Mac Forum / General / Hardware / September 2004

Is there a special mouse pad made for optical mice. I'm having a hard time
getting used to it

At the time of this post, I was considering to replace the Netgear
Wireless Router with the Apple Airport Family Router (likely the
802.11g-compatible router).  The Netgear Wireless Router is generally
more of a Windoze-friendly router rather than something that can be

Suddenly tonight my G3/266 started acting up, getting Real slow, even slowing
down my LAN.
I Finaly rebooted, getting the blinking "?"
Booted from some CDs, like OS 9.1 install,- TechTool Pro, but none will find the

I just picked up a Mac Performa 6400/200 (I know a bit late!!) anyway,
I want write a cd with my XP based pc filled with macintosh software.
My performa is running OS 8.  What format do I write the cd in?   Any
tips?   Also anyone know the highest version of the Macintosh system

i have a 12" iBook G4, purchased about 2/3 months ago, running 10.3.5
i've been having problems with the screen flickering. Not going
completely black, just dimming a bit and then returning to normal
brightness, as if i'm adjusting the screen brightness back and forth

Is there a software solution to monoralizing my stereo output on a G4?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
bill

Does anyone know of a way to remove neck and lcd panel from the original
iMac LCD?
I have a spare one and want to use this machine a my state-of-the-art
multi-media center, connected to my big screen LCD TV and stereo,

I'm looking for a laser printer / fax combi machine to work with Mac OS
X. Printing and faxing is important, it it does scanning as well under
OS X - even better. It needs to be a laser printer, I don't want to use
a consumable-intensive inkjet machine. Price wise I would like to ...

I'd like to convert an aac format to either an mp3 or wav format for use
in a personal CD I'm making.  This is for personal use only, not for
distribution or sale.  I've tried opening it in many of the sounc
programs that I use but none seems to be able to open it, much less

I have an about one year old powebook G4. Today
it quite accepting CDs. I could slide them most of the
way in but it won't accept them. Finally I got one
to slide in, but it doesn't recognize it and won't

A couple of things I would like to see for the G5 iMac, which I've yet
to receive.  Maybe they're in the works?  I'd like to hear about them!
1)  Different stands.  The aluminum stand that comes with the iMac
only holds the monitor at one height.  Is anybody going to make stands

I have this Memorex Thumbdrive:
R'ef'erence      : CSTMMX0003
D'esignation    : Thumbdrive Memorex 256 Mo Usb1.1 Mac/pc
Quantit'e       : 1

When I order my new G5 iMac, I am planning on getting the BTO Bluetooth
module and the keyboard and mouse. Good deal for the money. I do have
some questions thought.
I presently use a cordless Logitech 3-button mouse. Will I be able to

I have a bunch of 2.5" laptop drives (40GB, 4200 and 5400RPM ATA) that
I wanted to use for moving data around.  I just got an external
housing with a FW800 interface and I'm seeing ~3.5MBps on transfers (I
did several tests, a few with 3 8GB files, and a few others with

I just got my first iBook...used. I've dual booted it with Gentoo
Linux...and frankly I'm a little surprised how much I'm using OSX. It
really is fun and works quite well.
I'm starting to futz around with my guitars again...and have a