Re: Lion on 2008 24"imac

2011-11-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 4, 2011, at 2:59 PM, Christopher Collins wrote: > And the extra 1 hour to first install SL and then Lion isn't worth a lousy > $10 to you? > > cjc That truly depends on my time constraints. Installing SL actually takes about ten minutes of my time. It takes an hour of the *computer's*

Re: Lion on 2008 24"imac

2011-11-04 Thread Christopher Collins
And the extra 1 hour to first install SL and then Lion isn't worth a lousy $10 to you? cjc On 04/11/2011, at 10:03 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > On Nov 3, 2011, at 2:23 PM, Ben Kernan wrote: > >> Recently acquired an awesome 24" imac... came with 10.5.8... how hard will >> it be to upgrade to li

Re: 17'' 800 G4 iMac, suddenly no video

2011-11-04 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
What OS is it running? The very first version of Mac OS X 10.5 is prone to whiting or blacking out the screen due to incompatible screen drivers that came with it. This was fixed with Mac OS X 10.5.3. On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:53 AM, a1 wrote: > So what are the standard steps for this situation.

Re: 17'' 800 G4 iMac, suddenly no video

2011-11-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 4, 2011, at 10:08 AM, Jim Scott wrote: > > On Nov 3, 2011, at 11:53 PM, a1 wrote: > >> So what are the standard steps for this situation. iMac was on, I came >> back in the room and the screen was utterly black. Rest of computer >> seems to respond i.e boots, cd drawer opens, even seems

Re: 17'' 800 G4 iMac, suddenly no video

2011-11-04 Thread Jim Scott
On Nov 3, 2011, at 11:53 PM, a1 wrote: > So what are the standard steps for this situation. iMac was on, I came > back in the room and the screen was utterly black. Rest of computer > seems to respond i.e boots, cd drawer opens, even seems to go into > sleep mode and wake. But no video. Hope this