Re: Max RAM for a G5?

2013-03-22 Thread Ben Dinger
Regardless of price, you definitely aren't going to see much improvement. Speaking from experience, with video work you'll see the most gains in processing, storage speed, then memory. My current gen base model MacBook Air will run FCPx just fine and without too much drama. Obviously with

Re: iMac G5 - how to migrate data?

2012-07-09 Thread Ben Dinger
All, Thanks for all of the rather excellent advice in this thread, I greatly appreciate it. Also in this instance, there is a (very) happy ending. Things worked out so that my aunt was able to purchase a brand new Mac Mini, and I had a spare monitor. She was also able to pick up a new copy

Re: iMac G5 - how to migrate data?

2012-07-03 Thread Ben Dinger
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 05:33:10PM -0700, Bruce Johnson wrote: Migration assistant is pretty smart and won't move things over that'll mess up the system and handles dissimilar system version well. Will it do well going from PPC to Intel? That's one migration, oddly, I've never done. I've

Re: iMac G5 - how to migrate data?

2012-07-03 Thread Ben Dinger
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 03:28:53PM -0700, John Carmonne wrote: Just revome the drive and either insall it in the new machine or in an external enclosure and use CCC to transfer the volume Also if you have the HDD in an external I would uptate the OS to 10.5.8 that way any iMac over 867

Re: Cisco 675 log

2011-11-09 Thread Ben Dinger
On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 01:32:31PM -0500, M Christol wrote: I connect to the internet through an ISP provided Cisco 675 connected to an Airport base station It seems to have crapped out a couple times lately. Does it have some kind of internal log I can access through the Airport? Turning it

Re: Only way to stop the sex and drug SPAM?

2011-06-19 Thread Ben Dinger
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:51:25 -0600, Tina K. penguir...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not a big Verizon fan, but then I dont have FiOS either. I might be willing to put up with them for that kind of speed. I have two Gmail and two AOL accounts and I see very little spam, nothing like I did

Re: Safari 4.0 memory leak

2010-03-16 Thread Ben Dinger
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Re: Maybe Apple Cinema Display beats Dell after all

2010-03-08 Thread Ben Dinger
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Re: G4 dp 450

2010-03-07 Thread Ben Dinger
there. Prices are a fraction of what you will find from other online stores. Good luck! -- Ben Dinger b...@mac-geek.com -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http

Re: iMac G5 Capacitor Replacement?

2010-03-07 Thread Ben Dinger
work in anything else after replacement. If it's working fine now, though, it will probably continue to. YMMV and act with caution -- Ben Dinger b...@mac-geek.com -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs

Re: G4 MacBook

2010-03-05 Thread Ben Dinger
is starting to become more and more difficult as everything moves to SATA. -- Ben Dinger b...@mac-geek.com -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http

Re: powerbook display in clamsheel ibook

2010-03-03 Thread Ben Dinger
a MBP - but nope, I wouldn't even try from a different model. -- Ben Dinger b...@mac-geek.com -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com