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The Balance Of Judgement
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Ivory Coast
1006 Posts		 Posted - 17 Jul 2003 :  03:42:49
Well, I have decided to go Macintosh 99% of the way. I'm so sick and tired of my PC and it's glaring faults, and I am eager to get back to using the OS I love and hold dear to my heart: Classic.

There are only a handfull of apps that I can't use, but those will be taken care of with a PC Card, I see a few around, so if lucky, I will snag one. Maybe two.

If I can't snag a PowerPC, I'm so desperate I will use my Quadra 840Av. That things rocks, and the money I would invest in it is well worth it.

Once my mac is up and running, I will be sending my PC to the server farm where my company hosts all of it's data, where it will spend it's life as a Linux server. At least Linux treats it good.

I have tonnes of software for the 68k, so really nothing is a problem. And my mail is already setup inside Basilisk II under Mac OS 7.6 so getting that over will be pie easy.

I will invest in one of those IDE to SCSI converters so I can use my large hard disk in iether of my macs.

As a final act of faith, I will buy a home theatre DVD Player. Then I can watch DVD on my 840 AV. Now that's a hack in itself. (Well, sort of, no-one really has much use these days for a 840AV with DVD)

I'm gonna be one happy camper soon.

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Australia
5830 Posts		 Posted - 17 Jul 2003 :  03:49:31
Very nice.

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USA
873 Posts		 Posted - 17 Jul 2003 :  04:34:44

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The Balance Of Judgement
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Ivory Coast
1006 Posts		 Posted - 17 Jul 2003 :  04:55:21
I never really left, I just sorta put it on the back burner.

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maclover5
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Australia
5830 Posts		 Posted - 17 Jul 2003 :  05:37:12
Now go get yourself a nice AppleVision 1710AV so you can watch those DVDs the way they were meant to be played.

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Unknown_K
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USA
602 Posts		 Posted - 17 Jul 2003 :  07:46:01
got a pic of that 1710av monitors you guys keep raving about? I just use PC monitors with adapters on my 5 macs

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thequietman
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Canada
127 Posts		 Posted - 17 Jul 2003 :  09:35:55
You can get quite a bit of info at The Apple Museum:

http://www.theapplemuseum.com/index.php?id=tam&page=display&subpage=apple_1710av&skin=dis


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Unknown_K
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USA
602 Posts		 Posted - 17 Jul 2003 :  12:39:00
Ick, speakers should be farther away from the monitor.

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llamaboy487
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USA
516 Posts		 Posted - 17 Jul 2003 :  12:41:49
I split my time 50/50 between my iMac G4 and my old gateway with WinXP. Mainly because while the iMac is the family computer the Winbox is mine.

I don't really have that big of a problem with WinXP, i just install the security updates when I have to and (now to reveal the secret to keeping WinXP bearable) I never upgrade IE and i turned off the hideous blue and green and red theme. I had one for a while that made XP look like Windwos Longhorn but i turned that off too. Now it just looks like i have Win2k with some different features

But if i had the means and the willpower... I would put a full 040 in my Performa 578, upgrade to system 7.5.5 (from 7.5.3), install netscape 3 or 4, and set up mail, and never use another computer again... But i can't pull myself from Jaguar, I love it too much.

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Australia
5830 Posts		 Posted - 17 Jul 2003 :  16:51:39
No you wouldn't. You'd put OS 8.1 on it, llama!

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Canada
63 Posts		 Posted - 18 Jul 2003 :  06:44:59
If you find a good deal on those IDE<>SCSI converters, please let me know. I'm in need for some larger disk space on my web server and would love to use one of my spare IDE hard disks laying around.

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The Balance Of Judgement
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Ivory Coast
1006 Posts		 Posted - 18 Jul 2003 :  07:22:52
Here they are 125.00 Canadian.

Sadly I don't think it's worth it, you can get used drives on eBay for less. Like 10GB for 30 bucks, SCSI.

