New to Apple/Mac
Hello, I'm new to the Apple/Mac family. I've just acquired a Power Mac G4, 733mgz, 256 ram, 40gb HD with OS X 10.5. Is this going to be a viable alternative to my PC?
I'm running Windows XP on a 1.6ghz with 512ram and an 80gb hd.
I also have questions about the USB ports, should I look into additional USB card? If I want to upgrade the HD, do I have to stick with only Apple products?
How about wireless internet, do I need to install the airport card? Currently I have a small antenna plugged into a USB port on my PC and it accesses my ATT U-Verse gateway. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Hi angwchris, and a warm welcome to the forums & Macdom!
I've just acquired a Power Mac G4, 733mgz, 256 ram, 40gb HD with OS X 10.5. Is this going to be a viable alternative to my PC?
It'll be much slower, but it needs way more RAM, to see what'll be best for your exact Mac do this...
At the Apple Icon at top left>About this Mac.
Then click on More Info>Hardware and report this upto *but not including the Serial#*...
Hardware Overview:
Machine Name: Power Mac G5 Quad
Machine Model: PowerMac11,2
CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (1.1)
Number Of CPUs: 4
CPU Speed: 2.5 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB
Memory: 10 GB
Bus Speed: 1.25 GHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.2.7f1
I also have questions about the USB ports, should I look into additional USB card?
Quite likely, but waiting for your specs.
If I want to upgrade the HD, do I have to stick with only Apple products?
Nope, but do you have the Install Disc(s) for 10.5?
How about wireless internet, do I need to install the airport card?
Waiting for specs, but there are options besides an Airport card.
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ahbeng78i has a loading problem saying that
init failed to load ArrayList as error message
said:
ArrayIndexOutOfBound, 0...Well, post the stack trace.
but when i debug print out the ArrayList content and
its length, i'm sure that this ArrayList is NOT NULL
and its length is NOT ZERO either. You can still get an out of bounds exception with those conditions. The list could exist, its length could be N, but you're trying to dereference position N + 5, for example.
try it in Mac, it show only a part of applet without
any error, but when i try to refresh the page, applet
is now successfully show, why?My guess is that you're not calling repaint() when you should, but that's just a guess.
lastly, when a button of an applet being click and
this will bring a new window with some parameters
value, its work on IE in Windows platform, why it
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prompt out saying is security problem, is there any
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