Quote: Originally Posted by wordsmith I'm going to wait a couple of months and see if anybody posts obout overheating or power supply problems before investing in an iMac. …

Well, my 3 day old rev.B went back to the Apple store today, and came home again. First they listened to it on the counter in the store, said they couldn't hear anything. I pointe…

Quote: Originally Posted by Zacco When I picked it up they said they still hadn't heard anyting unusual, said they could hear the fans but "its not like it was so loud we had to…

Quote: Originally Posted by Zacco As long as one doesn't have to yell to be heard over it is is o.k. What a bunch of crybabies

I am looking to see if anyone has come across or has interest in helping with developing a Web Based Mac OS Simulator. I work for an Internet Service Provider type company in the …

Why not just ask the company to buy a Mac? :-/

Yeah, come on. The eMac and the Mac mini are well within the budget for pretty much any company, and especially one with 100+ employees.

um, it's gonna be cheaper to buy a Mac mini than to pay for the man hours needed to develop a web-based "mac simulator". And the bonus is, you have a real Mac. *boink*

^^^^^^^^^^ what they said. get a mac and be proud... i am

We already have 5 Powerbooks. But what I am looking for is something that I can build instructions into as a tutorial. It is great to use the machines, but it doesn't mean they w…

Maybe make a demo movie with Snapz Pro? That seems like the quickest way to do what it sounds like you want to do.

I have been considering doing something like that. What I was considering was assembling multiple video captures into a Flash and then building a Text instructions over lay and vi…

yea that would work. but i would search for a better video taking program maybe.

Quote: Originally Posted by ThePhoenix We already have 5 Powerbooks. But what I am looking for is something that I can build instructions into as a tutorial. It is great to us…

There's a "Help" menu in Mac OS X, it's pretty useful. You could direct your users towards it and that ought to solve most problems. If your users can't figure out the interface,…

Quote: Originally Posted by registered_user There's a "Help" menu in Mac OS X, it's pretty useful. You could direct your users towards it and that ought to solve most problems.…

Then the best route to take would probably be the following: - Take advantage of the resources already available online. Perhaps create a "links" page organized by Mac OS X topics…

Quote: Originally Posted by ThePhoenix Thank you for your attempt to help. However the Help menu is not going to be nearly enough. For an end user it is one thing to tell them…

Quote: Originally Posted by genevish Sounds like you need to have a basic tutorial of how to navigate various parts of the Mac OS ("Click the Apple menu. Select System Preferen…

You could use the new Flash platform and build your own interface like those found in Dashboard but they have that aqua feel.

While I was playing around with some sound files in AmadeusII today, I must have messed up my SoundSticks driver. They now sound strangely compressed; DVD sound sometimes does not …

After what I have gone through today, I vow that I will NEVER buy another Dell computer again. I have a 4th gen. 15" powerbook, and two Dell desktop computers, at my home. One of…

Well with all the stories i read there, it can be either a nightmare or a dream with story with Apple. Before getting into Apple products, i owned 3 Dells, never had any problems …

Apple's customer service is among the best I have had to deal with. Anytime I have had to call for a hardware issue I have had someone on the other end within 2 minutes. I'm not st…

Apple's customer service was rated No#1 http://www.consumerreports.org/main/...=1116459925734