I have the low end, since an iMac takes care of the DVD burning. It's a great Mac so far.

Just bought a refreshed low end macbook for $989 from the Apple Store. Very impressed so far and I haven't yet received my 2gb of ram. Coming from a 12 inch powerbook, this thing…

Count me in as another person likely to go for the low-end system and upgrade the RAM and hdd after the fact.

Quote: Originally Posted by zurfer Just bought a refreshed low end macbook for $989 from the Apple Store. Kind of makes you wonder where it came from, since they just came o…

Quote: Originally Posted by Icruise Kind of makes you wonder where it came from, since they just came out such a short time ago. Perhaps open box returns or the like? Maybe from…

I agree with most of the others. The main difference is the superdrive. I was really tempted to go with the middle model just because it wasn't the cheap one, but after really look…

How much is an external DVD write drive, anyway? (around how much) and how would it connect it?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827106011 $80. firewire (or in this case) usb 2.0.

I got mine yesterday. Also a low-end model. I don't need superdrive as my two G5s have and I have one extra external one anyway. Burning DVDs with an already hot enough MacBook …

I got a MacBook today! 2.0ghz with Superdrive... I decided for the mid-range one for resale value and to skip the harddrive upgrade for the time being. I have 700GB in my desktop …

"Also, I am picking up a boatload of wireless connections from the neighborhood." Me too. I don't live in an apartment. I live in a house on the corner (so no other houses on one …

I bought the low end. The price is a lot nicer and the speed is virtually the same in benchmarks. I have a superdrive on my desktop (which I never really use) so I didn't mind losi…

We've been using Visioneer's Paperport VX to store documents in a database (4D) through Paperport deluxe. Now that we're upgrading everyone to iMacs, we have a problem. Since USB t…

I don't know who told you that USB to SCSI adapters don't work if you have only one device on the chain. I am using a 2G Jaz drive on my iMac DV. Works great.

USB to SCSI adaptors only work if the item on the chain provides termination power. Your Jaz drive does. The paperport VX scanner from visioneer does not. The only way to add termi…

Can you get an adapter to put on the end of the SCSI connecter of the scanner?

You don't have to go and get new scanners. The USB to SCSI adapter from Second Wave called SCUSBee works with the scanner being the lone device in the chain. In my opinion, this is…

I know that there is a plugin for Backup, but it would be cool to be able to sync with a .Mac account. Similar to the plugin that I have for my Transmit favorites. -dev

Quote: Originally Posted by devros I know that there is a plugin for Backup, but it would be cool to be able to sync with a .Mac account. Similar to the plugin that I have for …

The idea of dot-mac syncing is a good one, and one we've got in the venerable requested features list, but it has a few technical considerations. When you think of things that syn…

I have a bunch of 8 mm home movies that my dad made when i was little. Is there any way to convert them to DVD short of videotaping them as they are shown on a screen?

Quote: I have a bunch of 8 mm home movies that my dad made when i was little. Is there any way to convert them to DVD short of videotaping them as they are shown on a s…

I got several of our old, silent 8mm movies done here 2.5 years ago: http://www.homemoviedepot.com/ I highly recommend it. If you have iMovie and iDVD, you may want to consider …

Buy a movie scanner, use it, then sell it on ebay.

I'm gearing up to send some less important 8mm movies to http://www.homemoviedepot.com/ as a test. They seem to have the best combo of quality and price that I could find. Especial…