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Hello! Im wondering if I can launch Mac OSX 10.7.5 from my bootable external drive from a newer Mac laptop? I tried researching but I keep getting mixed answers. Any help would be appreciated! Thank you,

Hello! I have an older Mac Pro running 10.6.8. I am looking at getting an external HD so I can back it all up before upgrading my OS. All of the external drives I find say they need a minimum of 10.7 to be compatible? Im looking at this one now...

Hello all! (I searched this site for a while reading a bunch of stuff, but i never found anything about buying used Macs and comparing them to others) I am in the market for a used Mac Pro. Basically i would like to get the most for my money (obviously) but i have some questions on...

Hey guys, I have a 500g AcomData external firewire drive that i use w/ one of my G4's running OS9.2. I have been using the drive for about 3 months with no issues. Yesterday i went to work on some music files, and when i tried to open my session, a bunch of the drums were missing. When i...

Hey guys, i started my G3 laptop this morning(9.2), and it came up with the '? in folder' icon....So i put in my Nortons cd in, and booted from that. I went to run disc dr, and it doesnt even see the HD? I even put in the Os9.2 cd, and same thing? I tried holding down apple/option as it...

Hey guys, I noticed my G4 500 was running a bit slow, so i booted from my Nortons CD and ran Norton disk doctor/speed disk (I do this all the time with no issues) It said it found severe damage, but all was fixed. I then went to restart from the Osx hard drive, and now i get this error...

Hey guys, I got a new-to-me G4 500, and decided to take most of the RAM and slave drive from my old G4 400. I swapped the RAM 1st, and started it, and it recognized fine and dandy. So i shut her down, and then pulled my WD 20g drive from my G4 400, and put it into the G4 500, leaving the...

Hey guys, I have one of the very 1st G4 tower's, its a 400mhz, 10gig drive, and 64meg. I have a few questions. I am told that these early one's were made from the later G3 motherboards, and that they are not as good as the G4's actually on the G4 motherboard? Can anyone confirm this? I have a...

Hey guys i have some questions about Imovie... Importing: No matter how good the quality of my original movie, it looks like crap after i export it. I am using the best settings offered and it still looks like poop...Any opinions? Audio: I use the same digicamera for all my movies, but...

My buddy wants to sell me this camera for $40...No biggie. But Im not sure if i can find software for mac..Os X or 9....??? Anyone know if you can use an HP digi camera w/ a Mac??? The cd rom that comes with it is PEE CEE only,,,,,LOL I searched for a while online, and it seems their...

I was exporting some pics from iphoto for the web, and accidently replaced my desktop directory with the new files......OOOOOHH!!! Is there anyway i can get that stuff from my desktop back?? Its kinda important...hehe Thanks Mac guru's... I didnt think so...... :(

Hey guys, I got another older PowerPC Mac G3 yesterday for $5. I got it for my girlfriend so she can surf the net... -233mhz -4 gig hd -161 RAM -512k cache -24x cd ROM Its got a usb card in it. And Im not sure of the video card.. Is this computer upgradable?? If so, what are some...

Hey guys i aked this a long time ago, and tried to search, but couldnt find it... Is there anything i can do to this thing to speed it up?? RAM, Processor, Hard drive?? Ect??? Mainly for internet is what i need... I guess only mods that dont cost more than its worth....LOL Thanks again,

I searched through the posts, and couldnt find any answers. So sorry if i ask a simple question.... I cant seem to access my computer from a windows machine. If Im on a Mac, i can access my ip address, using personal file sharing, built-in OSX.2. But from a Pee Cee, it says it cant find...

The cd rom reads fine, but recently i cant boot from cds....weird. i can read the cd i put in, but cant boot from it???? It just spins around forever. Is it supposed to sound like its gonna EXPLODE!!!!!!??.......LOL This i guess just happend. Cuz it workd when i reformatted everything...

My laptop starts up with a little picture of a folder with a "?" in it. I assume its the system folder its looking for??? Im now starting up from the cd, but why does this happen, and how do i fix it??? Any help appreciated...

What is the best way to compress large files in OS X???? Namely somthing that can make bigg files small, and can be opened by other OS X machines.... I tried using Stuffit.....The files werent changing in size much. is this not correct???? Thanks again,

I followed everthing from this post, http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10726and i still cant get it to connect. From my computer to his, or vise/versa. Both of our machines are on and i cant seem to figure this out.... Any help please????