Re: Wallstreet 250 Boot Problem
Greetings, James: If you have enough RAM to spare, or can boot well enough to set up virtual memory, you might try removing the memory module. If you can then boot reliably, the problem should be isolated to the memory module. Might be easier to get memory replaced than service in Meherabad. I pulled the 64 mb module and it booted fine consistently on the 32 mb module, just slowly. So I presume this means that I should replace the 64 mb module (Siemens) with another module? Can I substitute a 128 mb module for the 64 and keep the lower 32 in place? 160 mb would be more than enough for me. Thanks -- James Cox Post Meherabad Ahmednagar Dist. M.S. 414005 India Ph. 241-548728, 241-548744 Cellular 9822024128 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: TiBook Screen Scratches
On 5/25/02 7:20 AM, Michael Bryan Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One big help for me in avoiding the grease marks on screen is the handle I put on. (Ti Book handle, or Tilt-n-tote pr spmething like that.) I never am tempted to pick the machine up squeezing the top, and there is no pressure walking with it. Recommended accessory, and I don't know why Apple hasn't picked it up. The real problem is if you put it in a bag, even with a sleeve giving it a cushion if there is any pressure on it at all you'll get marks up the wazoo (such as a book or two, etc). I laughed out loud when a friend bought the protector I use from OWC, and started using it. He keeps it in a sleeve within another messenger style bag, with not much weight pressing against it but you cant help it sometimes if you set your bag down and it flops sideways. He took it out, and the owc logo which was pressed into the vynl protector was now marked on the screen. Maybe I'm crazy or just cheap, but I slip a folded in half soft paper towel in before closing my Pizmo. It works fine in preventing screen grease marks. Also, if I have a bite to eat before I work I have a way of cleaning up. :-) Keith Ronan -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: skipping DVD on TiBook [was: TiBook vs G3 Wallstreet]
I'm astonished to hear this--you're using OS X, right? No, I'm using OS 9. Experimented a bit with OSX, and don't like it that much, and have lots of legacy apps that I am not yet willing to part with, and am getting, as I mentioned, greatly improved stability just from the HARDWARE change, so that all-important low-level difference is less important than otherwise. I could hardly ever get DVD's to work correctly on those older rage128 machines and OS9. I had a 500mhz G4 which would constantly hang on DVD's that played fine in a console player or the PC next to it. DVD's on the majority of machines for OS9 as a large whole just kind of sucked, but that is only my experiences over many machines. I'd many times have to reboot 3-6 times just to get through a DVD. IMHO, the dvd player was the poster child app for how much nicer using OSX could be over OS9. It was probably the first app that caused me to start booting to OSX to perform a function instead of doing is in OS9. It pretty much held that crown until final cut pro 3, which is one hell of an OSX app. -- Michael Bryan Bell http://homepage.mac.com/michael_bell/ -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: skipping DVD on TiBook [was: TiBook vs G3 Wallstreet]
I suppose the thread is in the archives, but there was a brief exchange on this topic several months ago. I followed some of the advice (having experienced the same skipping DVD problems), and although I can't remember what it was, whatever I did, it worked. I can now watch a full DVD w/o it skipping and stalling. That's on a Ti 400, OS 9.1. Don Michael Bryan Bell wrote: I'm astonished to hear this--you're using OS X, right? No, I'm using OS 9. Experimented a bit with OSX, and don't like it that much, and have lots of legacy apps that I am not yet willing to part with, and am getting, as I mentioned, greatly improved stability just from the HARDWARE change, so that all-important low-level difference is less important than otherwise. I could hardly ever get DVD's to work correctly on those older rage128 machines and OS9. I had a 500mhz G4 which would constantly hang on DVD's that played fine in a console player or the PC next to it. DVD's on the majority of machines for OS9 as a large whole just kind of sucked, but that is only my experiences over many machines. I'd many times have to reboot 3-6 times just to get through a DVD. IMHO, the dvd player was the poster child app for how much nicer using OSX could be over OS9. It was probably the first app that caused me to start booting to OSX to perform a function instead of doing is in OS9. It pretty much held that crown until final cut pro 3, which is one hell of an OSX app. -- Michael Bryan Bell http://homepage.mac.com/michael_bell/ -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Wallstreet in Clamshell Mode
According to the user's manual, the Wallstreet won't run with the lid closed. -- JSH Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 10:04:36 -0500 Subject: Wallstreet in Clamshell Mode? From: bobshutts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello List Members: I see that the Ti Book can be put into so-called clamshell mode. I guess this means you can run it with the lid shut using external monitor, keyboard and mouse. I would love to do this with my Wallstreet. Is there any shareware or system OS trick I can use to do this??? Thanks. -- Cheers, Bob Shutts Attorney and ad hoc IT Manager http://www.jolietlawfirm.com -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Diff between Rev a B TiBooks?
