Hi All!
A neighbor of mine who is disabled asked me to help him upgrade some things on his computer (An original 2001 G4 Quicksilver Mac) so that he could edit video on his old Mac.
It's not so much because I'm an expert or anything, rather, we were talking one day and realized we owned very similar computers, and because I'm aways just a phone call and a short walk away.
He wanted a newer CD/DVD drive, a terabyte external storage drive, and a firewire expansion card, since his old Mac only has two firewire ports, and he needs at least three (one for the external drive, one for his camera, and one for an older external drive that he has archived footage stored on.)
I bought all three items from Newegg, installed the new optical drive, set up the external drive, and they're working wonderfully. He can transfer raw video from his camera into iMovie, edit it, save it to his external drive, and burn it as DVDs that play in regular home system DVD players.
The only problem that we ran into was that I didn't get the correct type of firewire card, so we sent that back and now have a credit with Newegg.
So, here's my question:
Can anybody out there help me find a firewire expansion card from Newegg for this Mac? I'm really having a hard time figuring out which ones will work, like I said, I'm not that technically minded in the first place, I'm just a guy trying to help a friend out, and I'm really confused as to which, if any, expansion cards will work with such an old Mac.
I've done what I usually do, and searched through various forums and boards, but still I can't seem to discern with confidence which brand/model his computer needs.
If anyone who is more well versed in these types of upgrades could take a few minutes out of their day, and help us locate an expansion card on Newegg, it would just mean the world to us!
Thank you in advance!
G4 Quicksilver 2001, 867 MHz Power PC, 1 Gig RAM
A neighbor of mine who is disabled asked me to help him upgrade some things on his computer (An original 2001 G4 Quicksilver Mac) so that he could edit video on his old Mac.
It's not so much because I'm an expert or anything, rather, we were talking one day and realized we owned very similar computers, and because I'm aways just a phone call and a short walk away.
He wanted a newer CD/DVD drive, a terabyte external storage drive, and a firewire expansion card, since his old Mac only has two firewire ports, and he needs at least three (one for the external drive, one for his camera, and one for an older external drive that he has archived footage stored on.)
I bought all three items from Newegg, installed the new optical drive, set up the external drive, and they're working wonderfully. He can transfer raw video from his camera into iMovie, edit it, save it to his external drive, and burn it as DVDs that play in regular home system DVD players.
The only problem that we ran into was that I didn't get the correct type of firewire card, so we sent that back and now have a credit with Newegg.
So, here's my question:
Can anybody out there help me find a firewire expansion card from Newegg for this Mac? I'm really having a hard time figuring out which ones will work, like I said, I'm not that technically minded in the first place, I'm just a guy trying to help a friend out, and I'm really confused as to which, if any, expansion cards will work with such an old Mac.
I've done what I usually do, and searched through various forums and boards, but still I can't seem to discern with confidence which brand/model his computer needs.
If anyone who is more well versed in these types of upgrades could take a few minutes out of their day, and help us locate an expansion card on Newegg, it would just mean the world to us!
Thank you in advance!
G4 Quicksilver 2001, 867 MHz Power PC, 1 Gig RAM
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