i want to buy some surround sound speakers for my imac. Does it support true surround sound? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I apologize for the stupidness of my question, but I know nothing really about microphones. Myself and two friends are all out to buy new (external) microphones for our computers. …

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!

I have a puzzling problem that I might run past people. One of my clients has a Apple Color LaserWriter 12/660 and prints thru Xpress 3.32. The symptoms are INCREDIBLY heavy inks b…

My VST 6Gb drive is not hot swappable, and causes finder quits at startup. Anyone using these drives with success in OS 8.6?

The conflict appears to be with my SCSI card software. By disabling the 2906 extension, the FireDrive works as predicted. Any suggestions?

Turns out that backing up to my CD-R is now prohibited from the Firewire Drive. Anyone have any guesses as to why this might be (aside from me needing the 2906 extension?)

Has anyone been able to sync using the iMac IrDA with PDAs? I have a TI Avigo and only have Windoze software. Therefore, I will need to sync through Virtual PC. Looking for some…

A friend of mine is a wintel user - he can't help it, he's an IS person for a living and doesn't know any better - and has offered to put some high-res digital photos on cd for me,…

I have a Rev. A beige G3 266 MT. Recently i had to install a second IDE drive, forcing me to remove the IDE CD drive from the machine as it can handle only 2 IDE devices. I've bee…

We just got a Plextor SCSI CD-RW in our beige G3. It weent in pretty easy, and came with very good instructions, but I haven't used it enough to give you I good idea of how well i…

Well, my company allowed me to shed my Wintel machine for an iMac. Using DAVE, I've been able to network with the other Windows machines; however, I need a connection to our SGI se…