Mac Forum / General / Hardware / January 2007

I recently inherited a beige G3, which came running 10.1 server.
I decided I didn't want this version of the OS on there, and tried
to switch the machine to OS 9 (the only other OS I have is 10.3+,
which is unsupported on this G3)  Much wierdness ensues.

I have an old beige G3 that I put a USB card into some years back.  It
appears to be USB 1.0 and is slooooow.  Will my G3 support USB 2.0 and,
if so, what card/manufacturer does anyone recommend?  Same question with
firewire?

My niece, who is away at college, has an iBook model M6497 on which the
hard disk has failed. Can anyone tell me
(i) what is the form factor of the drive in this machine?
(ii) what interface, and, if SCSI, what connector is required?

hey all,
I just upgraded to a G5 2ghtz and I think it has a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200
Ultra with 64MB DDR SDRAM; graphics card.
My question is will this system run a 30" LCD monitor?

What's the last OS X to run CLASSIC?
I still have a DUAL BOOT Mac.
What's the best way to upgrade to the newest OS X and still be able to
EITHER RUN CLASSIC OR BOOT into OS 9?

I have a blog inwhich I wish to review products from apple, and pc
running linux or windows, how would i go about getting products from
apple to review, I looked all over their site did i miss something?
http://www.technocracy.co.nr/

I have older Macs with the original monitor port (what is it called?)
I was thinking of buying a Gray and white G4 tower from ebay. The ADC
and DVI ports found on it are of course newer. Is one for a flat panel
and one for Job's idea to eliminating those awful cables (that's

I was tring to resurrect my old 8500/G3 tonight, and found that it will
no longer boot.  The machine was working fine up until I put it into
storage about 18 months ago.
I pulled the case open.  The CarrierZIF card with the 400 MHz G3

What's a good scanner for digitizing hundreds of 35mm slides?

A friend of mine needs to buy more RAM for her PowerBook G4.  (She has
only 256 megs right now, and is running Tiger 10.4.9.)  She lives in
Oakland, CA, and wants to buy and install it today or tomorrow, so mail
order is not an option for her.

Biggest Hard Drive Available today?
What's the Biggest Hard Drive Available today for between $400 and $700?
Must be completely dependable, and use FIREWIRE 400.
Can buy drive and enclosure separately if needed.

I see that there are video/audio cables for certain iPod models that plug
into the headphone connector and thereby provide a means to display video on
a TV or monitor. There are other models of iPod that require a dock in order
to display video on an external screen.

What's a reasonable alternative, that means cheaper :-), to the apple
23-inch Cinema display?

I am installing an older IBM 50-pin SCSI hard drive in an external case
on an older power Mac. I have the chain full of peripherals at present.
I thought if I were to look at the present drive coming out of the box
that I could figure out how to configure the jumper settings. ...

I'm buying a Macbook with 1 gig of memory. My question: Will I just be
able to drop another gig sometime in the future, or so I have to buy a
2 gig module?
Thanks,