On Jan 429, 1120102007, at 4:10 PM, Ed Wiser wrote:
In praise of the iPad: A contrarian view
I agree with the above and with the daring fireball article.
People are moving away from just using a computer to access their
email and the web.
Really a computer is over kill for such task's. Most people really
don't need a computer but they do want that web thing.
Making contact with friends and family and reading about stuff on
the that intertube thing that is so new.
We have just become use to finding things or losing things on our
hard drive's. In 10 years time the computer as we know it will be a
very specialized device.
Well I am off to buy a new iMac tonight my old G5 iMac just lost its
power supply last night and my father in law who is 81 misses his
email.
I don't want to loose power in my old G5 aluminum Mac, especially as
it has lots of energy and two hard drives. And even worse, I am in the
final stages of drawing a large house in CAD, 8 pages so far, each 24
by 30 inches chucked full of dimensions, notes, etc.
However, Wednesday evening, when I put the Mac into the sleep mode, as
I usually do, and went up to have a drink with my wife. For some
reason I had to go back to room that containes my computer, and for
some reason my computer was making a rather loud noise (for a Mac)
which I took to be the fan running at full speed, but maybe the noise
was caused by something else. But when I attempted to get it out of
sleep, it would not do so. I tried everything and the screen stayed
black.
I tried the off button, an maybe I did not hold it down long
enough, but this would not turn off the computer either, so I
finally pull the plug and as expected, the computer went into the
off mode.
Then I tried to start it, and it started fine. Things seemed to
work ok, and so I put it back onto sleep mode, and check it several
time after that, and no noises were heard.
This morning I tried the computer again, and it appeared to come
off of the sleep mode in the usual manner, but after that, I had a
really dead picture. All the desk icons were in place as was my
normal screen picture of a sailing ship, but nothing would work. I
could click the menu or the icons, but nothing happened.
Finally I turn it off by pushing the start button, and when I
restarted the computer again, everything worked normally. It has
worked normally since, but I just turn if off now, and avoid the
sleep mode.
A good friend suggested it might be overheating, due to the age and
perhaps because it had accumulated dust, etc.
He suggested that I take it to Louisville and let them look at it.
Mine is one of the earliest G5 models with 3.5 SDRAM.
Neal Hammon
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