iMac is rife with bugs. 3088
Nashton
Don't. Just install from scratch. Not that I've seen this problem, but I don't trust any sort of merging of system settings and stuff.
No, I meant to install XP on the iMac and see how well XP handles the CD.
Ok, I did it for you:
10.4.7: 15 seconds XP SP2: 22 seconds
you've spent more time whinging about it than it would have taken to reformat and reinstall.
While everything is supposed to "just work", Apple is a group effort of about 2000 people and not everything is of three-sigma reliability.
The migration buttistant is one thing I instinctively steer clear of. Little gain, a lot of potential pain.
Thing is, the only measure that matters is relative, how well they compete against competing PC solutions.
Wegie Actually, no, it doesn't. When the slider is set to the left and it says...
CDR-DVDR is your friend.
Lemme guess, you have 512MB? 1GB is the min to avoid paging with any level of usage.
Finder has its issues, like when a network share drops out. But overall I prefer it over eg. the aged XP file explorer and other desktop GUIs I've used.
It's got some good positives to mitigate the various negatives.
Elijah Baley Do you need the serial number of my iMac, Mac Jihadist? Why not just google the questions I asked in various forums for help. And another thing I...
So? It's not where I spend the bulk of my time & effort, and other than the network share drop-out problem (when the whole system freezes for 1 minute) its weaknesses aren't that big a deal.
OK. But the alternative to the Mac is presently XP, unless you want to try a Linux flavor.
Software creation is Hard, and Apple has done a pretty good job, which you can grok by comparing their work with their compebreastors.