Q: kernel panic

Thank you, great idea.  But...

I did that once already, with great difficulty. 

They ran all kinds of "diagnostics" then asked me to leave the machine with them for a week.  (I can hardly afford that, my clients expects me to deliver what they want and I have no excuse, I took their money.)

Apple replaced the hard drive.  I spent 2 days restoring everything and a week resetting my passwords on every bank, Facebook.. and I still can't get into my youtube because they are now "one google password... "...

This old man can't even have sex on my knees anymore, let alone struggle with the 27" 5KiMac for an hour's drive to an Apple store.

I am sure it's a software problem. 

I find it hard to believe a $5000 didn't last 6 months.  My last 3 MBP's in the last 10 years were all perfect.  The iPad's and iPhone's were all perfect. What's wrong with the iMac?

Interesting question.

Ask me about Photoshop.

Back in the 70's, I wrote pages and pages of programs using BASIC.  I can do dBase II codes.  I can even do relational data base with Excel.

It is now 2015 and the children made my life too easy with all these fantastic apps I will happily leave all my money to them.

But what the hack is and Etrecheck and Cosole Logs? 

Oh, you mean that 4, 5 pages thing that comes up "do you want to sent this to Apple?" 

The many Apple reps I chatted with or spoke to on the phone did not understand them either and said they are all for the techs... just sent it in... to infinity.  Nobody ever replies...

I am sorry.  Please forgive this old dummy in his wheel chair.

I followed your intrusion, went to the Apple web page, and was met with an unformatted page that says "this page is no longer supported".

I then follow it's link to a new Apple page, which is also unformatted.

In fact, when I was google'ing around before, I was unable to access most of the "official Apple support" pages.  They were all just blank or no longer support.  I can hardly find anything on Yosemite challenges.

I had been to the CNET page before and in fact, had forwarded it to one of the Apple techs I chatted with.

But I am reluctant to go back to university to become a tech so I can continue to do what I was able to do the last 10 years since Photoshop PS2 on my MBP (I think that was 2005).

And neither my eyes nor my brain is dexterous enough anymore to finish my high tech degree in the next 3 years.  I just want to be able to do what I was supposed to have done yesterday.

I am sorry.  I thank you for being most helpful and your infinite patience and understanding.

But I am looking for a one button solution, an instant fix, like an instant coffee or instant noodle although I really like to be able to make

Shrimp And Crab Souffles With Red Bell Pepper And Tarragon

I love you. 

Hug.

Thank you so much.  I owe you big times.

If you have any influence with Apple, please take them out to coffee, talk to them.

Kernel panic had been around for years.  Kids nowadays can only afford iPhones and iPads, I understand the $0 with a 3 year contract.  It is important Apple pour all their resource into the iOS whatever.

But it's old retired cripples like me that buy the $5000 machine.  And I need help with OS-X.

We deserve some attention too.

Can you talk them into writing a small piece of software that in the event of a Kernel panic, don't just shut down, but pop up and window, say, "go to the wash room",  freeze all operations, do a scan, look for the software that screwed up, find out what screwed up.  Shut down.  Reboot.  Write a report, list the software or hard ware problem and offer a solution, up to and including a visit to an Apple store.

Robots can do anything nowadays, no?  OK, so the user base may not be high enough to justify the cost.  I am sure the dentist can stop talking to his stock agent on the iPhone ear plug mic and work as the receptionist too.

No, really, I love you.  Hug. Hug.