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Why do people want hot-swap drive bays in a tower. It makes no sense to me. First off, Apple won't sell the drive sleds by themselves, nor would it be compatible with anyone else's drive sled. Therefore, you are stuck buying HDs and drive sleds…
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[quote]Originally posted by salmonstk: Its the door on the bottom of the g3iMac. Please explain. Which door?
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I suspect this is related to rackmount server design. The two layers of security is very good for servers, so that you can either allow people not access at all, the ability to use the CD drive, and possibly the external ports, but not the HDs and …
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[quote]Originally posted by stimuli: I actually have a 13.3" Wallstreet, and I quite like the size. Simply put, if Apple made a 13.3" screen iBook in the 12.1" ibook's case, I'd be whoring myself out on the street corner for handjobs saving for one…
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[quote]Originally posted by EmAn: You're right, bigger screens are better. I'd take a 14" over my 12" regardless of how the case looks if it had a higher res. Unless you have poor vision, there's no reason to take the 14" over the 12" since the…
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[quote]Originally posted by EmAn: Everything. It's big, ugly, and the screen is no improvment over the 12" since it's the same res. Bigger isn't always better. That's a bit of an oversimplification, to say the least. While your comment is t…
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I have an external USB number pad for my iBook. It's made by Adesso. It lacks the media eject key, volume adjust, etc. but since these already exist on the iBook keyboard, it doesn't matter. The only thing that would be nice on it would be the Pa…
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I'm sorry, but the whole reason the iPod has Firewire is so that you can quickly move music in and out of your iPod. If you wanted to keep every one of your 2000 CDs on your iPod, you could do with USB - while it would take a long time to download,…
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While 10GB is enough music for me (in fact, 5GB is likely enough), I would want at least 10GB to use for data storage/transfer. I really want an external Firewire 10GB HD, and would really love to have an MP3 player in addition. So, for me, a 15-2…
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JYD, why would you say to buy now? If he won't be starting university until September, to me it makes very little sense to buy now. No one can be SURE that there will be no minor update (i.e. manufacturing bug fix) or speed bump, or even price c…
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Glove would certainly make sys-admins in an all-mac shop/school, etc. very happy. It simplifies things greatly if all machines are running the exact same OS version. If by upgrading even only one machine, they can get the latest OS and legally ins…
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[quote]Originally posted by xype: The RAIDs he showed me weren't much "bigger" than a 3U case, maybe even the same space as 2U (arranged differently). And yes, SCSI RAID backups. Why? Because they are not a graphics centre, they do printing.…
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To answer your question based on your particular situation, I'd say get yourself a low-end iBook or even a used machine for your first year of university (or just stick with what you've got right now). Until you know for sure what you'll be majorin…
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[quote]Originally posted by Masker: If you don't have a large hard drive then how do you fill up the gigs of space on a DVD when you burn it? MSKR You burn it when connected to your Mac, from the computer's HD. In reality, I think the non-writ…
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I really don't think that you'll see a 32MB video card in the iBook yet. The only real choice for one for a laptop would be the same Radeon 7500 that was JUST added to the TiBook. To my knowledge, the iBook has never had the same class video card …
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[quote]Originally posted by hmurchison: The simple answer is do not run RAID 0, for DV and Audio your performance would be fine running RAID 5 or a Combo of Levels(ie 0 +1) I had heard that RAID 5 was not recommended for video. I was told t…
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I believe that vertically mounted drives make for much better cooling too. It you stack drives on top of each other, you need a lot of air blowing through to keep the heat from one drive from smoking the drive(s) above it. Therefore the air must m…
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[quote]Originally posted by Addison: I am sure that the MPC8540 won't make it to the server as it would kill the sales of the Powermacs. Powermacs are already struggling with the competition from the new LCD iMac hence the recent special offers. …
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[quote]Originally posted by neutrino23: I just couldn't let that go. Tapes are famously poor for archival. They start to deteriorate after a few years. Most of my old Hi-8 tapes have dropouts and unplayable sections. Properly stored in a dr…