Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / July 2003

FS 20'sony monitor $280 very good condition
I am in Sydney
Ben

I'm an illustrator who has worked with Photoshop and Illustrator for many
years.  Although I've dabbled with 3D in the past, I'm now looking more
seriously at employing elements of 3D graphic programs into my graphics.
What are the best 3D programs to work with for macs?

I have just got a new G4 Powerbook (15"), 1GHz with 1GB of RAM. The price
was too good to resist!
Anyway, I'm finding that under sleep I'm losing about 1% per hour of sleep
of battery. This seems much more than I used to lose with my Wallstreet

 I was interested in purchasing Apple's "Soundtrack" - it would
complement perfectly my video production setup - but I notice that it
requires a minimum "single 500 MHz or dual 450 MHz processor". It's
strange on Apple's part to have this requirement, since this software's

I have an iMac DV 400, and am going to pick up a 12" powerbook also. I
wish to use Airport to network them at home... I realise I need an
airport card in the Powerbook.....
BUT - do I need an airport card in the iMac, or does it wire up to the

I have a G4 Powerbook 15" with a superdrive and OS X.2.6.
I am confused about what recordable DVD media I can use.
There is quite a range of different prices for recordable
DVDs but I'm not sure how to tell which is compatible with the superdrive.

When is Apple going to include full Windoze compatibility?  For years now
you can read and write PC disks etc.  If Apple incorporated an Intel
processor emulator into the OS then you really could have your cake and
eat it too.

Can anyone help me set-up my base station correctly? I have it working but
it's not right.
I have an ADSL ethernet modem running as a DHCP server to share my internet.
The IPs it hands out are in the range 192.168.*.*. The base station is

Hi,
I saw the ElGato EyeTV for sale at A$390 on the Palaeographics web
site. I have heard some good things about it, but not in relation to
the Australian market. I suppose things like the program schedules

I am hoping this doesn't start another holy war, as I have the habit of
doing....
1. If Mac lovers are so anti-microsoft then why do so many of them buy
virtual PC?....when I went to the apple store near me, the salesman

I've tried for months to like Mail, but I don't. i don't like the drawer, I
don't like the overall look or feel.
So, reluctantly I'm returning to Entourage. Particularly now that I've
discovered that I can sync Entourage address book with OSX Address book.

I don't want to start a Mac vs PC war here or anything but I need to
know the good and bad points about Mac and PC (Intel etc). I have done
some searching and the general consensus is that Mac users say Macs are
better and PCs are bad and vice versa for PC users about Macs etc. ...

Good morning my esteemed, enlightened Mac users,
  How are you all?  Probably as cold as I am!  Uh...I'm not really sure how
to phrase this, but I need a copy of Virtual PC for OS X, but cannot afford
to buy a new copy.  I guess I need to buy a used copy, or even cheaper, a

I know it's been asked before, but can someone supply a Aust website etc
of where I can get Quicken personal 2003 (0r 2003 etc as long as its
compatible with Mac OS X)
I know there is apprantly only the US version and it doesnt have the GST

I have a Lacie FW CD-RW drive (32*8*4), and am keen to speed it up......
according to Toast, the guts of it are a Matshita CD-RW CW-7586.
a few questions.....
can I go out, grab an IDE CD-RW drive, pop it in the FW case, fire and