Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/10/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jayanand, you do not seem to know the difference between OS 10.* and IOS 9? IOS is a walled garden, OSX is based on FreeBSD.... john -----Original Message----- From: Jayanand Govindaraj No, I was genuinely interested why there seems to be an OS upgrade every few months that causes all sorts of problems every time. Seems to negate the advantages of sticking to a highly fenced and proprietary system. Anyway, a Mac is a non starter for me because I play a lot of RPGs....:-) Incidentally, the OS that gives me the maximum number of headaches today is IOS 9 on my Ipad Mini 128GB - they are bringing out an update a week (we are already on 9.02), but programs like Gmail still freeze for no rhyme or reason a few times a day. If it were not so convenient, I would junk it. As it is, being lazy, I am locked in and stuck with it for the time being! Cheers Jayanand On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Adam Bridge <abridge683 at fastmail.com> wrote: > Oh just STOP it, Jayanand. Aren?t we over this OS wars stuff? If it?s > a hardware failure, and it sounds like it is to me, then any machine > is likely to have something happen to it - especially after 7 years. > > Sheesh. > > All seriousness aside, might take a look through the console logs and > see if there are any telltale errors being reported during boot. > Resetting the power controller for your machine might make sense as > well - I?d have to look up the technique that?s relevant to the machine in > question, however. > > And it might be a RAM failure issue as well if something is mucking up > the boot process. The Apple Store guys should have poked around at > that but bad RAM can be tricky to find if its intermittent. > > Adam > > > On Oct 8, 2015, at 8:08 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > I thought the whole idea of using a MAC with all the proprietary > > restrictions was to avoid this sort of nonsense. Never happens to me > > on Windows nowadays..... > > Cheers > > Jayanand >