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Re: Linux Technology

From GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Linux Technology
Date 2016-04-30 17:21 -0600
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 04/29/16 19:34, Marek Novotny wrote:
> On 2016-04-29, GreyCloud<mist@cumulus.com>  wrote:
>
> // snip
>
>> Actually, he is right on this one.  Wifes new iMac has a 5400 rpm HD in
>> it.  On startup it is very slow for whatever reasons.  Starting up Xcode
>> on it ... may as well go get a cup of coffee and then come back.
>> The mac also slows down really bad over a week... then you have to go to
>> the culprit->  email app.  Seems that it is always busy zipping logs to
>> the user account deep down into the Logs directory.  After removing them
>> the system comes back to its original sluggishness.  I really don't know
>> what they did to El Capitan, but Snow leopard was a whole lot better on
>> just a dual intel cpu.
>
> You're not the only one who feels this way. It's a dick move on Apple's
> part to get you to bump yourself up to a Fusion drive. Anything to save
> a buck and keep that 40% gross margin. Here we have a company with $230
> bn offset by $70 bn of debt which doesn't mind absolutely stupid stock
> buybacks rather than investing it in something revenue generating. They
> could give customers a better value, but no.
>
> Dell likes to have a shit 5400 RPM drive be default as well, but to
> upgrade out of it is typically very low cost and typically you have a
> lot of choices as to how and what you upgrade. With Apple the upgrades
> they provide are expensive. And good luck getting that drive out. You'll
> have to pull the display apart from the shell to get to the drive. So
> much for great design. It's a BIC lighter.
>
For my wifes sake, not mine, I had to buy their 3 year maintenance 
contract.  If it breaks you usually get a new iMac out of the deal.

I saw the youtube video of taking apart the new iMac and you have to buy 
a kit to do so.  A rather touch and go sort of thing I don't want to go 
thru.

The real pisser is the email app.  If one uses the classic mode, and 
then move the separator bar between received emails and the email 
message down to the very bottom... well, most people will see this small 
dot on the bar at the bottom and try to click on it, or move the mouse 
up and down a bit to get the up-arrow-bar and try to move the separator 
bar and nothing happens.  What I discovered is that you have to continue 
moving that up-arrow-bar just about to the top of the window before the 
bar all of a sudden snaps up.  A pretty lame mechanism that is pretty 
bad by design.
The other bug in their email app, is if you receive a photo by email and 
then try to print it out.  Most of the times it only prints a portion of 
the photo and thats all you get.

The only good app they have is photos for the average user.
The rest of the os isn't as well documented as I'd like it to be.
For me it isn't my choice.

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Linux Technology vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2016-04-28 02:35 +0000
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    Re: Linux Technology Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-04-28 04:56 +0200
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          Re: Linux Technology Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-04-27 20:43 -0700
            Re: Linux Technology Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-04-28 09:59 +0000
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        Re: Linux Technology Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-04-28 04:15 -0700
          Re: Linux Technology Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-04-28 13:50 +0200
            Re: Linux Technology Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-04-28 16:20 +0100
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              Re: Linux Technology Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-04-28 23:16 +0200
                Re: Linux Technology Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-04-28 15:58 -0700
                Re: Linux Technology Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-04-29 09:30 +0200
                Re: Linux Technology Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-04-29 10:24 +0100
                Re: Linux Technology Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-04-29 13:25 +0200
                Re: Linux Technology GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2016-04-29 17:06 -0600
                Re: Linux Technology Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-04-30 02:14 +0200
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                Re: Linux Technology Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-04-30 03:15 +0200
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                Re: Linux Technology Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-04-30 04:00 +0200
                Re: Linux Technology Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-04-30 04:39 +0200
                Re: Linux Technology meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-04-30 13:29 +0000
                Re: Linux Technology Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-04-30 15:51 +0200
                Re: Linux Technology meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-04-30 14:10 +0000
                Re: Linux Technology Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-04-30 09:47 -0700
                Re: Linux Technology Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-04-29 18:34 -0700
                Re: Linux Technology GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2016-04-30 17:21 -0600
                Re: Linux Technology GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2016-04-30 17:23 -0600
                Re: Linux Technology Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-04-30 19:33 -0700
                Re: Linux Technology DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-04-29 09:20 -0400
                Re: Linux Technology Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-04-29 15:44 +0200
                Re: Linux Technology Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-04-29 08:32 -0700
                Re: Linux Technology DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-04-29 12:07 -0400
                Re: Linux Technology Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2016-04-29 09:13 -0700
                Re: Linux Technology Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-04-29 18:50 +0200
                Re: Linux Technology DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-04-29 13:41 -0400
                Re: Linux Technology Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-04-29 18:24 +0200
                Re: Linux Technology Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-04-29 22:09 +0000
                Re: Linux Technology DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-04-29 18:58 -0400
                Re: Linux Technology Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-04-29 23:26 +0000
                Re: Linux Technology Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-04-29 10:40 -0700
                Re: Linux Technology Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-04-29 22:51 +0200
                Re: Linux Technology DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-05-01 16:11 -0400
                Re: Linux Technology Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-05-02 00:07 +0200
            Re: Linux Technology DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-05-18 17:01 -0400
              Re: Linux Technology Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-05-18 23:30 +0200
                Re: Linux Technology DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-05-28 10:10 -0400
                Re: Linux Technology JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2016-06-01 22:00 -0500
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                Re: Linux Technology Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-06-01 21:28 -0700
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  Re: Linux Technology Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-04-28 05:07 +0200
    Re: Linux Technology vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2016-04-28 03:33 +0000
  Re: Linux Technology vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2016-04-28 03:13 +0000
    Re: Linux Technology Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-04-27 20:42 -0700
  Re: Linux Technology John Gohde <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2016-04-28 02:42 -0700
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