Mac Forum / General / Hardware / March 2005

According to what a tech' in the "Enterprise" section of Apple told me,
the Apple Xserve computer can now support 16-GB of RAM.
I will believe it when I see it advertised at Apple's Xserve website.
<http://www.apple.com/ca/xserve/specs.html>

I want to get a supplementary hard drive drive basically as a clone
backup to my main drive. I'd prefer an internal, to cut down clutter on
my desk, but am uncertain about the issues of drive failure. If the
controller card goes out, am I am less likely to lose everything with an ...

Due to restrictions on my computer at work, I can't download iTunes and
iPod software onto my hard drive. I have tried downloading them onto a
storage device but that doesn't seem to work either. Has anybody tried
the latter? Any tips?

A few days ago I asked for recommendations for a USB 2.0 card to use
with my USB 1.0-only Powermac 800MHz (running 10.2.8, with an upgrade to
Tiger ASAP). One person recommended a Belkin card, another recommended
one from Keyspan, but neither explicitly said he owned the card in

When I first set up my Mac Mini, straight out of the box it recognised
my LCD monitor (Hitachi 17LD4200), as it allowed me to select a number
of "widescreen" settings, used a specific colour profile for it, and
listed it in System Profile.  However, after I had to do a hard reset

Last week I bought an Airport Express wireless access point for my boss to
use at home use and to take on trips to use in hotels.
As a test I took it to work and plugged in a network rj45 cable and was able
to connect to the internet using a notebook with a wireless card.  The

A few months ago I had a happy solid LAN working, for the most part,
flawlessly. Four Macs running OS9, one running 8.6, one running OS 8
and one PC running Windows XP. All 7 were using Filemaker Pro, served
from the OS8 machine through FMPro Server.

I have a PowerMac G4 and I want to go wireless. Should I buy the
bluetooth usb adapter and et the Apple Wireless keyboard and mouse? Or
should I get another brand? Or should I go RF for wireless? Does
Bluetooh keyboard and mice have problems?

Can someone recommend (based on good personal experience) an external cd
burner for osx? My 2x Phillips one is starting to get long in the tooth,
not to mention that it's scsi, and I have to boot into my OS9 disk to
use it. I would not want an Iomega firewire burner (a friend had ...

I try to play with the powerbook sudden motion sensor. There are
some very cool applications which demonstrate what you can do with
those sensors but I could'n find any information about how to access
them. I didn't even find the source code of programms that make use

I have a 800MHz PowerMac, which has USB but not USB 2.0. I want to get a
USB 2.0 card and hub to go with an iPod Shuffle and inkjet printer I
plan to buy soon.
I have heard good things about Belkin hubs, but I know nothing about

It looks like the Orange Micro ftp site is down and there are rumours
that they have gone out of business even though the rest of the site
is still OK.
If anyone has the F1.36 firmware package and could email it to me,

on the video card upgrade options for a twin 1GHz Quicksilver G4 ??
it's got the stock Geforce 4MX and i thought it would be
worth the trouble to upgrade it, but i haven't been
able to find a coherent discussion of what new video cards

I have a LaCie Mobile Hard Drive, Design by F.A. Porsche, but cannot
figure how to open the case. After only 2 months of use both firewire
ports have blown , and I need to get the transfer the before I send it
back for repair.

I have a dead LC630 which I need to get some files from. I was wondering
what steps are required so I can plug the HDD into a Windows XP machine to
read the files.
Thanks in advance,