In a message dated 5/23/2002 11:14:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The weirdest thing is before I bought my TiBook, all I heard is how good the units were. After I received it, then I mistakenly went on the Apple forum site and man. I've never seen so many problems with an Apple product! I could choose between the Rev A and Rev B and too bad I didn't know that the Rev B was MUCH FASTER for audio I guess it's all a trade off, the Firewire and Graphics card is much faster for Rev B. Thanks, Aron How can you tell a Rev. A from a Rev. B in the Titanium powerbooks? Pat -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: TiBook screen tear, the complete story!
To Dawn at SmallDog, and to everyone else on the list who has kindly expressed concern about my TiBook: I had no idea my initial post would cause such misunderstandings, and I am very sorry. That will teach me to proofread emails more thoroughly before I hit the send button. I have bought many things from SmallDog over the years and will do so again, because they are such fine people to deal with. As a matter of fact, when the online order I made couldn't be filled because they had run out of stock, they offered to upgrade my TiBook to the 550 mHz model at no extra cost. I can't thank them enough for that. I did not mean to imply that either they or Apple had mistreated me in any way-and I certainly do not think that anyone at SmallDog did anything to cause the damage to my screen. The thought never even crossed my mind. However, I do have to contradict Dawn on one point. I DID contact SmallDog about my torn screen. It was the first phone call I made as soon as I opened the TiBook and saw the screen. The person who answered the phone (sorry, I don't remember who it was) advised me to call Apple, saying I could probably get the problem resolved more quickly that way than by sending it back to SmallDog and having them send it to Apple. (Makes sense to me.) So Apple was the second call I made. And as I said, they dealt with the problem promptly by replacing the screen. So all's well that ends well, as long as we can all find a way to keep our beautiful TiBook screens polished and smudge-free. Thanks to all, Nancy At 7:07 AM -0400 5/25/02, G-Books wrote: Nancy purchased her computer from us in January and never contacted us for assistance, nor notified us of any problems. Certainly, this wasn't done by an employee, I can assure you that. Dawn D'Angelillo Small Dog Electronics 1673 Main Street Waitsfield, VT 05673 USA 802-496-7171 802-496-6257 fax email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Diff between Rev a B TiBooks?
