Firewire Question

2009-03-05 Thread Paul
I just got an external CD writer with a firewire (400) connection. I got it for the firewire, not for the CD, so I opened it up and installed a hard drive in place of the CD drive, and set the jumper to master, which was how the CD drive was set. The CD worked all right, but the hard drive

iTunes

2009-03-05 Thread Lawrence David Eden
Recently, one of our list members inquired about iTunes inability to add .mp3 files to his library. It is confusing, but pretty easy. Launch iTunes Go to Preferences Select ADVANCED Find the window where the path to your iTunes music is located. iTunes makes this easy, but it helps if you

G4 CPU swap into Blue White G3

2009-03-05 Thread tonycd
A simple question that I'm sure has been covered before (I just couldn't find the answer): What's the newest variety of G4 whose swapped-out CPU will drop into a Blue White G3? Thanks, Tony --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

Re: G4 CPU swap into Blue White G3

2009-03-05 Thread PeterH
On Mar 5, 2009, at 5:33 AM, tonycd wrote: What's the newest variety of G4 whose swapped-out CPU will drop into a Blue White G3? Newest is most probably a 533 or 1000 MHz G3, not a G4. These may still be available from OWC. G4 pin-grid array Processors from first G4 desktops will work in

Re: Firewire Question

2009-03-05 Thread nestamicky
Try changing the jumpers for now...until someone else says something. By the way that approach only work sometimes. Paul wrote: I just got an external CD writer with a firewire (400) connection. I got it for the firewire, not for the CD, so I opened it up and installed a hard drive in place

Re: True of False - Pismo CPU board in Lombard?

2009-03-05 Thread nestamicky
Bruce - in Orlando wrote: No - don't need another Lombard thanks. I was just thinking about having a little fun by clocking a 400 mhz CPU, and so was rummaging thru ebay just to see what was out there ... And to that I say; there is no processor upgrade for the 400mhz Lombard. Pismo's?

Re: G4 CPU swap into Blue White G3

2009-03-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 5, 2009, at 6:33 AM, tonycd wrote: A simple question that I'm sure has been covered before (I just couldn't find the answer): What's the newest variety of G4 whose swapped-out CPU will drop into a Blue White G3? The ONLY G4 swappable into a BW is a ZIF for the short-lived Yikes

Re: iTunes

2009-03-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 5, 2009, at 5:55 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: Recently, one of our list members inquired about iTunes inability to add .mp3 files to his library. It is confusing, but pretty easy. Launch iTunes Go to Preferences Select ADVANCED Find the window where the path to your iTunes

Re: Power Mac G3 Blue And White Upgrade info

2009-03-05 Thread Bruce - in Orlando
Jumper settings and instructions for clocking the BW can be found here: http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/G3-ZONE/yosemite/OC.html On Mar 4, 10:33 pm, Stephen Weber maryland...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I finally got a replacement motherboard for my G3 Blue and White (Rev1). I need to know so

Re: installing 9.2

2009-03-05 Thread Bruce - in Orlando
I used the following option to put 9.2 on my MDD which came to me with 10.4 installed - Install 9.2 on a separate drive, then set that drive up as a slave drive in the iMac. Of course, this presupposes that the that you can put two hard drives in an iMac, a supposition about which I have no

Apple jumped the shark...

2009-03-05 Thread Dan
Is it just me or has Apple lost it? Check out this review of the new Mac Mini: http://reviews.cnet.com/desktops/apple-mac-mini-2/4505-3118_7-33541087.html In particular notice that the Mini is memory and HD poor, in addition to the awful benchmarks. Oh yea, and the external i/o ports are

Re: Power Mac G3 Blue And White Upgrade info

2009-03-05 Thread PeterH
On Mar 5, 2009, at 9:15 AM, Bruce - in Orlando wrote: What is the Max Hard Drive Size I can put in it? 120 GB trade size (131,072 theoretical maximum) without Hard Drive SpeedTools (HDST). Practically unlimited with HDST (3 x 500 GB is certainly possible). What is the best video card I

Re: Apple jumped the shark...

