Re: emac 700Mhz Opinium

2011-11-08 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Bump the RAM to 1GB and it will be a smooth ride. On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 10:58 AM, MACMAN joshantiq...@gmail.com wrote: I Just want to get peoples opinium on the emac 700Mhz The emac i use specs powerpc G4 700mhz 256 megs of sdram 40 gig hard drive CD rom only, no modem OS, mac os

Re: emac 700Mhz Opinium

2011-11-08 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
I am rather to question as to why modems were placed on any machines after 2003 at all. It's not like we are still dealing with dial-up anymore, are we? On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Christopher Satterfield christopher1...@gmail.com wrote: The ram is really low, especially for Tiger. The

Re: emac 700Mhz Opinium

2011-11-08 Thread Beverly Woods
On 11/6/11 10:31 PM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: I am rather to question as to why modems were placed on any machines after 2003 at all. It's not like we are still dealing with dial-up anymore, are we? Mark, you may not be in dialup land yourself, but going into 2012, there are still plenty of

Re: emac 700Mhz Opinium

2011-11-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 6, 2011, at 8:31 PM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: I am rather to question as to why modems were placed on any machines after 2003 at all. It's not like we are still dealing with dial-up anymore, are we? Aside from all the folks without access to broadband, there's this quaint form of

Re: emac 700Mhz Opinium

2011-11-08 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/11/06 20:31, Mark Sokolovsky so eloquently wrote: I am rather to question as to why modems were placed on any machines after 2003 at all. It's not like we are still dealing with dial-up anymore, are we? For some people, rural areas mostly, dialup is the only hardwired connection

Re: emac 700Mhz Opinium

2011-11-08 Thread Jim Scott
As a retired editor who never got less than an A in spelling in school, I'd just like to state that Opinium is not the way the word opinion is spelled. That's just in case someone, somewhere gets the mistaken impression that Opinium is correct because it's in print (so to speak) and thus far

Re: emac 700Mhz Opinium

2011-11-08 Thread Jim Scott
On Nov 8, 2011, at 12:11 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Nov 8, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Jim Scott wrote: As a retired editor who never got less than an A in spelling in school, I'd just like to state that Opinium is not the way the word opinion is spelled. That's just in case someone, somewhere

Raid on iMac

2011-11-08 Thread JOHN CARMONNE
My son and I have a new iMac 27 Core i5 with Thunderbolt and FW 800. He does training videos for a big company that demands quick turnaround I'm wondering if I get him a RAID system would FW800 be really fast or is Thunder Bolt fast enough to justify the very high price. Also I f we go

Re: emac 700Mhz Opinium

2011-11-08 Thread Dennis Faulkner
I only upgraded to Cox high-speed when Cox played dirty pool, raised my second phone line to $10 per month, and claimed they couldn't fix that line - to me, my dial-up had a pretty fast phone line, and the economy of dial-up through fastermac.net made it worth it - I have not been overly

Re: emac 700Mhz Opinium

2011-11-08 Thread Clark Martin
On Nov 8, 2011, at 5:14 AM, JohnCarmonne wrote: On Nov 6, 2011, at 7:31 PM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: I am rather to question as to why modems were placed on any machines after 2003 at all. It's not like we are still dealing with dial-up anymore, are we? I FAX 80% of my invoices to

Re: Raid on iMac

2011-11-08 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/11/08 08:02, JOHN CARMONNE so eloquently wrote: My son and I have a new iMac 27 Core i5 with Thunderbolt and FW 800. He does training videos for a big company that demands quick turnaround I'm wondering if I get him a RAID system would FW800 be really fast or is Thunder Bolt fast

Re: emac 700Mhz Opinium

2011-11-08 Thread Charles Lenington
On 11/8/11 7:22 PM, Clark Martin wrote: On Nov 8, 2011, at 5:14 AM, JohnCarmonne wrote: On Nov 6, 2011, at 7:31 PM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: I am rather to question as to why modems were placed on any machines after 2003 at all. It's not like we are still dealing with dial-up anymore, are