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dave17lax thanks for the advice, there are quite a few IBMs on the market. Interesting about the hard drive having less wear and tear if its constantly spinning, the only problem I have with it is the fans are always wizzing so its quite noisy. I am preparing to backup all my data tonight...

I really dont know how much it can take, but that figure sounds about right to me. Remember you can get a 12" powerbook!

thankyou for the input perfessor101, I will keep all that info in mind. I was thinking the other night, I have my hard drive set to always spin, never sleep (I hate the lag you get when it warms up to access something or open something) Does this damage it?

in 3d render benches the G5 falls short of the opteron, its still quite close tho!

Ram is very important for Pshop. If you are doing heavy stuff then I would suggest you max out your ibook to as much as it will take - it will be worth the money. On a side note, I would be surprised if the ibook would perform as well as the 1.7 athlon, the ibook is more of a consumer...

so doing "Better to add: alias safari="open -a Safari" to .bashrc" means I can open safari from a shell by just typing "open -a Safari"? Could you explain how I would do this? and does it refere to other apps too? Is this quite a tricky thing to do with terminal? I would have though it was...

ah, ok, so I will need the card and the base? Thats pretty expensive, £210 for getting online wirelessly. Maybe I should find a non apple solution to cut the costs...

thanks for the fast reply! I already have 512 broadband internet modem, so I guess I will need a router to split the signal? Would you be able to explain the difference between an Airport card and an Airport base station? Is the base station a modem? as I already have a broadband modem will...

I would like to connect my mdd g4 desktop and an xp machine to the net using wireless, the only real reason I would like to do this is because I cant stand all the cables lying around my home! I have had a look at the Airport, which I presume does the trick, but my flat mate isnt too keen on...

ok thanks for the input perfessor101 I will keep that in mind. I own a mdd G4 desktop so hopefully this will be easy... I have been looking at a few places online to get a new drive. IBM seem to have quite a variety... As I said earlier I will see what a zero and re-install does and let...

huh! just after that post I had to restart! I think its getting worse! I get this really harsh sounding scratch from the drive and crunches and then the spinning pizza wheel of death! which I have to then hold down the power button. Id say it happens now everytime I start the computer, after...

Well its been quite hard to diagnose the problem. If you do a search on these forums you will come across various threads detailing the problems I have been having, at first I thought it was bad ram, as all my disk utility was saying my drive was fine. Then I tried the TechTool Pro and and it...

well I am prepared to get a new drive becuase I have a bad feeling about this one, its just a last ditch attempt at saving it really, and a bonus if all is well without having to replace it...

Oh thats good news. Hopefully my problems are associated with bad blocks and after a reformat everything will work

is there a way of creating shortcuts for directories and applications so that when, say you want to open Safari.app you dont have to goto ~/Applications and then open Safari.app. It would be nice if I could open a shell and type safari - and there it pops up! I work with Linux in a big...

I have been having problems with my HD for a few months now and it seems to be getting worse. I have ran a few tests and the results are telling me that I have some bad blocks. I am thinking about zero - ing the drive and starting again, will this solve the problem of bad blocks or will I have...

is there a way of having more than one desktop (virtual not physical) like is linux you can swap between them and have different apps and windows open in each one... that would be nice...

thankyou ricky!

this thread seems to be turning into a bit of a war! All I wanted to say is that the G5 is performing really well, better than I predicted. Besides how long can you own until the next machine becomes available, if you wanted the fastest machine all the time then you would have to update every 3...

arent Luxology the people behind Lightwave? I know its Newtek that do the distribution, but I thought they developed it?... have they sold it to Newtek now then? Yeah, impresive about modo. would like to see it compared to the PC version. I think it was demoed at Siggraph...