Re: latest mac mini for 10.4.11

2010-08-23 Thread MnDel
I'd love jumping to 10.5 or 10.6 - but I have enough docs in Pagemill and Appleworks that the jump looks like a bloomin big mountain to climb. Reading this guide to using OS9 apps on Intel macs puts me right off my feed. http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20060509180914879 So if it

Re: latest mac mini for 10.4.11

2010-08-23 Thread Dan Palka
On Aug 23, 2010, at 6:53 AM, MnDel wrote: I'd love jumping to 10.5 or 10.6 - but I have enough docs in Pagemill and Appleworks that the jump looks like a bloomin big mountain to climb. Reading this guide to using OS9 apps on Intel macs puts me right off my feed.

Re: latest mac mini for 10.4.11

2010-08-23 Thread Eric Herbert
On Aug 23, 2010, at 6:53 AM, MnDel wrote: I'd love jumping to 10.5 or 10.6 - but I have enough docs in Pagemill and Appleworks that the jump looks like a bloomin big mountain to climb. Reading this guide to using OS9 apps on Intel macs puts me right off my feed.

Re: latest mac mini for 10.4.11

2010-08-23 Thread t...@io.com
On Aug 23, 6:53 am, MnDel dsmn...@gmail.com wrote: I'd love jumping to 10.5 or 10.6 -  but I have enough docs in Pagemill and Appleworks that the jump looks like a bloomin big mountain to climb. Reading this guide to using OS9 apps on Intel macs puts me right off my

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-23 Thread Cliff Rediger
On Aug 22, 8:31 pm, Fabian Fang f...@mac.com wrote: You have been working with VGA output from the Mac mini, which   supports analog resolutions as high as 1920x1080.  I believe that your   ViewSonic monitor accepts DVI input. The ViewSonic accepts both VGA DVI. The odd thing is that it

Re: latest mac mini for 10.4.11

2010-08-23 Thread Clark Martin
On Aug 23, 2010, at 4:53 AM, MnDel wrote: I'd love jumping to 10.5 or 10.6 - but I have enough docs in Pagemill and Appleworks that the jump looks like a bloomin big mountain to climb. Reading this guide to using OS9 apps on Intel macs puts me right off my feed. Appleworks works in 10.5

Re: latest mac mini for 10.4.11

2010-08-23 Thread John Carmonne
On Aug 23, 2010, at 4:53 AM, MnDel wrote: I'd love jumping to 10.5 or 10.6 - but I have enough docs in Pagemill and Appleworks that the jump looks like a bloomin big mountain to climb. Reading this guide to using OS9 apps on Intel macs puts me right off my feed.

Re: latest mac mini for 10.4.11

2010-08-23 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 23, 2010, at 8:22 AM, Dan Palka wrote: it really is time to move on. Snow Leopard on an Intel Mac is an amazing, highly-refined, ultra-powerful combination. I wouldn't downgrade for anything. Great, I think we all know this already, but most either already own PPC Macs or can't

Re: latest mac mini for 10.4.11

2010-08-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Aug 23, 2010, at 12:43 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: However, I disagree with the idea that Snow Leopard offers any substantial improvements over Leopard, after all, the ONLY thing Snow Leopard is doing is converting Leopard from 32-bit Universal Intel/PPC code over to 64-bit Intel-only

Re: latest mac mini for 10.4.11

2010-08-23 Thread Dan Palka
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Aug 23, 2010, at 8:22 AM, Dan Palka wrote: it really is time to move on. Snow Leopard on an Intel Mac is an amazing, highly-refined, ultra-powerful combination. I wouldn't downgrade for anything. Great, I think we

Re: USB Question (UPDATE)

2010-08-23 Thread Stephen Conrad
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Stephen Conrad khel...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 7:05 AM -0500 8/22/2010, Stephen Conrad wrote: I plugged a Targus 4-Port hub into another of my UB Hubs (it i powered) and now that Hub appears to

Re: USB Question (UPDATE)

2010-08-23 Thread Stephen Conrad
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Stephen Conrad khel...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 7:05 AM -0500 8/22/2010, Stephen Conrad wrote: I plugged a Targus 4-Port hub into another of my UB Hubs (it i powered) and now that Hub appears to

Re: PCI graphics card for Yikes G$

2010-08-23 Thread Gus
I have put a Radeon 7000 in mine and i got a very slight bump, but it still isn't playable. The only solution i have found is to use something along the lines of Videobox and let the computer convert it into something that the machine can play. I have a 400 bumped to 450 G4 Yikes with 768 of

Re: PCI graphics card for Yikes G$

2010-08-23 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 23, 2010, at 9:02 PM, Gus wrote: I haven't tried enabling the Quartz Extreme Patch because I am updated to 10.4.11 and I heard it stop working prior to that. This is not true. PCI Extreme 3.1 stopped working for one single OS X Update, I believe it was 10.4.4 perhaps, and works fine

Re: latest mac mini for 10.4.11

2010-08-23 Thread Illirik Smirnov
I like my G5 tower more than my computer lab's Mac Minis. It is faster, has more RAM and hard disk space, runs PPC apps natively, resulting in huge speed boosts, is more servicable, can use VGA and ADC monitors natively with the right video card(s), more reliable, uses slightly more standard and

Re: latest mac mini for 10.4.11

2010-08-23 Thread Dan Palka
On Aug 23, 2010, at 9:52 PM, Illirik Smirnov wrote: I like my G5 tower more than my computer lab's Mac Minis. That exact G5 is far slower than even the base-model Mac Mini of today in Geekbench scores, and you're not even considering that only with Snow Leopard has 64-bit software been