I got the bone stock 2.66 Quad and will be getting more memory in the near future (when available via 3rd party). The video card should be ok for quite some time but can easily be…

Quote: Originally Posted by mduell Yea, it's not for you. Build a PC. I think, at least I hope, that the PCIe info I got from Simon is somehow incorrect... why put in 16 lane s…

Quote: Originally Posted by bballe336 That is rediculous on Apple's part. If they don't support it in 10.5 I'm not going to buy a new mac. As much as I like Apple if they won't …

Quote: Originally Posted by mduell With the Mac Pro's anemic PCIe configuration (one 16x, two 4x, and one 1x), SLI wouldn't be terribly useful. I may be wrong, but I don't …

Well I figure I can still run a 7950 if I can find the drivers. That would suffice for me.

Quote: Originally Posted by mduell Yea, it's not for you. Build a PC. I think, at least I hope, that the PCIe info I got from Simon is somehow incorrect... why put in 16 lane s…

Quote: Originally Posted by saru boy Keep in mind that no Intel motherboard on the PC side supports SLI (they do support Crossfire, but at two x8 channels and not two x16 channe…

Check out Anandtech's review of the MacPro for a discussion of the chipset: http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2811 Quote: A very little talked about aspect …

Quote: Originally Posted by CharlesS Nah, if anything, the price will go up, judging from recent trends. Remember when you could get a Power Mac G4 for $1299? When the G5 made t…

Answering my own post here: Still interested in other options if there are others out there. Thanks! http://home.swipnet.se/ridax/connector.htm

have you tried restoring the iPod?

When it's wiped, an iPod is restored to the factory settings, including being "formatted" for a Mac, NOT a PC. You need to run the Windows iPod updater-the current one- to get it …

Tried that. The iPod updater froze up and didn't do anything for 15 minutes.

What was it doing when it froze? Loading? Looking at the iPod? And have you talked to the shop yet?

It usually freezes when it's loading. The one time it didn't freeze, a message popped up saying that it couldn't update the iPod because it was being used by another program. I did…

Redownload the updater and try it again. It sounds like it got corrupted somehow, and a fresh download should fix that. And of course a fresh restart of the computer is indicated…

Just tried redownloading it and reinstalling it and it's still freezing. No, I haven't talked to the shop yet. Could this just be my computer being quirky? It's been known to c…

Restoring can be done on ANY computer, though you'll want to use a PC if you're interested in syncing it with a PC. But if you're having this kind of problem, and it IS the PC, I …

You could just select all audio tracks on the audio cd and drag them into the Toast window. It should automatically switch the cd format to "Audio CD" and you can go. This techniqu…

http://www.astarte.de/text/softwaree/copy/ for a demo versin of CD Copy. It may work

AndreasVogt: Toast does not support direct audio transfer with Teac drives. (drag and drop from 1 CD to another). That is my problem. Check the toast read me file

Did you try setting your SCSI ID to 3 or 5? Those are the defaults for audio transfer.

There are two pretty cool CD burning utilities out there that might help with some of these problems. Adaptec makes Jam which is made specifically for burning audio tracks to CD. …

First the CD drive you want to copy from must be able to do "Digital Audio Extraction" at high speed or you will suffer "Buffer Underruns" and will have generated a "coaster" inste…

I use Astarte CD-Copy 2.0 to extract any track from cd, weather it be data or audio. Once tracks are saved you then drag them on top of toast and it does the rest. This has a minor…