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I am trying to change the ownership name on a machine, which appears most visibly when the OS X login screen comes up and it says, "Your Name's Computer". How can I change this to a different name? I do not want to format the hard drive and would prefer to not have to reinstall the...

I am thinking of getting an iBook G3 500 as a backup to my PowerMac G4, and mainly to use to browse the internet wirelessly around my home. I will occasionally use it for other tasks such as email, iTunes, and Office X. Is OS X going to be fast enough on the iBook, or will it be brutaly...

Does anyone have any info regarding when the next Airport Base Station is due out? Supposedly Apple has agreed to support a new version of 802.11 in the near future, which will be faster and offer double the range. Any ideas on when this might be released? I am in need of an airport within...

I am thinking about installing Jaguar on a fresh 60GB Firewire Hard Drive that I have and booting from the firewire drive whenever I want to use Jaguar. Can you boot off of a Firewire Hard Drive and use it to install an operating system? Also, if I install Jaguar seperately on the Firewire...

I have the OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) Developer Preview CDs in my hand and I am considering installing it over OS X 10.1 on my Quicksilver G4 Tower at home. I wanted to know how stable 10.2 is and are their any terrible bugs that are unbearable? Can you print (HP 950) and work in 10.2 without any...

I know that nobody really knows for sure, but you guys sure were good at predicting the Ipod launch :) I need to purchase a few Macs and need to know if G5 Macs are going to be released in January. Any opinions? I've read a bunch of rumors on the net about G5s being released in...

have you tried to contact Apple regarding this problem?

Both of the problems below are while using OS X 10.1 I have a very weird intermitent problem occuring on my G4 Dual 800, which is about 2 weeks old. The computer is stock from Apple, with the exception of a GeForce 2 card I took from my G4 867 and put in it, along with 1GB of memory from...

This just started happening. My computer will no longer automatically go into sleep. However, the computer will go into sleep if I manually put it into sleep. I have the screen saver set to go off after 10mins, display powerdown after 30mins, and hard disk/system sleep after 50mins...

For anyone who has used a Cinema Display w/ OS X: Is the Cinema Display considerably better than the 17" Flat Panel for doing regular everyday work? I saw one at CompUSA the other day running OS X and it looked amazing, but I am trying to determine if it justifies the $2500 price tag. I...

Is it possible to copy DVDs with a superdrive? Ultimately, I would like to copy some of my DVDs so that I could have them at two seperate residencies so that I wouldn't need to bring them with me. Can you make an exact copy of a Video DVD under OS X, or with Toast, and if so how? Also...

How would the 64 Bit Version be different than the 32-Bit Version if 10.2 came out in both?

Has anyone else heard this? It could be a rumor, but I heard that OS X 10.2 will be a full 64-Bit OS, and that it will only run on the G5 Computers. Could this be true? Are the G5s full 64 Bit Processors, but the G4s aren't? When are the G5s coming out? Thanks

Question: Is there an affordable solution that would allow me to get an S-Video Out from my PowerMac G4 which I could connect to my TV and watch DVDs on my TV player from the DVD Drive in my PowerMac? The 17" flat panel is a little small for watching DVDs.....I would really like to have...