Mac Forum / General / Hardware / February 2010

I have an old iBook G4 that was working fine, until I started it up, and
after I got a blue screen, I got a message in 4 languages, " You need to
restart your computer. Hold down the power button for several seconds or
press the restart button."

On Friday at the Macworld Expo 2010 in San Francisco,
the Star Trek rock band, Warp 11, played four numbers
for the live, on-stage Leo Laporte show.  In introducing
the band, Leo spoke about the Video Toaster and had a

Lately I've been seeing some odd behavior when it comes to battery
life and charging for my MacBook Pro (MB133*/A). None of the behavior
is perfectly consistent, but here's a few things I've seen more than a
handful of times:

I fell in love with the net and all the compuiter teahcnology in the very early years and have loved it ever since, I have an IT Degree and Communications degree and will be working on my doctorate for the next five years, in bwetween I design websites, databases, Multimedia ...

I fell in love with the net and all the compuiter teahcnology in the very early years and have loved it ever since, I have an IT Degree and Communications degree and will be working on my doctorate for the next five years, in bwetween I design websites, databases, Multimedia ...

My System:
Dual 2.5GHz PowerPC G5 - 1.25GHz per processor - 1.5 GB RAM - M9457LL/A
Full specs here; last column:
http://support.apple.com/kb/SP80

I'm in a situation where I find myself wanting a second CD reader in a
computer. I have a dead PowerMac 6500/300 gathering dust in the
basement. Can I rip out its Apple 12X CD-ROM drive and install it in a
modern Gateway DX4200 computer running Windows Vista?

Still relatively new to the Mac world, I have an iMac and MacBook Pro
connected to my Time Capsule which include the Time Machine.   Let me
add quickly that I've just moved and haven't gotten all my boxes
opened, including the one which has the Time Capsule manual.  So, it

Seagate FreeAgent Xtreme drives do not appear to work on Mac.
The drives have an automatic power management feature; no power switch
on the drive. Used on a Mac by firewire, the drives are highly
intermittant. Connect the drive and it won't appear, no lights come on.

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hardware: iMac core2duo 2.1GHz, 2MB RAM (late 2006)
software: 10.4.11
Long story, but I'll try to keep it brief and report it in sequence:
mid-December 2009:

I've just taken delivery of a Garmin gps unit and I'd like to use my Mac
(Snow Leopard 10.6.2) to read data from the unit's micro SD card. The problem
is that after doing this the gps unit crashed spectacularly the next time I
used it with the flash card inserted.

I have a 2.5" SATA enclosure and want to get a HD for it.
Will a 7200 rpm HD matter if the drive is used as a startup disk, or
does the USB connection cut down the speed so there is no advantage?
Will a 7200 rpm HD in an aluminum enclosure get very hot?

I used a 13 inch Macbook pro for a  short time and have a backup on my
Time Capsule.  I'm getting back into the Mac world but moving up in size
to the 15 inch MBP.  My question is, are there architectural differences
 in the two which might make a mess of things if I try to ...