Re: What chip went on my Sawtooth?

2008-11-19 Thread insightinmind
On Nov 19, 2008, at 9:14 AM, Dennis Myhand wrote: I have been tinkering with my Sawtooth FrankenMac and I am curious about what kind of Chip was supposed to go on a specific spot on the logic board. It can be seen here: http://pages.suddenlink.net/myhand/what.html It is the surface

Re: What chip went on my Sawtooth?

2008-11-19 Thread insightinmind
On Nov 19, 2008, at 9:45 AM, Dennis Myhand wrote: Hi Bill: I don't think it is the cpu location since the Sawtooth in the picture is running and the processor is on the other side of the board from that area. This chip is not necessary for the function of the board, but is either

Re: Is Apple's tech support that bad now?

2008-11-19 Thread Dan
At 8:20 AM -0600 11/19/2008, lampbay wrote: Apple care is so expensive that I've bought some backup older machines and probably will continue along those lines. Why pay for Apple care if it's half the price of a good, used or refurbished system? I'd rather put my money in a computer system

Re: USB modem speed

2008-11-19 Thread Dan
At 8:30 AM -0600 11/19/2008, lampbay wrote: I've been using the Apple USB modems with a slow dialup line and the best I get is 26400 - usually 24000. Ok. So your initial carrier speed is low. But then to what speed does it later retrain? IF the usable carrier remains that slow, over a V.90

Re: What's the latest on Leopard's Treatment of USB2, Wireless ethernet, Combo NIC(10/100/1000)/USB2/FW400 PCI connectors?

2008-11-19 Thread insightinmind
On Nov 17, 2008, at 3:05 PM, PeterH wrote: On Nov 17, 2008, at 7:00 AM, insightinmind wrote: Trusting the shared knowledge of xlr8yourmac folks, the Rosewill's Realtek 8169 chipset should function under 10.5.5. A generic RTL8169 card will run on any 10.3, 10.4 or 10.5 as the 8169

Re: Cloning

2008-11-19 Thread insightinmind
On Nov 6, 2008, at 8:16 PM, insightinmind wrote: I assume that each Mac would need its own, dedicated backup partition on that external storage, and that it would be bootable. Would it be feasible, or better even, to use Network-attached Storage (NAS) with CCC? I understand that NAS

Re: USB modem speed

2008-11-19 Thread Ernest L. Gunerius
At 8:30 AM -0600 11/19/2008, lampbay wrote: I've been using the Apple USB modems with a slow dialup line and the best I get is 26400 - usually 24000. Ok. So your initial carrier speed is low. But then to what speed does it later retrain? IF the usable carrier remains that slow, over a V.90

Gold case?

2008-11-19 Thread Doug Burton
While searching for an external 5.25 firewire case I came across this at Computer Geeks. Can someone please tell me why this case cost right at a hundred bucks? http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=F5U210-DTcat=CSE Just a message from Doug...

Re: Gold case?

2008-11-19 Thread PeterH
On Nov 19, 2008, at 8:24 PM, Doug Burton wrote: While searching for an external 5.25 firewire case I came across this at Computer Geeks. Can someone please tell me why this case cost right at a hundred bucks? http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=F5U210-DTcat=CSE Looks like a generic