I worked with macs at the recording studio but never owned one. My best friend bought a dual G5 w/ cinema display. And wants me to convert to mac so bad that he gave me his G4 Grap…

That machine takes either PC-100 or PC-133 RAM, and the biggest chips are 512 Mb, so you can get up to 2 gigs of RAM in one of those. Welcome to the club!

I'm not sure exactly which model that is but maybe you can find it here and figure it out. http://www.info.apple.com/support/applespec.html EDIT: Whoops.. scratch that, Chris is …

Cool i love it so far.....I have a dell 17 flat panel and its great.....I can do anything i did on my AMD xp machine.

You should buy 512 sticks from someone that sells RAM specified to work in your model. Most generic 512MB PC RAM sticks will be recognized as 256 MB if they are recognized. The re…

I looked at my "about this mac" menu and a few things are interesting. 1 - The model reads: Powermac G3 ( pci ) But below it reads powermac G4 This IS a graphite model. NOT …

It won't, max RAM is 1.5GB: http://lowendmac.com/ppc/g4saw.shtml

Click the "More Info" button in your About This Mac dialog. That opens Apple System Profiler (located in /Applications/Utilities) which will give detailed specs for your model. Cli…

It says PCI for sure. I think its the first one right after the blue and white. and it seems only 4x 256mb ram. at this momoent its not booting up and iam typing from my AMD (yuck…

Quote: Originally Posted by ReggieX It won't, max RAM is 1.5GB: http://lowendmac.com/ppc/g4saw.shtml yeah it will. sawtooths can take a max of 4-512 sticks, for a total o…

A PCI Mac G4 is basically the same motherboard as the B/W with a G4 chip - probably someone added an upgrade to 500

I started a petition for Apple to restore full Firewire support in the next iPod video revision. People may think that this won't work BUT, there was a petition for Digital Booklet…

I wish there was Firewire but Apple ain't going to offer Firewire on iPods anymore. The masses have spoken and most of them are PC-using weenies.

Good luck with that.

I don't think that it's "PC-using weenies" that are the problem. (And I don't admit not having firewire is a problem, either.) I think this design decision came from how much the…

Please apple DO NOT add firewire back onto any ipods, please smack anybody who doesn't have usb2 upside the head.. thank you.

just curious has anyone actually tried to use the old firewire cables on the new iPods to see if they work? probably wont but worth a shot.

They don't work.

k. just wanted to make sure this was not a case of once again many of the whiners jumping the gun without testing things throughly. like the 3G iPod not including a USB2 cable and …

In my experience USB sucks so much it is sad. I have USB 2. Plugging in USB devices can cause kernel panic, something that never happens with FW. USB doesn't have the electrical po…

Quote: Originally Posted by Weyland-Yutani In my experience USB sucks so much it is sad. I have USB 2. Plugging in USB devices can cause kernel panic, something that never happe…

id prefer firewire as well, but cant please everyone and in the case apple was trying to please the masses. and my brother has an older iPod and a g5 that gets kernel panics quite …

Uhh... Didn't Apple develop FireWire? I can't see this as a decision that was made lightly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewire "FireWire was developed primarily by Apple Computer in the 1990s, after work defining a slower version of the interface by the IEEE 1394 work…

Frankly, USB 2 is good enough for iPods. Both FireWire and USB 2's throughput exceed that of the iPod hard disks or flash media by a large margin, making it pretty much irrelevant …