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| | I'm in the market for a new powerbook. It looks to me like the new 1.67 G4's don't look have too much new under the hood (do I REALLY need an extra .17 Ghz in the processor?) and it's a response by Apple to pressure for a new machine. I'm … |
| | Hi all you lovely people, I'm running a G4 Quicksilver 733hz, 890ish Ram, Motu 2408 mark2+3 cards, logic 7, having the usual problems with CPU freaking out if I put any amount of plugins/virtual instruments on (more of a problem now as all new stuff is hungrier than ever) someone …  |
| | hi, i wonder if u can help me? i have a 400 MHz PowerPC G4 Tower (agp graphics) and a bus of 100 MHz. as you can probably tell i'm looking to upgrade the processor to something around the 1.2 - 1.5 Gb mark and i was a bit confused … |
| | I replaced a Quantum IDE drive in my external Firewire enclosure. Under OX 10 Panther, I formatted this drive and lost darn near 40% of the advertized space. I know it's normal to lose some to overhead, but THAT much? Any ideas? Details: Western Digital 200MB Caviar ATA-100 EIDE (typical … |
| | I have been trying to help a customer with upgrading a handfull of his MACs to Gigabit, but not really being a MAC person, I didn't notice the version of OS version most Gigabit NICs require. Now I know they arn't going to upgrade their OS to OSX just for …  |
| | Hi I am looking to buy a mac laptop that is able to operate industry standurd software, can anyone tell me a spec suitable to do this...i have looked at a few although coming from a pc i understand macs do not need as high a spec to run at … |
| | Is there some trick to permanently linking two or more tracks so that they always play together? For instance, Jackson Browne in a concert played "The Load Out" and "Stay" one after the other, and that's how I always want to hear them, even when everything else is constantly "shuffled". … |
| | If anyone knows what might cause my display to not light up and the green and yellow indicator lights just blink continuously. When you unplug it and repower it, it does the same thing and the screen does not light up at all. Any info at all will be greatly …  |
| | I purchased SBC/Yahoo DSL and I can't install it. Although my MAC G4 (old version, like a G3) has an ethernet port, the DSL flashes a message that it can't find it. When I go to control panels, TCP/IP, and pull down connect via, I only see PPP and Appletalk...no … |
| | I love watching DVDs on the road or on the dive boat, but today I had a disturbing experience. I watched an episode of CSI Las Vegas at about 15 FPS. The video was very choppy, but the sound was normal. A quick swap reviled it was just the CSI … |
| | I've a pretty standard G4 setup on OS9 and 10, but my keyboard 'goes away'. Nothing - no lights, no mouse - OSX or OS9. Extract the keyboard USB from the back of the box and reconnect and 'bingo', back to work. So far only five or six times with … |
| | well, i actually cant startup. ive had my computer off for several days, im on vacation at the moment. havent done any big changes, nothing. i try to start my powerbook X, g4, and it makes the startup noise, the screen stays dark, and the sleep light comes on and … |
| | Does anyone know why, when I am trying to install a new printer in OSX, the print center quits unexpectantly? HELP!!!! |
| | I have just picked up a poorly G4 (fails to boot OS 9.2 unless extensions turned off). I thought It was a corrupted OS, so I bought OS X. But when I try to install it, it won't boot from CD. If i hold down the "C" whilst truning on … |
| | I purchased a BTC brand Combo drive cdrw/dvd-rom and installed it in my G4 tower. The OS recognizes that the drive is a burner but says that burning is not enabled in the system profiler. If anyone knows how to enable this feature I would appreciate the help. Thank you |
| | I have a Powerbook G3 (WallStreet version) running OS 9.2 and am trying to burn some Photoshop files to CD. I have Toast Lite installed and a Lacie d2 CD-RW Drive. Whenver I connect my laptop to the CD-RW Drive and Launch Toast Lite I get that annoying little revolving … |
| | NOW what !!?? I recently hard a second hard drive crash which I managed to rescue with Disk Warrior. Since than, every time I insert, say. a compact flash card or SD card or external disk my G4 insists it cannot recognise the disk and wants to initialize it. If … |
| | i have a g4 4oomhz agp with 100 bus speed, 856 memory and i wanted to find out about what is the best processor i could purchase for under 200 of these fine british pounds. any help will be glorious. nice 1. |
 | Hi All, We have a good cell signal at our lake cabin. I want to use my Kyocera 2325 as a modem, utilizing the proper data cable. I am looking for the correct software to set this up. Does anyone have any experience to share or perhaps a reference? TIA … |
| | :sad: I have a G4 450 single processor with a Maxtor 40 gig IDE drive. Computer locked up and now drive will not show up on screen. When I boot with Norton the cd and zip drives show up. The Maxtor drive does not show up. It is running because … |
| | hey, i was wondering if whoever has a powermac g5 if they could measure the hight of the case(from the bottom, including the power supply, all the way to the shelf) (not including where the superdrive and hd's are. And also the hight of the shelf(where the superdrive and the … |
| | I got a new imac g5 about 2 weeks ago, the problem is sometimes when i move my mouse the cursor will fly all the way to the opposite side of the screen, i am currently not using a mouse pad, could that be my problem? or is the mouse … |
| | I am about to trade off my PC aka "Virus Magnet" and join the ranks of the "better informed". My choice of machine, as a confirmed gizmo junkie is the PowerBook w. 17" monitor. A good choice for a start-up guy or? How does one able to order via the … |
| | Hi Any advice welcome........ I fitted a second hard drive (80GB Western Digital) to my G4 (400Mhz) few months back, running on O.S 9.2.2 I've been using it to store my albums of digi pix on. and recently my son started creating imovies on it. It has now crashed completely … |
| | hi all, got 2 massive 20" screens from a friend and they need me to buy em an adapter to work with standard graphics cards rather than with an apple computer with annoyingly different graphics hardware, wot type of adapter is it i need? how do i find out? the …  |
 | Hey all, just got hold of a Mac Performa 6200CD. anyone know the specs on it? I think its really old but a friend was ditching it so I grabbed it hoping it was something worth kepping but I'm not sure. The only thing I know is it has a … |
| | Hi Mac newby here. Was toasting when horrid sound occured in superdrive and although it opens and closes OK it no longer reads anything. Any ideas? Am on Mac OS X.10.3.5. platform and very frustrated! Any constructive replies appreciated. Can't afford to lose eMac to doctors. |
| | Has anyone found a way to read Jaz discs into a Mac iBook (mine being G3 White, two USB ports). That is by using the SCSI-USB adapter cable to get into the iBook. The Jaz drive and the adapter cable are both said to be for iMacs and Power Macs...and … |
| | I have a home network that shares an XP-home PC and a Mac OSX computer and a brother network capable printer connected to a hub. Everything was working fine for 3 months, but my printer stopped working on the mac after doing some work on my PC (still works from … |
| | Urk. My keyboard is giving me problems. It started right after a blackout. It was working perfectly fine before that. The quotation keys, the question mark and slash keys, and the shifted , and . do not work properly. It is rather annoying. They seem to be mixed up. I … |
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