Near Perfect Setup

[Searay_X]

Well, I am almost two weeks into the project and have found what I believe to be the near perfect setup so far.

 

1. Abit IC7-G motherboard. Everything works with HotISo 10.4.6 – with SSE3

Fire wire

USB

SATA – In BIOS raid mode too!

Pentium 3.0 HT

Sound via onboard

Network is great via onboard

 

2. ATI Radeon X300SE 128 MB @ 1280x1024 on Zenith 17” LCD

 

3. NEC 16x DVD +/- R RW

 

4. Xerox Workcenter Laser Printer

 

5. Epson R-1800 Firewire Printer

 

6. Segate and WD 200 GB internal SATA drives

 

6. Seagate 300GB Usb 2.0 external drive for storage and transfer (fat32 formatted)

 

 

Apps I have tested

 

Most apps included with OSX

 

Adobe CS2 – ALL

 

Adobe / Macromedia Studio 8 – ALL

 

Toast

 

Dragon Burn

 

MS Office 2k4

 

Darwine

 

Xcode

 

MacPar Deluxe

 

Stuffit Expander

 

So far guys, no problems besides the one earlier about the network card (physical problem and not the Mac).

 

The only thing maybe somebody could answer is why does the processor report to be a P4 4.0 GHz?

 

 

Anyways, I just thought I would share my success in hopes that it will help someone configure their Mac– By the way, this is a dedicated machine and not a dual boot.

 

 

 

 

 

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I also just realized that this post, with the exception of the processor question, would have probably been better suited for the hardware forums. Sorry about that. I was just anxious to share the good news.

 

 

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[carnid]

You mention nearly perfect - I also have the x300SE video card but get terrible mouse tearing - are you not having this problem? I have tried the hacks to get around this but still has caused me to decide to go back to xp or purchase one of the more compatible x1600 cards.