Mac Forum / General / Hardware / November 2007

Bought a 3rd generation ipod and am having problems with it.
I have the latest itunes 7.5 on my mac powerbook and when I plug the
ipod in its not recognised, my external dvd firewire burner is though
so I know its not the port.

My daughter's Powerbook Titanium, running 10.4.10, has been freezing a
lot lately.  I am having difficulty tracking down the problem - running
Permissions repair, Disk Utility Repair Disk and Disk Warrior.  No
significant problems found.  I also ran the Hardware Utility that came ...

Will this Power Mac recognize hard drives larger than 128 GB, or only
128 GB and smaller?  If not, will a partition made on another Mac be
recognized or do you need a special program to make that partion?
TIA, PE

Do you have one?
If yes, how to you like it?
After my visiting daughter dissed my (4yr-old) Apple keyboard that came with
my G4 MDD, it continued using it with a more critical eye.  (fingers?)

I'm thinking of getting a Wacom Bamboo One Graphics Tablet but I'm not
sure how easy it is to swap back and forth between the tablet and the
existing Apple mouse. Will it require a reboot every time I want to
change?

Hi. I am planning to buy a 24" Imac and I was thinking of buying it in
mid-December.  However, the tech guy at the company where i work told me
I should wait until January because Apple might annouce a quad-core Imac
at MacWorld Expo in San Fran.  I have not found any rumors or

I was wondering if there was a way to take 2 powerbook g4s and make
one of them a second processor to the other one?
Can it be done with any computer?
Thanks,

I have an original 2x dual-core Mac Pro. I've found that the only
thing I can do to stress the cores is Handbrake encoding, in pretty
much every other case the majority of cores are idled.
I'd like to try to keep about the same performance, but lower my power

Anybody know if this can be done?
I've got a 733 at the office and a spare 867 Mhz processor from the QS
that I upgraded at home. If I can put the 867 in the office computer I'd
love it. And the 867 is just sitting there going to waste.

Right now, Buy.com has the following on sale:
Kingston 2GB PC2-5300 667MHZ 200-Pin SODIMM DDR2 Laptop Memory
That is exactly the RAM format used in my Intel Mini, which is currently
maxed out at 2GB (2 X 1 GB SODIMMs).

The boot drive (Seagate 120Gb) on my G4 PowerMac (10.4.10) suddenly
disappeared. I was playing some game and the spinning ball came on and I
couldn't get rid of it - so I stopped the machine and re-booted. I got
the ? in the middle of the screen and nothing else. So I re-booted ...

I managed to replace my dual G5's System drive with a mirrored RAID of
higher capacity. It took 96 hours, and three different FireWire
external HDs, until I found one that would boot the Mac with the
original system HD removed.

My PowerMac G5's 160GB disk has started making moaning noises.
As I move my data to another drive, I wonder what warranty options I
might have for the old disk drive itself.  I tried looking on Seagate's
site, but they said the OEM provider would have to deal with it.  

I have a digital recording studio.  It has several output options:s/p
dif, scsi-2 50 pin, and midi.  Is there a way to feed this digital
output into my iMac?  It's a recent model, with usb, firewire, ethernet,
and audio line-in ports.  I could use the monitor out-linein, but that ...