Mac Forum / General / Hardware / June 2006

I'm having some problems with very low frame rates with my USB-connected
webcam on my Mac Mini. The camera is a XA-040 (from X-Tensions) which
uses a Sonix SN9C102 controller.
I just found out that the iSight webcam built into the G5 iMac is

I'm about to purchase a ViewSonic VA1912wb, which is a 16:10 ratio LCD
monitor that runs at a resolution 1440 by 900.  I have an older Dual
500 Mhz PowerMac G4 (GIgabit Ethernet) that has it's original ATI 128
Rage Pro AGP card with 16mb of RAM.  I'm fairly sure that the card

Hey all,
I have a G4 Gigabit ethernet Mac running 10.3.9, and a Geforce2 MX 32MB
AGP card. My old CRT (Komodo brand - don't ask) is about to bite the
dust. I was thinking of upgrading to a LCD monitor for my birthday.

Is anyone out there successfully using an iRiver MP3 player with a Mac?
How hard is this?

I have two Apple PC's, a G4 and a G5. Now I like to change this two PC's,
because the G4 is too slow. Both Apple's has OS X 10.3.9 and different other
software installed. Can I only change the hard disk of this two PC's? Or do
I have to install the whole PC?

New Intel iMac 10.4.4, 2G RAM, external modem
Connection with the external modem was pretty poor so got out the
Airport base that I had not used in maybe 2 years. Had to reset it and
start over but connected fine. Only thing is, there is no connection

I have older Mac G3 with 1GHD, running OS 9.1. (Need to keep machine
for tax
programs).  Bought external LaCie SCSI 50G as an add on. G3 hard drive
is "HFS". External

I'm about to have 2 B&W PowerMacs (a 350Mhz and 400Mhz) and I had a
couple of questions about upgrading them.
First, if I understand correctly, these units should have 4 DIMM slots
for RAM. One of our machines has 256MB (looks like 2 128MB DIMMs, with 2

I have older Mac G3 with 1GHD, running OS 9.1. (Need to keep machine
for tax
programs).  Bought external LaCie SCSI 50G as an add on. G3 hard drive
is "HFS". External

QUESTION #1. Are 7200 RPM drives too hot for a 800 MHz Titanium PowerBook?
QUESTION #2. If 7200 RPM drives are OK, then what's the best choice?
QUESTION #3. If 7200 RPM drives are not OK, then what's the best choice?
NOTE. Price doesn't matter [as long as < $250].

Hi, I just bought a UMAX Apus 3000 (C600 in the US) [603e@240Mhz/80mb
ram] on ebay, and I had a couple of questions:
1. do these machines normally come with an Ethernet port? can I connect
it to my router and expect it to be able to share the Internet

I've installed Boot Camp and Windows XP Pro so that I can run a specific
application development environment that is not available in a Macintosh
native form.
Today I ran a set of benchmarks furnished by the environments developer and,

I recently purchased a Mighty Mouse as my Apple Bluetooth Mouse wouldn't work
with Boot Camp.
My problem is that when I place my right hand on the mouse with my thumb and
fourth finger at the sides so that they fall onto the side buttons my index

All,
I'd appreciate if someone can give an advice regarding connecting my
MiniMac G4 to a wireless router (802.11G).
I was exploring an airport extreeme card option and it's outside my

I was given a beige PowerMac G3/233 desktop. It can be powered on via
the ADB power switch, I do hear the startup chime, the picture (it seems
at 640 x 480, but this is hard to tell) appears on the onboard video,
and the mouse pointer can be moved around the screen. But that's it