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Thread necromancy FTW. Unfortunately the problem reoccurred shortly after and the iBook remained unresponsive. After a bit of research, I found other users who had the problem as well, after owning this model for the same amount of time - It appears to be a logic-board failure. Fortunately I...

Q2: Classic is dead and unsupported. Even if you strip the files from a 10.4 install it won't work anymore.

I have a Powermac G5 dual - 2Ghz (AGP); modified Geforce 7800 and one of the old standalone iSight cameras. Ok, I tried every preset in the OpenGL profiler and the effects didn't show up. It might be that OSX uses a standard graphics driver which lacks certain features, or these option might...

Me too, there are only two effect panels there. (See screenshot) edit: I believe it depends on which renderpath is available to you. I will start photobooth with the geforce 6800 renderpath/opengl engine (with the help of the developer app opengl profiler). Lets see if the new effects show up.

First impressions: Works and installs fine on Powermac G5 with modified 7800GS graphics card. - Very snappy, resizing of windows feels much faster. - Stacks are ugly and not well thought out. You can't customize the icon of the stack. I worked around it by creating a folder with the "_" as...

Organizing media is a very personal matter. Currently my portable media archive has a size of around 17 GB. Often I am unsure what song or what video file I want to listen to or watch. Usually then, I remember stuff I didn't listen to for weeks but which would fit my current mood perfectly - and...

I don't see how a software raid across two partitions would improve the performance at all. (the amount of write/read action would still be the same because there is no additional HW used) Even on HW site Raid0 still doubles the risk of data loss, because if one HD goes belly up then the whole...

I have noticed that OSX sometimes has problems with a combination of certain USB peripherals. (In my case G11 Keyboard, mouse, Palm PDA and eternal disk drive) To be 100% sure: - use the disk drive directly on the USB port (without USB HUB etc.) - try to disconnect other USB peripherals...

Ok, I made up my mind. A colleague offered me a Powermac G5 Dual 2GHz with a Geforce 6800 for 900 Eur. :) That beats the price of an imac. Its powerfull enough to do be my "working slave" and I can upgrade it to a certain extent. The price difference (powermac - imac) is going towards more...

So, I am saving up for a new Mac. This Mac will become my future workhorse - (I'll build a dedicated PC just for "gaming purpose" later - my XBox 360 serves me well currently) . My goal is to get an iMac 20'' but I don't really need the "additional monitor" because I already got two 21" screens...

Actually IMO the Windows support isn't necessary a bad thing. Look at it from a customer's perspective: What do you do, if you get a new computer which comes with preinstalled software/OS? Of course you turn it on and boot it up, just to see if it works. Its most unlikley that you plunge the...

Which doesn't sound to bad to me. Dirt can be cleaned - If you are picky: scratches are like minor damage to the device - which can't be repaired.

Hm, your description reminds me of the Shuttle barebones. Current offerings have Dual core and two PCIe slots (full length) for graphics card. Mine is an older socket A model, has four USB 2.0 slots 2x firewire and you can even install a power hungry 7800 Geforce - AGP version without...

I just hope the rework the glossy finish. A PDA or a phone is a device which is more "prone" to heavy usage and therefor: scratches. Usually you select your playlist on your iPod and put it away. Even watching movies doesn't require much interaction with the device. But still the latest...

No reason to release it for the PC. Safari is based on Konqueror rendering engine. Konqueror is available for "regular PCs" (although its current PC incarnation is part of Linux KDE Desktop manager) Remember in the past Apple included Internet Explorer as main browser in OS9 and early versions...

I just noticed, that sometimes OSX has problems managing certain USB devices. (For example my no name USB keyboard, an ipod 5 gen 30GB and a Palm device would cause my mac mini to crash.) Make sure that the ipod and external drive is connected directly to the mac (I also mean avoiding the USB...

The adapter itself doesn't cost much, it just extents the 4 wires nobody uses and adds a port to it, in order to connect a telephone/fax. Maybe you should take a look in some kind of "telecommunication store". The adaptor itself is nothing special, technically wise, really. Concerning fax...

If you connect with a standard ethernet cable and just use the 10/100 MBit standard (opposed to gigabit ethernet), then 4 lines (wires) of this ethernet cable are unused. There are adapters which let you use these lines as "telephone cable". Disadvantage: you have to use an adaptor on the other...

I have just noticed that low end video HW (Geforce 7300 in this case) combined with OSX can produce visual artifacts on displays which use DVI as videoinput and which use a pretty high resolution. A nice test: Try bringing up dashboard: When the screen fades to a darker color you might notice...

Two days ago, I decided to buy a Samsung SyncMaster 215TW. While I like the Apple Cinema Displays design wise (I have an Apple 21'' -metal- cinema display at home) they lack input options IMO. The Samsung has component, composite, s-video, vga and DVI inputs. Picture in picture function and for...