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I have the 2007 intel mini and I am looking for hard drive options. Was thinking of installing a 320 gig 7200 drive in it but they are about the same price point as an external 1 TB 7200 3.5 drive. Is it possible to just run the mini off the external drive via firewire or USB2? Would that be...

Thanks for reading the post. I have a G4 Dual 867 MMD machine that has been flawless up til now. It is locking up on start up. I get the gray screen, apple icon and then the processing wheel spinning for about 2 minutes, then it just stops. Nothing has been installed that would cause this...

Whats the best way to delete the OS from a drive? I have 3 drives in my mac and I have Jaguar, Tiger and Leopard on the three. Everytime a new OS came out, I just bought a new drive and installed it on the new drive and transfered data over. Now, I want to get rid of Jaguar to free up a drive...

Currently running Dual 867 MDD G4 10.4.11. Should I update to leopard? I know I am behind the times but will my machine handle it? Would it be worth it or would it slow it down way too much? Thanks

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/12/rumor-new-mac-m.html I have a question if there is truth to this rumor... Lets say this becomes reality...I would love one to replace my 867 Dual MDD G4. My question is.... My options are a used 2.0 dual G5 tower PPC, for about $600... or this new mac...

I currently have a G4 Dual 867 MDD that is getting painfully slow. I need a new machine but cant decide against a used G5 2.3 PowerPC for around $600 and a regular macbook...or bit the bullet and get a new MBP at $2k... My G4 is my current production machine that I use for freelance photography...

Looking for some tips... I have a G4 867 dual MDD, 2 gig ram, 4 drives, 10.4.11 tiger... For the past 6 years this thing has been a champ and is my production box... I usually keep it on 24/7 and put it to sleep when not in use. Recently I have noticed that it doesnt like to start up from...

Hoping some of you can help me with some issues I am having with a Pioneer DVR-116 burner that I just got. I have a MDD 867 dual mac with 2.0 gigs of ram. I just added the last 512 chip of ram and that seems to check out. There are some strange things going on with this. So let me try and...

I got a HP DVD1040i burner that my Mac will read, using patchburn reads as vendor supported and shows up in the profiler. Burns CDs fine but will not burn DVDs. If I can get them to start, it will error out listing a communication error or just a verification error. I have had no luck at all...

Its old but its a workhorse. I need a DVD burner for this machine. I am so outdated on the new burners I am not sure what will work. Last I knew the Pioneers A06 work but having trouble finding them. Not sure if the new stuff in stores is compatible or not. Anyone have any suggestions on a cheap...

I will be in the market for a new mac this summer, (after Leopard arrives) I do graphic design work and need to upgrade my current system (867 Dual MMD) I love my current machine and its a workhorse but as apps evolve my current mac will lag behind. I need mobility and since I can only afford...

I posted this in the How To forums which I think was the wrong place to post, so MODS you can delete the other posting....sorry... Now my issue... First off, this is completely legal by the contract my company has with adobe. My question is about installing Adobe CS2 suite without using the...

I just got a USB 2.0 PCI card that has 5 ports and I installed it and everything seems to work fine except when I put the computer to sleep, it won't wake up. The only way to get it back up is to do a reboot. I reset the Open firmware, suggestion from a similar post, ran fsck and nothing will...

I have an old Mac 6500 that still works fine. I play in a band and would like to make the 6500 into kind of a large mp3 recorder. I would need a card that would accept RCA cables or a 1/4" jack. Run from our mixing board to the mac to record our practices. I dont need anything fancy just...

Has anyone run into performance problems with Studio 8? I just installed it and the performance is really bad. Switching from app to app I get the spinning beachball and initiating certain commands gives me the beachball as well. Last for about 10-15 seconds. Really hard to work this way. So far...

I have 2 accounts on my computer running Tiger 4.1. One is for me and the other for my wife. I just gave my wife access/permissions to my pictures folder because I want to be able to share pictures and when I changed the "groups" field to include her, I had a drop list list of about 20...

Since upgrading to Tiger and Safari 2.0 I can not view secure sites such as my banks website....Any fix to this?

Installing Tiger last night over Panther 10.3.8 everything goes good until the end where I get a Install did not complete, please try again error. I tried this twice with the same error. First time I had trouble rebooting and had to reboot using option to choose the start up disk....after the...

I friend on mine just bought a used PowerMac 1.25 dual and its loaded with Panther. He cant get the eject button to eject the CD tray. Does anyone know of any way to test this? I suggested a reinstall of system software but how can he do that if he cant eject the CD drive? I Am assuming its...

Ok, So I live in Florida where lightning storms are an everyday occurance. Yesterday a hellish storm went through and once it started getting bad, I shut down my computer (Dual 867, mirrored) and unplugged everything including the ethernet cable. After the storm passed, I started it back up and...