Mac Forum / General / Hardware / June 2006

My Canon printer just died.  It was only a couple of years old, so I'm
not very happy with Canon right now - I had nothing but trouble with
this printer.
I just need a simple ink jet for basic printing.  I use color often

Is there any advantage (in regard to system operation) to removing a no
longer needed scsi card (Adaptec 2906) from my G4/400 Sawtooth? (I'm
cleaning house, trying to get rid of superfluosity.)

I'm needing to get 500+ gig external storage for photo storage and
need to connect to an iMac via firewire (running Tiger).  
I was looking at Lacie but have read they have quality control issues.
What are good external storage solutions for the iMac?

The PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-104 inside my Mac (MDD G4 1GHz dual) is
beginning to die and I need to replace it.  Before I do so, I have some
questions:
As I already have 5 external firewire HD drives, I guess I'd be better

can anybody advise me how to open the above keyboard?
i see 3 small screws near one side, i took them out, but more as a
little bit i cannot open the case.
(keys are off, want to clean it in soapy water, as the room under the

I am a wall decor manufacture and do extensive "virtual framing".
Meaning we scan images and then put frame and mat around the piece,
extensively color correct and push to a high speed printer. The wait
period comes in moving around these high-res files.

Someone gave me a 6500/225 so I thought I'd fix it up to give to a very
poor student I know.  Getting the date/time gremlins, I pulled out the
board to check out the battery.  Never saw one like it.  A big black
cubeish thing, roughly 1" square, says Rayovac 840, 4.5 Volts, and ...

Got a dual 450 Mhz module at a fair price. The seller is a known
trustworthy dued on .dk NG's, so the cpu module most likely is ok.
My PowerMac G4 AGP 400 Mhz has the required min. ASICS 7.
Firmware is 4.2.8f-something. It's installed with 10.3.9 .

Is there a software solution that will enable an iBook's touchpad to
allow a tap to act as a click?
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Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of Bolen Books.

What's the difference, other that 20 more Gigs of hard drive and the
color?  Can't see that's worth an extra $200.  Is there any reason I
shouldn't go with the cheaper one?

I was planning of buying BENQ DVD writer DL DW1640 (in some external
usb/firewire case),
but I am not sure will it work under 10.4.6 ?
Anybody has some experience with Benq writers?

I've gone through all the steps to put a 40Gb drive in this Wallstreet
I  got for my Granddaughter to use in school. All works as it should
except the keyboard doesn't want to go back in. I put the 5 tabs into
their slots as directed, but when I get to the part about pressing down

in the slots where you put the PCI cards, top-back. I had trouble
getting that darn screw back into the hole. Maybe I stripped the darn
thing. I know I stripped the screw. What's the best way to to get that
screw to stay in there and not strip it in the first place--failing

Hi all, I just bought an External drive (Maxtor onetouch II 300gb).
I bought it for a few reasons.
1/. To transfer Data accross From and Imac G5 to a Powerbook G4 17"
which I am looking to buy in a few weeks.

   I might want to upgrade the video on an old Umax C600 mac clone
(has 3 free PCI ports), and I was thinking of an old ATI Rage 128 PCI
card (since i don't really need much performance, but I want to use
high resolutions @ high color depth that I can't have with the 1MB