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From: Andy Hewitt on 11 May 2010 10:50 Jon B <black.hole(a)jonbradbury.com> wrote: > Andy Hewitt <thewildrover(a)me.com> wrote: > > > > > Is this worth flogging? FYI - last model 14" iBook 1.42GHz 1GB, and 60GB > > drive, smashed screen and broken hinge. > > > Not sure if it'll be worthwhile, but as I've got a 14" late iBook screen > here I may be interested in it... Righto, I'll let you know when I get the MDD up and running, and I'm sure the iBook will be surplus. Cheers. -- Andy Hewitt <http://web.me.com/andrewhewitt1/>
From: Ian McCall on 11 May 2010 15:31 On 2010-05-11 13:07:21 +0100, Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> said: > On 2010-05-11, Kevin <kevinng1966(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: >> In article <1jiajhc.u8s4w9ha7q28N%jim(a)magrathea.plus.com>, >> jim(a)magrathea.plus.com (Jim) wrote: >> >>> the polarity needs reversing apparently. >> >> Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow. Now that brings back memories. > > Tom Baker era, I think. Pertwee. Was in a single script, and Pertwee liked it so much he tried to work it into every story. It became an in-joke then, and every Doctor since has reversed the polarity of the neutron flow -except- the current one I think. There's plenty of time though. Cheers, Ian
From: Rowland McDonnell on 11 May 2010 15:57 Andy Hewitt <thewildrover(a)me.com> wrote: > I've been trying to find a way to get Emily a slightly better Mac than > the iBook she's currently got > > I found one on eBay over the weekend that may do the job. An old G4 > PowerMac MDD 1.25GHz with 1GB of RAM. No hard drive, or externals, but > at �50 I couldn't pass that up as a punt. Looks like it may have the top > end graphics card too. Assuming it's got two cores, it'll do nicely. Noise - oh yeah: they are loud, even the ones with the allegedly quieter fans. Noise of a sort that'll put off someone used to quiet computing... > I've a 200GB drive on the way, and I plan to clone/migrate her existing > drive over (a retail install of 10.5), and use the external as a Time > Machine box (320GB SATA in a FW400 enclosure). Benchmarks I found seem > to show this should be quite a bit quicker than the iBook. If it's got the top-end graphics card, it'll be storming (compared to other G4s, that is). (I have/had one) > Out of interest, what's reliability like for sticking a SATA card in > this for a bootable drive? No idea. [snip] Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Rowland McDonnell on 11 May 2010 15:57 Flavio Matani <flavio_mataniTAKETHISBITOUT(a)mac.com> wrote: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > > > Andy Hewitt <thewildrover(a)me.com> wrote: > > > I found one on eBay over the weekend that may do the job. An old G4 > > > PowerMac MDD 1.25GHz with 1GB of RAM. No hard drive, or externals, but > > > at �50 I couldn't pass that up as a punt. Looks like it may have the top > > > end graphics card too. > > > > Nice machines, but be warned - they can be loud. > > They can be. I have one of Jon B's old MDDs here and that sounds like an > old DC3 taking off. Wondering whether it is possible to change the > fan... Yes, but the Apple-supplied replacements to make the machine quieter[1] seemed (when I fitted them) to make the noise a wee bit less intrusive - I got the idea that the sound energy's not so much reduced, as increased in wavelength. Rowland. [1] PSU with twin fans, and the big CPU-cooling fan got replaced. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Jim on 11 May 2010 16:25
Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > They can be. I have one of Jon B's old MDDs here and that sounds like an > > old DC3 taking off. Wondering whether it is possible to change the > > fan... > > Yes, but the Apple-supplied replacements to make the machine quieter[1] > seemed (when I fitted them) to make the noise a wee bit less intrusive - > I got the idea that the sound energy's not so much reduced, as increased > in wavelength. In my case the original fan made a sort of knocking noise that was subtly yet incredibly annoying. The Dorothy Bradbury fan was quieter and didn't knock. Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/ |