Ok I have a Mac OSX running 10.4.11. If I upgrade to the latest software(10.6) will it cause any problems or erase stuff because my computer is probably about 4 years old or will it run completely fine?
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Im just wondering if anyone could enlighten me on hooking my macbook (white) up to an older TV. The only ports i have are scart and composite (red, yellow, white).What cables would i need etc.
Just got a new Mac mini and an external superdrive, I find some CDs rip to iTunes but some will not, all the CDs play on regular cd players and PCs an annoying basic problem. I have got around it for now by using my old 2008 mini to rip my CDs onto a portable drive and then transferring them over (the bluetooth is not working).
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to connect an older G4 computer tower (400mhz) to an LCD TV (Vizio 20"). The computer has a ATI rage 128 video card. I have a VGA-to-VGA cable that connects the computer to the RGB connection on the TV. However, I'm not getting a signal. Are any additional steps, hardware, cabling, etc. needed here? Not very familiar with tech details. I've searched web. I have access to an 'ATI rage 128Pro' card that seems to have a DVI connection in addition to the VGA port. Would this work better?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI just replaced my Apple 24" LED that was running on my older Mac Pro via a Gefen dvi/miniport display converter with a new Apple 27" LED. Unfortunately the Gefen doesn't work with the 27".
View 7 Replies View RelatedI'll be doing some work with Photoshop, iMovie, and a fair amount of Handbrake-type encoding. I'm tilting back and forth with getting one of the older generation (1st or 2nd) Mac Pros that I could upgrade myself and the current or upcoming Mini/Mini Server.
View 10 Replies View RelatedThe price hikes for the new Mac Pros are much than probably most of us anticipated. So looking at perhaps getting an old stock Harpertown octo 2.8Ghz or 3.2GHz machine.
1. are they still worth getting?
2. will they still be upgradeable for the next 2/3 yrs.
3. is there any limitations, end of road technologies with these machines.
4. is better to just get a baseline Quad-core 1 x 2.66Ghz machine. (although the 8GB RAM limitation feels like a weak proposition, and surely a 2.8GHz harpertown octo is faster than a single quad 2.66? I know about the new motherboard layout, but seems like a lesser spec machine).
I have a quick question, maybe a softball for the experts here.
I'm prepping my wife's older Macbook (white, 2006) for sale on eBay, as I have recently replaced it with the newest model. I'm going to wipe the computer and re-install OSX.
My question is this: Can I use the OSX Snow Leopard disc from her new Macbook to wipe/reinstall on her old one, thus having Snow Leopard installed instead of Tiger?
I'm having a beast of a time trying to get 10.6 to install on an older mac mini.... The installation proceeds in the usual way - but after about 15 minutes the installation stalls with some sage words to the effect that 'installation failed because support files cannot be copied' - or something to that effect.
I'm thinking one of a number of things could be wrong:
1) The dvd drive is dodgy
2) the SL dvd is dodgy
3) the hard drive is dodgy
My question is this. Does anybody have any idea of what to try ? - I'm thinking along the lines of a minimal SL install, reformat the drive, partition the drive, anything to try and get the minimal set of files on there.... can I try and make a disk image or something ?
Incidentally, when I go to 'customize' the install (uncheck the printer, languages, X11 etc.) - I'm left with the 'greyed out ' Essential system software which shows a size of 8Gb..... but I recently did the same thing on a Macbook and the Essential system files for SL came to a mere 3.5 Gb.... Any idea why this install to the Mac Mini is 8Gb
I have an older Powerbook running OS 10.4.11.My linksys router died and I want to replace it with an Apple base station.
1) Which model will work with the older OS and
2) will it still work if I upgrade the software?
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Mac OS X (10.4.11)
on imac 27" running 10.7.4 on 4year old sony DVD 4.7gb vers 1.1 (bought before the authors right taxe was implemented) refuses to burn. Gives the message it is incapable to calibrate the power of the laser. Is this a technical method to veryfy the DVD is compliant with the tax?Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Is there anyway to sync Safari bookmarks across two machines with different systems (personal = older, work = newer & lion)?
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MacBook Pro 17" (home), MacBook Pro 15" (Work), Mac OS X (10.5.8), iPods x3, iPhone G3 and iPad
I have a white macbook that has been starting to act a little slow. I put avast on it and found some old files that were windows files received in emails that had never been deleted (i.e. so these weren't issues and so viruses were not the problem).Â
I did a repair disk permissions and it gave the usual long list of java changes. I did a verify disk, and it found errors. So I put the CD that came with the macbook into the drive in order to start from it and run disk utility.Â
The macbook will not boot from the cd. The drive is fine and the computer boots up fine using the HDD. I did try running the hardware test but it said the version is not compatible (maybe these aren't the disks that came with the macbook??) So I booted up normally and tried even to run disk utility from the CD and it said it was the wrong version as well.Â
I researched the internet and saw target disk mode but this old white macbook doesn't have a firewire port. So I just hooked up a carbon copy clone of my desktop from a USB harddrive and was able to boot from that and run disk utility to fix the errors. So the disk errors are fixed and disk verify shows no errors.Â
However, my only outstanding issue is that I cannot boot from the CD drive. If I'm on the road and don't have the usb drive and have trouble with regular boot I will not be able to boot until I get home. I have upgraded the OS since I purchased the macbook but only to 10.6. Do I need a 10.6 startup CD as opposed to the one that originally came with the mac?Â
Is there any reason NOT to use the powerbrick from my earlier MacBook Pro with the new one? I know the new brick is bigger and more powerful (85W) but will anything go wrong if I use the old one when I plug in at my office?
