Mac Forum / General / Hardware / January 2005

One of the very few annoyances I have with Macs is that blasted startup chime
that varies in volume depending on something you might have done prior to
shutdown. My Macs are normally connected to external speakers which are used
for playing music. Is there not something that can ...

Question:
If I deceide to get a mac 1.4 ghz G4 with 512mb of ram would that be
enough to run it smothly or should upgrade to 1 ghz. My fear is that if
i deceide to load my computer with programs that require high use of ram

If I deceided to install a bluetooth adapter in a new mac, will i be
able to use any device that is bluetooth enable; like a keyboard and
mouse. now, some desktops sets k'n m come with their own transmiter;
will the bluetooth adapter in the computer accept the devices and up to

I'm getting a shiny new iBook tomorrow, only problem is that it did
not include  Airport Extreme. I realize my questions are pretty
basic, but this is the first Mac I've bought.
I'm curious to know whether I actually need to buy that $80 AE card,

Does anyone have any experiences of using a Motorola RAZR V3 with Mac OS
X with Bluetooth?
1) Are you able to connect to the Internet with it?
2) Can you synchronize you calendar & address book with it?

I'm got a 350Mhz slot loading imac G3 that I keep thinking about
upgrading before I try and run OSX on it. I've seem several logic boards
for sale from dead CRT imacs on ebay and wondering if they all would
fit? or do the different slot loaders have different internal logic

I need help trying to pick a good KVM swith box which I intend to use
when I get my mini mac. I have a logitech mx1000 mouse that I want to
use on both computers. I heard that the IOgear micro have some problems
with emulator for mice and the logitech mx700 doesn't work properly. ...

Hope this is the right place for this question.
I have an Epson 1290 printer which I use to putput photos that I sell
through local country pubs, etc. It gives fantastic quality up to
oversized 11 x 17 from my PCs. I have recently bought a G5 iMac and am

Email from a newbie friend, whose mouse is apparently developing an
intermittent life of its own. The little guy is suddenly wizzing the
cursor to the bottom right of screen and activating the screen saver. I
have no immediate solution but have advised my friend to clean the lens ...

I have the 35 Plus version film scanner. Got it several years ago, did
some good work with it then packed it away in static protection plastic
until a few days ago. It responds to the driver commands properly, but the
scanned information is devoid of any visible information. ...

Hi, new to the group and hoping for a some assistance.
A friend has an Imac, the one with the domed base, and wants to play
video from his VCR onto the computer screen. I have told him that he
will either need to get his VHS cassettes converted to DVDs which can

i want to have decent audio output from itunes:
should i just stick to the audio out channel provided by apple and add some
good amplifier and good speakers or are other hardware D/A converters
preferable? does a good amp make no sense without a better D/A converter?

My local paper (Evening News in Edinburgh) has a story on page 3
entitled 'New smaller iPod is going for a song...' Price is stated as
'around £65' (so that's probably $100), & will have different coloured
cases. It'll store 'up to 800 songs'. It ends saying that Stevie-boy is

Hi there. I am brand new Mac user and don't know anything about it
and OS X except what I have learned in the last few days from
reading. I need one more USB port, the two on the machine are being
used. How is the best way to add one? A PCI card or a external one.

I've recently bought an external Pioneer 108 recorder. Some of my data
copies have failed with a write error. I understand that this is
probably because I was burning at too high a speed.
But I am a touch confused about what the manual says. It says