Mac Forum / General / Hardware / January 2005

I notice our lampshade iMac has a very, very slow drive. It is a 5400
rpm Maxtor with a 2MB cache, ATA-100. We love the iMac, it does what we
need, but the drive is both small and miserably slow loading even text
files.

I believe that an iMac/iDVD can't recognise an external DVD writer, but
with PatchBurn it can.
I want to use a DVD writer with my G4 iMac and also with a G4 iBook, and
this, apart from my terror of attempting a replacement of the iMac's

Dear friends,
I'm helping my neice with her old bondi-imac.   It is a 233Mhz with
256mg RAM
I installed a maxtor 60 gig hard drive to replace the old 4 gig

I have a aAGP G4 350mhz. Can I take a processor from a newer G4 and
stick it in mine? If so, what processor can I go up to. I know there
are upgrade cards but a friend is offering to give me a 450 chip and I
was wondering if I could go higher than this. Is the procedure to take

In my continuing quest to back up all of my old computers, I would like to
be able to take my old Powerbook 180c's hard disk (a 160 meg internal  
notebook scsi drive) and interface it with either a PC or Mac via USB to
extract a drive image (or at the very least extract the files ...

I just bought some blank CDs at a very good price. However, I just
discovered the reason they were at such a good price. They don't have
any labels on them, nor were any included. Can I just stick any kind of
label on the CDs, like a standard 3x5 mailing label or an old 5.25" ...

I've recently purchased an external Firewire RAID box. I got it from
firewiredirect.com, and they sell it as the "NitroAV Vanguard V", but
it's also available from other companies. Raidsonic.de calls it Stardom
SR6500, but epowermac.com.au sells it under its original name: SOHORAID

Hi just recently purchased an imac g5 with 512 mb ram among other
attributes.
I installed Final cut pro 4.5 HD and the program doesnt enter! It
warns me that it requires 348 mb ram.

I just installed a new AlchemyTV DVR card in my Dual Processor 2.5Ghtz
G5. The hardware installation was a snap, but configuring the software
seems to require an advanced degree in computer science.
First off, I had hoped to be able to use the DVR software that came with

When I drag windows around there are trails left by the window edges.
It looks like the OS-X window shadowing effect is messed up.  I've done
the latest flash upgrade, and ATI's website says I don't need drivers
for Panther.  Anybody have an idea what's wrong?  Thanks.

I was using my iPod mini on my XP Pro desktop system and then decided
to install the software and connect the device to my laptop. On the
laptop system (XP Pro also), I told the software installation to
reconfigure the device (which I didn't want to do since it removed all

If I put a USB2 card in a dual 1GHz Mac (Mirrored Drive
Doors), will the system (10.3.7) support it?