Mac Forum / Country Specific / UK Mac Group / March 2007

I have moved from an ImacG5 to a MacMini(Intel) and 20" cinema display. I am
very pleased with both.
The mac mini sits on top of an aluminium DVD burner, good heat conductor I
guess as well. In use the mini can produce a lot of heat through its rubber

I've been asked by a potential buyer if my G5 Dual 2.0 is the model
with PCI or PCIx slots. I think it is the former since when I bought
it I fitted a PCI 3 port firewire card at least I think it was a pci.
But how can you tell for sure? And how can you demonstrate it using

On startup a G4 Mini has been chiming normally and gets as far as a
blank grey screen then stops. On connecting up an external  firewire
hard drive and rebooting it started normally off the internal drive.
Also, for a while prior to the grey screen incident,  the pointer has

What is the best way of going about getting my old record collection
onto my Mac so that I can burn either CDs or an MP3 DVD?
I keep seeing stuff advertised for Windows, and though some of the USB
turntable hardware may work on a Mac I'm a bit worried about finding

Stripped and naked for your pleasure.
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/03/23/apple_tv_undressed/
I love these tinky little systems!
    Cheers - Jaimie

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I have to perform some major surgury on a iMac.  If I was to do this,
what is the process of getting the archived user back to normally.  Do
I simply just drag the users home folder etc over?
Thanks

I've noticed my MacBook Pro starting to put itself to sleep, no
warning, when the battery hits around 27-30%. It's immediately able to
wake again, but quite often when I do the battery reads 0%. However the
machine will happily keep running for quite a while - the battery

I've discovered I need access to IE7 to test websites.
I have a copy of Virtual PC 6.1 which came with the Cube. It has XP Pro
included.
Question is, is this any good?

Currently I have users' home directories on the server.  Works well in
that people can hot-desk and get their own desktop wherever they sit.
But performance isn't stellar - I guess because each and every cache
access etc is going up and down the network.  Plus there are disc ...

Apple have posted the user guide for the Apple TV online.
http://www.apple.com/support/manuals/appletv/
Phil

What's the latest on synchronising data entered by multiple users (on
multiple machines) in iCal (so that a certain calendar can be edited
simultaneously by different people)?
Last time I had a serious look at this the closest one could get was via

Just tried command-escape on the MacBook Pro, 10.4.9. It's not bringing
Front Row up - any ideas about where to start looking?
Cheers,
Ian

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This all started when the daughter's 12" PowerBook refused to boot.
Could clearly hear lots of debris rattling about inside. Immediately
suspected the hard drive but how to get at it?
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