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…

OK... It looks like I just might be the first post... so here goes. sorry for typos.. I am doing this quickly at 1am ............. I just purchased a LaCie 4x12 external SCSI CD-…

You could just select all audio tracks on the audio cd and drag them into the Toast window. It should automatically switch the cd format to "Audio CD" and you can go. This techniqu…

http://www.astarte.de/text/softwaree/copy/ for a demo versin of CD Copy. It may work

AndreasVogt: Toast does not support direct audio transfer with Teac drives. (drag and drop from 1 CD to another). That is my problem. Check the toast read me file

Did you try setting your SCSI ID to 3 or 5? Those are the defaults for audio transfer.

There are two pretty cool CD burning utilities out there that might help with some of these problems. Adaptec makes Jam which is made specifically for burning audio tracks to CD. …

First the CD drive you want to copy from must be able to do "Digital Audio Extraction" at high speed or you will suffer "Buffer Underruns" and will have generated a "coaster" inste…

I use Astarte CD-Copy 2.0 to extract any track from cd, weather it be data or audio. Once tracks are saved you then drag them on top of toast and it does the rest. This has a minor…

Toast 3.5 is not the latest version. An updater for version 3.5.5 is available on their website. If you have your manual for Toast, try looking at pgs. 149-153.

There is another CD recording software package called Discribe. It is made by a company called <a href="http://www.charismac.com">CharisMac</a>. If you are interested…

There are a couple of different command sets which CD-R drives use. The most standard one is the Multimedia Command Set (MMC). Another is a command set originated by JVC. With d…

Here is a possible work-around for you. Open Simple Text and select your audio files on the audio CD. The Open button will become Convert. Select Convert and it will give you vari…

I've been making audio compilations for years, and by far the best extraction software I've used is the Toast Audio Extractor program that comes with Toast itself. As much as I'd l…

I recently purchased a 4X/8X CDR from LaCie and included with the package was a floppy with software related to Teac drives. Check the LaCie site to see if it is offered as a downl…

Jamer... you have to close the disk from the Direct CD control panel before other computers can read it. Ohh and as for the Teac drivers those are only for the 4x8 drives... I ha…

Adaptec just released Toast 3.5.6 which includes support for the Teac CD-R56S. Go check it out.

For your convienience, here's the list from Toast's Read Me file detailing drives that do NOT support Toast's Direct Audio Copy Feature. This should help those folks looking to pur…

Well I work as an Apple Authorized Service Engineer in Sweden. However I do not seem to be able to solve this particular problem. A customer bought an external cd-r (Panasonic) whi…

Is there a way to calibrate the scanner?? The pictures come out way darker than the original photo.

This scanner sounds interesting and looks good for the iMac. Has anyone had any experience with Artec products, anything particular to be aware of, or similar highlights or concer…

Just as I was about to purchase the UMAX 1220u scanner, an ad in MacAddict magazine caught my eye. A full page ad of the Agfa SnapScan 1212u scanner. They are currently selling f…

Just as I was about to purchase the UMAX 1220u scanner, an ad in MacAddict magazine caught my eye. A full page ad of the Agfa SnapScan 1212u scanner. They are currently selling f…

Hi Folks I'm new here to this forum, and I have some questions I would like some input on if anyone can help me on it. I really want to get a new iMAC. I feel that they are a grea…