Mac Forum / General / Hardware / January 2006

What large *removable* storage devices are available?
Having just bought a Powerbook G4 with a built-in DVD writer I thought I
suddenly had an enormous storage capability, but having edited my first
iMovie movie I can see that the 4.7 Gbytes of a DVD isn't much. The 20

A retired former university colleague of bought a new iMac G5 for a
special project, namely to revise a series of language textbooks she
wrote some years ago. I'm consulting on technical issues with her. The
unit she got came with built-in wireless (I assume Apple Extreme). She

I have THREE internal disks. My usual startup disk was disk (a) (30Gb) but,
after a reformat I now find it necessary to always boot from disk (b) (120Gb)
whilst disk (a) is now mounted and kept as a virgin system. Are there any
problems with this arrangement? Should I change the ...

I have a G3 Blue and White 400 Mhz Proc. with 1 Gig of Ram.  Any ideas
about how I can speed it up without spending alot of $$ on it.  Thanks.

Is it possible to play the RT MAC captured MOV files on a PC. Like
installing a codec on PC to be able to play the files in Windows?
If its not possible what is the fastest way to transfer the captured
material to a PC/windows?I guess I need to export the material in

Where is the cheapest place to find some pc66 144 pin RAM for my G3
tray loader iMAC?
Any help is appreciated.

I have a 30g Seagate ATA2 drive which has failed -
The user failed to inform me that the backup client (retrospect) had
warned him that the machine had not been backed up.......
I called Drive Savers - their price quote was:

Mac Mini 1.42 GHz
OS X 10.4.3
USB Overdrive 10.4
I bought an Adesso USB keyboard with touchpad:

The screen says:
Remote Test
HP   OK
Press Remote Keys

So I have an iMac G4, 17' screen with a 1 Ghz CPU.
My system memory is only 2100 ram and theres only 256 MB of it, but
it seems at retail stores that i can buy 2700 ram.  Can I get a 1GB
stick of RAM?  or am I limited to only 1 GB total?

I took delivery yesterday of an 80GB 2.5- Seagate Momentus 5400.2 ATA
Notebook drive with 8MB Cache.  I found the appropriate installation
instructions online for this 12 inch Powerbook (all of the OWC/Apple support
dealt with Titanium PBs, not the aluminum type that this 2004 ...

I am hopelessly ignorant when it comes to hardware...  I have a
perfectly good 40gig hard drive in my G3 iMac going to waste, while I'm
running out of room on my G5 iMac.  Is there any way to turn my G3's
internal drive into an external drive for my G5?  I've read about

Does anyone know
1. Whether I can flash the ROM on a Windows Nvidia FX5200 (128) card so
it can be used on my Mac G4 (PCI only)?
2. If so, where can I download the flash program?

I assume it's possible to connect, say, a Mac Mini (via its DVI output)
directly to an HDTV. Has anyone here done this? What's it like? What
kind of resolutions can you get? Is it worth it? I've tried Googling on
this topic but I haven't found much in the way of actual testimonials,

Can anyone help with this? I am trying to zero out the free space on m
80G hard drive on my iMac flat screen using Disk Utilty. When I di
this on the first level I started out with 38G available but now tha
it said it created a temporary file I have only 5G. I deleted severa