Mac Forum / General / Hardware / December 2005

How much Memory can you put in it.
Specs tray load, os 8.6 i want to put os x 10.3, 96MB ram

I just bought a Lacie 250 GB Fire Wire hard drive.  My intent was to
back up my G4 Mac on it.  My brother suggested that I install Tiger
on it and then install the basic files (system programs) on it and
still have room to store all the pictures I am working on.  I need a

I'm getting a MacMini at work and I'm wondering how to be able to access
files on my home G4, which is connected to a cable modem. The work MacMini
will be on a DSL line. As I occasionally may have to access one computer
from the other, I'm wondering if someone could give me some ...

I am trying to connect an external microphone to my Titanium PowerBook
G4 (1 GHz / DVI) to record a podcast.
I tried a Logitech USB mic, but it was mono and the sound was pretty
bad, so I returned it,.

I just want to make little videos of my baby to share with family and
posterity.  What is the lowest end mac I can buy that wont choke on
doing video editing?

The about this Mac box says that my Dual G5 2 Ghz has only 1 CPU and
the System Profiler also does. The activity monitor shows only 1 bar.
So, do I really have only 1 working CPU or is it just a software bug?

A couple of weeks ago I bought myself a spanking new 15" Powerbook G4
which I intend to use for many things including video editing and
multi-track audio recording.
I've been told to use an external drive for these things, because of the

I am considering upgrading from a beige G3 tower to the current iMac.
The G3's video board supports TV signals from a VCR (as tuner) so I can
watch TV in a window or full screen.
The iMac will not do that as it stands but have started reading about

Is there such a driver in existenz??
This beauty sits connected to my PM 7500/G3-375 MHz running OS9. It
would be nice to use its potential on my G5 dual 2GHz :)
Anyone????????????

I've got a brand new G5 (2.3 Ghz) that I've had a couple of weeks. (Love
it!)
I was just using it, and it just shut down. Turned off. Everything I had
open was lost (fortunately nothing important).

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Hi guys,
I own an eMac 1GHz system that came with a combo drive.  I just ordered
a Pioneer DVR-110 dvd burner online for upgrading purposes.  I've heard

The last time we upgraded a 2.7 DP to two 500gb drives it was easy as
can be - plugged a second drive in, did a quick disk utility format,
cloned the system drive and then pulled the original system drive and
replaced it with a second 500gb hard drive and formatted that.

I've seen quite a few ADB -> USB (ie use an old style Mac keyboard with
a USB Mac) connectors, but wondered is it possible to go
USB (or PS2) -> ADB  (ie use a PC style keyboard/mouse on a classic
Mac)?

Is h.d. formatting software only available for SCSI drives? I look around and
see no "low level" formatting utilities for IDE/ATA drives under OS X. I find
plenty of "write 0's to the sector", and "erasing" utilities (I presume this
only wipes the directory).