Hi folks I have a couple questions. I have Dual Processor G4, 384MB SDRAM and OSX 10.4.11.
I'm a former Mac guy gone PC for 20 years and now back to Mac, so please forgive me if these questions are basic.
'm having some trouble with my keyboard, the "home, end, page up and page down keys don't work) only the delete key and the help key work.
I got the mac second hand without a keyboard and I stopped by the Apple store and bought a new corded keyboard about 4 months ago and those keys have never worked since day one. I'm a keyboard shortcut junkie and having to transition back to using the mouse for certain things is wasting time and separating my hand from the keyboard.
Secondly I need more RAM desperately, can I stick standard SDRAM into the Mac, do they have to be matched and what is the maximum amount I can put in?
Thx for any help!
I'm a former Mac guy gone PC for 20 years and now back to Mac, so please forgive me if these questions are basic.
'm having some trouble with my keyboard, the "home, end, page up and page down keys don't work) only the delete key and the help key work.
I got the mac second hand without a keyboard and I stopped by the Apple store and bought a new corded keyboard about 4 months ago and those keys have never worked since day one. I'm a keyboard shortcut junkie and having to transition back to using the mouse for certain things is wasting time and separating my hand from the keyboard.
Secondly I need more RAM desperately, can I stick standard SDRAM into the Mac, do they have to be matched and what is the maximum amount I can put in?
Thx for any help!
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Re: Coupla Questions
Fri, December 7, 2007 - 7:09 PMHi,
not sure about the keyboard questions, but in regards to the RAM...
go here:
store.a1acomputing.com/g4memory.html
choose which G4 you have and you should get more info for your Mac
also check this site out
everymac.com/
I don't think that any of the G4's required matched pairs, but I could be wrong -
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Re: Coupla Questions
Fri, December 7, 2007 - 7:44 PM
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YMMV
Sun, December 9, 2007 - 6:35 PMRelatively few of those mid-area keys work because most Mac programs ignore them. The System Preferences pane for Keyboard and Mouse lets you remap a few things, but for more serious customization you'll probably want to look at a utility such as Ucontrol or Fkeys. Depending on which program you are missing these in, it may also be possible to remap these from within that program, right a script or macro or something similar. Microsoft Word, for example, has an extensive tool for remapping various keys.
If it is any consolation, I learned to type on a manual typewriter and it took me the better part of twenty years to unlearn the "two spaces after an ending period" rule. You can do it!
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Re: Coupla Questions
Mon, December 10, 2007 - 1:52 PMCool beans thanx for the info guys!
