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I personally am thrilled. I confess, I do not yet own one. I worked at home for years and my Mac is essentially my iPod and has been since the day iTunes came out. And this is a guy who has owned 12 Macs and was an early Newton adopter! However, this will change. The new line up is very...

Right on Bill! Nothing like the facts to spoil an argument. Ever drive through Iowa and Nebraska? I have many times. For hundreds of miles the air smells like animal poop. Realize how much gas it takes to make that much area smell and you can understand, in a more practical first hand way, how...

I suppose this price drop was a little quick in coming, but if you are going to be an early adopter this is the price you pay, with anyone and anything. Apple's offer is good PR, but more than likely anyone using their $100 offer will end getting with more than $100 worth of stuff. It is human...

Thanks icemanjc. This was a real "Duh" on my part, but in years and years of changing desktop images it never happened.

I apologize for the petty and inconsequential nature of this "problem," but alas it is the only thing wrong (knock on wood) with my 5 year old and still humming G4 DP 1 GHZ. Some time ago I had a desktop image of some national park. I have changed that image, but now when I log in or switch...

Mr. Me is right, we must let go of the past. Still, I remember the day (1995) when my Quadra 660AV came with S-Video in! I still think this would be a nice computer feature, but I can understand where only a few people would every really need that. I have a Canopus ADVC-300 for AD and it is...

Hello All, In the old days when a $8 clock batter died some Macs lost video (talk about a heart attack). Is the same still true? Reason I ask is my 5 year old G4 DP 1 GHZ started having the screen completely black out the other day (for about 2 seconds at a time). Since then it has not...

I use Password Plus by Dataviz. It is awesome because it works and syncs on a Palm, Mac and PC. So, I can have all my passwords wherever I need them (I have at least 100). It also generates passwords with defined complexity rules. As a result of having this, all my passwords are very complex.

By golly, my fantasy of converting my basement to a near functional scale replica of the USS Enterprise bridge is just this much closer! Was going to go orginal series all the way, but now...? :-) Just as the mouse and its characteristics defined interaction and the GUI, so too will a...

I woke up this old thread because Apple really did it - Apple TV is COOL! Okay, so right now iTunes may not have a lot of TV shows, movies or be super price competitive, but it is opening a world where I can use my computer to drive my TV, and NOT a box with a horrendous UI from Comcast (at over...

You know, as I read about all the hassles and effort going in to watching TV on a computer, I can't help but think of one of the most innovative computers ever built, that completely flopped, that was built for video. I had two before I gave up and switched to Mac a long time ago. Any guesses...

Anyone see 60 Minutes last night, they had the founder and CEO of Netflix on and mentioned Apple getting into movies with "iTV." Netflix is gambling that snail mail delivery has a bit of lifespan left to it, but accessing movies on the network seems the obvious way to go here. Netflix is also...

Yikes, yes that was a typo- 1600 x 1050!

I just bought a Samsung 22BW 22" widescreen - it is okay, thought not stellar. There is a model up from this, about $100 more. I should have done it!

I feel your pain. Just a FYI, I run FCP all the time and to avoid this kind of problem (seems to happen me every 12 or so .X updates) I used Carbon Copy Cloner to back up my system drive to an external firewire drive. I run the backup once a month and before I run any Apple updates - any. Good...

Thanks everyone. I am using the DVI connection, have it at 1680 x 500 and have font smoothing set to Strong at 8 pt and lower. I did the color calibration in System Preferences using all the advance settings, and that seemed to give the bigggest payback. Maybe I will try it again. The monitor...

Hello All, I just purchased a Samsung 225BW 22" 16:10 monitor. It was "only" $400, and I knew it wasn't the best monitor in the world, but I am wondering if someone could recommend settings in the OS and monitor I could try to get the best image possible from this. Text is a little fuzzy and...

Hey all, would you still recommend getting one of these units?

Thanks Eric - good to know! I tell you, of the 12 macs I have owned, only one was a laptop and that was way back with a Powerbook 400 something running OS 7 on a 68030. All my other laptops have been work owned PCs that I just hated. So you see, I would really like an iBook! However, more...

Hello, okay I have a very specific use in mind - dedicate a Mac as a music server to a DAC then to my stereo. iBooks are quiet (no fans) and boy are the G3 iBooks cheap while the G4's are (used and new) priced near to a new intel Macbook (what is up with that?). So, I could spend about $300 on...