I have a 5400/200 i am getting a G3 (G4 if I can) upgrade for its cache slot. I want a video game card and a USB card but I have only one PCI slot. Is there a way to get USB on to …

Get the new low cost iMac for $999. It has a good gaming card and USB with lots more performance than you can get out of upgrading. Drewman

I would love 2, but in Canada an iMac is 1800.00, and I don't have the money to get a new system. Things like a HD and a USB card are good cause I can get USB devices that can late…

iMan_ca, have a gander: http://lowendmac.com/ppc/5400.shtml and here: http://www.macspeedzone.com/ click on the 'Upgrades' link and then scroll down the page to the 5400 model..…

Can anyone suggest to me a good video cam (quick cam?) for an iMac. I would like to run a web cam off my server (I am using Quid pro Quo) but am new to this. Also- silly question…

I've been the proud owner of a Power Mac 7600/120 for the past 4.5 years (my 3rd mac). We recently got G4's at my work place and I also have the extreme pleasure of taking my boss'…

Gabe, A processor upgrade and additional RAM is a good start. There is a good article posted at the barefeats web site -- http://www.barefeats.com/cobra2.html on the performace …

I have a 5500/225 that came without an ethernet card, and I just bought a new graphite iMac (Sweet!) to replace it. The iMac, of course, comes only with Ethernet. So, I bought the …

You need to use a crossover cable that has wires 1&2 swtiched on one end with 3&6. These are available anywhere ethernet cables are sold. If you are using a standard patch…

Hmm... how interesting! Can you tell me why this is?

Well, regardless of why I need a crossover cable (used to connect to hubs, I thought) instead of a regular patch cable, I purchased one this afternoon and I'm now downloading all 1…

The reason you need a crossover cable is that one pair is transmit and the other is receive. When you have a hub it connects those two pairs together. Without it you have to connec…

I am actually not confused, instead I am quite aware of the differences between a megabit and a megabyte. And, therefore, my calculations told me that 100 megabits is equal to abou…

Are you sure that it connected at 100Mbps? Did the lights light up 100 on both sides? Also, you don't get the full 12Mbps as their is some network overhead especially with AppleTal…

That makes sense... The light was on on the 5500, but the iMac doesn't have a light with its built-in ethernet. I can understand why the PCI implementation on the 5500 might be slo…

In my newspaper lab, we have 24 5500/225's with 100Mb/s ethernet cards that were put in about 3 weeks ago. The hub(s) are really nice professional models that always run at 100mb…

Can any one tell me if Sony's Firewire CD rw is compatible with Toast? Also if has anyone tried the Sony product could you tell me if you are having success with it? Thanx.

I have the Sony Firewire CDRW drive and Toast 4 (had it for roughly two weeks). Both work just fine together. I've thus far created a MacOS disk and ISO disk. You may see a warning…

Does it work with Retrospect as well?

kloda...when you purchased the firewire CD RW did you get Toast with it? If so where did you get it? -Mike

I received a response from Adaptec yesterday saying that Toast 4.0 does NOT support 1394 devices. I replied and said that someone was actually using toast with a sony 1394 CD RW a…

Most likely the "E" stands for EIDE. tooki

Has anyone seen a good review of all the new Firewire drives out right now?

The only version of Toast that I know of that supports FireWire CDR(W) drives is Toast 3.8.2. I got it with my drive which came from EZQuest (www.ezq.com). I'll have a review of t…

Does anyone use this PCMCIA card reader? I am thinking about getting one (Yes I have a digital camera) and want to know what are my best choices out there. I need one that reads …