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Guys, I remembered that I had an 2.5 inch laptop drive and a USB 2 enclosure so I did some testing using Xbench and this is what I found (all figures are averages of the read and write sequential tests): Internal drive: 22 MB/sec Samsung USB drive: 19 MB/sec 20GB Laptop USB drive: 16 MB/sec...

ElDiabloConCaca, Thanks for your quick reply... It would certainly be interesting to know how many USB chips my Mac Mini has. I can see what you are getting at about the hard drive performance vs. interface speed but I thought modern 7200 RPM disks had transfer rates of between 40-70MB/sec not...

Hi, I have an external USB 2 hard drive on my Mac Mini and I have been very happy with it. It is mainly used for storing multi-media and DV clips from my firewire video camera. I am thinking of adding a second hard external USB 2.0 hard drive and my question is this. Is the USB 2.0...

bobw, Thanks... I'll let you know what I get and how it turns out in a few weeks time. thanks, Gary

Hi, Just to add some thing here. While looking at the specifications for one particular wide screen LCD display it says: PC: VGA upto 1440 x 900 non-interlaced at 60Hz Power Mac: G3/G4/G5 upto 1152 x 870 at 60Hz So if I bought that model I would need to run the display at a lower resolution...

Hi, Thanks for you reply, but I am still unsure... You see you got an APPLE display, so I would expect the Mac and the Apple display to work together. But if I get a 3rd Party display, what screen resolutions will be available. For example Xerox have a wide screen monitor (the XM3-19W)...

Can no one help me with this? Gary

Hi, I currently use my Intel Mac Mini on an aging 17 inch Dell monitor. It works fine except that not all the resolutions available on that monitor are present in System Preferences->Displays and at the moment I am stuck at 1024x768!!! But that isn't a problem, I am now thinking of getting...

Guys, Just to let you know I got a Sony Handycam DCR-HC23 and it works just great with OS X and iMovie and iDVD etc. Thanks for all the advise. Thanks, Gary

Guys, Thanks, this is EXACTLY the information I was looking for... Now I can buy in confidence. Thanks again. Gary

Hi, I got my first Mac about 2 months ago and I am really hooked!!! I don't own a camcorder but the applications that come with iLife (I have '05) look quite good for making quick DVDs etc of family stuff (just like the advert says)... So I am looking to buy a camcorder. I went to the...

Hi, Thanks for the advise... I got impatient and am started a re-install of OS X, which I agree is probably a bit drastic considering the circumstances but it also gave me a chance to see how the install process works! Many thanks again, next time I will try to be more patient...

Hi, I just received my first ever Mac (an Intel Mac Mini to be precise) and I have been starting to learn how to use it. Today something odd happened, when I click on a .pkg file to install something I get: There is no default application specified to open the document "X11User.pkg" There is...