Most ADB keyboard's power buttons won't work through an adapter. You will have to turn on the system using the power button on the tower. If it's on the floor, it could be pretty…

I just upgraded from a Beige G3 to a G4/450 and was in the same position as you. I had been using the stock ADB Beige keyboard & a Kensington Tubro Mouse. I bought a Griffin Te…

To wjpjr-so how did you get your G4? Mine's been on order since september! Hope it's all it's cracked up to be. It seems that the conclusion appears to be to buy a USB keyboard to …

to timeop-just lucky I guess. My 450 was ordered as a 500 on 9/8. Called Apple on 10/15. Had it reinstated/downgraded to 450 at original price on 10/14. 450 in hand on 10/20. My Ap…

Can anyone recommend a decend inexpensive (~$100) scanner. There seems to be alot of them out there but I have no idea which one to go with. This will be for occasional home use, s…

i have a Umax, rather old now i guess, model 610, SCSI... works great (not spectacular quality though, can't expect that for the price! less than $100 new) with my G3 beige minitow…

Hi, You have to make sure that software is easily available for whichever scanner you buy. i.e. buy from a company that'll support the software through the Mac OS software revisi…

Are you looking for a USB scanner? If so, I bought the Umax 1220U. It works really well, kinda noisy when it scans though. It was $150 when I bought it but you can probably find…

MacWorld's December issue rates inexpensive scanners on page 98.

I bought a umax 2100u and it really rocks and its only 120$ but for a cheaper solution i would have to say a microtek slimscanc6-usb its only 80$ and has very good resolution.

How is the image quality of the SlimScan C6? I have been considering one of those because of its extremely small size... tooki

My PB 3400 seems to make a very low-level high-pitched "whine" when asleep. This is not present when shut down (w/ or w/o AC attached), or when running - only when asleep. The whin…

Can any one tell me if Sony's Firewire CD rw is compatible with Toast? Also if has anyone tried the Sony product could you tell me if you are having success with it? Thanx.

I have the Sony Firewire CDRW drive and Toast 4 (had it for roughly two weeks). Both work just fine together. I've thus far created a MacOS disk and ISO disk. You may see a warning…

Does it work with Retrospect as well?

kloda...when you purchased the firewire CD RW did you get Toast with it? If so where did you get it? -Mike

I received a response from Adaptec yesterday saying that Toast 4.0 does NOT support 1394 devices. I replied and said that someone was actually using toast with a sony 1394 CD RW a…

Most likely the "E" stands for EIDE. tooki

Has anyone seen a good review of all the new Firewire drives out right now?

The only version of Toast that I know of that supports FireWire CDR(W) drives is Toast 3.8.2. I got it with my drive which came from EZQuest (www.ezq.com). I'll have a review of t…

i gotta new imac DV and my printer won't work! installed the drivers just like i did on my old imac/266 (which worked fine), but when i try to print, i get a sys error -192 . i'…

I was hoping to be able to use my old style writer 2 with my new imac. Is this possible? I didn't see a style writer icon in the chooser and would need some sort of adapter to conn…

I believe that someone was selling an adapter that went from Stylewriter to Ethernet. I'll look for it, just wanted you to know that it was possible... I found it! Farallon makes…

I have set up two original imac's to use Stylewriter II printers using Keyspan's USB to serial adaptors. If you're crunched for desktop space, the stylewriters can do very nicely, …

If you still have an old serial port Mac, connect the Stylewriter to the old Mac, and the two Macs together by ethernet. I did this with an iMac, and LC and a Stylewriter II. Works…