Mac Forum / General / Hardware / September 2007

Running Mac OS X 10.4.10 on a MacBook Pro 15" (Intel Core Duo)...
When running off the battery:  At 40% remaining, the machine goes
black and shuts down completely.  There's no warning or low battery
alert. The computer is *not* asleep; a hard reboot is necessary to

Griffin makes a mic that clips on to the bottom of some Ipods.  I was
wondering if anyone has tried it or some other mic accessory? Being
that there is no motor noise in the Ipod, and of course the tiny size,
it opens up interesting possibilities for recording people and music.

I recently burned a photo DVD on my iMac using all JPG photos.
This plays fine on both my Mac and my daughters Windoz machines but will
not play on the CD/DVD players on my home entertainment system.
Can anyone give me info about why this DVD is incompatable  on a

My Mac Mini is already broken after only 14 months of use.
I haven't moved it and have used it only moderately. Perhaps
once or twice a week.
Am I disappointed or what? I planned to buy an iPhone but

€ they make the iMic a USB analog to digital audio converter
€ i've had one for ever... i don't even know how long...
   at least 10 years... probably longer
€ it finally quit working a few days ago

I have a FW 400 external hard drive from OWC connected to a new aluminum
iMac. Everything works fine, but the iMac won't boot from the external
drive. Any solutions?

Nice job, Steve-O. I paid $500 for something that 2 months later costs
$299. Well, f.ck You Steve Jobs! Thats the last Apple product I get
f.cked on. I steered countless friends and family to Apple computers
over the years, but not anymore. Not when you f.ck your loyal customers

IBM has developed the Cell processor for the Sony
Playstation 3 video game. Now anyone familiar with
video games... knows that gamers want the fastest
processors available. The Cell processor is very

I've an old powercomputing mac clone which I've been using
for close to 10 years (the machine crawls at 180 mhz). I took the machine
apart and recovered a 6 gig scsi hd that I plan on installing on a G4
(digital-audio). Can this model (the g4) handle scsi?

I'm using a piece of Mac point-of-sale software that insists on a
serial-based receipt printer. I have to use a USB Keyspan twin serlal cable
that connects to my iMac, then connect an Apple IIe to ImageWriter II Printer
Cable DB25-M/Mini8-M to the Keyspan.

  I need to get information off of a Mac 7100. I have been trying to
connect it to our Windows NT Server network but have had problems
getting a stable connection and am wondering about other options.
Taking information off on floppy is not ideal as there is roughly 200

I am searching for a WiFi PCI card that was originally
designed for a Wintel PC, but that has a software driver
to allow using it on a Mac G4. Can anyone give me any
pointers to such a card???

I own a second-hand G4 (the 2001 so-called digital-audio model); the
graphics card is an ati rage 128. I recently bought a new graphics card
for my pc and I've tried to replace the mac's ati card by my pc's (a
nvidia geforce fx 5200). The card fits but the mac won't power on. Can ...

I added 256MB of RAM to the stock 32MB in my HP LaserJet 2420. I haven't
done any heavy-duty printing yet--just the odd page or two or three--but
so far it doesn't seem any faster than before I added the RAM. The RAM
shows up when I look in the printer utility. Is the speed ...

Hi Leute,
ich habe hier überall das gleiche Problem.
Zwei externe Firewire Platten. 2 Rechner (iMac G5 und iBook G4), ja und
selbst bei meinem nicht mehr existenten iMac G3 war es so.