Mac Forum / General / Hardware / March 2008

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I have an 8-port WIRED linksys Router to which I want to add the best
'N' router that will take advantage of the 'N' technology in my MacBook
Pro. The router has to broadcast throughout a three story frame house.
I have an older 'G' technology wireless Linksys router that works ok ...

A friend of mine was given one of the first generation iMacs. It still
runs OS9.
She wants to let her kids use it for Internet stuff but it locks up
not too long after it boots.

We have a server running websense, and none of our PC clients can
bypass blocked sites (ie: youtube, facebook, myspace, etc), but an
after school program uses Macs, and they are able to go to the
blocked

I walk at the mall before the stores are open and have noticed some
people in Apple store cleaning all of the display hardware (iMacs,
AirBooks, iBooks, MacBooks etc) with some solution in a generic looking
spray bottle and a soft rag.

I have an older iMac 700 MHZ with 256 KB ram and want to upgrade.  I took
the cover off the bottom of the computer and it seems there is an empty slot
there.  I believe it will take up to 1 gig of ram, which is what I want to
do.

I have a power mac G4 (Yikes!) that has 384MB of ram and two
harddisks. I recently installed a DVD player pulled out of an old,
dead PC. It works fine mostly, but will not boot or play movie DVD's.
Any ideas on drivers I can download to boot DVD's--I want to install

I must confess I have never posted to this group but hopefully those
hear will be kind enough to steer me in the right direction. I'm not
incredibly tech savvy either so bear with me. I have a G4 500mhz AGP
tower at home that has been great. I bought it used about 3 years ago

If agent James West had a computer in his railroad car in
The Wild, Wild West,  I imagine it would look something like
this...
http://steampunkworkshop.com/daveveloz.shtml

My laptop has finally packed up but I am sure it is the MB or something else
and not the harddrive. What is the best my of recovering the data from the
harddrive? If I take it out can I then attach it to a Windows PC and get the
data of that way or does it need to be connected to ...

I'm finally upgrading my aging Powerbook PPC@1.5ghz to a new MacBook Pro,
and am wondering what it is I haven't though of that I'll run into later.
  I upgraded the family Win system to an iMac, but that was a complete
rebuild and migration - for the MBP I was just thinking of ...

This morning, my husband said his G3 iMac made two sparking noises (like
static electricity) and powered itself down. Does that sound like the
power supply died? Is it possible that it merely needs a new PRAM
battery? Or should I start looking for a replacement computer?

Hi !
A friend of mine has a recording studio with a G5. Its quite noisy and
since there's a contiguous room (wich is in fact his garage) we have
put his G5 in the garage and its SWELL !

I'm about to embark on an adventure and was wondering if anyone has had
any experience with this.
I bought one of the original G5 iMacs back in November 2004. It has had
the power supply replaced and the mid plane replaced twice due to

I just dug up the MAC Plus that my parents bought 4 me in high school.  I
haven't touched it since 1989, no surprise it won't turn on.
Anyone know a shop that specializes in reanimating MACs dinosars? It would
be a kick to have it running again next to the MAC Pro.