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I don't think I can go back to the days where downloading programs, songs, files, etc takes hours and opening simple applications and Word documents requires me staring at an hourglass or some spinning icon.Įven though my PC is 3 years old (and it was a nearly discontinued floor model when I bought it, so it's even older), and is total piece of junk in terms of reliability (i'm on my 5th motherboard), so far it's light years faster than this Imac. I didn't really pay attention to the fact that this machine has 2.4 ghz and my old Toshiba Laptop has 3.3ghz becuase I thought the fact that the Imac has duo core processing would make up for the difference. Once you're used to a certain speed, it's very hard to go adjust to slower stuff. checking hotmail and gmail was annoyingly slow. I noticed immediately that webpage loading took much longer than I'm used to. So now I've got my leopard going and I figured I'd try the internet and see if I can manage the browser interface. I left again and by the time I came back another hour later, it was finally done.
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It took about 10 full minutes to calculate the loading time and then I was appalled to see that the load time was nearly TWO HOURS!! So I left and came back an hour later. The progress bar appeared and said it was "calculating" the remaining load time. It took more than 30 minutes for the machine to "check the consistency" of the Leopard DVD, whatever that means. The little progress bar appeared and I waited. So, I insert the Leopard disc and the first thing that happens is that a message appears saying the Imac needed to check the leopard DVD for consistency.
About 20 minutes into the updates I finally had to quit because I started the process of upgrading to Leopard and had to restart. Small updates of 15 meg or so were taking MINUTES and MINUTES to download.
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I started the downloads and was amazed at the slow download speeds.
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Next, an update window poppped up telling me that there was a big list of updates available for various programs etc.
So that was a frustrating and confusing first experience with the imac. I'm used to fast and seamless video on my crappy toshiba laptop with this exact same internet connection. I can't remember anything taking several hours to download other than a full-length feature film. I clicked the download link for the 379mb file, but it said it would take several hours to load. The large version was totally impossible, and I eventually had to give up on even the small version. I have DSL but was unable to view either the small, medium or large version of the video without experiencing incredible choppiness. As soon as I logged and got set up for the first time I went to the apple site and tried to watch a video about Leopard. But so far, everything it's done has been incredibly slow. I got the imac with the 20 in screen and it seemed like a really decent machine. But I'm sure I will eventually tame the interface and probably come to prefer it. It's hard and I have no idea why this mouse behaves the way it does and why windows keep jumping around and going gray or in and out of focus, etc. The pain of transitioning from 2 decades of PC to this Mac interface is one thing. I've been working on getting up and running all evening and I've got some concerns that I'm hoping you all can help me with. So instead of trying to get a machine with XP and having a potentially limited time before they stop supporting that, I turned to Mac. It was an impulse buy because I'm just fed up with endless PC breakdowns and the thought of buying a new PC with Vista is chilling given how many problems people are having with it. Just got an Imac today after years of frustration with PC repairs and viruses.
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