They are all the same.

They are not the same. PC microphones will not work on the Mac, reverse is probably also true.

PC Microphones are straightforward analog microphones, usually with minijack plugs. These can be used on a Mac for audio recording, but not for speech recognition, for which you ne…

I am not so sure about that. I recently tried a microphone made for the PC, although it work on the PC, it does not work on the Mac, even for audio recording. Also, I found that …

My magazine has a collection of Macs and PCs. From my experience, they do not work identically. I've used a Mac microphone on a PC, but the sound level was way off. Ditto for using…

Microphone signals need to be amplified for use with a Mac. The PlainTalk microphone, with it's longer plug, is powered by the computer. Other devices that provide a line level s…

A PC mic will not work with a Power Mac (although it will with much older 040 Macs). You can, however, use a PC mic using Griffin's NEMic adapter.

Basically, the Mac's mike jack is not a mike jack, it is a Line In jack, standard 2V P-P. tooki

So, Misha, where can I get one of those Griffin adapters? want to get a headset/mic but don't want to buy Via Voice just to get one... if Griffins's adapter works, I should be able…

Quote: Originally posted by tooki: Basically, the Mac's mike jack is not a mike jack, it is a Line In jack, standard 2V P-P. tooki Bugger. Wish I'd known this ab…

Quote: Originally posted by Krypton: Bugger. Wish I'd known this about a week ago... well you could have known it 4 years ago...

Wow, this is easily one of the very oldest resurrected threads I've ever seen! tooki

Unfortunately I had expected a cheapo PC microphone to 'just work' with it being an analogue device. Interestingly, you can buy an amp that would make it work, but which costs fiv…

Quote: Originally posted by tooki: Wow, this is easily one of the very oldest resurrected threads I've ever seen! tooki I was thinking the same thing!

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

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.