Re: Expansion Bay HD

2002-03-27 Thread Remy Davison
Gary, if you take a look at those benchmarks for exp. bay devices I sent you the URL for, you'll also see that the Ratoc FW card, together with the Red/Yellow VST drive, is a little slower than the int. HD on the PB, which gives an indication of 1st-gen FW controllers (and the VST drive is

Re: Expansion Bay HD

2002-03-27 Thread RLMcKee
In a message dated 3/27/02 7:19:53 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gary, if you take a look at those benchmarks for exp. bay devices I sent you the URL for, you'll also see that the Ratoc FW card, together with the Red/Yellow VST drive, is a little slower than the int. HD on the PB, which

Mom says Please vote

2002-03-27 Thread Dan Knight
Twice a year we run a pair of surveys -- Best of the Mac Web and Rest of the Mac Web. The second survey covers 50 sites not included in the Best poll, and the best of these will move up to the Best survey in October. Rest of the Mac Web has a lot of good low-end sites like Mac512K, System 6

CD tray problem

2002-03-27 Thread Philip
Hi all, I have an iBook (500) with a CD/RW drive. Lately, the CD tray has been popping open at times on its own. Sometimes it will be when I touch the tray on the outside, for example when I pick up the iBook. Other times, it will just open for no apparent reason. Anyone having this problem?

VST Expansion Bay HD - alternatives?

2002-03-27 Thread gd2
Like someone else who posted recently about the VST Expansion Bay 10GB hard drive, my shoplet.com order was just canceled; the e-mail says that the manufacturer is no longer making the item. SO - does anyone happen to have a summarized list of alternatives? Here's what I know so far (with

Re: Lombard Ram

2002-03-27 Thread Eugene Lee
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 06:50:45PM -0500, Philip Jewett wrote: : : are lombards particularly picky about what kind of ram you put in them? i : have one that seems to only like the original 64 it came with. when i put 2 : 128's (not a pair) in it i had all kinds of crashes and applications :

Re: Powerbook G4 Memory

2002-03-27 Thread Joshua Diaz
I have a PB G4 667 (DVD/CD-RW) with 512MB and it has 2x256MB in it. Also, on the fan issue, the fan seems to come on pretty often, but I haven't payed attention to the conditions under which it does so. -JDWTopGuy -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: Lombard Ram

2002-03-27 Thread Philip Jewett
on 3/27/02 6:56 PM, Eugene Lee at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 06:50:45PM -0500, Philip Jewett wrote: : : are lombards particularly picky about what kind of ram you put in them? i : have one that seems to only like the original 64 it came with. when i put 2 : 128's (not

Re: Lombard Ram

2002-03-27 Thread Dick Grable
The only constraint I know of is only 256 in each slot. There were/are problems with the processors in early Lombards having problems with more than the stock 64 megs of ram although I can't remember if that applied to OS X installs only. On 3/28/2002 3:50 PM, Philip Jewett [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lombard Ram

2002-03-27 Thread Remy Davison
are lombards particularly picky about what kind of ram you put in them? i have one that seems to only like the original 64 it came with. when i put 2 128's (not a pair) in it i had all kinds of crashes and applications freezing up. Try TransIntl. Lower slot stuff is more expensive (LP SO-DIMMs).

Re: VST Expansion Bay HD - alternatives?

2002-03-27 Thread Gary D. Adams
Gene: http://www.compgeeks.com has the cardbus 8gb drives for $79. I ordered one today to see what it's like. Gary gd2 wrote: Like someone else who posted recently about the VST Expansion Bay 10GB hard drive, my shoplet.com order was just canceled; the e-mail says that the manufacturer is

Re: Expansion Bay HD

2002-03-27 Thread Remy Davison
Gary, if you take a look at those benchmarks for exp. bay devices I sent you the URL for, you'll also see that the Ratoc FW card, together with the Red/Yellow VST drive, is a little slower than the int. HD on the PB, which gives an indication of 1st-gen FW controllers (and the VST drive is