Mac Forum / General / Hardware / March 2005

I'm thinking of getting a Mac Mini and want to use as many of my old USB
accessories with it as possible.  I have a Logitech Trackman Marble Wheel
and Ortek Extended Keyboard, both USB, but both are from 1999 and 2000.  The
Marble Wheel has twoo buttons and a scroll wheel whichk ...

I have a G5 and my wife is about to get a Powerbook.  We're interested in
going wireless at home where we already have a cable modem (road runner.)
The Powerbook comes with an Airport Extreme card, and I'll be getting one
for my G5.

1.8GHz G5/1.25GB RAM/OS 10.3.8/20" Cinema Display
I have my system prefs set so that the monitor goes to sleep after 3
hours of inactivity (screen saver comes on after 15 minutes).  The hard
drive never sleeps.  Sometimes after the monitor has gone to sleep, I

I am not sure what the problem is exactly But I am not able
to print.  I do not get any error messages it just won't print
it says it is printing but no paper comes out of the printer.
I have a PowerMac G4 using OS 9.2.2 and trying to print on a HP P1000

I'm thinking of getting a Mac Mini and want to use as many of my old USB
accessories with it as possible.  I have a Logitech Trackman Marble Wheel
and Ortek Extended Keyboard, both USB, but both are from 1999 and 2000.  The
Marble Wheel has twoo buttons and a scroll wheel whichk ...

I’m running a 800 MHz Powe PD64, 1GB SDRAM, OSX 10.3.8 with the latest
updates from Apple.
For the last month or so, after I did an MS Office 2004 update I’ve
started to have my screen freeze up and the majority of the time I’ve

Does anyone know if the ram from a 450Mhz G4 will work in a 733Mhz G4?
The listings on crucial for the 450Mhz is
<http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.asp?Mfr%2BProductline=Apple%2B
+Power+Mac&mfr=Apple&cat=RAM&model=Power+Mac+G4+%28350%2C+400%2C+450%2C+a

Hi (especially to "Bruce in Alaska")
"Bruce in Alaska" mentioned in a thread about the fastpath 5 that he
had knowledge in administrating Fastpath units.
I'm trying to give an old MacPlus internet access via the fastpath 4

Just bought Power Mac G4 (Mirrored Drive Doors 2003), 80 Gig HDD, Gig
of mem, OS X v 3.4, and two DVD R/Ws. Purchased to make movies and
edit videos. Backside has no input/output of coaxial, S-video, or
composit for VHS. Apple advised to purchase Pinnacle movie box DV

i have used macs exclusivly for years.  I am confused by this right and
left click thing.  I know it is microsoft terminology, but what exactly
is it?

Hi, I found this car stereo online which has an in-dash USB port:
http://www.carbudgetaudio.com/bossmp34000r.html
Would I be able to just snap my iPod Shuffle right into that in-dash
USB port and start playing? Or is it more complicated than that? Is

Anybody:
I recently bought an Ipod shuffle. For starters my laptop doesn't have a
usb 2.0 port, so I bought a PCI card USB 2.0 Hub. To this adapter I
connected an external hard drive that works with its power supply. No

I posted this at ipodlounge but so far no one's known the answer so
I'll try here:
Just bought my first iPod, a 30G Photo.
I made sure that my Mac OS 10.3 has the latest iTunes installed. I

have a mac laptop and a pc deskotp. want them to be able to connect
wirelessly to the internet
but don't necessarily need them to talk to each other.
So here is what i plan to do:

I'd love to be able to ditch my bulky CRT monitor, but I still need to
keep my PC around.  Is there any way to hook my PC up to one of the
firewire ports with some sort of a switch so that I can display it
through my iMac G5's built in display?