Mac Forum / General / Hardware / September 2004

    I'm new to mac's so forgive if this is a noob question.
    I'm having some trouble with the intake fans on my powermac G5. They
are running really slow and I'm wondering if there's a utility that will
help me figure out why. I've been reading up and apparently the fan

I'm thinking of switching to a Mac, specifically a Power Mac G5. I'm a
grade 10 student, probably grade 11 by the time I can afford one. Would
it last long enough for me to use once I go to university? How would it
compare to my Athlon 2400+ system?

Combining the computer with an LCD screen. What a brilliant stroke in
form factor design. The advantages are soooooo obvious.
1. The old iMac had a lightweight screen that floated almost magically
above the computer and was easily adjusted to any angle with the touch

I have a "original" G4 (graphic/grey in color) with an internal 9G Quantum
Fireball drive.  From the system profiler I'm pretty sure we're talking IDE
here.
So, I'm running OSX (latest and greatest) and need to add a second drive.

I'm planning to get a used Firewire card installed into my beige G3 at
an Apple dealer's store, so I can buy and use a Firewire external drive
to back up my computer's data.
Is that a good idea? Are there any kinds of Firewire cards I shouldn't

This is a bit of a long-shot post, but here goes...
I recently purchased a new Cinema display and found that the power
button can not be used to turn the computer on (in contrast to Apple
monitors and keyboards dating back to 1986 or so).

Which one is it?
http://mackompass.de/images/stories/apple/imac_g5_aio.jpg
http://mackompass.de/images/stories/apple/iMac_G5.jpg
Maybe neither one is a real iMac?

the kids need their own machine, and at $200, the green gumdrop imac looks
pretty good, even with paltry ram , G3 processor, and 20-gig HD. All the kids
wanna do on it is play games and do word procesing, so OS 9 would be fine with
them.   but, are there any things to watch out for ...