Mac Forum / General / Hardware / February 2005

The hard drive on my 768MHz G4 crashed and burned, so I bought a Western
Digital Caviar SE with 80GB (WD800JB). I tried to install OSX 10.3 on it,
Using Disk Utility from the installation CDs, I try to "Format Mac OS
extended (journaled)". After a bunch of hours, I get

I am not sure if this is mainly a hardware question or if it is an issue
of support in OS X but I'll try here first.
I plan to buy a Mac-mini, it has one dvi output but I want to use it as
a mediacenter as well as a desktop machine so my question is if there

I have a three-year-old DP G4 800MHz Powermac whose internal slots are
not in use. I'm trying to determine if a new 1.42GHz Mac mini would be
equivalent in speed to my machine. If it would it would be worth it for
me to sell the Powermac and gain (a) a slightly faster system bus, ...

I have an LCD monitor that seems to have the wrong plug-and-play
information programmed into it.  It's a Sharp LLT1610W which can
display up to 1280x1024, however the mac sees it as a Sharp LLT1512W,
which can only do 1024x768.  So it displays only a 1024x768 rectangle

I started using an iBook in '02. That one died due to the well known
mainboard problem. I got a new one that has been repaired twice
because of the mainboard flaw and now there seems to be another
problem: My CD drive died, sometimes the machine just goes off if

What size internal hard drive can I put in my G4 400 AGP mac that the
computer would recognize?

Does coer image uses more video memory in general.
I'm trying to decide whether to buy the new PB G4
w/ 64 or 128 video ram.
Thanx.

On a friend's Mac, can't get avi to play on MacVCD. In the Get Info box for
the avi file, the Ownership & Permissions setting says: "You can only read".
When I double-click the avi's icon (it's a QuickTime movie icon), QuickTime
opens (and doesn't play it very well).

I'm looking for a way to power an iBook from a 12VDC cigarette
lighter. Dr. Bott has an inverter that is $110 (as I recall) that inverts
the 12VDC to 110VAC, and you plug your iBook's brick into that, and you
then convert back to DC. Sheesh.

I'm in serious trouble -- I need to install an app on my iBook but I don't
have a DVD drive. Is there any way I can share the disc from a PC that does
have a DVD drive, or copy the files and make a mountable image, or some
other way to install this program?

I've got my eye on the OWC Mercury Elite link of drives.   Price
(250GB/$230) is comparable to (say) a LaCie d2 & people have said it's a
bit quieter.  
Curious if there are happy owners out there who've had good luck with

I've heard several folks talking about the 4200rpm HD in the Mini Mac
being a kinda bottleneck when running faster processes, like video
editing, image editing, etc.  If I had a Firewire IDE drive bay and
plugged a 7200rpm drive in, would this be any faster then the internal

Use a utility included with OS X? 3rd party util? The drive (a thumb RAM
drive) has no included utilities.
Thanks,

Can anyone tell me if an old Performa 6360 can be used with a cable
modem? I know they had built in modems, just not sure if it can be
removed and an ethernet card installed...?
If someone wouldn't mind dropping me a line with some info I would sure

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