Mac Forum / General / Hardware / July 2005

I recently bought a 20" 2 GHz G5 iMac and compared its power
consumption (using a Brand power meter) to my previous 17" 800 MHz G4
iMac. For those interested, the results are below, but bottom line I am
very pleased with Apple's obvioius attention to making these machines

Slot-loading, 400 MHz iMac (graphite color) is described as having max RAM
capacity of 512 MB:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58007
but also is described as having 1 GB max:

My brother has a G4 (gigabit ethernet) which has worked fine since
new. Recently he moved from one town to a nearby town and now the
keyboard will not function. He moved the machine in his own car, not
the moving van, taking great care not to damage anything, but ....

Does anyone know if a mac driver for UMAX Astra 2500 Scanner exists?
If so, could you please let me know where I can find it?
Thanks,
M.

I've just upgraded to a G5 and, while I really appreciate the (general)
lack of fan noise, I'm a little disappointed by the busy clacking of the
drives. I presume the drives in my old G4 were equally noisy, but the
sound of the fans masked them.

I have a Beige G3/350 w/384M running 10.2.8.  I have a usb 2.0/firewire
card installed, and have just purchaed an iomega fw cdrw, model
CDRW2304F.
I have been using the usb card since day one for numerous usb devices

is this a good config ?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5792104178

I have a 22" Apple Cinema Display, Apple's DVI to ADC converter, a
PowerMac G4 (the dual 867 Mhz model), a PowerBook G4 (1 Ghz model),
and a 4-port Belkin SOHO DVI/USB switch:
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=20030
5&pcount=&Product_Id=146408

perhaps a crazy question, i dunno, but do IMacs have pci slots? if so do
imacs support hauppage tv cards?
thanks

Does anyone know if the Logitech Harmony remote software (specifically
the SST 659) has any issues with Tiger?  No mention on the Logitech
website.
Thanks in advance.

OK, so let's say I have a HD with a boat load of proprietary financial
data on an older machine.  I want to erase the data securely, so I use
an app like Burn to overwrite each sector 10 passes with random data.  
From there, I reformat the drive low level, reformat it at OS level ...

What is the best brand of RAM to upgrade the mac mini with?
I'm thinking Corsair....why the hell does Apple charge like $350 for
a 1gig upgrade? Are they insane?
Also, the MAX speed the mini can take is pc2700, right...so I

I erased entire harddrive on my iBook to install Linux. Now, I want to reinstall
OS X (Panther), but I don't know how.. I put the Panther Installation CD, but it
doesn't recognize any partition to install OS. I thought the installation
process would offer me to create a partition ...

A friend has a 900 MHz iBook which exhibits a strange sound problem.
When you increase the sound volume a high-pitched piercing sound is
emitted. It is similar to the sound that can be heard in a hall when
the mike couples to the speakers. The sound is also produced when you

WiebeTech has announced a little box that appears to offer the same
functionality provided by a number of hard drive enclosures that are commonly
available for about $60 at such places as Fry's or CompUSA. The difference is
that the WiebeTech box appears to be essentially only ...