2009-03-05 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: Is it just me or has Apple lost it? Check out this review of the new Mac Mini: http://reviews.cnet.com/desktops/apple-mac-mini-2/4505-3118_7-33541087.html I was hoping Apple would release a nice machine for general

Re: G4 CPU swap into Blue White G3

2009-03-05 Thread PeterH
On Mar 5, 2009, at 9:04 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: What's the newest variety of G4 whose swapped-out CPU will drop into a Blue White G3? http://tinyurl.com/bst5z7 PeterH is right, the 1Ghz G3 at OWC is a much better solution. Blush I did LOTS of productive work with my 1000 MHz BW G3

Re: Apple jumped the shark...

2009-03-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 5, 2009, at 11:13 AM, Dan wrote: Is it just me or has Apple lost it? Check out this review of the new Mac Mini: http://reviews.cnet.com/desktops/apple-mac-mini-2/4505-3118_7-33541087.html Ah fer crying out loud, this is their summary: While we're still impressed with the Mac

Garage Band ?

2009-03-05 Thread Norm Rowe
I need to plug in my electric guitar into my Mac G4 gigabyte and I need to know what adapter I need. Thanks Norm --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop

Re: Apple jumped the shark...

2009-03-05 Thread MacGuy
AMEN! If the Mac OS is not your over-riding reason to buy a Mac...don't buy a friggin Mac!!! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a

Garage Band ?

2009-03-05 Thread Ken Rossman
On Mar 5, 2009, at 2:21 PM, Norm Rowe wrote: I need to plug in my electric guitar into my Mac G4 gigabyte and I need to know what adapter I need. Thanks Norm There are several ways to do this (as straight guitar audio into a track in Garageband) or as a MIDI controller device (somewhat

Re: Power Mac G3 Blue And White Upgrade info

2009-03-05 Thread Stephen Weber
Thanks everyone, I just found the RAM online, also I think I'm going to go with the Radeon 7000 PCI since I want to put the standard graphics card that came with my BW in my Starmax 4000/200. Also I'm just going to get a 80GB Western Digital drive (I don't need more than that) sometime soon.

Re: Apple jumped the shark...

2009-03-05 Thread Ted Treen
Ah fer crying out loud, this is their summary: While we're still impressed with the Mac Mini's ability to pack so much into a tight package, Apple can't get away from its PC competitors that offer more features for less money. If saving space and the Mac OS are dominating factors,

Re: background noise

2009-03-05 Thread bob b
The noise I was experiencing was a hardware issue--some interference somewhere, perhaps from a peripheral--that I heard through a speaker channel. Not sure what you mean by still seeing it in Final Vinyl, or internal noise, so maybe your problem is software-related. Try reinstalling the program;

Re: Apple jumped the shark...

2009-03-05 Thread Anne Keller-Smith
Sometimes you get what you pay for. My Macs have been extremely cost-effective. Go for an average lifespan of 8-10 years, rarely any downtime, run most of my old programs on new systems, don't need maintenance other than by me, don't get virii. Friends with Windows are often on the blink,

Re: Apple jumped the shark...

2009-03-05 Thread Stephen Weber
I have a Toshiba A205-S5803 running Windows Vista with 2GB ram, 250GB hard drive, with a intel Pentium Duel Core (1.6GHz). I've had this computer for around a half of a year and so far the only problem I've had is the the left arrow key is broken. But nothing a little tape would can fix :) and I

Re: Apple jumped the shark...

2009-03-05 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 05/03/09 8:55 PM, Stephen Weber maryland...@gmail.com wrote: I have a Toshiba A205-S5803 running Windows Vista with 2GB ram, 250GB hard drive, with a intel Pentium Duel Core (1.6GHz).  I've had this computer for around a half of a year and so far the only problem I've had is the the left

Re: Apple jumped the shark...

