Mac osX Hardware Support

So currently I have the Sony STR-K700 (http://www.crutchfield.com/S-IcolG…) for my audio system for my Mac, Blu-ray player, and Digital Cable.

After doing some looking around on cnet, google, endgadet, etc. I've basically narrowed my choice to one, but I'd like some actual feedback instead of reading a static review which the reviewer wont reply to since the system doesn't actually alert them when a comment is made.

The system I'm looking at is the Onkyo S5300.

http://www.onkyousa.com/model.cfm?…

The things I like about this off the bat

1) two optical digital inputs
2) HDMI inputs
3) Current/future formats
4) Correct my if I'm wrong, but the Onkyo system is much better than the Sony
5) From my general poking around it seems Onkyo has a better reputation for HTIB's than Sony in general


Currently I have my Mac, blu-ray, and cable box hooked into a two toslink switches so I can connect them to the receiver I have, likewise for the HDMI connections to a HDMI switch. I realize the with the Onkyo I would not need the second digital optical input since it'd take A/V over HDMI, which would free up some space and outlets.

Anyway long story short, has anyone used the Onkyo S5300, or really anything from the S3300 up, and were you happy with it?

And am I right when I state the Onkyo S5300 would be an improvement over the Sony STR-K700?

(xposted to MacAddicts, and MaxOSXHardware)

So I thought my DVD drives were dying, I went to J&R today to replace them.

I picked up two Pioneer 1910LS's for 48 bucks each.

I've installed them both, however they don't seem to work.

At one point I could use the eject menu in the system to open them, but they did not read DVDs. That is now a thing of the past since I can't even get them to open from within OS X. (I can get them to open by pressing the eject button on the physical drive w/ my MacPro open so at least I'm not stuck trying to pry one open to get a dvd back.

My question is this- is there a way to make this model work?

I'm running a first gen Mac Pro 3ghz. the drive in question is the Pioneer 1910LS which I have discovered is really a rebadged assus drive so they could get lightscribe.

x-posted to macaddicts

Hey all!

I'm having a bit of an issue. Well.. 3 to be exact. I've got a 1.5 year old MacBook Pro.

1) When I start up, and get to the sign in page, a pop-up states that "The tablet did not load because of an internal driver error" HUHWHAT?

2) Occasionally, my computer will just shut down. No weird noises, no battery low business, it will just die. Even on a powercord, or charged battery. (May this be due to that whole tablet error business?)

3) My screen is a little effed up. Sometimes, streaks and checker boards of screwed up pixels will appear. I hear it's something to do with the LCD cells freaking out, but whyy?


Help a lady out, I haven't got the time to drive an hour to the Genius Bar right now! Thanks for any help.

ok my USB pen stick is telling me my photos are all corrupt or a format my coputer cant recognize... I'm on a mac... can ANYYONE help me? please...all my photos are on that stick.... I'm so freaking out im going to cry.

I need some hardware advice...

I had hoped to get a new Mac sometime in the near future, since my current one is growing old, but that's not going to be financially feasible for a long long while. I discovered upon replacing my old (firewire) iPod about 16 months ago, that my G4 has USB 1.1 instead of 2.0... and thus my USB iPod takes nearly an entire day to do a complete synch. This, combined with the fact that I am constantly swapping firewire devices, since my system only has 2 firewire 400 ports, but has 4 open PCI slots, led me to realize some time ago that if I am going to hold onto this Mac a while, it's probably a good idea to invest in some USB 2.0 and Firewire 400 PCI cards.

I had a hard time finding any cards that were Mac compatible, and the ones that were seemed to get poor reviews from Mac users. At the time, I was kinda thinking I would replace the Mac soon, anyhow, so I gave up searching.

But now that I'm decidedly going to have to keep using this machine, I was hoping some of you might have advice on some great Firewire 400 and USB 2.0 PCI cards that would be compatible with my machine:

Mac G4 PPC (quicksilver, I think), dual 1 GHz
1 GB SDRAM
OS X 10.4.9

One should note that I probably can't upgrade 10.4 any further, and I definitely cannot use Leopard (users of Pro Tools will know of these sorts of disappointments).

hello, i have an old blue and white g3 power mac. i was wondering if anyone has one using an aftermarket pci wireless card? like a d-link or lynksys? i have a linksys 802.11b router, but all the wireless usb or pci products that are affordable don't seem to say they work with osx. i'm running the current os 10.4.2

i remember watching a episode of screen savers years ago showing how to make a linksys pci wireless card work with a mac, but forget how it's done. this would save me from running a lot of ethernet cable under my house.

Here's a problem that I have not been able to find a solution for despite searching via Google, online Apple help, and iTunes help on my machine:

I am trying to burn an audio cd. I started out with about a dozen songs but when I went to burn a cd I was told not all of the songs would fit onto one cd. I would take a couple out and try again, and I would get the same message. I am down to 4 songs and I still get the message that they will not fit onto one cd.

The cd is a CD-R, 700MB, 80 minutes. The 4 songs add up to 17MB and 14 minutes. 3 are in MPEG-1, Layer 3 format, and one is in Low Complexity format.

My machine is a dual 533MHZ G4 running MacOS 10.4.9, with 896 megs of RAM. The CD burner is a PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-104.

Any ideas of why 4 songs that take up a whole 17 megs and 14 minutes of time can not fit onto one 700 meg cd?

Thanks!

I am having trouble with AirPort when trying to join public wireless networks.  It says that Airport has a self-assigned IP address.  How do I get rid of that, so I can go back to joining the Wi-fi networks that aren't my home networks?

So today I bought an external drive enclosure that handles firewire and USB 2.0. I put a 200gb drive in it, as my friend had a spare at his work, good friend eh?! Anyway, put it in, plugged it in and booted up...and for some reason my computer only sees it as an 18.63gb drive. It has 3 partitions, all together totalling up to 18.63 gb.

I've formatted it a few times, wiped it clean using disk utility and even tried forcing it to do a series of smaller partitions to add up to the 200gb, no luck.

I'm running a Dual 450MHz G4 Tower with the latest OS X operating system.

Any ideas, I really need to figure this out as I have to take it to So-Cal thursday for work in a recording studio.

Thanks gang!

Mark
myspace.com/point3

Hey All,

I am running a MBP and the second to last generation of G4 iBooks wirelessly in our house and a G4 PowerMac on the LAN. We are currently running a D-Link DI-514 wireless router and have had numerous performance and security problems with the router. I recently bought (and had to return because it was defective) an Airport Extreme Base Station.

I was wondering what experiences folks have had with these and if it is worth it to have them send a replacement or just return it and purchase some less expensive wireless equipment?

Any experiences and advice would be greatly appreciated. I just spent the most frustrating 45 minutes of my life trying to figure out which bonehead could actually take my call and after all that told them to just give me a refund. But if it is worth it, I'll buy one.

xposted.