Recent content by Dennis Gordon

I've taken many desktops apart, but this looks like a job for someone else. What a pain. Best plan will be to get it with the right memory pre-installed. Thanks for the tips...

So I'm pricing around for the Mini I'm looking to buy. At Macmall the upgrade from 512 to 1G is a whopping $200, which includes *professional installation* whatever that is, and the caveat:"Memory is not user-installable". Can that be true? That can't be true. Can someone please clarify? Thanks...

Yeah, the disks are somewhere... but where? I'll find them eventually...

Opened it. Rattled the IDE cable about. Now I'm getting the no smoking symbol. Guess the HD is shot.

Yeah, figured as much. I'll crack the case and check connections

Zapped the pram. Booted into Safe Mode. Currently getting the ? and smiley mac face, but no booting. I'll wait a bit more...

Zapped the pram. Booted into Safe Mode. Currently getting the ? and smiley mac face, but no booting. I'll wait a bit more...

Now where did I bury that system disk....? Thanks...

In an attempt to get this old G4 (667) running before I opt for a Mini, or toss it out the window... I pulled this old Mac out last week, hoping to get it running to be able to open some Digital Peformer files. Hooked it up to 4 different monitors with the same results: turn it on, get the...

Yikes...

Only DP 5.1, program and plugins, are compiled for the Intel processors, so unless I upgraded from 4.6, I'd be running in emulation. Probably not the best idea, but then I don't really know what the performance hit is.

I usually do music projects in Cubase on my PC. I have a large project that's being recorded with Digital Performer (MOTU-Mac only). I've been recording my tracks on the PC to a submix and then sending individual tracks to the producer for inclusion into the DP files. Thinking it'd be easier...

You do see the occasional used, but on warranty T60 on Ebay for a decent price: http://cgi.ebay.com/IBM-Thinkpad-T60-Core-Duo-NEW-out-of-the-box_W0QQitemZ320079992190QQihZ011QQcategoryZ140083QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem XGA, unfortunately....

Oops, sorry. I read that wrong. I was looking at the C series, not the N.

I looked at the Lenovo N100, but it was replaced by the N200 series: http://www.notebookreview.com/reviews/default.asp?productFamilyID=898&brandID=9 I wound up buying a T43 TP, but the Lenovos got decent enough reviews.