[muglo] Powerbook problems ?
- From: Ilbert Walker <walker@xxxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:05:30 -0500
Kathryn
You might be interested in following this weeks news from MacWorld
expo of iBook and iPod (and Powerbooks?) users who are considering
sueing Apple .. because of many defects in their hardware. Seems you're
not alone out there in having problems !
I get a lot of such info from http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/ - might be
worth exploring ?
Ilbert
On 16 Jan 2004, at 3:11 PM, Eric D wrote:
>> I called up my friendly Mac shop in town and will be picking up OS
>> 10.3.2
>> tomorrow.
>
> Well, you'll be getting 10.3.0 and having to allow OS X to do it's
> auto-update thingy.
>
>> However, the Mac guy was unable to find such a creature as MS Office
>> 10.1.5
>> for Macs, and this is someone who scoured the earth to find me a G4
>> laptop
>> with a 12" screen when there were only about four left in Canada this
>> August.
>
> It's easily accessible from http://www.microsoft.com/mactopia (just go
> to
> the downloads section for Office). But, it's easiest just to go to the
> links
> I've listed below and download and run the installers.
>
> <http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx>
>
> Updaters:
>
> <http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/
> mac/DOWNLOAD/OFFICEX/
> OfficeX_1015.xml&secid=5&ssid=15&flgnosysreq=True>
> <http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/
> mac/DOWNLOAD/OFFICEX/
> OfficeX_1012.xml&secid=5&ssid=11&flgnosysreq=True>
> <http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/
> mac/DOWNLOAD/OFFICEX/
> exchangeupdate.xml&secid=5&ssid=14&flgnosysreq=True>
>
>> Maybe he was talking about the Educational version of the program,
>> which is
>> what I want - there's a $500 difference in price. Or were you talking
>> about MS Word only? I need Office because I use Excel for my grading.
>
> You already have Office for X, right? In that case the updates are a
> free
> download. The academic version is identical to the joe-blow one.
>
>> As to some of your other queries: the dialogue boxes that pop up
>> unbidden
>> run the gamut and have nothing to do with the computer functioning.
>> It's as
>> if the machine starts going beserk and flashes miscellaneous dialogue
>> boxes
>> before my eyes.
>
> Hmmm? I'd need to know exactly what the boxes say to take a guess at
> what's
> going on.
>
>> As to the WYSIWYG problem, it is entirely arbitrary. Sometimes it
>> happens;
>> sometimes not. Yesterday, for example, everything as back to normal.
>> It's
>> the same with the selecting, de-selecting problem. Sometimes it
>> works;
>> sometimes it doesn't.
>
> It's probably simply that you viewed it at a certain size (or are
> working on
> a document that someone else viewed at a certain size) and Word is
> using the
> settings.
>
>> Here's something else that's happening; when I boot up I get a little
>> folder with a question mark for about a nanosecond. My Mac OSX for
>> Dummies
>> book says that means it can't find my start-up disk, but it always
>> does and
>> my computer starts up - so what does it mean?
>
> Umm. Umm. Umm. Me don't know. It's nothing major. If you're really
> irked by
> it, reformat your harddrive and start fresh ;)
>
> Eric.
>
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