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Thanks! I'll have a look and see, and a play! The upgrade will be something for the autumn. I'm not starting playing just before I go on holiday. The laptop will be coming with us. We're off to Italy in 2 weeks time.

Thanks! :) I was thinking along the same lines that you set out. Do I still need to fit memory in matching pairs (2 x 4GB), or could I compromise and fit one 8GB for now? Then I have to work out whether the SSD drive in the 2007 Black MacBook that I fitted 18 months ago can be swapped over....

I'm confused. I have a "Mid-2012" 13 inch MacBookPro 2.5 GHz dual Core i5. The Tech Specs on the Apple support site say that the existing 4GB of RAM is "Configurable to 8 GB". However on sites that sell RAM, they are offering upgrades to 16GB (2 x 8GB). While my iMac was being...

Well that was quick! Taken in after lunch Monday. Text to say it's ready in less than 24 hours. New display installed. Hard disc and settings undisturbed. Back home and reinstalled, seems to be working, but time will tell. Price at the Apple store was cheaper than a quote for a display from...

Thanks for that. Alas, I don't think I qualify. We bought ours in December 2010, so just a bit early. And the symptoms are not the same. Pity. :( After my last post, it started working after another PRAM/SMC reset. For a while. We booked another genius appointment, which was this afternoon...

What version of MS Office? What Mac? What Operating System?

It will have to go for a repair. The screen is going black within seconds of being turned on. I cannot see anything, so I can't type instructions or see error reports. Will report back once it's working again.

Thanks! I'll have a play with this tonight and see what turns up.

As my iMac is failing slowly, I am looking at backing up my back-up! The iMac is backed up using Time Machine to an external G-Technology 2TB drive. So at the moment I have two copies of everything. If my iMac needs a major repair, who knows what state it will be in when it comes back? I...

Well it was left on at full brightness for 24 hours and it was still working fine. :) Shortly afterwards we decided that it looked good, so we cancelled the Genius appointment. Half an hour after that, the screen went black :( It came back with a restart, so we left it for a while, but it...

OK. An update that may confuse more than help. After reading through everything I could find on here and on the Apple support forums, I thought that I had better go through all the possible self help options again before taking the iMac to the Apple Store and finding that it wouldn't show the...

I'm just about to post a reply to my earlier thread about black screen on an iMac. A PRAM reset seems to have given a cure. At least for now. But we will see. Seems to be an Intel based problem and may not be relevant to yours. This thread...

A few years ago - probably five - I had to replace the lamp unit in the back of my 17 inch "square" flat monitor. It was fairly easy DIY. It was a few years old at the time, and so maybe a similar age to your cinema display. I remember looking at a cinema display at the time, but decided to...

I've tried shining a torch into the screen, but seen nothing. I can access all my files from the laptop over the network. The only thing inaccessible is the stored mail from our local ISP that is not on the Cloud. So the computer bit is OK. On odd occasions the screen wakes and I see the...

Well it's lasted until now with us dropping the brightness lower and lower. But last night it decided that it was dead :( Just got to sort a replacement. I thought of a new Apple screen in front, but that costs as much as a repair. So now to decide. A new one or something cheap and...

You should be OK with an iPhone 4S, but I have just started getting this sort of thing happen because the apps are no longer working with my older iPhone 3GS. The iPhone is limiting the system software upgrade and the system software determines the apps i can have. So, is your system...

I've been running Parallels for a long time. I have the latest version running on this laptop. Laptop is running Mountain Lion. I installed Parallels from the Parallels disc. It installed just like any other application. To install Windows (I have a version of Vista which is all I need for...

I think I'll be going back to the MacPro or the MacMini at the next upgrade. Up to now, I had always had separate screens and computers. The current iMac is 2 1/2 years old and was supposed to last as long as needed. But the screen has died and I find that a replacement screen is almost as...

Is one of the machines running parallels? My laptop is running Parallels and I'm getting occasional "There is another device on your network using your computer's IP address". The message went away when I upgraded and came back when I reinstalled Parallels. It doesn't happen often. I have...

A quick update. But no real progress. Since dropping the level of the brightness a couple of clicks the screen has not failed. I'll leave it like that and see, but I'm off on holiday tomorrow and will not be home to use it. for a while.