Mac Forum / General / Hardware / May 2008

Is it possible to use Windows with the MacBook Air?
Thanks
Michi

I bought a new iMac (obviously Intel and 10.5.3) yesterday and started
up Migration Assistant to move files, settings, etc. from my old iMac
(PPC processor, running 10.4, I think it's 10.4.11) and encountered
really annoying problems.

My job is giving me ~$2000 to spend on a Mac laptop. With that amount
of money, I can buy either a souped-up, top-of-the-line Macbook or a
bottom-of-the-line Macbook Pro. I'm seeking advice about which choice
makes more sense.

Over the weekend I was backing up my files onto an external HD. Just
after setting up the transfer, the firewire connection was jiggled and
failed which deleted the drive. Unfortunately the mac is now telling me
that the drive is not readable, even after restarting the computer.

I have an eight-port Linksys router hooked up to my cable modem and
attached to that router are a couple of printers, a home server, three
couple of PCs, and a Mac. Everything seems to get along fine.
I also have a Linksys wireless G 4router, which, when my wife and I want

Is anyone out there having success using an HP 8200 series scanner on
OSX? I can't get mine to work under either OSX Tiger 10.4.11 or
Leopard 10.5.2. Under Tiger, when I initiate a scan on the scanner,
the HP Scan Pro app starts and then immediately crashes. Under Leopard,

First let me start off in saying that this is a temp mac till I buy
new imac.
Ok I have a mac running OS 7.6.1 on a power mac 6500
I installed an ethernet card in the PCI slot and booted my mac. The

I spilled some tea on my iMac keyboard earlier this evening.  I removed
some of the keys and removed the bottom cover to clean it.  I then put it
back together but now I find that some of the keys don't work (the diagonal
which includes the - [ ' and right-hand Shift).

I have a Power Mac G4 (2.1) 1 GHz with 1.75 GB memory running OS
10.3.9. The problem I'm having is that when I try to use the number
pad on the right of the key board and then the mouse.  It will not let
me use the mouse after I key in some numbers on the keypad. I can move

I have started accumulating Apple wired (like the number pad) keyboards.
I have tow now, with a third coming tomorrow all because I like the
number numeric pad section so much.
However, being a coffee drinker, I have spilled some on the keyboard.

I have an older Power mac G4, its currently running at 350 mhz with
1.3gig of ram. I am wanting to upgrade the processor but dont want to
spend a ton of money on this 9 yr old machine. i know about the
sonnets and what not but like i said i'm not going to throw hundreds

I have an existing setup with a PC desktop and an HP laptop. Both are
wired to a typical network, but on occasion the HP laptop is carried
about, and communicates with its built-in wireless G to a wireless G
router I have connected to the network.

I added an HFS formatted removable hard drive to my Power Mac G5.  It is a
USB drive with Classic files.  Things were flakey, so I rebuilt the desktop
via Classic preferences (running Tiger, of course).  The drive disappeared
from the desktop.  "About this Macintosh" shows the ...

I have a G4 Cube in which I tried to update the firmware via OS 9.
I laid it on it's side so I could reach the programmers button and
started it up as per instruction.
A progress bar showed and it started upadting.

Just a quick post-then-run-for-work, I'll look for any responses later
this afternoon.
I'm seeing several dual 867 CPU cards in various places, at what seem to
be reasonable prices, tagged as being from MDD systems. They *APPEAR* to