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Apple Macintosh PowerMac G5 Tower model M9032LL/A!
A great personal computer taken care of and loved by the original owner! This PowerMac G5 is great for making those professional looking home movies with iMovie or Final Cut Pro, recording and editing your podcast with GarageBand or video conferencing with iChat. (Software and video hardware not included)
This Macintosh has two unused PCI slots for external SATA cards or extra networking cards. With its super fast gigabit ethernet networking port and fast SATA hard disks, this Macintosh would be a great server for your photo or music collection.
Store data on not one but two hard disks, weighing in at 300gb and 160gb respectively. Both drives are freshly erased and ready for your use, with the 300gb drive having OS X Tiger 10.4.9 installed for you.
Also included is the Radeon 9800 Pro video card which supports both Apple displays with ADC connectors or displays with DVI connectors. An included adaptor allows you to connect your older SVGA monitors!
Includes:
Dual 2 GHZ G5 processors
2GB RAM (Arranged with 1GB in each bank)
SuperDrive
One 300GB SATA hard drive
One 160GB SATA hard drive
Radeon 9800 Pro video card with 256MB RAM with ADC and DVI connections
Original Power Mac G5 CD with hardware test (OS X 10.2.7)
Gigabit ethernet port
OS X Tiger Upgrade CD
OS X Tiger 10.4.9 installed
Bluetooth module + antenna
Wifi Antenna (NO wifi module)
One button wired Apple Mouse
G5 power cord
Original manuals (10.2.7)
ADC to DVI adaptor
DVI to VGA adaptor
Original packaging
NO Keyboard
NO modem (Although the phone cord is included)
NO AppleCare / Warranty
Shipping Weight: ~50lbs. Shipping to USA only. Paypal only Shipping quote of $60 includes insurance of $1600.
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DirecTV HD DVR HR10-250
If you have DirecTV, love TiVo and have been wanting a DVR to go with your HDTV, this is the unit for you!
Purchased in December, 2005, this TiVo saw one month’s work before I was required to move to a location that did not have any satellite coverage. I was forced to switch to cable and the TiVo has sat unused since January, 2006.
I have fired it up, checked that the menus work, the sound works on composite video and analog audio. When I last used this in my home theater, it was connected via component cables and digital optical audio.
You are responsible for contacting DirecTV and making sure you can get DirecTV service as well as signing up this HD10-250 for service. Please contact DirecTV before bidding if you are unsure about any aspect of this unit or their service.
Includes:
HR10-250 DirecTV HD DVR
Record up to 30 hours of High Definition programming or 200 hours of Standard Definition programming!
According to this story over at Apple Insider, Apple will be splitting their Pro Care services into two $99 services, one for hardware support, one for training support.
Seems like a good time for other dealers to jump in and take some of that business!
I ordered a Series 3 TiVo last night, after TiVo dropped the price $300, which essentially pays for 3 years of service. So instead of paying $12 a month for the Comcast DVR+service, I am paying $22/month ($800/36) and getting a much larger disk and better DVR.
So call Comcast and a very nice woman helps me out and says all I need to do is bring my Comcast DVR into the Nimbus office and I will get two Cable Cards.
I had to go to the Apple Store anyway, so I stopped in at the nearby Comcast office to see if I could get my cards early. No surprise, they don’t have cards and I need to make an appointment. So I have an install on Wednesday morning. If the TiVo arrives early Tues I might even get a late Tuesday install.
Update 3 Apple said to track the status but the battery is not covered even under AppleCare, unless it has a major failure. I hope that doesn’t mean “it burned your house down.”
Update 2 Now that I’ve been on battery for an hour, the full capacity reads 5054! I am taking it in to the Apple Store to get their opinion.
Update! I let the machine run down again, charged overnight, and now my full capacity is down to 4318! 2h15m again. But last night it ran for over 3 hours! Annoying.
Apple today released the Apple Battery Update 1.2 for MacBook / MacBook Pro via software update. Before applying the update, I checked my battery via System Profiler. My 1 year old Mac Book Pro 15″ Core Duo was reporting 4098mAh full capacity
After the update, I removed the battery, plugged it back in, and now I am showing a full capacity of 5082!
Unplugging the power showed nearly 3 hours of life, while playing iTunes, where I had dropped to about 2h15 mins.
I am a contractor for a major out of state university. In order to get expenses reimbursed, I have to fill out a form. An awful form at that.
They send me a link to the PDF file. I open it in preview and I cannot edit it. Fine. I download Acrobat Reader, which lets me edit the forms but it will not let me save the document, or print to PDF! I have to print it out and scan it back in to email it. ugh.
So now its weeks later and I need to mail in the real form. My Canon IPX 4200 printer is out of three inks. I check into various laser printers, etc and finally decide to just print the two sheets via kinkos.
