Mac Forum / General / Hardware / March 2005

sometimes I check the power consumption of my powermac G5 dual 2 GHz
with 1.5 MB RAM under OS 10.3.8.
Recently I noticed that it uses about 40 - 44 W in the sleeping mode and
even about 31 - 35 W when switched off. A year ago it had been 10 W and

I'm new here - my apologies for my dumb question(s),
however,
I have ordered a new iMac and it occurred to me only now that it might
be useful occasionally to use a second screen and extend the work area

I just got an old mac SE and it dosn't have a keyboard or mouse. I'd
like to be able to hook up one of my PC keyboards (specificly my old 89
key keyboard from my XT clone) I can't find anywhere the description of
the signal/code the ADB keyboard outputs. I have a basic stamp and I

Is there a way to convert a DVD (episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer,
I must confess) to files? Maybe compressed, and playable by Quicktime?
Rumaging around the DVD volume from my iBook (OS 9), I see many files,
but nothing as simple as folder containing "Episode 1", "Episode 2" ...

I have an iMac G4, a couple of 900MHz iBook G3s, and a Beige G3 that
need backing up and archiving. I'm looking for a roaming hard drive for
them.
Anybody have experience with either the Other World Computing "Mercury

Anyone have experience with some of the alternate input and output
devices on the Mac?   I wore out the 1/8" jacks on the other computer,
and was hoping to go to an external device.   unfortunately, a lack of
choices.

Check the price on these iPod headphones! Wow!!  Haha!!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5178344106&fromMakeTrack=true
Harry
PS For those that missed it, $654.20 !!

I am looking for a PCI card compatible with a PowerMac G5 (ie 3.3V cards)
that provides at least 4 extrenal USB 2 ports that run at USB 2.0 speeds
ideally with out the installation of an additional driver. Does anyone
have experience of such a card and can recommend a make & ...

I'm sure anyone who does any kind of video work, gaming, or DVD
watching on their iMacs must be dissapointed.  Not only are these units
expensive, but they come with a sub-par video card with no upgrade
options.  With that being said, I was wondering if the 64-bit OS

I have a PowerMac G4 867mhz. I want to be able to connect a DVI-D
monitor to the DVI connector in the back. It does not connect bcause it
seems the Mac has strange  DVI-I connector in that it has rows of 10 and
not the usual rows of 8.

excerpt from a website diary (of a friend of mine):
Mar 2
my best friend in the whole history of man
gave me a present... an IPOD.

I was getting intermittent beachball stalls with my half filled 160 gb
WD drive, os x 10.3.8.  It would hand a bit and then processed would go
at it for a bit.
I rebooted off another drive (os x 10.3.8) and ran Disk Utility.  It

Cleaning out my office, I came upon a can of "CRC QD Electronic
Cleaner." I must have bought it many moons ago, because I don't remember
what I got it for. Can this type of thing be used on the one non-working
port of my ethernet hub to make it work again (unplugging the hub ...

MemoryGiant is selling two different 512 meg memory modules for the
20-inch iMac G5:
http://www.memorygiant.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=search.memorySearch&model_id=-32
64&memory_id=-23164
http://www.memorygiant.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=search ...

I want to export my project with more than just a stereo mixdown as I
have 8 distinct tracks on my timeline.
The manual says that it is possible to export each track as a seperate
.aiff file.