I think mentioning the Internet has confused some people.
Leave the Internet out of the picture for now. We don't get a chance to fire up the browser, let alone anything else. From power up to lock up is about two minutes. And that's when we do nothing except turn the iMacs on.
The...
With Airport off the iMacs behave as you would expect and as the G5s used to behave. There is definitely some sort of correlation between having both network adaptors active and the iMacs failing. But it should work.
Can anyone else with an Intel iMac confirm that it does work?
Thanks...
The iMac seriously stops responding. Even with no applications open. I don't think it's anything to do with Internet access. With the Mac just turned on you can watch as the bars disappear on the Airport menu bar icon. When they reach one or none the iMac stops responding.
With no Airport the...
If I can chuck in my $0.02 worth...
I'm a very enthusiastic user of Disk Utility/Disk Copy. It has several advantages over programs like Virtual CD. Disk images can be read-only or read-write. You can start with a blank image and add to it and then edit its contents. Unmount and the contents are...
We've replaced 2 G5 iMacs with Intel iMacs. They are in adjacent offices. The networking is via ethernet and, since the ethernet has been a little flakey and there is an Airport just down the hall, via Airport as a backup. Connection to the network/Internet is via ethernet.
Once the iMac is...