Re: CD tray problem

[Seth]

Yep. My girlfriend's mother had the very same problem with her icebook when
someone dropped it. Hope you have Applecare. She took into an Apple Store
and they sent it in to fix it. The repair would have cost upwards of $300.00
without AppleCare. Said they couldn't do anything else in the store to fix
aside from sending it in to Apple.


on 3/27/02 12:32 PM, Philip at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi all,
> I have an iBook (500) with a CD/RW drive.  Lately, the CD tray has been
> popping open at times on its own.  Sometimes it will be when I touch the
> tray on the outside, for example when I pick up the iBook.  Other times, it
> will just open for no apparent reason.



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Re: VST Expansion Bay HD - alternatives?

[RLMcKee]

In a message dated 3/27/02 6:54:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

<< Like someone else who posted recently about the VST Expansion Bay 10GB hard
drive, my shoplet.com order was just canceled; the e-mail says that the
manufacturer is no longer making the item. >>

How odd... I got a phone call today from Shoplet.com and they told me mine 
was being shipped and I should have it in two days.

RLM

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Re: Expansion Bay HD

[Remy Davison]

><< Gary, if you take a look at those benchmarks for exp. bay devices I sent 
>you the URL for, you'll also see that the Ratoc FW card, together with 
>the Red/Yellow VST drive, is a little slower than the int. HD on the PB, 
>which gives an indication of 1st-gen FW controllers (and the VST drive is 
>not a 911).
>
>Cheers,
>
>RD >>
>
>Can we change the subject line on future posts? You're talking less 
>expansion 
>bay devices than PCMCIA cards here... thanks.
Sorry, yes, but the follow-ups for these questions related to the 
performance of FW drives versus exp. bay hard drives and what the 
performance hit was. For Listers' interest, here's an excellent 
comparative table of the various speeds of exp. bay devices and PCMCIA 
drives in 'Books:



Cheers,

RD

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Re: VST Expansion Bay HD - alternatives?

[Gary D. Adams]

Gene:

http://www.compgeeks.com has the cardbus 8gb drives for $79. I ordered one
today to see what it's like.

Gary

gd2 wrote:

> Like someone else who posted recently about the VST Expansion Bay 10GB hard
> drive, my shoplet.com order was just canceled; the e-mail says that the
> manufacturer is no longer making the item.
>
> SO - does anyone happen to have a summarized list of alternatives?
>
> Here's what I know so far (with approximate prices):
>
> MCE expansion bay kit (install your own HD) =$120
> PowerBoy USB/FW external drive, bus-powered, install your own HD=$49
>
> Anybody have any other solutions? I'm looking mainly for expansion bay or
> Firewire bus-powered drive enclosures; I have a 2.5" HD to put in it.
>
> Thanks -
> Gene
>


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Re: Lombard Ram

[Remy Davison]

>are lombards particularly picky about what kind of ram you put in them? i
>have one that seems to only like the original 64 it came with. when i put 2
>128's (not a pair) in it i had all kinds of crashes and applications
>freezing up.
Try TransIntl. Lower slot stuff is more expensive (LP SO-DIMMs). Just 
ordered some for a client here in Oz.
Cheers,

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Re: Powerbook G4 Memory

[Dick Grable]

At least with my 'new' refurbished 500 Apple used a 256 RAM chip in the
lower slot making the upgrade to 512 much easier. OS X works better with
more ram.

On 3/26/2002 4:08 PM, "Joshua Diaz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have a PB G4 667 (DVD/CD-RW) with 512MB and it has 2x256MB in it.
> Also, on the fan issue, the fan seems to come on pretty often, but I
> haven't payed attention to the conditions under which it does so.
> 
> -JDWTopGuy
> 


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Re: Lombard Ram

[Dick Grable]

The only constraint I know of is only 256 in each slot. There were/are
problems with the processors in early Lombards having problems with more
than the stock 64 megs of ram although I can't remember if that applied to
OS X installs only.


On 3/28/2002 3:50 PM, "Philip Jewett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> are lombards particularly picky about what kind of ram you put in them? i
> have one that seems to only like the original 64 it came with. when i put 2
> 128's (not a pair) in it i had all kinds of crashes and applications
> freezing up.


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Re: Lombard Ram

[Philip Jewett]

on 3/27/02 6:56 PM, Eugene Lee at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 06:50:45PM -0500, Philip Jewett wrote:
> : 
> : are lombards particularly picky about what kind of ram you put in them? i
> : have one that seems to only like the original 64 it came with. when i put 2
> : 128's (not a pair) in it i had all kinds of crashes and applications
> : freezing up.
> 
> Yes, Lombards are very picky about RAM.  If it doesn't say that it's
> rated for use specifically in Lombard, then it isn't.
> 
where can i get that kind of ram though? do i have a choice of vendors?


