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what is pci and is my 6500 pci? — #2

First, PCI is Perephial Component Interconect. And yes, your Powermac 6500 is PCI bassed, and it has 2 short (7' inch) PCI slots. Now I would expect that most Voodoo cards are this…
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G4 upgrades for G3's... — #2

There's no way to undo the Firmware update. But, what you can do is mess-up your logic board and take it to an Apple Service Provider and let them order a new logic board. When t…
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G4 upgrades for G3's... — #3

newer G3's are coming with the update made so chances are a replace,ent logic board will have that done already. I wouldn't stress about it. Apple will allow you to upgrade once th…
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Older Mac as Print Server? — #2

How old of a Mac? Is it Ethernet capable, or Localtalk only? What volume of traffic? What kind of Printer? There are a lot of variables to consider. Please post more information!
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Firewire PC Card/DV Edit? — #2

I am using a Newer Technology FireWire2Go card in a Lombard, I have been capturing perfect video in a number of applications including Final Cut and Premiere using a Sony DV Camcor…
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Firewire PC Card/DV Edit? — #3

I have ordered a new FireWire card from Syskey from ClubMac.com for $250 and is available now. I have not tested it yet but it has many features that the FireWire2Go card does not…
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Firewire PC Card/DV Edit? — #4

Does anyone know how much space DV takes up on the hard-drive, or where I can find out. I know that it is recomended that you have a hard-drive that is able to write at 11MBs/sec …
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Firewire PC Card/DV Edit? — #5

hey blaine is that you? DV editing is great on the Bronze powerbooks, the hard drives that come in the powerbooks are plenty fast enough for DV although you better have the 10 GIG…
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Firewire PC Card/DV Edit? — #6

Does anyone know if the FireWire2GO card or any other card of this type will work with a Lombard 233Mhz PowerBook (White logo on top and purchased in early spring: I always get the…
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Firewire PC Card/DV Edit? — #7

To qualify: Lombard (a.k.a. 1999 PBG3) comes only in 333 and 400 MHz flavors. If you have a 233 (original Wall St.), you may have trouble capturing DV without loss.
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Firewire PC Card/DV Edit? — #8

Try the FireWire PC Card from Ratoc. www.ratoc.com I believe. They are a japanese company and I've been trying their card out for a while and it works great!
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ATI Rage Orion 128 — #2

There may be some hardware hack where you're able to string your internal monitor to your Rage 128 card, but that definatly requires some know-how and the right parts. As far as so…
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iMac RAM: Why the huge price range? — #2

There is price variation between vendors. A 128 MB chip costs between $100-200: closer to $100 from chip venders (such as Microtech); closer to $200 from catalog stores. But the …
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iMac RAM: Why the huge price range? — #3

I bought additional memory for the iMac I bought my folks plus for my G3 using Ram Seeker. Try: http://www.macseek.com/index.shtml and it will pull up a huge list of places on the …
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iMac RAM: Why the huge price range? — #4

I think some vendors bank (literally) on you not knowing what RAM really costs. For example, I recently bought a bronze 400. At the same time, I bought an extra 128MB of RAM to get…
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iMac RAM: Why the huge price range? — #7

Yes, the Low-Profile RAM is the only RAM you can get to fit into the 2nd Slot... 192MB is the Fastest/most cost efficiect amount of Memory to have in the iMAC. 128MB in the top sl…
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iMac RAM: Why the huge price range? — #8

There is a difference in memory quality. The memory you buy from catalogs are top of the line premium memory, which is why you can spend so much on them, but you are guarranteed th…
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iMac RAM: Why the huge price range? — #9

Heh, you might wanna check that math, Macguy - 128+32=160MB :-D It was incredibly easy for me to install my 128MB DIMM... Apple even includes an illustrated guide in the Apple Gui…
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external monitor for the imac???????? — #2

Focus (focusinfo.com) makes the iTView which is a full iMac to television presentation system. iTView uses the iMac Video Adapter, which is also sold separately (call Focus: 800-…
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external monitor for the imac???????? — #3

Another thing you can do is rip the back panel off the iMac. There will be a DB15 plug pluged into the logic board. Unplug it and plug in you gigger display and then it's 21" if yo…
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external monitor for the imac???????? — #4

what i was hoping for was to use the little port, which i thought was an expansion port, to stick in a video card and have a 17" monitor hooked up to it. but i guess thats not real…
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