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This is what Dan Knight is for. While OS X versions have gotten faster on the same hardware with each release, that trend has sort of stopped at 10.4. So, last I checked, they tend to recommend 10.3 for machines with less than 512MB of RAM, and 10.4 for machines with more.

Why not send your machine away to a co-location facility? They tend to have fast, stable Internet connections, and often also air conditioning, UPS units, and staff to handle tasks that require a physical presence. What you're describing is not throttling, but bonding, or maybe multi-homing...

If you have enough of the keyboard working, you could select an icon on the desktop and open things using the arrow keys and commands like Command-O to go into a directory. However, Linux doesn't install easily from within MacOS or other protected operating systems. You're supposed to boot the...

The iMac doesn't have slots other than RAM. You can't replace the USB controller except by electrical engineering or replacing the motherboard. Apple doesn't use serial numbers for OS licenses. They don't seem to want to bother verifying that any OS has been on any particular machine except...

No, a command key is only useful if you want keyboard shortcuts. If you want, you can go to the Keyboard control panel (I think; it has been months since I looked) and remap it so the Control key or something is used for Command. Control is hardly used for any native software for Mac, anyway...

No adapter will provide enough power? Modern video cards aren't supposed to provide any power for running the screen. The old CRT won't work because it's an analog display, and all currently available adapters send the digital signal, only. A company called Gefen made some adapters that send...

Eh, 17" definitely gives you more working space. What's even more fun is that Apple provides the 17" with 2 different resolutions; the maximum is a rather nice 1920x1200. Nobody can decide for you, not even other graphic designers. Preferably, you would be in a position to try out several...

But wireless costs at least a couple times as much as wired, maybe more if you look at the minimally useful wired router vs. a wireless router that won't give you headaches if you try to use it. Also, you'd have to remember to turn off the wireless radio if you aren't using it yet and don't...

Yeah, too bad I'm not really trying to convince you. Just saying what I think is true. Way to miss my point. Every light use program that I've tried other than GIMP has been missing Curves adjustment. You're mistaking the familiar interface of Photoshop for superiority, and besides most of the...

Linux has more flexible options for a machine with so little RAM, though it's a bit challenging to use. At least, I think there are LiveCDs that should show whether the USB controller is working, and the mouse and keyboard actions are getting to the computer. Apple never included PS/2 support...

The "quality" argument has been used by every technology system in a state of decline. Sure, Photoshop has wild features, but most people don't need that power. In the past, you would get Photoshop anyway, because you needed some of the features. But, it's fantastically expensive, and its...

Well, I hate Toast for being nowhere close in its estimates of time. Why not just put in a % meter, instead? But in MacOS X, I use Toast. Too convenient, mostly works, no major complaint. When I'm using Linux, I use K3b. Most of the convenience of Toast, but also a lot of nifty features such as...

The ".h" files are header files. They're used mainly for compiling programs, providing function prototypes and system constants. I see no reason why they'd be installed on a normal system, but they're usually pretty small, anyway. They're especially useful to keep around if you decide to do...

Not directly. I don't use iLife, so I don't know all the options there. The problem is not the compression, but the resolution. I don't see how Fotomagico can overcome that. The DVD standard for US TVs gives a maximum resolution of 720x480. (In Europe, it's better but not by much, at 720x576)...

In the US, DriveSavers is a company I know, largely because they've come to MacWorld every time I've gone. My hard drives haven't failed in a way that required their service, so I don't know how good they are. If you're not a hard drive engineer, you probably can't fix that yourself. The heads...

The Linux distributions generally promote a different way of looking at programs. Basically, there are 2 types of stability. There's code stability, that a particular way of doing things will continue to work for a long time, and there's running stability, that a program will be operating...

Um, actually, Jef Raskin is not a coder. He's a designer, and Jobs pushed him out of the Macintosh project long before he could get his ideas implemented. The real genius coder was Bill Atkinson. He wrote a lot of the GUI code, that was both fast and burned onto the ROMs. That significantly...

The Mac Plus can't be delayed by swapping. The CPU doesn't have the MMU needed to support swapping. For that matter, 4MB of RAM back then was fantastically expensive; 2.5MB was a much more realistic option at the time, possibly if your friend upgraded his Mac LC or something. For large...

Short story: No. Even if the drive could support being connected to 2 computers (which some drives actually do support, but only Firewire drives), the software would corrupt the data unless you use a SAN cluster file system. Another technique I noticed is to get a cheap transfer switch, such...

I don't think it's worth quibbling about what to do. If you think about it, just do it, and see if it works. Personally, I'd also do research to see how it should work. Apparently, the C600 has only one IDE bus, and it works with only one drive at a time unless you run Linux or MacOS X. One...