Johann Low

土曜日, 1月 15, 2005

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This is my first entry with using a Mac. My first Mac came yesterday all the way from the assembling factory in China. It arrived on SG shores at the shop at ard 6.15+++. Shortly after that I arrived at the shop SGL to take a look at it. Fcuk, the box is HUGE and not to say heavy. It shld at least weigh 25kg+ But me being impatient decided to bring back e whole machine myself.

After booting the machine, everything looked fine. The extra 1GB of RAM was detected successfully. However, when I try to make some changes to the Preference > International settings, the mouse pointer turned into one colorful spinning wheel. Shortly after, the whole machine froze. I had to turn off the whole system by the power switch! WTF!? Later when I was playing ard with the wallpapers, the same thing happened again. My patience was running out. Things became worse when I was running a system maintenance. I was given a message that I will need to reset the whole system. My mouse won't move.

I was dead tired at that point of time and I didn't know what to do. Then I rem something I read at a support forum that there's a high possibilty that the extra RAMS might be the culprit. I did a hardware test. Surely enough, there was an error report saying some RAMs are faulty. I removed them and re-ran Onyx (maintenance s/w), there was no freezeups.

After exchanging the incompatible rams this afernoon, things are looking fine. Surely I hope there will not be any problems. The Mac is meant to be enjoyable. But then it is still a new OS and I have to re-pickup quite alot of stuff. And yes, the original Apple mouse SUX. It feels cheap, ahhahahaha...and there is no scroll wheel!! There is a matching mouse made by another company, it has a scroll wheel and a right click button. Yes I think I might be getting that altho my "old" Logitec mouse is Mac compatible..but it kept rubbing out some obstrusive dirt onto the mouse pad.

Next target, a 20 inch Apple Cinema Display at S$1800. ahahaha and maybe an ipod Shuffle.

elow at 3:53 午後 |

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