Re: Option key boot?

2011-03-24 Thread Clark Martin
On Mar 23, 2011, at 1:09 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Q: for some reason when I option key boot, the 100mhz bus hard drive doesn't appear? (yes, it has 10.4.11 on it) but it will appear in the system preferences/ startup disk as well as disk utility? why not the option boot screen? could I

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-24 Thread ah...clem
On Mar 22, 3:09 pm, Daniel Stewart daniel.stewart...@gmail.com wrote: Not surprising that you have had hardware issues with the Intel Macs.  I have been doing service work on PCs for years and that is pretty standard with intel based systems.    I have to ask though with the X86 Mac what on

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-24 Thread Richard Gerome
Ah...clem, I couldn't agree with you more on that!!! I am not too happy with my Macbook either, that I'm still using my Tibook!!! On Mar 22, 3:09 pm, Daniel Stewart daniel.stewart...@gmail.com wrote: Not surprising that you have had hardware issues with the Intel Macs.  I have been

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-24 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/03/24 09:38, ah...clem so eloquently wrote: intel is junk, and the switch to intel was a HUGE step backwards for apple. and puhleeze, spare us all the stories about how fast your MacPro is compared to an MDD. that proves NOTHING. the relevant question is, how fast would a MacPro be if

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 24, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Tina K. wrote: Did you follow the IBM POWER links posted on this subject? The POWER CPU is HUGE and I'm guessing that it would need a huge enclosure, huge amounts of cooling, huge amounts of electricity, and cost a fortune. forget it. ah clem has a set

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-24 Thread Dan
At 11:31 AM -0600 3/24/2011, Tina K. wrote: Did you follow the IBM POWER links posted on this subject? The POWER CPU is HUGE and I'm guessing that it would need a huge enclosure, huge amounts of cooling, huge amounts of electricity, and cost a fortune.