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Unknown_K
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USA
602 Posts		 Posted - 18 Jul 2003 :  08:18:08
I have a IDE to SCSI sled that has uwscsi connection on it. When using a newer 7200 rpm drive the speed is very impressive. The maker is acard.

http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/IDE/IDE_to_SCSI/ide_to_scsi_adapter.html

I think they run $80 US for one.

Its worth it if you want a 40+GB drive to run on a SCSI only system that cant use a PCI IDE ATA card.

My 2 pci macs each have an acard 66 PCI card with cdroms and hd's attached. If your using a nubus mac then the converter would work.

Its all about how much you want to spend.

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llamaboy487
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USA
516 Posts		 Posted - 18 Jul 2003 :  11:28:09
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No you wouldn't. You'd put OS 8.1 on it, llama!

Maybe... but will all of my old games run on it? Thats the main thing i use the performa 578 for, is SimLife and Spectre (all of them i LOVE Spectre)

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Australia
5830 Posts		 Posted - 18 Jul 2003 :  16:32:24
Spectre runs fine on 8.1. I've played it many times. Not sure about SimEarth though. Never played it once.

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USA
4679 Posts		 Posted - 18 Jul 2003 :  20:21:26
cool!

oh... I like the speakers being that close... on my AudioVision 14" theyre even closer together and I still love how they sound!!!

he has an AVVision 750 or one of those "ColorSync" displays...

Apple has made at least 15 different kinds of 17" displays in it's history... weirdy

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Australia
5830 Posts		 Posted - 18 Jul 2003 :  21:57:15
Yeah. I have a 1710AV and i'll agree with Cory. The sound is fantastic.

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The Balance Of Judgement
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Ivory Coast
1006 Posts		 Posted - 19 Jul 2003 :  04:22:08
I have 2 "25 BSM speakers sitting above the desk that have many many many watts of power that furnish me with the grandest startup sound than your puny little speakers can ever do. I can fill a auditorium with these.

So there. I win.

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maclover5
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Australia
5830 Posts		 Posted - 19 Jul 2003 :  07:05:12
I also have some big@$$ Kriesler speakers that go with an old stereo i have. They're big, and old, and heavy, but they sound damn good.

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USA
4679 Posts		 Posted - 19 Jul 2003 :  22:35:44
well with my 6500 subwoofer I'll blow you ALL AWAY!!!!

pair it with my AudioVision 14" AND (since the AVvision can go thru as well as with it's speakers) my stereo...

/me faints from the loudness

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Australia
5830 Posts		 Posted - 19 Jul 2003 :  22:43:45
*starts playing an mp3 on Dell*

*turns up Harman/Kardon sound system*

*leaves room*

Hey, i can still hear it two dorms away!

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4679 Posts		 Posted - 19 Jul 2003 :  22:50:58
change that to "fires up the PowerCD" and you would have won

my stereo is pretty cool... a 'bookshelf' system you could say....

but YOU SHOULD SEE MY DAD'S STEREO!!!!

his speakers are like...

WHOAGLAYVEN

3 or 4 feet tall @least

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5830 Posts		 Posted - 19 Jul 2003 :  23:45:02
*connects Harman/Kardons to PowerCD*

*plays AC/DC on PowerCD*

*repeats previous experiment*

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Ivory Coast
1006 Posts		 Posted - 20 Jul 2003 :  01:06:40
Size does not matter with speakers, it's wattage. Also, I've noticed some brands of speakers are huge but the actual speaker component is horribly small. Mine are mostly speaker component, so the size and weight of these suckers is quie large. These ones were previously used by an audiophile, so I know they are good stuff. They were used to play DVD's. Drool. I can't use them that much because the sound is so loud even my parents don't like it. It's like with speakers like that there is no "low" setting.

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maclover5
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Australia
5830 Posts		 Posted - 20 Jul 2003 :  04:36:41
I know what you mean. On some speakers most of the case is just packaging to make you think that the driver is bigger.

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