what is the deal with the new powerbooks, first apple reports there shipping to may 20th, then late may, now they say early june. is there a problem with manufactureing? or anythin…

Can I add a second ide drive to the boot drive ide buss? I already have a CD and a Zip on the other buss. Thanks mtung

Hi a, Im currious as to what other changes apple has made with the new G3's (the ones they released this week), i know they updated the processor speeds, and the cdrom, but have t…

purchased a couple of PowerComputing 120's on ebay.Tried to put brand new hard drives in.Keep getting illegal instruction crash and addressing crashes.Does same thing when booted f…

where in the boot process does the 120 crash? Just a wild guess here....my Power Computing machine has a reset button on the mother board called a CUDA switch. Try pressing that an…

Crashes after POST and during extention load Address error, Illegal instruction,and some others i cant remember

This has all the symptoms of bad SIMMs. - Scott

I am thinking about getting an ATI 128 Orion in a 7200/90 to speed up 2D (Word, DeltaGraph etc) and hopefully speed up "light" 3D like TombRaider, will it work or is the CPU to slo…

I also have a 7200/75 and I've had the same question myself about how effective a Rage 128 Orion would be in these old 601 macs. My understanding of the matter is that the main lim…

A few weeks ago, there was an announcement that the next Nintendo game machine would use PowerPC chips. There is no news on whether or not they will use Altivec or not. Obvioulsy, …

The new Nintendo, code name Dolphine, will use a PPC 400 processor from IBM. From what I have been hearing, the Dolphine is going to be a relativly cheap machine. I suspect that fo…

Altivec was really not made for games,I am not an expert on the subject, but for high end jobs like Photoshop. A good graphics chip would probably be better then Altivec. Besides, …

I just read the article about G3 uprades for various "upgrade-challenged" PowerMacs and Mac clones. There was no mention of the PM 7200. Anyone know why the 7200 is left out of the…

According to an interview with one of the upgrade company CEO's, the cache slot on the 7200 "doesn't have enough wires." In the Developer's Notes on the 7200, it refers to the cac…

does anyone know how to "undo" a firmware update?? i recently found out that Apple Computer's recent firmware update (for Blue and White G3's) eliminates the ablilty to upgrade to …

There's no way to undo the Firmware update. But, what you can do is mess-up your logic board and take it to an Apple Service Provider and let them order a new logic board. When t…

newer G3's are coming with the update made so chances are a replace,ent logic board will have that done already. I wouldn't stress about it. Apple will allow you to upgrade once th…

Does anyone know if the Firewire card that you can get for the bronze Powerbook will let you edit DV? using Final Cut Pro, or is the hard disk to slow or something. Just wonderin…

I am using a Newer Technology FireWire2Go card in a Lombard, I have been capturing perfect video in a number of applications including Final Cut and Premiere using a Sony DV Camcor…

I have ordered a new FireWire card from Syskey from ClubMac.com for $250 and is available now. I have not tested it yet but it has many features that the FireWire2Go card does not…

Does anyone know how much space DV takes up on the hard-drive, or where I can find out. I know that it is recomended that you have a hard-drive that is able to write at 11MBs/sec …

hey blaine is that you? DV editing is great on the Bronze powerbooks, the hard drives that come in the powerbooks are plenty fast enough for DV although you better have the 10 GIG…

Does anyone know if the FireWire2GO card or any other card of this type will work with a Lombard 233Mhz PowerBook (White logo on top and purchased in early spring: I always get the…

To qualify: Lombard (a.k.a. 1999 PBG3) comes only in 333 and 400 MHz flavors. If you have a 233 (original Wall St.), you may have trouble capturing DV without loss.

Try the FireWire PC Card from Ratoc. www.ratoc.com I believe. They are a japanese company and I've been trying their card out for a while and it works great!