Re: Mainstreet/Lombard conundrum

2005-04-13 Thread Keith Johnson 
On Apr 13, 2005, at 8:52 PM, Malcolm Cornelius wrote:
I have a Mainstreet and a Lombard, both in good shape. I want to
upgrade one of them for everyday use until I can afford a new laptop.
I have 2 uses other than normal stuff:
1. I have an ap that uses a 2nd monitor (or TV) for general use by an
audience. If you *must* know, it's a karaoke ap. Say what you will ;)
It also uses an external firewire hard drive. I have a Newer Firewire
cardbus card.
2. I want to be able to watch DVDs when I take the train across 
country.

I can upgrade the Lombard's cpu by sending it in.
I can upgrade the Mainstreet's cpu by purchasing an upgrade and
installing it myself.
I'm not even sure if you can upgrade a Mainstreet to watch DVDs, or if
they make an internal (slide-in) DVD drive for them.
Suggestions, thoughts?
If I understood the question I could offer a suggestion.
Both machines run the FW HD without upgrade.
Neither of them have built-in FW. I have a FW cardbus card that says 
minimum 300 MHz cpu, so with the upgrade, no problem there.
Both machines run DVD with the DVD drive and a hardware Decoder.
Can they? Are you sure of this? I'm talking about an internal DVD 
drive. I didn't know one was made for the mainstreet/wallstreet.
Both machines can be upgraded to be better.
What's the issue ?
Well, price, for one. You neglected to mention the need for the 
external video. The other response mentioned the vid card in the 
Lombard. I know there's some (expensive) cardbus video card things. The 
Mianstreet has two cardbus slots. No USB though.

I'd prefer to use Panther (or even Tiger), but I own Jaguar as well.
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Re: Mainstreet/Lombard conundrum

2005-04-13 Thread Malcolm Cornelius 
> I have a Mainstreet and a Lombard, both in good shape. I want to
> upgrade one of them for everyday use until I can afford a new laptop.
> 
> I have 2 uses other than normal stuff:
> 
> 1. I have an ap that uses a 2nd monitor (or TV) for general use by an
> audience. If you *must* know, it's a karaoke ap. Say what you will ;)
> It also uses an external firewire hard drive. I have a Newer Firewire
> cardbus card.
> 
> 2. I want to be able to watch DVDs when I take the train across country.

> I can upgrade the Lombard's cpu by sending it in.
> 
> I can upgrade the Mainstreet's cpu by purchasing an upgrade and
> installing it myself.
> 
> I'm not even sure if you can upgrade a Mainstreet to watch DVDs, or if
> they make an internal (slide-in) DVD drive for them.
> 
> Suggestions, thoughts?

If I understood the question I could offer a suggestion.

Both machines run the FW HD without upgrade.

Both machines run DVD with the DVD drive and a hardware Decoder.

Both machines can be upgraded to be better.

What's the issue ?

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Re: Mainstreet/Lombard conundrum

2005-04-13 Thread Laurent Daudelin 
On 13/04/05 17:23, "Keith Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have a Mainstreet and a Lombard, both in good shape. I want to
> upgrade one of them for everyday use until I can afford a new laptop.
> 
> I have 2 uses other than normal stuff:
> 
> 1. I have an ap that uses a 2nd monitor (or TV) for general use by an
> audience. If you *must* know, it's a karaoke ap. Say what you will ;)
> It also uses an external firewire hard drive. I have a Newer Firewire
> cardbus card.
> 
> 2. I want to be able to watch DVDs when I take the train across country.
> 
> 
> 
> I can upgrade the Lombard's cpu by sending it in.
> 
> I can upgrade the Mainstreet's cpu by purchasing an upgrade and
> installing it myself.
> 
> I'm not even sure if you can upgrade a Mainstreet to watch DVDs, or if
> they make an internal (slide-in) DVD drive for them.

Which OS are you planning to use? In any case, I think the Lombard would be
the best bet, as it has a faster video card with more VRAM and built-in USB,
which the Mainstreet lacks.

You can't play DVDs in any of them using Apple's DVD Player unders OS X, but
VLC might work if the processor upgrade is powerful enough...

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Mainstreet/Lombard conundrum

2005-04-13 Thread Keith Johnson 
I have a Mainstreet and a Lombard, both in good shape. I want to 
upgrade one of them for everyday use until I can afford a new laptop.

I have 2 uses other than normal stuff:
1. I have an ap that uses a 2nd monitor (or TV) for general use by an 
audience. If you *must* know, it's a karaoke ap. Say what you will ;) 
It also uses an external firewire hard drive. I have a Newer Firewire 
cardbus card.

2. I want to be able to watch DVDs when I take the train across country.

I can upgrade the Lombard's cpu by sending it in.
I can upgrade the Mainstreet's cpu by purchasing an upgrade and 
installing it myself.

I'm not even sure if you can upgrade a Mainstreet to watch DVDs, or if 
they make an internal (slide-in) DVD drive for them.

Suggestions, thoughts?
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