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Re: Powerbook G4 Memory

[Joshua Diaz]

I have a PB G4 667 (DVD/CD-RW) with 512MB and it has 2x256MB in it. 
Also, on the fan issue, the fan seems to come on pretty often, but I 
haven't payed attention to the conditions under which it does so.

-JDWTopGuy


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Re: Lombard Ram

[Eugene Lee]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 06:50:45PM -0500, Philip Jewett wrote:
: 
: are lombards particularly picky about what kind of ram you put in them? i
: have one that seems to only like the original 64 it came with. when i put 2
: 128's (not a pair) in it i had all kinds of crashes and applications
: freezing up.

Yes, Lombards are very picky about RAM.  If it doesn't say that it's
rated for use specifically in Lombard, then it isn't.


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VST Expansion Bay HD - alternatives?

[gd2]

Like someone else who posted recently about the VST Expansion Bay 10GB hard
drive, my shoplet.com order was just canceled; the e-mail says that the
manufacturer is no longer making the item.

SO - does anyone happen to have a summarized list of alternatives?

Here's what I know so far (with approximate prices):

MCE expansion bay kit (install your own HD) =$120
PowerBoy USB/FW external drive, bus-powered, install your own HD=$49


Anybody have any other solutions? I'm looking mainly for expansion bay or
Firewire bus-powered drive enclosures; I have a 2.5" HD to put in it.

Thanks -
Gene


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Lombard Ram

[Philip Jewett]

are lombards particularly picky about what kind of ram you put in them? i
have one that seems to only like the original 64 it came with. when i put 2
128's (not a pair) in it i had all kinds of crashes and applications
freezing up.

thanks


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CD tray problem

[Philip]

Hi all,
I have an iBook (500) with a CD/RW drive.  Lately, the CD tray has been
popping open at times on its own.  Sometimes it will be when I touch the
tray on the outside, for example when I pick up the iBook.  Other times, it
will just open for no apparent reason.

Anyone having this problem?

Thanks,
Philip


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Mom says "Please vote"

[Dan Knight]

Twice a year we run a pair of surveys -- Best of the Mac Web and Rest of 
the Mac Web. The second survey covers 50 sites not included in the "Best" 
poll, and the best of these will move up to the "Best" survey in October.

Rest of the Mac Web has a lot of good low-end sites like Mac512K, System 
6 Heaven, the pickle's Low-end Mac FAQ, etc. I urge all of you to take a 
few minutes and share your opinion of the site's your familiar with -- 
and maybe discover some new ones.




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Re: Expansion Bay HD

[RLMcKee]

In a message dated 3/27/02 7:19:53 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

<< Gary, if you take a look at those benchmarks for exp. bay devices I sent 
you the URL for, you'll also see that the Ratoc FW card, together with 
the Red/Yellow VST drive, is a little slower than the int. HD on the PB, 
which gives an indication of 1st-gen FW controllers (and the VST drive is 
not a 911).

Cheers,

RD >>

Can we change the subject line on future posts? You're talking less expansion 
bay devices than PCMCIA cards here... thanks.

RLM

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Re: Expansion Bay HD

[Remy Davison]

Gary, if you take a look at those benchmarks for exp. bay devices I sent 
you the URL for, you'll also see that the Ratoc FW card, together with 
the Red/Yellow VST drive, is a little slower than the int. HD on the PB, 
which gives an indication of 1st-gen FW controllers (and the VST drive is 
not a 911).

Cheers,

RD

>Thanks, Remy. I knew you'd have the goods on this.
>
>Gary
>
>Remy Davison wrote:
>
>> >OK, group, here's a question some of you might find interesting--you in
>> >particular, Remy.
>> >
>> >Compgeeks again has their PowerBoy USB/Firewire (2.5) on sale. I have one
>> >already that I put the HD from my Pismo into when I removed it. With the 
>10gb
>> >expansion drives available would one not be able to pull the HD from that 
>and
>> >insert it into a (faster) PowerBoy enclosure. What would be the pluses and
>> >minuses of that?
>> Gary, it would very much depend upon your FW enclosure and FW controller.
>> Is the PBoy Oxford 911? If so, it will perform much better on an iceBook
>> or recent Ti than any Pismo, Ti or CardBus FW. It would probably match
>> the int. HD on these 'Books. On 'old' FW controllers, it wouldn't max out
>> the bus on a Pismo but would come close on a Lombard.


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