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My Dad gifted me a 17" iMac when 800Mhz was top of the range. Seven years later it was still doing Seti 24/7 when the power supply died. Short-long story - Apple couldn't help as they were obselete. I managed to find a second-hand power supply and eventually got a dealer to install it. They forgot to mention the HD was dying and it was dead when I got home 600km away. Months later I was still trying to install a 160Gig (x2 standard) HD when I saw a letter in MacWorld magazine that said you have to hold down 4 (FOUR) keys simultaneously to boot a new HD.
Yes Applecare is good. They replaced a keyboard recently, no fuss, on an MacPro quad core that was on the Apple Australia specials web page and now it's doing Seti 24/7 [btw 40x faster ] with 3 additional 150mm external 240v cooling fans boosting the internal originals. CPU temp [ambient 25C] drops from 46C to 28C and memory 79C to 46C. The power supplies only drop 52 to 46[has own internal fan]. Good idea? Anyone tried water cooling, I've only seen it on the net and not on AU chats.?
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