'Objects In Space'
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So say I snapped entire and decided on a 15 or 17 inch jobbie. Would 512 be okay, or should it be 1GB?
Get 1GB. OS X Panther really likes to have elbow room in the memory department. If you are getting the 17" then you are pretty much getting all of the bells and whistles. I'm currently running a 1.33 GHz 17" Powerbook and it's been a nice solid machine for me with 1 GB of RAM.
Get 1GB.
Did I hear people talking about not getting memory from Apple? Where would you recommend shopping?
Yes, do not get memory from Apple.
My preferred vendor for memory is Other World Computing.
Also, if you know anyone who works for Apple I think they might be doing a Q Promo on the Powerbooks right now and that's would save a good amount of money.
Also, if you know anyone who works for Apple
Send me email if you want the details.
What's a Q promo? My company gets a bit of a discount on Apple stuff -- I was gonna wait a bit on the purchase if I go ahead with it, but if this Q thing is attractive enough, I might start looking longingly at employees ...
eta: Insent, Rob.
Has anybody networked two Tivos? What's the best way to do it cheaply?
Wouldn't you just attach USB networking cards to each one, and run them both to your router? Is there another way, that doesn't involve hacking?
I'm willing to run Ethernet under the floor, and I hear that the throughput is substantially better.
Better than what?
That's actually what I meant: what's the cheapest way to attach two USB-to-Ethernet cards? TiVo supports only a very small list of vendors.
The two options are cabling under the floor to our existing network, or connecting wirelessly to our existing network. I hear the throughput on a standard 802.11b wireless network isn't really good enough to move programs in non-geologic time.
802.11b is pretty slow.
Does anyone know if the USB port on the Tivo is a USB 2.0 port? If it isn't then going wired isn't going to help much.
I believe on later models it is, earlier models not.
Not only is the throughput better on a wired connection, but it is also (IME) a lot more reliable. The wireless routers I've used have a habit of flaking out periodically. I have to reboot it before a device can see it again.