Mac Forum / General / Hardware / March 2008

Well, not that old - 12" 1.33 GHz G4
I just got my daughter a good deal off eBay, one reason for which was a
smallish (30 BG) drive.
Paranoid dumb question time. Surely there's no size limit - just

I'm shopping for a new external DVD+Lightscriber burner for my MacBook Pro.
I'm new to the Mac world, so...
With DVD burners, is there any particular speed advantage with a
Firewire vs. a USB2 connection? Is this documented anywhere?

Anyone have any ideas as to why my mighty mouse has stopped scrolling
the page downward. It will only scroll up the page now.
The preferences haven't changed.
The problem exists regardless of the program

I would like to use my Mighty Mouse like I used a Macally mouse. Is that
possible? How would one go about it?
I did not use anything complicated. I programmed, using Macally
software, to single, double, and triple click in order to minimize

I have Time Machine set to back up every 2 hours.
But my LaCie drive starts running in between backups.   I haven't
figured out what turns it on - no backups are made.   Sometimes it
happens when I open finder, but not always.   Maybe Spotlight looks at

I just got back the Pismo my daughter has been using for four years. The
display has a bit of "play"; that is, over a small angle, it has no
resistance to being pushed back and forth from wherever it is
positioned. If it is pushed further, it moves "with resistance" and then

Take a look at
<http://us.kensington.com/html/6437.html>
which shows a picture of the Kensington Comfort Type Slim Keyboard, and then
look carefully at the two pictures of hands on the keyboard. Somehow we are

I recently bought a MacBook Pro (early 2008), and was wondering if any
other users of these machines are having problems with the Mac Help menu item
from the Finder?
  When I invoke this, I get a crash.

Is it possible to replace a hard drive in an iMac?

Has anyone out there successfully connected a video projector to a
MacBook (not Pro)? I see a Mini-DVI to VGA adapter at the Apple store
but have heard it works only sometimes...

All -
About a week ago, I posted the first message in which became a very long
thread on options for a new "computer speaker" system for my Macintosh.
(I'm enclosing the term in quotes because I was lectured by many from an

I need a Broken Stones invite, it would be great if someone can send mi
one please...
I dont know where and who to ask for helo with this.
my mail is:        alojzk (at) gmail.com

Do other people have the same problem I do with large key caps? I find  
that the trend to have most of the area of a modern keyboard taken up
with key caps is leading to typos. It seems that my large fingertips
catch the corners of the key caps to introduce extraneous characters. ...

I have a 15" 2.4 GHz MBP. Lately it's been failing to write DVDs.
Popcorn 3.0.2 gives me this error message:
  The drive reported an error:
  Sense Key = MEDIUM ERROR

I have an old Digital Audio with dual 533Mhz G4s that i recently bought
as a replacement back-up.  It only has 256 MB of memory, so I started
shopping around.
I see the great premium that most vendors charge for mac memory (168-pin