i'm sure it will go universal...at some point. shapeshifter slows my 1.33g powerbook down...a bit. enough to be noticeable (compared to a "test" user account). but not enough to m…

Not very noticibly on my G4 933. However, what did slow it down was Dashboard. I disabled that thing!

I have an indigo 366mhz G3 iBook & would like to set it up with wireless access so I can access my home network around the house. The thing is original Airports cards are hard…

Mac-compatible ones are very hard to find. There are a few on eBay but at inflated prices. I decided to go with a wireless Ethernet bridge instead.

I've never heard of one of those. Thanks for replying I'm off to google 'wireless ehernet bridge'

An ethernet bridge converts/connects two different networks. In the case of a wireless ethernet bridge, it's going to connect a wireless network with a wired one. This effectivel…

Here is a list of wireless products with Mac drivers. http://home.earthlink.net/~metaphyzx/Wireless.htm Remember that manufacturers often have many different revisions of the sa…

nice find that list, cheers!

Here's another site with chipsets for wireless products: http://broadcom.rapla.net/ Click the chipset manufacturer name at the bottom to see products with their chipsets. I can't …

Hi, I've bought a Apple refurbed Mac mini which came without Airport Extreme installed. If I buy something like the Belkin Wireless Network Access Point, I take it I can just plug…

I don't think that's the device you're looking for. This one joins your wireless computers with your wired network. Belkin offers this device which will plug into your mini's eth…

Thanks, I think I meant the adapter and not the access point. I'll probably go with the Belkin adapter instead of a USB device, as it seems the Belkin will be more straight forwar…

No problem. Yes, it will definitely be much easier to spend the money and get something you know will work.

I'm new to Mac and coming from the land of Win-doze I am used to always tweaking and optimizing my computers. What utilities, programs or applications do you guys receommend for o…

Wow. No one is willing to share their opinions on what they think is the best overall optimization utility. What's up? Help a new Mac brotha out (ha ha ha) . . .

Disk Warrior has been my ute of choice. It won't work on the Intel chips at the moment...

you gotta wait more than a couple of hours before you bump your post to get more views. Anyway, Im not entirely sure what you mean by optimization since there are tons of differen…

You may be reffering to defragmentation, and tools for it are extremely scarce in the Mac OS X ecosystem. Disk Warrior works in some ways, and doesn't on others. OS X itself defrag…

Anyone tried iDefrag? I've seen it around but have no idea if it's any good or not... http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iDefrag.php

Quote: Originally Posted by hickey you gotta wait more than a couple of hours before you bump your post to get more views. Anyway, Im not entirely sure what you mean by optimiz…

Quote: Originally Posted by Daniel Bayer Disk Warrior has been my ute of choice. It won't work on the Intel chips at the moment... That is good information. It could effect…

I will say again that TechTool Pro and Drive Genius are excellent all around utilities that do a lot more than just Optimization.

YOU SHOULD NOT NEED TO "DEFRAGMENT" or "OPTIMIZE" OS X DISKS! This is done automatically by the system everytime you open a file. You are not using Windows anymore!!! From Apple…

When the file and situation meet certain criteria, then OS X will defragment the file, yes, but due to the nature of file systems and hard disks, you can still have a fragmented di…

Onyx is a good tool, and it is free! http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html