2009-03-05 Thread Stephen Weber
You can run OS X on a PC ( I don't know if they got leopard working yet), I still have yet to try it out since I only have one good PC that I own and that's my laptop. Also I think one reason why Macs last longer than other computers is because there user know what there doing. I'm having to go

Re: Firewire Question

2009-03-05 Thread Robert MacLeay
I would start by seeing whether the device is detected. Does it show up in DIsk Utility? If so, can you see the disk? If you can, you may need to reformat the disk; if not play with jumpers and any other settings you can find. If it does not show up in DU, open System Profiler and look at

Re: Apple jumped the shark...

2009-03-05 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Stephen Weber maryland...@gmail.comwrote: You can run OS X on a PC ( I don't know if they got leopard working yet), I still have yet to try it out since I only have one good PC that I own and that's my laptop. Also I think one reason why Macs last longer

Re: swapping processors

2009-03-05 Thread tortoise
On Mar 4, 4:04 am, Lawrence David Eden lde...@comcast.net wrote: I am still working on transferring from an old computer (Beige) to a newer 450mhz G4. I have an Encore Zif upgrade in the Beige that should also work in the G4. Does that mean that I can take the ZIF from the (I hope I have

Re: NVidia GeForce MX4 question

2009-03-05 Thread tortoise
On Mar 4, 7:57 pm, tortoise cymraeg...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 3, 9:11 pm, insightinmind billycarm...@verizon.net wrote: On Mar 4, 2009, at 12:06 AM, tortoise wrote: ?Drivers? Os9 includes ati drivers but not nvidia. found an os9.2.2 driver here:

Re: Apple jumped the shark...

2009-03-05 Thread Dan
At 12:08 AM -0500 3/6/2009, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=3607Do you really think Apple's going to take business advice from a bunch of cheapskates? says The way I see it is if you want an Apple computer and can buy one, buy one. If you can't afford

Re: Apple jumped the shark...

2009-03-05 Thread Dan
At 12:09 PM -0700 3/5/2009, Bruce Johnson wrote: If your clients are happy with Windows, Dan, get 'em Windows. It's just guaranteed ongoing support work for you... I never said anything about Windoze. The clients want Macs but cannot afford the heavy cost per seat. WHY is it such a crime to

Re: Apple jumped the shark...

2009-03-05 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 12:09 PM -0700 3/5/2009, Bruce Johnson wrote: If your clients are happy with Windows, Dan, get 'em Windows. It's just guaranteed ongoing support work for you... I never said anything about Windoze. The clients want Macs

Flat Screen Monitor

2009-03-05 Thread smac0031
Hello, I have a Digital Audio G4. It has ATY,Rage128Pro for video display. It has a VGA plug on it. I am looking at getting a widescreen monitor. A Samsung T240 has piqued my interest but it has a DVI connector from what I understand. What sort of monitor should I look for in the 22 to 24 inch

Re: Firewire Question

2009-03-05 Thread Paul
The drives I uses are all well under 128 GB, and they work OK if I install them internally in the G4. I'll check to see if Disk Utility and System Profiler show the drive. Ideally, I'd use this external case with drives in both Mac and PC formats.

Re: Flat Screen Monitor

2009-03-05 Thread Stephen Weber
I do know that you can get a VGA to DVI converter, I think the Apple Store sells one. My Brother used to have on. On 3/6/09, smac0031 m.smurph...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have a Digital Audio G4. It has ATY,Rage128Pro for video display. It has a VGA plug on it. I am looking at getting a

Tiger can write to NTFS drives?

2009-03-05 Thread Paul
I just tried this very quickly, and then went on to do other more urgent things, but I was pleasantly surprised by the results. I connected an external SATA hard drive that came out of a dead PC. I was about to change it to standard Mac format, and decided to see how much support Tiger (10.4.11)

Re: Firewire Question

2009-03-05 Thread k l
did some fiddlin like that with a ata 33 cdburner - never worked - sadly ... k 2009/3/6 Paul pper...@gmail.com The drives I uses are all well under 128 GB, and they work OK if I install them internally in the G4. I'll check to see if Disk Utility and System Profiler show the drive.