On Saturday, May 25, 2002, at 09:19 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can you tell a Rev. A from a Rev. B in the Titanium powerbooks? Visually, they're about the same. The PowerBook G4 Titanium (which everyone refers to as Rev A) has vent slots in the middle of the rear panel, between all the ports. The PowerBook G4 (Gigabit Ethernet) has these slots, then has the same slots on the flap that covers the ports. Besides that not much. On the technical side, there's a world of difference. PowerBook G4 Titanium - 400 500 MHz models - DVD-ROM only - 8MB VRAM - 10/100baseT ethernet - PC100 RAM PowerBook G4 (Gigabit Ethernet) - 550 667 MHz models - DVD-ROM and Combo Drive options - 16MB VRAM - 10/100/1000baseT ethernet - the 667 model uses PC133 RAM, the 550 uses PC100 Some people assign Rev C to the PowerBook G4 (Gigabit Ethernet) with the combo drive, since that option was added after the unit shipped. I quarrel with this, as it's still the EXACT same machine, it just has a cooler optical drive. I try, with all my might, not to use product code names and to actually use Apple's designations for products. That way, people don't have to ask what a Prismo is (yes, that is not the correct spelling, but I've seen it on the list several times lately) or what the difference between Mainstreet and Wallstreet are. If people use the correct names for products, then they can easily find the differences in the Apple Spec DB or similar websites. But maybe that's just me :) -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Wallstreet 250 Boot problem
On 5/25/02 6:07 AM James Cox edified us all by writing: mb module (Siemens) with another module? Can I substitute a 128 mb module for the 64 and keep the lower 32 in place? 160 mb would be more than enough for me. It should work fine, so long as your 32MB module isn't faster than the 128MB you get. When I first got (additional) memory for my Pismo, I figured I'd put it (256MB) in the lower slot on the daughterboard and my original 64MB in the upper slot (so when I got another 256MB later, I wouldn't have to do the removal of the daughterboard bit). However, as I later learned, because the lower module is faster than the upper one, I got intermittent errors related to accessing the upper RAM. But when I switched the slower original (64MB) module - like your 32MB (original?) - into the lower (low profile) slot, things worked fine (and have ever since). You can check the RAM speed (if your mfr. info doesn't tell you) by using Apple System Profiler and see there. HTH, Jim Rohde One standard to rule them all, one standard to find them, One standard to bring them all, and in darkness bind them. In the land of Microsoft, where Shadows lie. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: skipping DVD on TiBook [was: TiBook vs G3 Wallstreet]
I haven't had many problems playing dvds with OS 9.1 on my Pismo. I've only had one disk play oddly toward the end. Otherwise, it has worked well. My sister has a Cube running 9.1, and it plays dvds without problems. Peter Michael Bryan Bell wrote: I could hardly ever get DVD's to work correctly on those older rage128 machines and OS9. I had a 500mhz G4 which would constantly hang on DVD's that played fine in a console player or the PC next to it. DVD's on the majority of machines for OS9 as a large whole just kind of sucked, but that is only my experiences over many machines. I'd many times have to reboot 3-6 times just to get through a DVD. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: skipping DVD on TiBook [was: TiBook vs G3 Wallstreet]
On Saturday, May 25, 2002, at 10:57 AM, Peter S. Kim wrote: I haven't had many problems playing dvds with OS 9.1 on my Pismo. I've only had one disk play oddly toward the end. Otherwise, it has worked well. My sister has a Cube running 9.1, and it plays dvds without problems. I had some problems pre-OS 9.1 on my grape iMac DV. After upgrading to OS 9.1 and the latest version of the Apple DVD Player, nary a problem... except that my copy of that movie with Bruce Willis (you know, I see dead people!) won't play past about 3/4 way in any computer (PC or Mac) that I have. I think it's scratched, or defective, though -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: small dog on the ball?
on 25/5/02 13:07, (G-Books) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: small dog on the ball Well then, That deserves an apology on my part to the people at SmallDog. I apologize for any hurt feelings that I may have caused. It's amazing the people you meet on this forum. It's also reassuring. With respect. John McKee Sorry, but I can't pass up the chance to post re. Smalldog, especially given that a Smalldog employee reads and responds to the list. I've had a mixed bag of good and bad service from Smalldog over the last couple years. For the most part they're pretty solid people to deal with. My last couple of dealings with them, though, have left a bad taste in my mouth. First, the problem with overselling items online. Other people on this and other Mac lists have mentioned this, too. It's obviously pretty annoying. And it was confirmed to me by a Smalldog customer service person that it was, in effect, their company policy to oversell their online items. I had it happen to me 3 times in the recent past, though on 1 occasion their customer service came thru very nicely and sold me a similar product at the same price (which they said was at