Mac Forum / General / Hardware / February 2007

I am purchasing the new Airport Base Station and considering getting a
USB Hard Drive for it. As well, I know there are many Ethernet based
network Hard Drives coming out on the market now.
Which is better to purchase? Since the Airport Base Station only has

Does anyone know how I can get the full resolution out of a Dell 30"
2560x1600 monitor? In the ATI display utility it only recognizes the
monitor as 1280x800 and I can't find a way to change it. Dell has
drivers for PC only.

I'm going to upgrade an iBook G3 from OS 10.1.5 to 10.3, and I'm
concerned about the Panther Firewire bug.  Provided I update to 10.3.9,
is massive disk corruption still the problem it used to be?  I've got a
(now discontinued) Firewire/USB 2.0 DK-9 removable disk enclosure with ...

Or will the display fit?
A friend's 800MHz iBook G4 died showing the same symptoms which led to
the original, G3 iBook LBRE program. A repair through Apple would cost
almost as much as a new MacBook, so this is not an option. However, on

Any suggestions for removing a CD from the slot-loading drive in my G3
iMac (graphite)? The drive is trying to eject the CD, but just doesn't
seem to have enough "oomph" to get it out. I've tried the
"bent-paperclip-in-the-hole" fix, but it doesn't help. It just won't

I am relocating my large iTunes library, my wife's and my iPhoto
libraries, and assorted jpegs and docs from three different Firewire
drives to one new Firewire drive. Right now I have the new drive
plugged into one of the two Firewire ports on my G3 B/W, the drive I'm

I am thinking about getting a MacBook Pro.  I am thinking 2.33Ghz, but
I am also thinking it would be most prudent to wait til May.  Apple
always has some announcement in May.
I have heard rumors concerning the new iPod that will be mostly a huge

I have an old Olympus ES-10 SCSI film scanner that served me well with a
SCSI-equipped Mac running OS 9 and Photoshop 4.
My current Mac is an iBook G4 that runs OS X 10.4 and will not boot into OS 9.
Do I have any hope of using this scanner through a FireWire SCSI adapter while

When I download music to my iPod, I noticed that some of the files
play at various volumes.  I have to keep adjusting volume on my iPod,
or else I may go deaf.
Is there anyway to make the volume of all of the songs loaded on my

Well, do you know where to find a Service Manual for the Spartacus ?
Thank you for the answer,
N.

I just bought an older iMac from a thrift store and it was working when I
bought it.  It booted up once but one of the two USB ports is broken and the
other isn't working because I can't get a response when I plug in a keyboard
or mouse.  I was wondering if the USB ports are easily ...

I have a wired Mighty Mouse, and when I use a mouse-intensive
application it makes lots of random, light clicking sounds.  They're
like the clicks you get when you squeeze the side buttons, but I'm
pretty sure I'm not accidentally doing this.

Do you by any change know how to get Samsung ML-1440 laser jet printer
works for an Intel iMac (Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger)?
Samsung's newest driver "20040507134939984_SPL_V2.5.sit" works well in
my G4 iBook (also run MacOS v10.4), but in the Intel iMac, albeit the

I ordered an iPod from New Zealand (it was part of a Hotpoints deal, I
couldn't cash in the loyalty points any other way that made sense!) to
be shipped to South Africa.
It arrived, but I discovered that I'd made a mistake and orderd a

I bought a 20-inch iMac in october 2006 (Core 2 Duo).
It runs smoothly and it has no problem whatsoever, except a strange
noise that seems to come from the left side of the machine, somewhere
around the hard drive. It's not always there, and it seems to be louder