[Leica] OT: sluggish iMac

[John McMaster]

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
>