Hi At my house we still have a Mac OS 9 computer running. I would like to purchase an new scanner and favor the Canon scanners because of the print-to-pdf-function and reasonable…

I'd suggest you buy an older Canon model with Mac OS 9 support (such as a LiDE 30 or 50) on eBay or ricardo. All the current Canons' drivers are for Mac OS X only. In fact, I actu…

Hi All, do you know where i could find information about a Palm? i just switched from PC to Apple (and that rocks big time) and i couldn't find out how to use windows PC on Mac OS…

Quote: Originally Posted by kingjules do you know where i could find information about a Palm? Uhm, have you tried the INTERNET ? http://www.palmone.com Quote: Orig…

If you're considering a Treo (Palm with built-in phone), a good resource is www.treocentral.com /plug

Are there any firewire chipsets that support 500GB hard drives? I'm about to buy a 500gb hard drive, but since I have a laptop, I'll have to stick it in a firewire enclosure. The…

Any SATA enclosure will support all drive sizes. For regular ATA, just look for a case with large drive support ("48 bit LBA"). That boundary is at 137GB. It either does or doesn'…

I wish Firewire enclosures for SATA drives were more readily available. There are a couple, but they're really expensive ($100+) and, for the most part, pretty ugly.

SATA is a little too new for the support chips to be as available as the "accessory" market likes. They tend to wait until the support chips are fairly inexpensive and plentiful b…

Quote: Originally Posted by ghporter I think that SATA enclosures will start being in the "affordable" category when the SATA drive premium gets very small and a lot more comput…

Quote: Originally Posted by tooki Any SATA enclosure will support all drive sizes. For regular ATA, just look for a case with large drive support ("48 bit LBA"). That boundary …

That almost sounds like an artificial limitation. But I have another theory: it supports >200GB drives, but was released when 200GB was the biggest. Since it had not been teste…

Quote: Originally Posted by ghporter Take a look at how long it was between when ATA-133 drives werer widely available and when ATA-133-compliant enclosures were avaiable for …

Quote: Originally Posted by tooki That's because of two reasons: 1) No single drive ever released can saturate ATA/100. There is zero benefit from ATA/133, besides marketing. …

Quote: Originally Posted by ghporter I've also thought of another reason these things were slow to come out: slow acceptance of the concept that an external drive could be as si…

Quote: Originally Posted by tooki Maybe in the PC world. External drives have been constant companions of Macs for two decades. We are quite used to external drives being simple…

Hi, I currently have a Nokia 6600, and I was planning to get a Treo 650. Are there any issues with either Salling Clicker or Bluephoneelite on the Treo 650. I still haven't deci…

I just ordered my Verizon Treo 650 (switching from T-Mobile Nokia 3650 so I can get some decent goddamn reception). I'll let you know how it goes! I do know that Kinoma player can…

Quote: Originally Posted by vgoklani Hi, I currently have a Nokia 6600, and I was planning to get a Treo 650. Are there any issues with either Salling Clicker or Bluephoneelit…

Just wanted to add that AeroPlayer also supports unprotected AACs. And my reading indicates that GSM networks like Cingular are much better for serious data use, because they run d…

I use the T650 as my wireless modem via bluetooth with my Powerbook and iPaq which I recently got... I may want to downsize if the iPaq will sync well with the new pocketpc version…

Quote: Originally Posted by Mithras I just ordered my Verizon Treo 650 (switching from T-Mobile Nokia 3650 so I can get some decent goddamn reception). I'll let you know how it …

I have an (internal) SCSI hard disk from a SGI I would like to use with a non-scsi ready PowerMac B&W, so I was seeking about the possibilities I have, is this card Adaptec Pow…

Somebody has suggested me going for a Adaptec DowerDomain 39160 to get the most from the dual SCSI channel even when the card is even more expensive. He told me that getting the P…

There may be other scsi cards out there, but IIRC, they are all fairly expensive.....probably more than your whole computer is worth. And, except for a few diehard pro uses, scs…