On 2/18/10 10:25 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Gene Henley<[email protected]> wrote:I was given a G4 Power Mac digital audio. I think about 700 Mhz.I`m new to Mac. I recognized the click of death in the HD, and replaced it with a 80 gig. I used the restore disk with the three install disks that came with it.I replaced the cd drive with a Samsung SH-S214D.So far. So good. The Samsung does not burn. Burn not supported. Reads DVD and CD fine. I suspect that I need unsupplied drivers and/or patches from third party.I`m looking for toast 6 and/or toast on ebay. I don`t want to upgrade to Tiger. Not Yet.The Mac is not on internet. My idea is to download files to a PC and transfer appropriate files by flash drive to the Mac. I don`t want to hub the Mac or rout it with the PC yet. If I can use the Samsung Lightscribe,I`d like to do so. OK. I`m open :-) PC to Mac! Gene
[2] To get your CD drive burning disks, a little program called Patchburn will probably sort you out. It's free. http://www.patchburn.de/ Lightscribe, I don't know. I guess you'd need a burning program such as Toast. [3] Tiger: I would recommend this strongly. It is a little bigger and slower than Panther, but some of the new facilities, such as Exposé and Dashboard are rather good. Actually, these days, 10.4 is pretty dated itself and the latest versions of many free programs (e.g. Growl or VLC) will no longer work on it. However, your machine is below the spec to officially run Leopard (10.5). You can coax it on with a program called "LeopardAssist", however. But note, if you do go to 10.5, tyou will lose the ability to run MacOS 9.x under Classic - this was removed.
Another reason, I believe, to go to Tiger is there is more native support for disk burners.
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