Migrating Parents to OS X
My Ma bought a new iMac 400 DV in the spring and I have finally moved her over to OS X. I have ancient clone w/ upgrade card so I have not been using X; so it was a bit of an adventure for me. We had ordered 10 and 10.1 through up to date program and dowloaded 10.1.2 etc
I am really impressed! An easy transition and a joy to use. She like to run at 800x600 so Dad can see his solitaire game and it very useable at that scale (if you scale down the dock). I found teh system very responsive (320MB Ram) even with classic running and tons of apps running.
Only problem encountered was the spinning cursor for minutes at a time when in iTunes and clicking something that made it try to connect to internet when it was not already (like radio tuner).
No this is a little on the consumer side for most of you but as an everyday operating system for a retired couple aged 71 and 66 X is great; so far. I will likely bite bullet this spring and retire Umax C500 threshing machine and move to G4 and X.
I am really impressed! An easy transition and a joy to use. She like to run at 800x600 so Dad can see his solitaire game and it very useable at that scale (if you scale down the dock). I found teh system very responsive (320MB Ram) even with classic running and tons of apps running.
Only problem encountered was the spinning cursor for minutes at a time when in iTunes and clicking something that made it try to connect to internet when it was not already (like radio tuner).
No this is a little on the consumer side for most of you but as an everyday operating system for a retired couple aged 71 and 66 X is great; so far. I will likely bite bullet this spring and retire Umax C500 threshing machine and move to G4 and X.
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