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That's sucky that the eMac Christmas present is giving your problems - but it definitely sounds like a hardware issue. Time to ring up Apple!

The poster at Slashdot was mistaken... He reinstalled the iTunes 3.0.1 update from SW Updater and installed the QT Oggs components - which is what allowed him to play the Ogg files (not iTunes, but the installed QT component).

In any case, you should certainly wait till after MacWorld SF before making any hardware purchase decisions. :-)

I have to admit that OS X boots slowly for me too, but it's not any slower than Windows 2000 on a PIII-600MHz. However, the saving grace is that I re/boot my machine about once every two months. I am completely serious about this. The only time I re/boot is when I have to install an update, but...

QE doesn't really help scrolling or resizing that much at all. Please understand that QE allows the composition of windows on screen to be done with the graphics card - not the drawing of the windows themselves. The drawing of the windows are still done via the CPU like 10.1. It's only the...

As long as you use the Palm Desktop for Mac OS X, it should work just fine. If the Mac OS X version of PD isn't in the box, you can just download it from Palm.com (which is what I had to do when I upgraded to a M505).

Hey Vanguard, I used to have an iBook 500 and the fan rarely came on! I used it all the time, and the fan came on probably only 3% of the time - even when it was under heavy load. Maybe you should get it checked out?

It also depends on what kind of files you are trying to compress. If you are compressing MP3's for example, you'll see minute to no changes in file sizes, that is because the MP3 formats do not compress well. However, if you are compressing something like text files or HTML files, you'll see a...

I personally could care less if a web browser is integrated into the OS. I like having the option of using any browser I choose. Even on my Windows machine I don't use the integrated IE - I use Phoenix/Mozilla, so integration is useless to me. The only nice thing about integrating the browser is...

They definitely priced it wrongly. Excellent concept and design, but was WAY too expensive.

Just make sure you max out the RAM, the new iBooks should serve you well.

I was in a market for a laptop a while back, and I looked at all my options, and the Apple laptops became the most attractive. This was the justifications for my TiBook. In terms of build quality and size/weight... Only the IBM T-series and Toshiba Tecras could compete. They use Mg alloy...

Just a historical note, Steve Jobs was not responsible for the Newton. Steve was forced out of Apple by John Sculley (that's why Steve Jobs created NeXT), and the Newton was John Sculley's pet project. It is possible that Steve views Newton with enimity, since it's the pet project of his chief...

Not sure what you mean by not going to happen with Darwin... But Apple owns the patent for "bundles" - essentially all elements/files for a program are encapsulated into one "file". This is how programs like Mozilla on Mac OS X allows for drag and drop install. The only files outside of these...

From: http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=17021 "The four top selling MP3 players in Japan were iPods and combined, they accounted for 42 percent sales of all the MP3 players sold in Japan in September." Since the Toshiba MP3 player has been out since June 22nd, it has been competing directly...

What kind of MD player does your sister have? If it's a NetMD player - there is no way she can just drag-n-drop tracks into the player like she can under Windows. This is because the software (not just the driver) is Windows only. However, if she has a regular MD player, she can record...

This part isn't too cool... From the article... I seriously doubt this system would allow you to burn TV shows/programs to CD-Rs and such... Even if you could, it'd probably force you to watch it on the PC you burned it on... What's the point? Window's new zealotry in copy protection is...

Apple licenses the Java Runtime from Sun and optimizes it for OS X. The final JVM is actually quite different from the Sun JVMs for other platforms. The Apple JVM includes many performance benefits and optimizations that are not availble for the other platforms - this mostly has to do with...

http://developer.apple.com/internet/java/enterprisejava.html

If your mom's Mac has a Superdrive, burn a DVD and show them how easy it is with iDVD ought to shut them up.