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I'm still using the black and seethru one that came with my G4, but we have a few of the new white ones kicking around the studio at work. They're decent enough to use - something which you should probably try out and decide for yourself. The only points to note: 1) the way the plastic...

You can pick up a USB Bluetooth adapter pretty cheaply these days. I only paid £30 for mine and that was when the technology was new, they're around £10-15 now. That's probably the simplest option for you, because then you can use the built in software to transfer and iSync. I have a K700i and...

If you need a hard drive upgrade liam, you could go down the route I took which was to get a Serial-ATA card. I had a 40Gb and 80Gb on my internal ATA bus so added a Sonnet Tempo 2-channel card (cheaper than the RAID options) and stuck a 200GB drive on that. Now my 40Gb drive is getting a bit...

Hi, I did a Software Update and downloaded a few items the other day - iTunes update, a security update and a couple of other little things and now my Finder is utterly monged and all my apps keep crashing. In the Finder, I can navigate around using the keyboard, but if I click on any icons or...

Possibly, was thinking of shifting the system over to it when I swap to Tiger. I get through a ridiculous amount of photos though so might keep that drive purely for pics and get a second SATA drive for the other channel to entirely replace my current system 40Gb drive. It's faster doing my pics...

FWIW, I now have a Sonnet Tempo 2-channel Serial ATA card and a SIIG 2-channel Serial ATA card. The Tempo is great and does exactly what it says, working perfectly with my 200GB S-ATA drive. The SIIG cars however, hangs repeatedlyif copying more than a couple of MB at a time, and is therefore...

Problem solved! The solution was a simple, but effective one - the SIIG card is rubbish. Popped a Sonnet Tempo 2-channel card in (the exact equivalent, but purple instead of red!) and bingo, copied 18GB of photos onto the drive without even the slightest hesitation. The SIIG card claims to...

Not got hold of Tiger yet, but have a Sonnet SATA card on its way so I'll let you know if that works. Thought there may be a drive size issue so formatted my SATA drive into 4 small partitions with no success. 10.3.9 didn't help either. It's looking a lot like being that card.

Was holding off upgrading to 10.3.9 - didn't want to risk any more problems! Might try a fresh install on the new drive, see if that helps. C'mon, heeere Tiger, Tiger, Tiger....

The drive is formatted as HFS+ Journaled (same as the 80). Can't be a heat issue because it did it straight away - computer was off before the drive was installed. Plus everything's very neat and tidy in there. I have tried the SATA card in different PCI slots, tried it on both SATA ports...

Can anyone please help me, i'm going out of my mind?! I've just got a SerialATA card (SIIG two-channel card from OWC) and a 200GB Seagate Barracuda SATA drive. I've installed both into my Quicksilver G4/867 with OS X 10.3.8 and the drive has shown up and formatted fine. Now when I copy...

Was hoping to get one from the UK, save getting one sent over, but yeah, that'll do. Exchange rates being what they are, consider it ordered! Still curious about the Adaptec card tho. Anyone know? Thanx

Can anyone confirm whether the Adaptec SATAConnect 1205SA Serial ATA controller card works in Macs, specifically my Quicksilver G4/867? They're being sold by MacWarehouse, but that doesn't appear to mean anything. It's half the price of the equivalent Sonnet card, and is about as much as I...

The very drive I was looking at! If I get a G5, then this will doubtless become a secondary machine so the 120Gb in it will be more than enough - it'll still have two drives left in it, hence my need for another controller card. The new drive, which will be my main disk, since it'll hopefully be...

Might be joining this conversation a bit late, but I've been away a while! We have shed-loads of Dell TFTs at work and compared to the Apple ones they're genuinely shocking. I was doing the colour calibration on one of them and it simply couldn't get a full range of neutral greys. They were...

Am trying to get a new HD controller PCI card for my G4 Quicksilver. Have been looking at SATA as a decent route to go down so I can swap drives over when I can afford a G5. They sell cards on eBuyer for £8-12, whereas the Mac specific ones seem to start at about £60. Would a PC one do the trick...

Great stuff. That web site's just what I was after - just hope they deliver to the UK. It's a Wallstreet II I've got, but I've had it stripped down before so I should hopefully be able to do it again without killing it. Cheers guys!

Cheers Ceryl. Ahhh, just found a pic of it. Looks like a track-pad sized, flat thing with coin cells in. Right pain to get to aswell. Anyone had any joy replacing one of these or know what it would cost to get it done. Or should I just get an iBook?!

Hi all, not been round these parts for a while, but need a quick hand, if you would be so kind... I'm getting a digital SLR soon along with a CompactFlash to PC Card adapter so that I can dump my pics onto my old PBG3 when the CF cards fill up. Only problem is that having dusted off the...

Could this be why my Powerbook G3 has died again? It was doing all sorts of strange booting and rebooting nonsense, then seemed to pack up. I was thinking it was the PRAM battery, but now I've seen this, and it was just after I installed 10.2.4... Hmmm