Kinkos charges 11 cents per page, so two sheets is 22 cents. Except that they have a $1 minimal order. Fine. I have them print 9 blank expense forms. The order sheet informs me my print job will be done at 3pm, which is 3 miles away, but near the grocery store, so I’ll kill two birds with one trip.
At 3:30 I head to Kinkos and they say my job was “suspended.” After 20 mins of looking around, they finally decide to just print it on a laser writer. Only the expense PDF from hell prints out in Klingon. Its a mess. So I walk out with my one good sheet. Damn.
A highly recommended color laser is $280 and toner lasts a LONG time, but with the uncertainty of my job, I decide to spring for the $70 of ink, which carts have special chips on them that unless I want to mess around with knives and such, I am stuck paying $14/color.
I head off to the store and then home. I plug the 2 empty inks in (I bought all five because I am smart) and sure enough, the other three start blinking. Ok I replace those and the lights on the printer are happy.
Except the Airport Extreme N basestation isn’t. It can’t see the printer. Damnit. So I cycle the printer, unplug the power to the printer, unplug the USB, nothing. Says no printer. Apple discussions say to reboot router.
What the hell. I have people on Skype, etc, I can’t reboot my router just to make a printer or disk show up. Damn you Apple. Get some quality assurance on the Airport team ok? And fix the Sonicwall VPN issue too!
Anyway, I happen to have just set up my old Tibook as a PPC code test machine so I run the printer into that, download the canon drivers, reboot, turn on print sharing and I can finally print.
They have had this price for a couple weeks now. 5 year warranty, 7200rpm, 16mb cache.
The box says $179.99, the sign on the pile (the shelf was empty, but there was a pile around the corner) said $169.99, I spoke to a guy at the hardware desk and he printed me out a sheet for the $119.99.
No HD content! Even the new MGM movies announced today are still 640×480. They’re not even in anamorphic 720P the AppleTV supports! I do not know what Apple is thinking here.
No content - Did I mention that?
I don’t need an AppleTV to watch stuff, I can connect my MacBookPro via DVI
I’m waiting for blu-ray to become affordable, say for a second bay in a Mac Pro, and then stream that content to the AppleTV
Apple can do much better than they have. Rev B anyone?
Apple released version 7.1 of the firmware for the Apple Airport Extreme N router today. While people on Apple Discussions have suggested it fixed the VPN client issues with Nortel software, but our tests here show that Sonicwall Client 3.1.0.556 still does not function. Sigh.
My 7 year old Royal AG-X10 finally died after I whacked the top to loosen some paper. A component on the circuit board blew out, so I went on a hunt. I didn’t like anything I found online and all reviews were bad.
While at Fred Meyer, I found a Fellowes DS-2 on sale for $60 so I picked one up. It is fairly nice with a larger basket, a lift handle, can do credit cards but not CDs and if you touch the shredder opening, it stops. It also has a opening in front for dropping in clippings.
I tossed a bag inside of it (which obscures the window showing how full it is) and shredded a few items - Quiet and quick. We’ll see how long it lasts, but for this price, I can buy a new one yearly for five years and still be cheaper than the cost of a higher rated unit.
The included paper documentation is useless. I already had the software installed, so I ran it and told it to change the remote. It found the 890 and had me update the firmware. Then it had me plug in the remote extender to update that.
That worked fine, and I plugged the remote extender into an outlet and then plugged two IR extenders into it. Each extension cable has two IR emitters, which I glued to my DVD player, my stereo, my video switch box and my Comcast DVR.
Everything functioned well, even the DVR player, but the DVD player did not at all. I was sure I had the emitter in the right place, but no luck.
So I used the software’s knowledge base and discovered that I had to enable the emitters. The remote was controlling my devices not the RF extender!
So I told it to use the RF extender for everything but the TV. It then had to reprogram the extender, which I had to dig out from the A/V rack and reprogrammed the remote.
All works fine now.
So then I decide to put an emitter on my new Mitsubishi 57732 TV. I can’t find the IR sensor anywhere so I look in the manual and guess what? My TV uses the entire screen as the IR sensor! The sensors are inside and it uses the mirror to reflect down to them. LOL. So I’m kinda hosed in controlling the TV from under the blankets for the moment, as I am sure where I can put the sensor and have it:
According to TechCrunch Apple and EMI will start selling all of their tracks without Digital Rights Management (ie copy protection) Here are the details:
New version of iTunes next month
You decide if you want DRM music or not
DRM free music is $1.29 per track, or $0.30 more than a protected track (Sneaky way to get a fee hike in)
DRM-free music is also 229kbps AAC, not 128!
One click in iTunes to upgrade your music for $0.30/track
