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I have bought my first iMac and have questions!

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MikeMacPL

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I've been a windows user for the past 10 years and today at 4.00pm I bought my first mac. I love it the 24inch model. Now I have some questions:
1. How can I tell or test for dead pixels in the screen
2. I have iTunes music on my windows pc so how can I transfer them? If I have a different email for iTunes on my mac will it work with the Windows iTunes music under a different email?
 
sickening I hope to join you
in June with my iMac:apple::D

I also want to know the answer to your first question
1. How to check for dead/damaged pixels??


anyone know?
 
MikeMacPL said:
I've been a windows user for the past 10 years and today at 4.00pm I bought my first mac. I love it the 24inch model. Now I have some questions:
1. How can I tell or test for dead pixels in the screen
2. I have iTunes music on my windows pc so how can I transfer them? If I have a different email for iTunes on my mac will it work with the Windows iTunes music under a different email?
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1. Never had a dead pixel(s) but I guess you can make the background/wallpaper a solid color and see if you can make out dead pixels

2. Use the same e-mail, keep it consistent so if you run into any problems, it makes it easier for you and iTunes online support to sort your problem. For transferring, you can use any external media.
 
do you know

about whats "healthier" for your iMac
for my situation

should it remain off while im sleeping though till i get home from school?

or should i leave it in sleep mode from when i sleep though till i get home from school?

or juss leave it on,shut down and restart periodically throughout the week?

any other tips?
 
For dead pixels just look at the screen. Maybe open a slideshow of solid colour images in full screen if you want to take the paranoid route. If a pixel is dead though you will usually see it right away.

Now for iTunes it can be a little more complex. The easy option is to use the backup feature built into itunes but that requires using cd's DVD's (i recently did it myself and it took 8 DVD's to back up my own library of about 30gb).

The other method is to backup your itunes music and library onto an external drive then to copy them over to your mac and open the library xml file and find/replace all instances of the windows path with your mac path. This can be a pain to do and the DVD method is safer however.

It is better if you keep to your original itunes login details for your mac but you can always authorize your mac to use the licensee of both accounts. (just be sure to de-authorize your pc itunes if you are going to be selling the machine).
 
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anyone wanna answer my last post

please & thanks
 
Prabz26 said:
do you know

about whats "healthier" for your iMac
for my situation

should it remain off while im sleeping though till i get home from school?

or should i leave it in sleep mode from when i sleep though till i get home from school?

or juss leave it on,shut down and restart periodically throughout the week?

any other tips?
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I would sleep it if you will be using it within 24 hours. Otherwise, turn it off and reboot.
 
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thanks :)
 
Up to you

Prabz26 said:
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anyone wanna answer my last post

please & thanks
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That is entirely up to you and what your comfortable with. I leave mine on 24/7 and it goes to sleep after 3 hours of non use. I move the mouse the next time I want to use the iMac and go back to work. So it all depends on you.

It will not hurt anything to leave it running and on the other hand if you do shut it down each day it still wont hurt anything and may even prolong the life of the hardware inside.
 
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ok sounds good



cuz i leave my PC on 24/7

but sometimes get slow so i do some restarts periodically



thanks you

i guess ill figure out something when i get the thing :)
 
Good Question

As far as the pixels go, just grab a piece of your choice of color, and view it in full screen with preview.

Just backup iTunes on your PC, and transfer it to your mac.

For Prabz26's question: If you are not using a program such as OnlyX periodically, you should probably leave it running while you sleep every one in a while. One of the reasons a Mac "Just Works" is because while you're sleeping, it runs some cleanup scripts, so long as it's on. The scripts are made to run every night, but I only run them every week.

The more often you let them run, (either through programs such as OnlyX, or the nighttime "Janitor" in your Mac) the more Mac-Like your experience.
 
upaymeifixit said:
As far as the pixels go, just grab a piece of your choice of color, and view it in full screen with preview.

Just backup iTunes on your PC, and transfer it to your mac.

For Prabz26's question: If you are not using a program such as OnlyX periodically, you should probably leave it running while you sleep every one in a while. One of the reasons a Mac "Just Works" is because while you're sleeping, it runs some cleanup scripts, so long as it's on. The scripts are made to run every night, but I only run them every week.

The more often you let them run, (either through programs such as OnlyX, or the nighttime "Janitor" in your Mac) the more Mac-Like your experience.
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Do you mean OnyX? Most of the built-in housekeeping will restart when you wake up.
 
upaymeifixit said:
As far as the pixels go, just grab a piece of your choice of color, and view it in full screen with preview.

Just backup iTunes on your PC, and transfer it to your mac.

For Prabz26's question: If you are not using a program such as OnlyX periodically, you should probably leave it running while you sleep every one in a while. One of the reasons a Mac "Just Works" is because while you're sleeping, it runs some cleanup scripts, so long as it's on. The scripts are made to run every night, but I only run them every week.

The more often you let them run, (either through programs such as OnlyX, or the nighttime "Janitor" in your Mac) the more Mac-Like your experience.
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interesting stuff to know
thanks a lot
will definetley come in handy

i never knew that :D
 
I used Pixel Tester 4.0 to find my dead/stuck pixels. I recommend to do that if you still have 14 day return time left.

I found 1 stuck from my first one and got it replaced and the replacement has 1 dead and 4 stuck ones. That sucks.

If you find stuck ones try JScreenFixer (no downloads needed)

I'll call Apple tomorrow and ask for new replacement...
 
upaymeifixit said:
Oh, I did not know that. Are you sure? And yes, that is OnlyX
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Positive.

http://www.macworld.com/article/133684/2008/06/maintenance_intro.html

You may have heard about a collection of magical Unix maintenance scripts that OS X is supposed to run automatically. The story goes that because these scripts are scheduled to run in the middle of the night, putting your Mac to sleep or shutting it down prevents them from running—so you need to do so manually.

It’s true that there are Unix scripts that perform certain cleanup tasks in the early morning—one script every day, a second script once a week, and a third once a month. It’s also true that if you shut down your Mac every night, the scripts don’t run. However, the situation isn’t as dire as you might think. First, if you put your Mac to sleep at night, instead of shutting it down, Leopard is smart enough to run the missed scripts the next time you wake up your computer. (Tiger is supposed to do so, as well, although this automatic feature didn’t work as well.) Second, the tasks these scripts perform aren’t so important that a few missed executions will adversely affect your Mac.
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