Mac Forum / General / Hardware / October 2005

I want to add 1GB to a 12" PowerBook, and I find, at
http://www.pcmall.com/pcmall/shop/detail~dpno~308344.asp
the chip with these specs, for $224 :
PC Mall Part #: 308344     Mfr. Part #: CT12864X335AP

I'm figuring whether I should buy a new iBook 12'' or a Powerbook 12
''.
I'm doing mainly email & Internet, office work, a little audio file
editing (audacity), once in a while converting video into DVD. So

I am new in sharing file between Mac.  I just bought a lacie external
harddrive that is connecting to my g3 desktop.  When I use my ibook to
connect to the desktop G3 using wireless (which I use very often for
file sharing), I was not able to see(get access) to the external

I'm hoping someone can tell me whether or not this is a legitimate
logic board problem.
My father has an iMac G4  (OSX v.10.1.5 - 256 mb RAM - 700 mHz - 40
GB).  It has operated trouble-free for years.  Recently he switched

******** Beige G3 266 video RAM expansion
Hi all,
I contemplate adding video RAM to a Mac G3 beige
266Mhz in order to use a Hercules flat LCD monitor

A friend of mine has a USB-2 hard drive connected to her TiBook's USB port
which unfortunately is only USB-1. The problem is that the performance of
that USB-2 hard drive is miserable, running at about 1/30th the speed of a
comparably sized drive connected via FireWire. Is there ...

What's the most practical way to adapt a G4 to work with serial devices?

I have a recently bought firewire external hard drive from OWC with the
Oxford 911+ bridge chip and v1.02 firmware. It is connected to a 2001
iBook and is used as the boot drive as the iBook drive is painfully
slow. Things went well during a month of being on 10.2 and then I

I just got a 20 GB Toshiba hard disk (2.5" HDD, 9.5mm, MK2018GAP) so
I could upgrade from OS 9 to OS X.  It installed easily into my
PowerBook G3 (Wallstreet). :)
Using the Disk Utility on the OS X CD, I partitioned the drive: 1st 8

About to buy G5 - prime use being composition of music.  Used to a PC - but
now need some good advice on which sound card to buy and which speakers.
Thanks

I had a power outage a few days ago and lost the FAT tables to one of
my firewire external drives.  But not all of them.  I am not sure why
this happened, but a friend of mine tells me it is because I lost
power.  So why didnt it happen to all of my extenal drives?  AT ANY

Anybody have one? I know I had one at one point but I just can't find
it. Anyway, I have the old card, but no way to put it in the old-style
iMac I just got for the kids.
Thanks!

Today I picked up a GarageKey MIDI keyboard that was deeply discounted.
It works, sort of.  I'm trying to run it with GarageBand on my G4
iBook (1.1 ghz) and, in GarageBand, it won't stop playing the
increasingly irritating demo song.  I can't figure out how to turn it

I recently purchased some upgrades for my Sawtooth G4. One of those items
was an OtherWorld Computing (OWC) PCI card with 2 firewire and three USB
2.0 ports, part number OWCFWUSBPCI.
I installed the card in my G4, and it works--as long as the system doesn't

Technical: PowerPC 4400/200,  RAM 144MB, Mac OS 9.1 more detail below.
Immediately after installing a Sonnet Tango card the system crashed.
Error reports suggested damage to hard disks.
I removed the Tango card and can run the computer from an external hard