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Need to make room, so for sale is my complete collection of HD-DVD movies, one of the best players for HD-DVD movies (the Toshiba HD-A35, with HDMI and analog outputs as well if needed), and also the XBox HD-DVD drive that can be connected to your PC or Mac to access those discs, too. The player...

I have for sale the Pioneer Elite CLD-59 in the original box, with manuals, remote, and with it I also have the Pioneer RFD-1 demodulator (also in the original box) that allows to play Dolby Digital (AC-3) movies on any regular home theater receiver with a digital input. This player was...

My steelbook has space for a 3rd disc on the left, anyone else? Would be perfect for the non-existing 3D disc. ;)

The way to get these Best Buy exclusives is to order them for pickup the morning of their release as at that point you will be able to select pickup at your local store. Should really be done before the store opens, so they can put a copy aside. Unfortunately, I completely forgot to do that for...

When you're wiping your drive, only select to write over it once, everything else is a complete waste of time. -Christian

No longer have a need for this, but great for smaller places. Completely spotless Stewart Firehawk screen, fully framed. Still on the wall and can be demo'ed. $500 OBO. Local only, for obvious reasons. -Christian

Welcome back Mike! Good to see you again! -Christian

As corrected in the other thread, the storage is not hardwired to the board, as can be seen here: http://guide-images.ifixit.net/igi/LknkqWKga2vIIUHD.medium Secondly, the Mac Mini has no problems playing 1080p due to the Nvidia 320M chip with its hardware H.264 acceleration, so I wouldn't...

Only that it's not hardwired to the mainboard: -Christian

If you are deleting any data from your internal drive after copying it to the external one, it's no longer a backup. This is important, because when your external drive fails, you lose everything that wasn't stored somewhere else. So basically you want to do two things: perform a backup of...

DisplayPort (and thus miniDP on all current Macs) is actually a superset of HDMI. As mentioned, so far only the latest MacBooks that were just announced offer sound over the miniDP jack as well. I'm still hoping the previous generation can get sound enabled over their miniDP jacks as well via a...

I have the first gen 24" iMac from late 2006, and replaced the drive in it not too long ago. If you can find the service manual online for your machine, you'll get a good idea whether it's something you want to try. I was a little hesitant at first, but ultimately it wasn't that hard at all, you...

Brett, I'm not trying to be argumentative either, but I'm afraid you make a couple of misrepresentations with regards to data recovery procedures that I don't want to let stand in order to avoid that people are getting the wrong impression. First of all, if the data is valuable at all, an...

Brett, I agree that the enclosure should be tested to rule out as the culprit. However, a friend of mine does data recovery for a living and I have spent enough time in the lab with him to know that the clicking sound is in 99% of the cases caused by problems with the read/write heads. From...

Actually, most of the time the platters will not be touched, but instead the read/write heads replaced, as to not have to re-align the platters, which is apparently A LOT more difficult than replacing the read/write heads. And the recoveries for "only a few hundred $" typically refer to logical...

Rod, A clicking sound like you describe comes from the drive itself, not the enclosure. If you don't care too much about the data, have it replaced under warranty. If you DO want the data, you'll have to get in in touch with a data recovery company and be prepared to spend the big bucks. The...

Grand Perspective should be able to help you out. -Christian

You could just have a small Mac OS X system partition (say, about 10GB) and partition the rest of the drive via Bootcamp for Windows. Since the Intel Macs don't use a BIOS but EFI, I don't think there is another way to install XP on your machine. XP knows nothing about EFI, so you couldn't start...

That's what Winclone is for. -Christian

Interesting information for HP printer users. At work, I had to remove the queue of a networked HP OfficeJet 7410 and added it back in, now it works without problems. Interesting that scan functionality is also built-in. -Christian

Ron, you should be able to see the IP address your Tivo has on the

Well three of the programs you list are actually just plugins. It is unsurprising that after the main program changed the plugins will have to be updated as well; Firefox recently had the same problem going from 3.0.x to 3.5. When you say Tivo Transfer, are you talking about Toast? Because the...

Really? I only remember how hard it was even find the latest version of Palm Desktop for the Mac a few years back. At that point I had it. We got a license for Missing Sync for my wife's laptop years ago at Macworld for a reduced price. That was even before Leopard. Worked like a charm. But...

Honestly, if you still have to sync an old Palm with a Mac, you really should have the Missing Sync for Palm. Anything else is just not working the way it should. -Christian

Er, the "groundwork" they are laying is to be able to support a completely new way of writing applications to harness the power of today's computers in a way that just wasn't possible before (Grand Central Dispatch, OpenCL). Why should that be free? Not to mention all the other work they have...

The good news is that it is actually possible to replace the broken digitizer yourself (the screen itself is still fine). The part can be had off eBay for less than $40 bucks, and with some patience and the right tools like a suction cup it's definitely doable. I did it for my bosses iPhone 3G...

Carlo, I can tell you right now that there will be no computer-related news at the September event. These last three or four years they have always been about iTunes and iPods/AppleTV, nothing else. Of course, there may be different announcements this year still, but the event everybody talks...

Jon, You have to be a little more specific about your setup. Are you running iTunes locally on your laptop, and the desktop with your music only acts like a network drive that you access from the laptop? In that case you should actually rip the CD from the laptop and write it straight to the...