I’ll race you in photoshop actions any day….

ok so for regular web surfing, my 700 mhz iBook is great, but when it comes time to do some serious image processing, the 3.2 ghz Pee Cee comes out.

We’ve got a dual processor G5 on order for work, if it ever comes in, I’m doing some real benchmarking!

As you progress with teh airport Express… been looking at them myself.

I’m not saying that my 1/2 GHz iBook is faster, just that it’s three years old and still runs the latest and greatest technology without a hiccup.

I’ve got friends who’ve thrown away newer PeeCees because they no longer worked with the latest gear or because they just died. Granted I’ve known Macs that go belly up a week out of warranty too - I’m just sayin’…

A funny thing about RadioShack, the way the people that work there insist on telling us how to do things. In fact, the other day, I was there picking up some cheap speaker cable (because I’m cheap, mind you) and the guy selling it to me was just convinced that I was using it to set up a new surround sound system — which I plainly told him “no I’m not” twice… Finally, I grabbed my speaker cable, looked the guy in the eye, and said, “I just need the freakin’ wires, dude.” (And he was even taken aback.)

And furthermore, is it just me or has RadioShack turned into a cell phone store that barely carries any electronics stuff anymore? I had to rummage around in the back of a claustrophobic isle to find this cable.

Ahhhhh!!! I hate RqadioShack.

radio shack is SO ghetto!

i bought a replacement powercord for my oldschool, crap peecee (yes, i’m turning into a mac snob) and it didn’t work, so i returned it. when i told the girl that it didn’t work with my particular computer model, she said, almost robotic, “was there anything wrong with it?” - and i answered again, “no, it wasn’t compatible with my computer model” - wow, listen! btw, todd, i’m pretty sure we visit the same radio shack, so i’m no surprised…….

question about the airport express - i currently have a wireless setup at home. i have an O.G. airport card in both my G4/800 iMac flatpanel lampy-thing and my G3/800 iBook. No airport base station or anything - the iMac is hooked up to my cable modem and acts as the “base station”.

but i’m moving to my dad’s house - and they’ve got a G3 iMac. (by the way, we’re all running on Jaguar at the moment) I want to install an airport card into that and have my G4 iMac serve as the base station to host the wireless network.

If I were to want to take advantage of the Airport Express (most specifically, the AirTunes capabilities), what would I need to do? Would all the comps need to be upgraded to Panther (or Tiger, when that comes out)?

Would the Airport Express then serve as a base station - meaning, would I hook up the cable modem directly to the Airport Express and then all 3 computers would be wireless??

Do you see any problems or faults in my logic in this?

Julie,

First off, you will need Panther and iTunes 4.6 to use AirTunes to wirelessly stream music to a stereo via the Airport Express. The Airport Express is also a functional base station for connecting up to 10 computers (Mac or PC) to the internet.

So here’s your best set up - get an Airport Express and, if possible because of proximity issues, plug your internet connection (cable, DSL) into the A/E via ethernet and also plug your stereo into the A/E via optical/mini or mini/RCA plug (that’s where proximity comes into play - your cable modem and stereo need to be close together unless you have another wireless base station which is what I have). Then, any Mac with an Airport card can get wireless internet and any Mac running Panther can stream iTunes to the stereo via AirTunes.

You could also use the same set up you’re using now i.e. have an iMac connected to the internet and use it as a software base station and simply use an Airport Express to stream iTunes to a stereo. You wouldn’t need to have the internet modem close to the stereo with this set up but you would still need Panther to take advantage of AirTunes.

I already had a wireless base station SMC Barricade and I just set the Airport Express to act as a base for streaming music. I set it up this way so that I can still share iTunes libraries with other computers connected to my local network on my existing wireless base station. This allows me to use my laptop to play music through my stereo off any other Mac on the network that’s running iTunes sharing. I know, it sounds complex but that’s the cool thing about the A/E - you can set it up so many different ways.

Hope this helps.

cool - so I can get an A/E, and a copy of Panther for my G4 iMac. Hook up the A/E to my cable modem and to my stereo in one room, and use my G4 iMac (loaded with Panther & iTunes 4.6) to stream music to my stereo (and the G4 would also wirelessly have access to the internet)..?

And this won’t disrupt the internet access for the other two computers utilzing just regular-old Jaguar?

So basically I only need Panther on the computer I want to stream music from…

Julie - Correct. You only need to install Panther on the computer from which you wish to use AirTunes. All Jaguar loaded machines can still access the internet through the A/E.

However, with one copy of Panther you could install it on all the Macs you own because there’s no copy protection. I’m not publicly recommending that because it would be dishonest and probably illegal but I can’t stop you from doing so… ; )

oh, ok - i thought there was some sort of block it had on same registration copies of os’s running on the same network - i’ve never come across the barrier before, though - because I bought one copy of Jaguar for my iMac, and my iBook came preloaded with it.

Good to know… but I would never, EVER ;) steal software!!