Mac Forum / General / Hardware / July 2006

What do you think of the 4GB and 8GB GigaBank Mini HDs?
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Hi all, First time here and not an expert.
The 7200 Powermac is a 'one trick pony' hitched to a drum scanner. It's
running OS 7.6 and batch scan software - that's it. Only need basic image
settings in the scanning software, but millions of colours (4mb?) would be

Hitachi or Seagate 160GB Notebook HD?  Looking for reliability!  
Opinions?
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My kids have iTunes and have been amassing songs in preparation for the
eventual iPod purchase, which finally happened today. We also have a
large amount of MP3 songs in our iTunes library from ripped CDs. I set
iTunes for manual management of music and transferred about 60 songs,

What a learning experience this has been.
I took the G4 with the supposed unbootable DVD drive into a MUG
workshop and they were able to load 9.2 on it and boot it up from the
drive. It still isn't allowing Tiger to load, however. One possibility

Ive got an iMac 333 (slot-loading cd) with OS 8.6 that somehow disables
USB during startup.
I can boot the computer with the keyboard power key, and during the
first 30 seconds or so of bootup I can move the cursor around with the

Does anyone know of a higher resolution video card that would work in a
UMAX S900 that would result in something roughly near a 1400 x 900
resolution for a widescreen Viewsonic LCD display?
Gerry

I'm in the market for a new Mac.  I'm defiantely going to get an Intel
Mac.  There has been some suggestion from my support people that one
might want to wait until the next rev of the hardware in order to avoid
the usual "version 1.0" bug.  However, I have some need to get a Mac

I have a 600mhz iMac g3.
Your suggestions please for an external harddrive enclosure with:
- a firewire connection
- USB connection

Hi  All, Just bought a new 23" cinema display, lcd is perfect but there is
a distinct  annoying loud hum coming from the display.  Any ideas?
Thanks, Tom

I inheirited a Power Mac G4 with OS 8.6. I purchased OSX tiger but am
unable to do a simple upgrade, as I'm sure most of you know. I do have
a dvd drive. I'm told at this point that I should reformat the hard
drive, which is fine with me, and load X then. I can't figure out how

Well, after three and a half years of faithful service, the hinge on my
PB G4 Titanium has finally given up.
Does anyone have a good place for the replacement parts? Has anyone done
the repair themselves?

My girlfriend has a G4 with a Sony Trinitron CRT with what looks like
a standard blue D-shaped analog RGB connector.
I brought over my generic flatscreen LCD and tried plugging it in (via
RGB connector). The G4 boots up, but the LCD just says "no signal".

HELP!!!  Best/BIGGEST 2.5" Hard Drive?
Looking for best 5400 RPM hard drive for my powerbook with biggest GB
capacity.
Recommendations???

My friend's tangerine iMac has a lot wrong with it. Unfortunately, from
8000 mile away I can't cure the software problems that might be easily
dealt with if I were in front of the computer.
The latest problem is the that the CD tray won't stay in. I suppose this