On Jul 25, 8:00 pm, Eric Herbert goo...@hillcotechnology.com wrote:
Hopefully that helps!
It sure does. Much appreciated.
I have a wife who actually tells me that we spend on her and our
daughter, but I don't buy much for myself. I am green-lighted to go
full Mac Pro $3K machine, but really
On Jul 25, 12:31 pm, Eric Herbert goo...@hillcotechnology.com wrote:
On Jul 25, 2010, at 12:16 PM, ah...clem wrote:
That said, getting back to the OT and in regards to the OP,
for the things he wants to do, it seems like a better use of
time, space, and financial resources to get a computer
I found this on newegg for $55.00 do you think it would be good for this
computer??? I can't seem to find any better deals on ebay and this is a new
one...
Western Digital Caviar Blue WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA
3.0Gb/s 3.5 Internal Hard Drive...
Also I heard some
On Jul 26, 12:39 pm, Richard Gerome onecoolka...@earthlink.net
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I found this on newegg for $55.00 do you think it would be good for this
computer??? I can't seem to find any better deals on ebay and this is a new
one...
Western Digital Caviar Blue WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB
On Jul 26, 2010, at 12:58 PM, JoeTaxpayer wrote:
On Jul 26, 12:39 pm, Richard Gerome onecoolka...@earthlink.net
wrote:
I found this on newegg for $55.00 do you think it would be good for this
computer??? I can't seem to find any better deals on ebay and this is a new
one...
On Jul 26, 2010, at 11:03 AM, Jason Brown wrote:
It depends on what you want to do. Simplest is to buy a 500GB PATA
drive.
750 GB PATA drives were available for a while at many retailers.
However, for most practical purposes, 500 GB was the largest capacity
PATA drive which was
On 7/26/2010 1:12 PM, Peter Haas wrote:
750 GB PATA drives were available for a while at many retailers.
What, can someone please say, are the difference(s) between ATA and PATA?
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On Jul 26, 2010, at 4:49 PM, nestamicky wrote:
On 7/26/2010 1:12 PM, Peter Haas wrote:
750 GB PATA drives were available for a while at many retailers.
What, can someone please say, are the difference(s) between ATA and
PATA?
Very overly simplified:
ATA drives in the beginning were all
I own a dual G5 and it is an amazing machine. I bought mine for just upwards
of $150 plus $50 for a terabyte hard disk from a surplus. I'd say go for it
over a mac pro. The only upside of the mac pro is that it is an Intel mac.
Sent from a computer running either the SPARC, Itanium, or PowerPC
On 7/26/2010 2:56 PM, Len Gerstel wrote:
Very overly simplified:
ATA drives in the beginning were all Parallel ATA. There were no other
options so the parallel was not stated most of the time. Parallel
means 8 data lines working in unison.
Serial ATA (SATA) drives came on the market and
On Jul 26, 2010, at 1:03 PM, Jason Brown wrote:
On Jul 26, 2010, at 12:58 PM, JoeTaxpayer wrote:
On Jul 26, 12:39 pm, Richard Gerome onecoolka...@earthlink.net
wrote:
I found this on newegg for $55.00 do you think it would be
good for this computer??? I can't seem to find any better
I've had a 120GB rotating happily in my G4 Gigabit for over four years...
JT
I guess even WD has a fluke every now and then :P
All kidding aside though, I have trashed brand new WD drives that were given to
me. I refuse to use one, I have had too many issues with them. I have seen
close to
On Jul 26, 5:37 pm, nestamicky nestami...@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/26/2010 2:56 PM, Len Gerstel wrote:
This then is to say all ATA drives are in fact PATA? It seems to me
adding (S) to the original named ATA should have been good enough to
distinguish SATA from the earlier technology?
Did you
I have an iMac G4 800,
is it possible to go into open firmware (opt Command o f), and use
pdisk to reformat the hard drive ,
for say a new HDD, in place of a failed HDD.
i'm interested.
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Will the SATA work with the 500g SATA HD??? 1.5tb is way too big and the
price is higher... I will buy the card if it's a better set up then the PATA
drive... She wants to do web design with this machine...
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You have a PCI slot in there, and can add a PCI card that handles SATA
(A SATA PCI card) this one -
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Sonnet%20Technology/TSATA/
It will let you add 2 SATA Drives instead of two PATA Drives. I happen
to want some storage and last buy was $80/1.5TB. I bought two.
You have a PCI slot in there, and can add a PCI card that handles SATA
(A SATA PCI card) this one -
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Sonnet%20Technology/TSATA/
It will let you add 2 SATA Drives instead of two PATA Drives. I happen
to want some storage and last buy was $80/1.5TB. I bought two.
Hi Guys ( Girls!),
I have aquired a 4 x 2.5ghx G5 tower Mac.
I need to know which card to use for wi-fi.
Many Thanks
Chris
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On Jul 26, 2010, at 8:23 PM, Chris House wrote:
Hi Guys ( Girls!),
I have aquired a 4 x 2.5ghx G5 tower Mac.
I need to know which card to use for wi-fi.
Many Thanks
Chris
You need AirPort Extreme card and antenna.
John Carmonne
Yorba Linda USA
Sent from my MBP
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