cost). The other two times didn't work out so well. My online order, after being accepted at checkout and then confirmed by email, was subsequently cancelled a couple days later because the items were sold out. Pretty annoying in general, and in one case it really caused some problems at my end, in that when my order for a G4 processor upgrade had been accepted and confirmed, I subsequently went thru with a pending deal to sell my G3 processor to a customer (who I'd swayed away from PC's); so when my order was cancelled by Smalldog a couple days later, I was in a pretty awkward position with the customer and ended up selling him my G3 processor anyway - which obviously left me without a processor, so I had to fill my order thru OWC. More seriously, I bought 5 clamshell iBook batteries from Smalldog, all of which were DOA. All of them. Pretty shocking stuff. I contacted Smalldog, and they informed me that they knew about the problem, that they had received a bad batch from Apple, but that Apple wouldn't recognize the problem, so there was nothing Smalldog could do about it until Apple decided to take the batteries back. It seemed, and still does seem, a bit like passing the buck. I doubt Smalldog knew the batteries were bad, but some sort of quality control might be in order. Especially when my order was an international one, meaning that I would have had to pay (a lot) to send the defective merchandise back to Smalldog. The price was good, at $29, which is why I bought five; I see that Smalldog is now selling these batteries for $79. I assume these are from a good batch. Unfortunately I got stuck with the 5 from the bad batch. (No jokes re. funky paper weights, please). Chris Houston -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Lombard 333
Hi, I have recently purchased a G3 Lombard 333MHz/64MB(but putting in and additional 256MB) and would like to upgrade it to play DVDs. Can anyone advise me as to what upgrades I will need and where they can be purchased? Thanks, Kevin -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Lombard 333
This is the cheapest I know of a dvd upgrade. ($200) http://store.yahoo.com/smartdiskstore/dvdupgrade.html -Thomas Hi, I have recently purchased a G3 Lombard 333MHz/64MB(but putting in and additional 256MB) and would like to upgrade it to play DVDs. Can anyone advise me as to what upgrades I will need and where they can be purchased? Thanks, Kevin -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: TiBook Screen Scratches (cases)
At 6:20 AM -0500 5/25/02, Michael Bryan Bell wrote: I laughed out loud when a friend bought the protector I use from OWC, and started using it. He keeps it in a sleeve within another messenger style bag, with not much weight pressing against it but you cant help it sometimes if you set your bag down and it flops sideways. He took it out, and the owc logo which was pressed into the vynl protector was now marked on the screen. When my PB540 screen failed I took it apart to see if I could fix it. The molded screw receptacles in the case were all cracked. It had led a life of the road, being toted in a backpack through airports all around the world. There is a lot of stress put on a computer in a pack, especially when your sprinting through St. Louis because your TWA commuter flight is late and you got to catch the 767 to LA. I'm really sold on the packs and really appreciate having the computer on my back when I have to deal with a suitcase. What is needed is a hard case that is padded on the inside for holding your laptop inside a backpack or brief style case. I've been looking for such a case and have yet to find it. Ideally it would be about two inches thick, with about 1/2 inch of padding on the inside and a hinged lid on one end. The tiBook would slip in one end and the lid would close and lock it firmly in place. The case should be rigid enough that if would absorb outside forces without flexing and transferring the forces to the computer. The padded sleeves don't protect the computer frame from external flexing forces, they just spread the external forces over a wider area. Paul -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Portrait display w/your powerbook
Neatest thing, I downloaded Pivot Pro's MacPortrait 6.x recently, a thirty day trial period of the software program. This program allows you to use your powerbook in portrait mode. Obviously, you have to set the PB on it's side to use this. It Works! It places a icon on the menu bar to select a variety of options, ranging from screen resolutions to rotating the screen ninety or more degrees. It looks weird w/the PB on its side, but if you do a lot of whole page modifications to forms and contracts as I do, it prevents an awful lot of scrolling. It's not that expensive, $49.95 for the download and $59.95 for the CD versions. Supports all varieties of LCDs Will support stationary LCDs with VESA-compliant rotating mount hardware Will support all rotating orientations: 90, 180, 270, and landscape formats Supports multiple displays including Windows® 2000, XP and Mac Will switch from portrait to landscape, and back Will resize windows and application display Pivot is resolution independent, and will support the highest resolution that the graphics card can display Will automatically adapt to the present language version of the operating system language supports English, Japanese, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Korean, and Chinese both in traditional and simplified versions. (This description has been modified so as to not conflict with copyright laws). It does have issues with the sleep mode in newer machines, which they have purportedly fixed with a patch/update. This is not for everyone, but I find it useful. URL: http://us.portrait.com/products/pivotpro.htm Just info for you other PB users. With respect John McKee -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: TiBook Screen Scratches (cases)
