Mac Forum / General / Hardware / February 2005

Are the battery issues any better with the new iPODS?  Is there any way
that if a battery goes bad to just buy a battery instead of sending in
the IPOD to service?
What should I look for when buying an iPOD?

I need an external HD for daily storage of scanned pictures prior to
burning to DVD.
Looking for about 100G, and either firewire or USB2.
anyone have any thoughts on what to buy?

Setting up a work station for tutoring.
20 GB HDD partitioned to 7.9 GB and Jaguar installed -
software update run to 10.2.8
9.22 installed on the 7.9 GB partition AND on the

I've been converting phonograph records to CDs by going from my stereo
preamplifier to a microphone input on a G3 Platinum. I'd like to be able to
do this on a laptop which requires a USB port for audio input. Is there a
device to permit me to do this?

I find the display on my 20 inch iMac G5 to be much too bright, even
with the brighness control at its minimum.
Is there a way around this ?

I was reading an article on O'Reilly -[
http://oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6208 ]- and the author suggested you
could cluster multiple Mac Mini's with Xgrid -[
http://www.apple.com/acg/xgrid/ ]-.  Is this possible?  If so then

Now that I am upgrading from my current machine (see my .sig) to a PM
7600/200 under MacOS 8.6, I need FWB's HD Toolkit 3.0 or later, among
other things.
So I surfed to www.fwb.com, where FWB's Greatest Hits is being offered

I am thinking about adding an Airport Extreme base station to my wired LAN
to support wireless laptop connections. I would also like to connect a USB
printer so that I can share it over the network.
The documentation that I have found says that this works with 'compatible

I have a G5 iMac that I am going to need a USB hub for. I didn't
want the few USB 1.1 devices I have to throttle the 2.0 stuff so
I was looking at some of the Belkin hubs that keep the bandwidth
divided.

I notice some hardware (scanners, printers...) are advertised as having
USB 2.
I have a flat-panel iMac with USB 1. Is it possible to plug in a USB 2
device to one of my USB ports? Would it work (though presumably not as

I'd like to know the largest size of drive I can put in an LCIII. I
recently got hold of one, but its 80MB hard disk died. Small drives are
somewhat uncommon these days so it would help to put a more recent
device in there.

What would it take to use an IBM P200 with a PowerMac G4?
I've always built my own PCs, but have been advised that a Mac will work
better for photography. Build-it-yourself doesn't seem to be an option
in the mac world.

Confession, I'm a "PC man ."
However, I have a mate that has an iMac that won't start up and I'm
trying to help him (see, I'm not that bad after all eh) ;-)
I don't have much in the way of background but know he wouldn't have

I already have a Fujitsu 100 GB drive inside my Pismo, it works great,
bought it new about two months ago from:
( ZipZoomFly.com  $189  Fujitsu MHU2100AT)
It's a bit slow, but that is to be expected for a 4200rpm drive.

Would like to destroy several hard drives for security reasons.
Is there an easy and safe way to do so without any special equipment.
Thanks.