Mac Forum / General / Hardware / June 2005

1) can it be done?
2) is it really, really worth it (the machine has 32 meg of ram, and is
old-dog slow)
3)if I wanted to , could I? I have updated the machine with the most

I have a friend of a friend's iBook (2002) that will not boot.
I've tried booting into Target mode (firewire), booting from 10.2
install CD's, Reset the PRAM, (even let it chime 4 times) safe mode and
verbose mode.  All that happens is the drive starts clicking even

I've just bought the Pyro A/V link and have 7 days in which to evaluate it.
When I import a test clip (from a VHS VCR) every thing seems fine except at
the very bottom of the video  there is a coloured or distorted bar about
10pixels or so.

Did Orange Micro go out of business? I have 2 PCI SCSI cards I am
trying to get to work under 10.4 without any luck. I went to
www.orangemicro.com and got a "domain for sale" page.
Any ideas on getting these cards to work in X???

I would greatly appreciate some help. I am buying a 12" ibook for my
girlfriend. I will put bluetooth in it and desire an inexpensive 17" or
19" monitor for home use. I can see her plugging and unplugging the
ibook a few times a week. She wants a clean looking desk. She's got a

Installed a Logitech two-button mouse with an application switch on my
Mac.  The box says built for OS X, but on closer inspection, its an
older version, somewhere in the range of 10.2 - 10.2.8.  The mouse
wouldn't work, so I uninstalled it and replaced my Macally optical.

I have an old gigabit ethernet G4 I plan to give to a friend. Last
night I unplugged it from a surge-protector and moved it into the
living room. This morning I plugged it into a wall outlet and it won't
power on. I opened the case, pressed the wee power-whatever button

Apple goes Intel -- the Osborne effect?
Jack Schofield June 09 2005
"Why buy a Mac now? That's one of the many questions we're left with in
the wake of Monday's Apple-Intel announcement  .." says a post at Good

Kindly Mac Aficionados:
I have Apple Studio Display 17" attached to a G4 MDD. For some years,
I've run the keyboard and mouse from one of the display's USB
connectors. After cycling power to swap some ethernet cables, both of

I have just purchased a G5 and want to copy most of my data from my
G4.  Can I just drag my hd from my g4 into my hd on my G5 over my
home netwok?  Thanks
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A local reseller is offering the PowerMac with dual G5 PPC running at
1.8GHz, 256 MB DDR-SDRAm, 80 GB HD, SuperDrive, GeForce FX 5200 graphics
card, ext kbyd and mouse for $1199.  They're also running the iMac 17"
Widescreen LCD with the single 1.8 GHz G%, Superdrive, 512 MB ...

Does anyone have a guess as to weather the first Intel Based mac will
run old apps under Rosetta slower than, as fast as, or faster than a
similarly configured PPC Mac?
How much bigger will a universal app be than an app compiled for just

In my G4 I have to Maxtor drives one of which is the notorious 5T060H^.
It has started to suffer from periodic narcolepsy.
So I thought to find out if I have the latest firmware.
On Maxtor's web site there is no app to explor this for Mac.

It's been a long time since I've needed to purchase a monitor, and I
can't tell if I'm hitting a streak of bad luck, or it this is the way
things are to be expected.  I bought a Samsung 19" and about 1/8 of the
screen was noticeably dimmer than the rest.  I returned it for a

I have a wierd problem with the reception on my iBook 700MHz airport.
Works fine if the screen is at 90 degrees or less to keyboard, however
when I open it to a more natural working position I loose reception.
I am running OS X 10.3.9 patched pretty much up to date with 384MB of ...