king editor the grate

"If you're helping new or inexperienced iOS users then you know they never think to backup to iTunes on their Mac." It's a bit counterintuitive because it requires you to toggle off the iCloud backup. I'm an experienced user and am still a bit taken aback choosing between the options because, hey, I do still want to back up to iCloud. I just also want a periodic backup on computer.

I procured a graphite iMac in March 2000. It worked great for four years, then the screen stopped working. I bought G5 iMac; happily, I also bought AppleCare, because two years later, it sustained eight or so catastrophic failures. After pernt near every internal was replaced, it would sleep on its own; I could wake it immediately, but it would sleep again a few seconds later. If I let it rest, it would run several minutes before sleeping. (Oddly, the graphite's screen started working again at some point. Its hard drive has always made it the noisiest Mac I've used ... save for when the G5's fans revved to full speed in its apparent attempts to stop a meltdown.)

After hours over multiple days (both on the sleepiness and all the prior repairs), I got a representative who said, "I think this iMac thinks it's supposed to go to sleep." He posited that the back panel needed to be replaced. I asked if it could just be shipped to me, and he said it required another repair. I called again the next night and finally got a guy who looked at its long history and seemed perturbed. He said they would ship me a new iMac.

I still have the 2006 model; a friend replaced the shot hard drive with a 2TB; I used it as media server to Apple TV for several months but started getting kernel panics. I stupidly installed the OS from a Time Machine backup and forgot that I was having kernel panics before the hard drive quit. Now all it does is wake a few seconds; can't even boot it from DVD.

I'd like to get a new one, but 2009 MBP, iPad Air 2, and iPhone X serve most of my computing needs.

Biggest downer is I got first iMac after we got G4 towers at work. I was so geeked by the hardware/software design (OS9 was soooo much better than OS8) that I wanted to buy two grand in Apple stock. That seemed like a lot of work, however, and I've regretted it ever since.

I wasted invested a chunk of a plane ride in learning to rewrite the alphabet on a Palm Tungsten, and decided I didn't need to communicate with it that badly.

That was enough styli for one lifetime.

I think my case has made my X more disgusting. I never used one on my 5 or 5S and ne'er had an issue. Now I have a buildup of skin and hairs all around the edges (inside clear case) but the bottom is particularly caked because the holes let in gunk but don't let it back out.

Curious that compressed air is fine but blowing is not. Is that due to moisture?

Buh, Scamdung, the 1950s called. They want their design back.

That thing is rocking some Sputnik action.