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I am writing this on an iMac, a 2012 model that still runs quite well.
Happy 20th Birthday, iMac
06 Sunday May 2018
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Kudos to SuperDuper
26 Sunday Nov 2017
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I just used SuperDuper to recover my iMac! It worked great. Good job Shirt Pocket software!!
I had update my 2012 iMac from Sierra 10.12.x to High Sierra 10.13.1 All seemed OK at first but then my disk volumes on 2 external drives disappeared at random times. I tried macOS’s disk utility repair process which did not remedy the situation. I online chatted with Apple, the tech suggested I boot from my recovery partition and then reinstall the OS manually via the internet. I didn’t really want to do this, since it’s a generic we-hope-it-works kind of process.
Instead, I got out the external drive with a bootable image I made with the SuperDuper program right before I updated. Yes, I have done this kind of thing before. I worked in engineering/software development/MIS/IT for 4 decades and I learned the hard way that updates are not always improvements.
So, I connected my SuperDuper boot volume and rebooted the iMac, holding the Option key down. This lets you boot from any attached bootable volume. Selecting the SuperDuper volume brought up my 10.12.x system exactly as it was the moment I made the backup. I then ran SuperDuper, copied from the backup to the iMac internal disk. Shut down, disconnected the backup disk, then restarted. My iMac was restored!
Nice. See how important a backup is?
New iMac
12 Friday Jul 2013
The iMac I ordered a couple of weeks ago arrived this week. It’s huge. I’m used to my 15 inch MacBook Pro, this screen is 27 inches and has more pixels that the two monitors I have at work. I have to look for the window I want. I’m sure I will be used to it very shortly. My laptop is 5 1/2 years old, it’s getting up there in terms of mean time between failures, so I bought this from Small Dog Electronics. They let you order a custom configuration and ship it, no sales tax and $5 for ground shipping. I ordered some extra memory modules and have 24 megs. I got the 2 MB graphics card as I do a lot of photo editing.
I had a minor glitch getting my FireWire 800 RAID array to connect to the iMac’s thunderbolt port via an adapter I bought from Apple, but it is working fine now.
I’m happy!
iMac
25 Sunday Nov 2007
About a month ago we bought a 24 inch Apple imac. This thing is huge. We decided that we have had enough MS windows, thank you. There are lots of applications we use that are not on Linux. And the only downside of Apple is the cost upfront is higher. We bought 4GB of ram from a third party supplier and installed it ourselves, cost $171 delivered and about 15 minutes of labor. Apple wanted big bucks for added memory. We also bought the Parallels program that enables Windows (in our case XP) to run within a window on the mac. Of course this requires a copy of windows, which we had.
Here’s Gary with the new iMac.
