Mac Forum / General / Hardware / September 2006

I am trying to find a pre-amp for the headphone sound output of my Mac
Mini. I am using an EyeTV and inputting the signal into the composite
inputs of my Sony Wega TV. However, the EyeTV sound comes through the
headphone output of the Mac Mini and is significantly smaller than the

*** adaptable backup disk
Dear Hard Disk Gourous,
I am setting up a Mac hard disk (IDE ATA 320 Go)
for backups from various Macs.

Some people claim that puting commonly used files on a USB flash drive
while using a laptop will increase battery life due to the HDD being
used less. Is there really a difference and if so, how large is it?
If I am writing some crap in textedit I usually get 3 hours from my

I'm wanting to install Windows via Boot Camp onto my MacBook Pro. The
internal DVD drive is dead (very long story). Boot camp expects to find a
Windows install CD in the internal optical drive. Well, that's not going to
happen any time soon.

I have been using a Mac g4 800 Quicksilver for the past four years
editing video and I am considering a CPU upgrade to 1.6 GHz --
Powerlogix or FastMac.
That would run me about 300 usd. On the other hand there are used

Is it possible to get a SCSI device working on an iMac G5? In
particular, I need to get the Acer ScanWit 2720S, a SCSI film scanner,
working. It comes with its own PC SCSI card, but I guess SCSI is SCSI
(I could be wrong...)

I have a really strange problem, maybe someone hast got THE hint others
yet had not :-/
First my machine: a B/W (first revision) upgraded with a sonnett G4/500,
a ATA-133 IDE controller-card and a Samsung 250 GB harddisk. OS 10.3.9.

My son is starting college in a Multimedia field.  We have always used
Windows PC's but now he will be switching to Mac.  Since I'm new to
this I really don't know where to start.  He wants something he can
use with school or work though so I figured a notebook is best.  He

What do you think of the 4GB and 8GB GigaBank Mini HDs?
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Can I attach an older VGA/SVGA monitor to the GeForce 7300 that comes
with the Mac Pro? With or without some kind of adapter, I guess.
What should I look for in a wide-screen monitor for the Mac Pro? I'm
pretty unwilling to pay Apple for one of their screens.

What are peoples' recommendations for purchasing memory for my G5 and
MacBook on line?

Guys,
I've noticed an recurrent, annoying issue in Apple 17" notebooks. I've
owned two of them: a PowerBook 17 (first generation) and a brand new
MacBook Pro.

I have a 115 GB partition that both TechTool Pro and Disk First Aid
claim is okay, but every time the Finder starts -- and at other times --
I get a message that serious damage exists in the catalog tree, and that
I should use DiskWarrior to rebuild the directory immediately, ...

I have 320 RAM in a G3
with 266 mghz.
Will a Biege desktop model
run Jaguar?

I am looking for information / articles if I can upgrade an Early 2006
Intel iMac to a Late 2006 iMac, meaning swapping out the Intel Core Duo
for the Intel Core 2 Duo.  From what I gather they are pin compatible,
will OS X 10.4.7 support this?  Asking at the Apple store I was ...