Dear Paul, Did a quick search under 'Halliburton' The Zero Z7 cases are aluminum and moistureproof. It's briefcase with shoulder strap. But there is another (Trager Computer Transporter) that is a hardsided sleeve, Just holds the PB. The company is called eBags. URLS: http://www.e-bagscentral.com/ http://www.ebags.com/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=searchingsearch=brandIBrand=yessub_site_id=20brandid=121sourceid=GOOGb331 With respect John McKee Paul Nicholson wrote: At 6:20 AM -0500 5/25/02, Michael Bryan Bell wrote: I laughed out loud when a friend bought the protector I use from OWC, and started using it. He keeps it in a sleeve within another messenger style bag, with not much weight pressing against it but you cant help it sometimes if you set your bag down and it flops sideways. He took it out, and the owc logo which was pressed into the vynl protector was now marked on the screen. When my PB540 screen failed I took it apart to see if I could fix it. The molded screw receptacles in the case were all cracked. It had led a life of the road, being toted in a backpack through airports all around the world. There is a lot of stress put on a computer in a pack, especially when your sprinting through St. Louis because your TWA commuter flight is late and you got to catch the 767 to LA. I'm really sold on the packs and really appreciate having the computer on my back when I have to deal with a suitcase. What is needed is a hard case that is padded on the inside for holding your laptop inside a backpack or brief style case. I've been looking for such a case and have yet to find it. Ideally it would be about two inches thick, with about 1/2 inch of padding on the inside and a hinged lid on one end. The tiBook would slip in one end and the lid would close and lock it firmly in place. The case should be rigid enough that if would absorb outside forces without flexing and transferring the forces to the computer. The padded sleeves don't protect the computer frame from external flexing forces, they just spread the external forces over a wider area. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Diff between Rev a B TiBooks?
On Saturday, May 25, 2002, at 09:19 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can you tell a Rev. A from a Rev. B in the Titanium powerbooks? Visually, they're about the same. The PowerBook G4 Titanium (which everyone refers to as Rev A) has vent slots in the middle of the rear panel, between all the ports. The PowerBook G4 (Gigabit Ethernet) has these slots, then has the same slots on the flap that covers the ports. Besides that not much. On the technical side, there's a world of difference. I guess we disagree... The internals were definitely changed, but resulted in not that big of a difference. As part of a purchase decision a few months ago for a media company in chicago I found the differences between rev.A and B models which were essentially broken down as: A) Physical Characteristics The fit and finish of the tibook was enhanced quite a bit for the Rev. B. Most of the major problems with batteries, drive alignment, etc were fixed. The chassis was also significantly stiffened to help prevent the massive flexing that could occur with the first models, although you can still push on the back of the screen and see the screen warp. B) Performance upgrades i) Processor upgrade- negligible, due to the poor stop-gap PPC chip used which has the following issues: its low MHz bump, its memory bandwidth problems and its lack of cache. Basically, the older 500mhz model would outperform the newer 550 in 90% of common tasks, although altivec was improved somewhat. The 667 was also slower than the 500 in many, many tests. The one exception would be if you were doing a heavy looped calculation that fit within the processor's small onboard cache, which could see good performance. Ii) I/O Subsystem- 667 model was moved to 133MHz bus, but this was pretty much smoke and mirrors as it results in only minor real world gains, the reasons being that its standard drives are 4200rpm, the processors' memory bandwidth problems and the firewire chip performance. It does help with AGP, but again the processor choice affects its usage. Firewire performance was greatly improved from the horrific performance of the first models, but it still is a hair behind ibook performance and not up to par with desktops. The video system received the biggest overhaul, receiving AGP graphics and a radeon mobile. Video is much, much faster than rev.A. Still lagging best of breed PC notebooks though. Airport while trumpeted by apple as being greatly improved (heh, their PR guy said this upgrade is all about performance) showed to have a neglible improvement over the older models. Gigabit ethernet is standard, throughput is enhanced, and its autosensing works very well. -- Michael Bryan Bell http://homepage.mac.com/michael_bell/ -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
