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  • Blue/White PowerMac G3 - bought 1999 - retired 2007 (still running, just a bit too slow - gave it to my kids!) PowerBook G3 (Pismo) 500MHz - bought 2000, died 2006 (freak ant infestation, really creepy to see millions of ants pouring out of the v…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Mav5 So a while back I noticed a red light inside the headphone jackon my MB. I searched the forums here and in Apple Discussions and discovered that it is an optical reader and should only come on when headphones are…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by dontlookleft I've done the iMac firmware update serveral times now and it has not worked. every time i check the system profiler it hasn't been done and when I go back to software update it's sitting there again saying…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by philbrunet Hi, Did anyone who purchased a REFURBISHED MAC have any problems at all in the 3 first years they bought it? Is it worth saving about 300$ for the risk of having working components to fail down the road ev…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by THT They're too thick except, maybe, for the one by Thomas Palmer which was just a stretched iPhone: I like the look of this one though: But too thick. If it is a tablet, it's got to be thin thin thin, an…
  • This discussion is all well and good, but this thread was started to generate mock-ups - is there nobody with a few hours and a Wacom tablet handy?
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Chris Cuilla I could be guilty of having a pretty limited imagination, but I don't see a huge amount of change (as you have with the iPod). That said, I can imagine a few distinct evolutionary physical changes and h…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by plasma Did you resolve your issue? Did a reboot help? No, reboots don't help. I found other threads on Apple support forums where the cause was identified - there's apparently a tiny switch which the headphone or sp…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by ZO I dunno about everyone else, but I've been running Flock webbrowser and its absolutely fantastic.. Fast, takes a helluva lot less memory (Firefox is just getting worse and worse) and there is pluginn support (bu…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by ak1808 Repairing disk permissions is pure voodoo. "We" suggest to drink a sip of water, burn a match, blow it out and touch the ground before running an update. Just to be in peace with the four elements, you know.…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by barimzi Not to rain on your parade but you could do that in the old front row. As a matter of fact, it could be done by pressing any key. I share your feelings though, it was nice when i noticed that and enjoyed front…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Zephyr Alleviates all freezing issues for new aluminum iMacs. Works like a charm for me. Does it also magically remove the condensation in the right corner of the screen?
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Sybaritic So far so good. Have been using the 24" 2.8 ghz machine (4 gig of RAM) to create little trailers in After Effects CS3. Good speed. No hangs. Runs well with Photoshop CS3 open, Keynote, Pages. Beautiful e…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by rickj Good luck...My 24" Alum Imac was finally declared doa by support after 3 full days of reloading install disks, etc. I am frustrated with Apple support. I'm trying to be objective and not vent, but that is hard to…
  • Finally got it on Friday - have spent past 24 hours transferring/reinstalling apps, fonts, etc. Have done some fairly intensive graphic testing (Photoshop cs3, FCP 5.1) and so far FREAKING AWESOME. Coming from a G5 iMac to this - is - incredible. Th…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by datamodel We've had a 24" for a couple of weeks now. Gorgeous and trouble free. You're going to love it. Really hope so - of course, I still haven't GOT it yet (it's in my local airport but awaiting clearance - DAMN…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Chamberlain Now with these Mac Pros, cranking out multiple GHz and a capable upgrade to 12 GB of RAM? These last 10 years have been a huge jump for Apple, and computer in General! My iPod Shuffle can carry more songs t…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Chamberlain Nice, sounds like a plan. I'm at a tolerable 1 GHz, seeing anything under it makes me laugh. I know what you mean - I remember how THRILLED I was to actually have a dual-processor G4! Of course that was …
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Chamberlain As some may know, I have a Powermac G4 (MDD) running on Jaguar. Any chance that it would be capable of running Leopard, or would the poor thing cough under the pressure? If Leopard is far too much a pow…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by jcat22 I have had my 20", 2.4 GHz, 500 GB iMac for a little over a month and have loved every waking moment with it! I have been making movies like a Hong Kong movie house without a glitch (although I'm still using iMo…