With the Mac Pro's anemic PCIe configuration (one 16x, two 4x, and one 1x), SLI wouldn't be terribly useful.

Quote: Originally Posted by mduell With the Mac Pro's anemic PCIe configuration (one 16x, two 4x, and one 1x), SLI wouldn't be terribly useful. Great, the more I hear about …

Quote: Originally Posted by bballe336 Great, the more I hear about this thing the more it seems like a hackjob. I'd like to thank Apple for making an incredibly half assed compu…

I got the bone stock 2.66 Quad and will be getting more memory in the near future (when available via 3rd party). The video card should be ok for quite some time but can easily be…

Quote: Originally Posted by mduell Yea, it's not for you. Build a PC. I think, at least I hope, that the PCIe info I got from Simon is somehow incorrect... why put in 16 lane s…

Quote: Originally Posted by bballe336 That is rediculous on Apple's part. If they don't support it in 10.5 I'm not going to buy a new mac. As much as I like Apple if they won't …

Quote: Originally Posted by mduell With the Mac Pro's anemic PCIe configuration (one 16x, two 4x, and one 1x), SLI wouldn't be terribly useful. I may be wrong, but I don't …

Well I figure I can still run a 7950 if I can find the drivers. That would suffice for me.

Quote: Originally Posted by mduell Yea, it's not for you. Build a PC. I think, at least I hope, that the PCIe info I got from Simon is somehow incorrect... why put in 16 lane s…

Quote: Originally Posted by saru boy Keep in mind that no Intel motherboard on the PC side supports SLI (they do support Crossfire, but at two x8 channels and not two x16 channe…

Check out Anandtech's review of the MacPro for a discussion of the chipset: http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2811 Quote: A very little talked about aspect …

Quote: Originally Posted by CharlesS Nah, if anything, the price will go up, judging from recent trends. Remember when you could get a Power Mac G4 for $1299? When the G5 made t…

I'm having a problem with the volume limit feature in my iPod nano. Somehow (I hadn't been playing around with the volume limits), my iPod turned on the code thingy for the volume,…

have you tried restoring the iPod?

My 4th generation 40gb iPod has had problems in the past (freezing up and noisy hard drive, and eventually, the dreaded sad iPod icon), and I just got it back from the repair shop.…

When it's wiped, an iPod is restored to the factory settings, including being "formatted" for a Mac, NOT a PC. You need to run the Windows iPod updater-the current one- to get it …

Tried that. The iPod updater froze up and didn't do anything for 15 minutes.

What was it doing when it froze? Loading? Looking at the iPod? And have you talked to the shop yet?

It usually freezes when it's loading. The one time it didn't freeze, a message popped up saying that it couldn't update the iPod because it was being used by another program. I did…

Redownload the updater and try it again. It sounds like it got corrupted somehow, and a fresh download should fix that. And of course a fresh restart of the computer is indicated…

Just tried redownloading it and reinstalling it and it's still freezing. No, I haven't talked to the shop yet. Could this just be my computer being quirky? It's been known to c…

Restoring can be done on ANY computer, though you'll want to use a PC if you're interested in syncing it with a PC. But if you're having this kind of problem, and it IS the PC, I …

I've bought 10 blue and white G3's for my compnay. Over a period of a week, 3 have discontinued to boot. No chime, but power is on and the drive spins up. After a little troublesho…

Thanks for the infor. My company bought 42 and one of the new g3 montior card when south. Got a replacement in two days. ------------------ David Stafford dms@fastlane.net

I have heard that FileMaker Pro Server for windows NT is much faster than FileMaker Pro Server for Mac OS. Is this true? And do you think the Mac OS X version will be faster than N…