[Leica] OT: sluggish iMac

[Frank Filippone]

Jayanard.. same problem here.... 

The fix, according to Apple.....
Turn unit off.  
Put on cool ( not warm) table top. 
Plug in AC Cord.
Take shoe and hit it HARD, several times.
At this point the problem you were having will be gone

Or.....

Hold down the ON/OFF switch and the whatever -you-call-it button on top.... The unit will switch off then reboot.  It worked on my IPhone and my Wife's Ipad....

Ios 9 is by far the buggiest POC that runs ( or not run) in the house.....


Frank Filippone
Red735i at verizon.net


-----Original Message-----
From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+red735i=verizon.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Jayanand Govindaraj
Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2015 9:43 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: sluggish iMac

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
>
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