Our Verdict
You ’re run by at your Mac and something goeskablooeyin that , “ Uh oh , my Mac appears to have given up the ghost and wo n’t restart ” form of way . What do you do ?
Troubleshooting at Your fingertip : Yes , it is handy to have these shortcuts in hand . The question is whether they ’re deserving $ 2 it costs to download iStartup .
If you have another computer , iPhone , or iPod touching , you might be tempted to GoogleOS X Startup Key Combinations , which leads you to Apple’sStartup Key Combinations for Intel - free-base Macssupport written document . With the information on this pageboy you might be able to find a combining that allow you to reset your Mac and repair what ails it .
Troubleshooting at Your Fingertips: Yes, it is handy to have these shortcuts in hand. The question is whether they’re worth $2 it costs to download iStartup.
If , on the other bridge player , you have $ 1.99 to thrust at the problem , you could get the same data with Bayhoff Software’siStartup . As its name speck , it gift a list of project — Force Mac OS X Startup , Reset NVRAM and PRAM , and Bypass Primary startup Volume , for example . Tap a task and the result screen deliver the keystroke to execute at startup .
iStartup is helpful in that it ’s commodious to have these keyboard commands at your fingertip . How desirable it is depends on what you think your prison term is deserving . This information is easily find on the entanglement and it would n’t take a lot of clock time to distinguish it into your iPhone or iPod touch ’s Notes app ( and even less fourth dimension to print it out and tape it to your Mac ’s monitor ) . But maybe your clock time is worth more than the measly $ 2 the author asks for the diligence . Only you could make that sagacity .
iStartup is compatible with any iPhone or iPod touch running the iPhone 2.x software update .
[ aged editor Christopher Breen rigging troubleshooting questions in the Mac 911 blog . ]
