. It just flies in the face of ALL of my very considerable PROFESSIONAL experience with numerous Macs.
And, yes, Salamander, not only has my personal 24" iMac been running 24/7 for seven years, we NEVER turn off the Macs at my office. Never. There are numerous Macs there from MacBook Airs through Mac Minis and iMacs, all the way up to MacPros. . . that one is eight years old and they are only shut down (warm start) for upgrades. They are ALL on high density uninterruptible power supplies, so even the very rare power outages do not shut them off completely. Macs do housekeeping things overnight when left on. Oh wait a second, each of them was shut off several months ago when I upgraded the RAM in them in preparation to upgrading to OS X.9 Mavericks. Each of them, except for the MacBook Airs, was off, for maybe ten minutes.
I have never heard of iMacs in a store all crashing as you reported. Macs simply do not crash. The three I told you about had hard drives that were dying.
I can believe you ran into an a**hole sales person in a privately owned store. . . but not in an Apple Store. How long ago was this? Are you certain it was an iMac and not an older model? What you described sounds like it may have happened back on Mac-OS and not on OS X.
Again, my apologies, but there have been so many untruths being tossed about on this thread, I thought your story was just one more.
It was in the 90s and they were a bunch of these things.
Just like I said.
And every time I tried to bring up particular websites, they all locked up.
The smart ass working there was first perplexed and then hyper-defensive and finally, just offensive.
I actually have one of these things, just for the quirky kick of it.
I also have an old Bronze G3 laying around.
OS X is on that one, Panther, if I recall rightly.
It's a royal PITA to use so I don't.
Years ago, I used it to "surf safely" [when it worked] and to receive attachments from a Mac-using friend.
Somewhere in between, I had a couple of the cute little fruit flavored clam shell notebooks that I played with.
I use PS heavily and they could not handle that.
I like my Alienwares.
2G video and 32G of ram works for me.
However, I don't totally freak out and denigrate people who don't like Windows or Alienware.
I'm not an emotional slave to my computers nor do I proselytize any machine, in particular.
People should be able to buy what pleases them without others treating them like subhumans.