Depends on your uses for the machine, and how long you wanna/can wait If you NEED a computer NOW, & will run only ppc software, grab an iMac NOW, & be happy. The 20" iMac…

Yes, exactly. If you just do a little web surfing and email you can buy whatever you want. If you do serious things and rely on a working system, better buy a trusted ppc machine…

I'm having trouble connecting to an 802.11a access point with my AirPort Extreme card in my MBP. Has anyone else had success? I'm pretty sure the radio is on and working on the n…

802.11A is a very different thing from B and G; it operates on a completely different frequency band and with different wireless protocols. I don't think there's an AirPort-brande…

Yes, it's a 5GHz spectrum-technology, although the MBP does support 802.11a. It's the first Mac to support it as I understand.

Here's a quote from the manual: "How AirPort Provides Wireless Internet Access With AirPort Extreme technology, your MacBook Pro makes a wireless connection to an AirPort Express…

I hopt that's not a typo in the manual, but I can't help you on this because it's the first I've heard of an AirPort card supporting -A connectivity.

Ok, thanks. Maybe someone else will have more information. Later in the manual they talk about it being an a/b/g MiniPCIe card too. Speculation is that it was easy to get this f…

I think Intel makes that card too; I've seen other Intel bundled a/b/g mini-PCI cards, so a mini-PCIe card would just need a different bus interface and they'd be done.

I read in an article yesterday (tried to find the link but could not) that there is some question as to whether or not the .a talk is an accident or if it might work. Apparently n…

Yeah, I bought two access points to try to get out of the busy 2GHz spectrum and allow this machine to be in full-speed mode while the B has similar channels running. I hope we ca…

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Intel includes their 3945ABG miniPCI card in the Centrino Duo bundle (Core Duo + 945PM + 3945ABG). Example from their price list: T2500 (2M L2 cache 2 GHz 667 MHz FSB) w/ Intel 945…

Just thought I'd share my experience as I thought it was pretty cool. My network setup before was [Cable Modem] -> [Wired Router] -> [Wireless Router] -> [Airport Express…

The "how" is simple; by changing to only using the wired router's DHCP server, you went from having about three different networks (separated by their own DHCP address ranges) to h…

As my sub states, I was wondering if you guys thought that it's safe/reliable to open files from one computer on another when connected to it on the network. For example, I have w…

Yup. I do it all the time. As long as the computer that hosts the files is reliable, there's no problem. Of course I always recommend that ALL computers and the networking equip…

Thanks!! Since I know that it's safe, I can now enjoy running my files off the powerbook onto my powermac using the cinema display. To think, I used to 'download' it to the power…

Quote: Originally Posted by MikeD Thanks!! Since I know that it's safe, I can now enjoy running my files off the powerbook onto my powermac using the cinema display. To think,…

I have a G5 desktop and a G4 PowerBook. I sync my Treo to the PowerBook using Missing Sync and my two computers using iSync. My Treo and PowerBook seem to sync okay, but my G5 neve…

Any reason not to use BitTorrent?

In terms of what? If you don't cap the upload/download rate, then it can start to use a lot of network resources, which can annoy others if you are on a shared network. If you ar…

...and you have to trust that the source of the torrent you download hasn't either messed it up or added crap to it to mess with Windows users. It's a big gamble.

Quote: Originally Posted by ghporter ...and you have to trust that the source of the torrent you download hasn't either messed it up or added crap to it to mess with Windows use…

Even if the adulteration doesn't hurt your Mac, it can and often does completely hose up whatever media it's embedded in. So you spend some time downloading what you think is the …