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I am currently going to grad school for film and have a mac pro. I also used it to edit 2 feature films before I went back to school. It is the original quad 2.6. I use final cut studio 2 usually on a daily basis. All of my footage is shot HDV and converted to the apple intermediate codec which...

A firewire video camera works the best with older macs. You don't need any software upgrades, just plug in the firewire and ichat picks it up. I currently do this with my sony digital8 handycam on my powerbook g4. It's annoying to use such a big camera, but it works and it looks good. If you...

When it comes to video editing, it's the software that makes a bigger difference than the hardware. Right now, premiere pro just can't compete with final cut. However, Avid is available for both pc and mac and is just as powerful as final cut if not a little harder to use and more exspensive. So...

Well, not being satisfied with just a little performace update I decided to have a look inside the powerbook and see if I could improve on the heating of the gpu/processor. After removing the top of my laptop, I found out the card was on the bottom. It looks as if some sort of heatpipe attaches...

All PowerPC setup. Imac is 1.8 20inch. Powerbook is 1.33 g4

I just downloaded ATIccelerator II for mac and decided to give it a try on my powerbook g4 1.33 with a radeon 9700 64mb. Ever since I got this powerbook, I have been dissapointed with it's gaming performance. Also my powerbook is long out of warrenty, I wouldnt recommend this for anyone with...

I just switched from a dual 1.8 g5 powermac with 2gb ram to a black macbook dual 2.0 with 1gb ram. I have to say I was skeptical at first, but the new macbook outperforms my older powermac in almost everyway. For those on the fence between getting an older g5 machine or a newer intel system...

I get 4 hours normally out of my black macbook

It can be done but it requires a little work. The forum at strangedogs.com has a lot of guides on flashing for macs.

I recently got a 32inch Olevia TV that I wanted to hook up to my macbook. I've got it hooked up using a DVI cable. The resolution of the screen (1366 x 768) is not showing up under resolutions in Tiger, is there any way to force a resoltion in tiger?

I didnt see it posted but apple recently dropped the price of the 30inch screen to 1999. They have the 30inch refurbished listed for $1699. Seemed like a pretty good deal.

I have a 6 month old from apple refurbished g5 dual 1.8 powermac 2.25gb memory 2 x 250gb Samsung SATA Hd's Geforce 5200 64mb graphics card (Has ADC and DVI connector) 8x Superdrive It still has 6 months under the apple warrenty. Also I have tiger, ilife06, photoshop cs and final cut...

hahaha sorry, you know I meant geforce 6800 gt. I'll post some benchmarks and pictures when I get her all setup. As for the g5 imac, probably ebay to make up for some of the cost. I have liked all my previous macs, but I realized I always wanted more upgrade control over my computer. This might...