Mac Forum / General / Hardware / April 2007

Does anyone how AppleTV displays a movie that is not 16x9? Scale to fit
or letterboxing?
For example, conider a 540x800 movie displayed on a 16x9 TV. Does it
get stretched horizontally?

I like my Airport Express router, but unfortunately our house is a
little weird -- okay, we call it "The Barn." :-) It is large and has
several construction 'features' that limit the range of any wireless.
Anyway, for it to have enough range to reach the whole house I have to

I've got an Airport Extreme base station that will accomodate my dialup
connection, and I want to use it with a couple Windows notebooks.  I
downloaded the setup instructions from Apple, and installed them on one of
the notebooks.  The wireless connection does establish, so the base ...

Was just wondering how the older (ie 1gHz) Duel Processor G4 Power Mac
machines stack up performance wise?
As a bit of background, I can't justify a huge cash outlay on new Mac
hardware.  Generally I'll look to update my older hardware fairly

Does the Bluetooth Mighty Mouse move from point to point smoothly? I have
tried other bluetooth mouse and they have a very jerky motion when moving.
pepe

After Getting an 80 GB Video IPod , I Soon realized why Apple does so
well and why some people Don't like Apple. The Player holds 20,000
songs and perhaps a few hundred videos which is overkill for me but
who is complaining. While trying to put an AVI File onto the machine I

I'm thinking about buying a 2.33 GHz MacBook Pro
with 2 GBs RAM
What kind of performance can i expect compared to
my current system... dual 1.25 G4, MDD, 1.75 GBs RAM?

ISSUE #1. My TI PowerBook's user guide explained how to replace the hard
drive.  The 17" PowerBook's user guide doesn't; see
PowerBookG4_17in_DblLayerSuperDrive.pdf, downloadable from Apple.  Any
suggestions?

In the past few weeks I've been regularly burning recordings from Eye
TV 2.3.3 to Toast 8 using LG DVD-R 1-8x blanks - yesterday I had two
writes to fail and on the third try I got an error -39 (end of file.)
I've not had any problems with these disks writing at 2x speed. I tried ...

In the past few weeks I've been regularly burning recordings from Eye
TV 2.3.3 to Toast 8 using LG DVD-R 1-8x blanks - yesterday I had two
writes to fail and on the third try I got an error -39 (end of file.)
I've not had any problems with these disks writing at 2x speed. I tried ...

i have a powerbook g4 with a tiger 10.4 DVD and 10.4.9 installed on
the hd.
i want to wipe it and re-install tiger 10.4 from the DVD
will i be able to update to 10.4.9 afterwards ?

i want to know how to Reset the PMU on my Powerbook G4 Titanium 800mhz
I looked at the instructions on the apple site
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449
Resetting PowerBook and iBook Power Management Unit (PMU)

I just replaced my G4 PMac keyboard with a Macally "iKey" extended
keyboard and when I tried to plug in my Logitech cordless mouse
dongle-thingie into the iKey USB ports.. I got nothing - no mouse action
at all..

Can I use a non-Apple display with a Mac Pro?
Thanks for any advice,
WJ

I'm selling a 15" Apple Studio Display on eBay and I've received a question
which I'm wondering if perhaps someone here could answer.
Do you need an adaptor to use it with a Mac Mini?
The Studio Display was built in December 2000 and on the box is described