[Leica] Re; Trouble with iMac

[Gene Duprey]

Bought my MacBook in 2006 and it is still going good.  No drive issues yet;)

Gene


On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Larry Zeitlin via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> Nathan,
>         I replaced the HD on a model 8.1 iMac just about the same age as
> yours. I bought mine in 2008 and it functioned flawlessly for 7 years and
> then the drive started giving me trouble. It had nothing to do with El
> Capitan since the machine was running Snow Leopard OS 10.6.8. Replacing the
> factory drive with an aftermarket model solved the problem. The new 2 gb
> drive has four times the capacity of?the old one and works flawlessly. It
> was quite cheap and easy to install. Apple?technicians tell me that a drive
> life of seven years is better than average. Especially for one
> in?continuous use. A SSD is a good idea but I was unable to find one of
> reasonable cost that had the capacity of the older rotating discs. Maybe on
> a few more years.
>         I installed a beta version of El Capitan OS 11.1 on a MacBook Air
> and find it totally different from the operating systems I have become used
> to. It hides too many decisions from me. Photo is far inferior to the older
> iPhoto. It's OK for a portable computer but I like the older stuff better.
> Larry Z
>
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