How about a 60W brick for an old MacBook?
Ok well i got my mac pro and i want to target disk all my old documents over from the second hard drive, that is not the boot drive. On my power book when i did target disk mode both hard drives showed up but on my mac pro only the boot drive showed up. Is there a setting or something i'm missing? What can i do to fix it?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm running Safari 1.3.2 (v312.6) on a G4 with OS 10.3.9. Safari used to be great but seems to be slowly dying (e.g. can't move to next page on eBay, can't pay on eBay). I am having to use Firefox but don't like it. Is there anything I can do to resurrect my old mate (apart from lashing out on new hardware)?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a PowerBook G4. I was running 10.3.9 previously. I just upgraded to 10.5.6. I have a older 2004 Airport Express running just itunes to a stereo in the living room. I have a new Express acting as a wireless router and airtunes to the stereo in the office. When I upgraded the OS I lost the older express in the living room. When I try to set up the older base station I get this message:"This version of the AirPort Setup Assistant cannot set up this AirPort Base Station. Please use the software that came with the base or that is available online station to set it up." The new OS will not allow me to install the old AirPort Setup Assistant for Graphite or Snow. It says the new set up assistant is compatible with the older models. Obviously contradicting statements. Anyone have these issues?
View 2 Replies View RelatedWould I have to flash the rom of a Mac pro 8800GT to get it to work in a PC? If so, can someone point me to ROM? Also would it get flashed while inserted in the PC?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI was just wondering if I could connect a NAS to one of the older Airport Extreme base stations? And if so, how should I do it, over ethernet or USB. For reference it is this one: clicky The set-up is a room with 14-16 macbooks accessing the router to download a program, or set of pictures etc. Do you think this router set up with a NAS over ethernet/USB would be good for this application?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a new 2.53 Macbook Pro coming in the mail this week and I want to swap my current 7200rpm drive from a Second Generation 2.16 Core Duo Macbook Pro into my new computer. My question is this:
Would it be a better idea to erase the drive before swapping it to the new Unibody MBP, or can I just throw it in and run off the current OS installed on it (10.5.7). The OS should be the same on the new computer since its the same most current version of Leopard. I dont really know if this is possible since its an entirely different computer.
I need to plug in the older apple cinema display (2003) to the newest g5 tower. the plug does not match. suggestions for an adapter?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have upgraded to 10.6.1 and am generally very pleased. The installation was flawless, including the update to 10.6.1. My one complaint is that Preview has lost some functionality. The range of color adjustments I had in 10.5.8 were so good I normally didn't need to use GIMP or other photo editing program.
Specifically, I could adjust the white and black levels as well as brightness and contrast. In Snow Leopard, they seem to have eliminated those two controls. Is it possible to somehow install the old version of Preview in SL? I have the original 10.5 CD, but haven't been able to find a way to only install Preview.
Can I upgrade from 10.2.8 directly to 10.3.5 on my older ibook? I have 256 mb of ram.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI just bout a new Mac Pro Quad Core Intel Xeon and would like to use the install disk that came with it to upgrade my old Mac Pro. Will this disk work or do I need to buy a new Snow Leopard install disk?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI need to buy a new Apple Remote as mine has seemingly vanished (I think it may have got thrown out ), so I need to buy one - but I've heard, aside from the obvious love/hate of its new aesthetics, that the new remote is also a bit bigger? How do people who've used both remotes feel about the new one?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have Mac Leopard and recently updated iTunes to 10.5.6.However, I found at least 3 older versions on my computer. Is it safe to drag them to the trash, or drag them into "App. Delete" without losing any important data?
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Can not open older .xls files on my Mac osx 10.7.3. Message is "cannot open older .xls file"
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I have a Mid-2011 iMac running 10.7 right now.I partitioned the boot drive, creating a new space so I could load up 10.6 (in an effort to be able to play my older Diablo II and Warcraft games) but my retail CD version is not working. I did some research, and found that this is because my hardware is incompatible with the oldest versions of 10.6. What I am confused about, when reading through threads, is how can I get around this? Is there a way I can load up a newer version of 10.6 (like 10.6.3 or newer) onto this partition? Do I need an older Mac to do this (right now both my laptop and iMac are running 10.7 but I could always borrow my Mom's laptop for a bit since she is running 10.6.x)? Since I have a legal version of 10.6 I assume there is a way to do this, but I am not sure how to approach.
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I want to buy an iPhone which uses ios 5.1. My MacBook runs Mac OS X 10.5.8. Is this compatible with ios 5.1?
View 8 Replies View RelatedDoes Timeline overwrite older backups? My backup disk is at capacity and Timeline won't backup.
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