Mac Forum / General / General / June 2007

I'm getting ready to buy a MacBook. I want to boot to Winows XP. There's
some programs that won't run in their OS, not to mention I can't afford
spending thousands in more software again. Can use the MacBook like a PC?
Are

My friend just recieved two Mac Book Pros from China ( one for him,
one for his wife). Two questions come to mind: I wonder what profit
margin Apple has on these wonderful computers? Also, the chances of a
"knock off" computer by a Chinese company?

Stumbled across a really gawdy and bling-bling red mac book. Never
expected such product from apple. eww it hurts my eyes .....
PIC: http://www.nachofoto.com/foto?i=4ae7b7d219a3

I have a MacBook Pro (Core Duo) running OS X 10.4.9.
I have tried to install the new beta of Safari but every time I get a
message saying something like "This volume does not meet the
requirements for this update."

Would someone let me know what this is worth in the UK?
Power mac G4 (2.8) 400mhz 1MB cache
768MB Ram
Maxtor 20.4GB Hard Disc (92049U3)

I am a Mac newbie.  I've run PC for 20 years but got my hands on a Mac
PowerPC G4 400 MGHz Yikes (PCI Graphics) machine for free.  It came with
keyboard and mouse, but needed the rest (which I already had).  I
figured this was a cheap and easy way to start making the switch and

Hi. I recently made the move from PC desktop to Mac.  When I had my
PC, I backed up a lot of files on an external USB hard drive. Now when
I try to back up additional files from my Mac, it's telling me that my
hard drive is "Read only". Is this a compatibility issue? Do I have to

now that im on my mac and doing my work, im experience little quirks.
one is that, when working w/ windows users & servers i often must copy/
move files from my local volume to theirs. networking is super easy,
no problem there. but copying files seems to produce extra side-car

Why to I get the Q? when I try to watch things like YouTube videos?

I just received an Epson Powerlite 77c projector. When I first plugged it in
to my powerbook G4 running MacOS 10.4.9 I could see the desktop on the image.
Now all i see is a not supported message. The cable connections seem fine. I
have been in the displays menu and set per Epson ...

I've been running into a weird problem with the Finder recently, and was
wondering if anyone else had encountered this before:
When I save a file directly to the desktop, it sometimes fails to
appear. The file is not hiding beneath another file somewhere, since if

Hi all, I need some help here and I hope someone can help me out.
My problem it's hard and may take long to explain it so I divide it in
3 parts: Technical Facts, "Facts" and "Part of the problem already
solved".

We've found a couple of programs for Windows that allow to import
pictures of rooms in your house and then 'play' with different colors
for the walls and such. Is there anything similar for the Mac?

Troubles getting proper functionality with an ATI RADEON 9800 Mac
Edition video card in a G4 Quicksilver, connected to an HP LP2065
display, continue. I started with OS X 10.4.9 on this machine, and the
most updated version of the ATI Displays preference pane. After

Why is Apple
the only company I know of
that makes videos
which won't play on my iMac ?