Re: Maxtor Hard Drives??
Kyle Hansen wrote: On 3/18/03 1:31 PM, K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: CompUSA has a really nice 120gb 7200 RPM drive that is only $79.99 after rebate. If you need a drive BUY THAT ONE. You will not find a better deal. Can this be put into a Pismo No way. or an Imac SE 400? Absolutely. Kyle H. Hansen -- Jesus Saves...but Gretzky grabs the rebound and backhands for a goal!!! Thanks for the clarification.. Mike K Broad Street Bullies (AKA Phila Flyers) RULE!! -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Connecting two AirPort cards
On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 10:03 PM, Eric D. wrote: Hello, another question about PowerBooks and wireless: (a) can two AirPort cards talk to each other, or do they need an Airport Base Station? (b) can two of any other PCMCIA wireless cards talk to each other, or do they too need the (equivalent to a) Base Station? (c) can Airport and non-Airport 802.11b or 802.11g cards co-exist on an Airport wireless network? (d) has anyone figured out how to get non-Apple cards into the airport slot? There is a report on www.Macintouch.com (I think that's where I saw it... maybe it was on dealmac.com's discussion forums (it was today I saw it)) that said it was possible to get a non-Apple card working in the Airport slot (it just didn't fit properly) -- the Mac OS supposedly recognised it as an Airport card. Eric. (a) No airport base is required to allow 2 computers to connect (b) Ditto other manufacturers offerings (c) 802.11b absolutely. 802.11g is iffy, since it is very new there may be some early compatibility problems with different brands that will be resolved over time. (d) good luck. JimS. -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Connecting two AirPort cards
On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 04:03 AM, Eric D. wrote: (d) has anyone figured out how to get non-Apple cards into the airport slot? There is a report on www.Macintouch.com (I think that's where I saw it... maybe it was on dealmac.com's discussion forums (it was today I saw it)) that said it was possible to get a non-Apple card working in the Airport slot (it just didn't fit properly) -- the Mac OS supposedly recognised it as an Airport card. Eric. I think there may have been something on XLR8YourMac about this, but I didn't pay too much attention to it. Why do you need to do this? Have you got something else in the PC card slot? I've put a Linksys 802.11b card in the slot in my Lombard, I'm using the IOXperts drivers, and it works just fine. Tom Burke -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Pismo and open firmware trick
- Original Message - From: Jeremy Derr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 11:25 PM Subject: Re: Pismo and open firmware trick On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 06:00 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: The trick is the keys have to be down *before* you hit the power button...which is a *heck* of a lot easier on a Powerbook than a regular Apple Design Keyboard, where the power key is about a half mile from everything else... If you wait even as long as the bong to start it won't work. well, it's not quite that dire. you can hit it after the chime... it just has to be before anything appears on screen (not -much- better). As stated previously; I've tried all different ways without success, not quite sure where to go next. Someone mentioned that it was related to the processor and if I had that replaced it may be my problem. It was replaced, but the problem existed with the old one also so I doubt that's it. Joe Ellis -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Pismo and open firmware trick
- Original Message - From: Jeremy Derr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 5:08 PM Subject: Re: Pismo and open firmware trick On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 03:26PM, Joe Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Had the problem prior to the upgrade. And yes, I'm pressing the keys immediately, both from a restart and from a full off condition. In researching this problem; I got a PDF of the Apple troubleshooting and disassembly guide and from what I can discern from it, the sleep state is controlled from an IC chip called PMU99 and I suspect this IC is my problem; however, the book is not clear on where this particular IC chip is mounted. It could be on the Power Manager circuit card, the sound and power control card or the main logic board. I've eliminated the Power Manager board because I was able to try a replacement card to no avail. That leaves the sound card or the logic board. PMU99 is the Power Management Unit; i'd be very surprised if it was on anything other than the Power Manager card. your problem may lie elsewhere, but i'm almost certain that this is where the PMU99 IC is. Well, I've replaced the Power Manager card with no change in symptoms. Replaced (Reinstalled both OS X and OS 9) with no change in symptoms. Any one know of a test I can run on the main logic board other than a swap out? Joe Ellis -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Connecting two AirPort cards
(a) Yes (b) ? (c) Yes (d) Yes Best Regards Hugo On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 11:03 PM, Eric D. wrote: Hello, another question about PowerBooks and wireless: (a) can two AirPort cards talk to each other, or do they need an Airport Base Station? (b) can two of any other PCMCIA wireless cards talk to each other, or do they too need the (equivalent to a) Base Station? (c) can Airport and non-Airport 802.11b or 802.11g cards co-exist on an Airport wireless network? (d) has anyone figured out how to get non-Apple cards into the airport slot? There is a report on www.Macintouch.com (I think that's where I saw it... maybe it was on dealmac.com's discussion forums (it was today I saw it)) that said it was possible to get a non-Apple card working in the Airport slot (it just didn't fit properly) -- the Mac OS supposedly recognised it as an Airport card. Eric. -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Connecting two AirPort cards
On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 10:03 PM, Eric D. wrote: (a) can two AirPort cards talk to each other, or do they need an Airport Base Station? sure, in a couple of ways. one computer can be set up as a software base station and the other joins it's network or you can do computer-to-computer, or ad hoc, networking. (b) can two of any other PCMCIA wireless cards talk to each other, or do they too need the (equivalent to a) Base Station? if the card is actually WiFi certified, yes. even if it's not, the answer is -usually- yes. (c) can Airport and non-Airport 802.11b or 802.11g cards co-exist on an Airport wireless network? yes. 802.11b and 802.11g are standards and any card that meets these standards can exist together. for instance, my family's business has a half billion PCs (*sigh*) and 3 macs. everything is wireless with apple's base stations providing the network. to contrast, i have a PowerBook with an Airport card. my base station is a Belkin wireless router. (d) has anyone figured out how to get non-Apple cards into the airport slot? There is a report on www.Macintouch.com (I think that's where I saw it... maybe it was on dealmac.com's discussion forums (it was today I saw it)) that said it was possible to get a non-Apple card working in the Airport slot (it just didn't fit properly) -- the Mac OS supposedly recognised it as an Airport card. Proxim/Farallon/Orinoco or whatever they're calling themselves these days... they have a card that'll fit into an airport slot. most cards won't fit because they have antennas that hang off the end, but Proxim's card doesn't have an antenna... it plugs into the antenna built into the powerbook. these cards were marketed under the Farallon brand name, and now that it's Proxim, I don't see them on their website. we bought one at my real job, i'm sure it's still laying around somewhere. i'll find out what model it is and repost later. -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: FM Transmitters- iPod
No tape. They are a head that feeds the signal in through the tape heads. Steve -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Airport questions
I should be able to find this on apples site but... I know the pismo will take an airport card internally, but will a lombard? -- Alan Miller Underwater Photographer http://home.earthlink.net/~uwphoto/ 9600/233 w/ G3/400 XLR8 ZIF, 1.5 G RAM eBay ID uwphotoer Live each day like it is your last because someday you'll be right. -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Airport questions
on 19/03/03 15:29, Alan Miller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should be able to find this on apples site but... I know the pismo will take an airport card internally, but will a lombard? Nope. Best wishes Malcolm Cornelius - The Powerbook Fanatic www.pbfanatic.co.uk MSN Messenger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ - 47738640 -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Airport questions
Malcolm Cornelius wrote: on 19/03/03 15:29, Alan Miller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know the pismo will take an airport card internally, but will a lombard? Nope. Thanks ;-( -- Alan Miller Underwater Photographer http://home.earthlink.net/~uwphoto/ 9600/233 w/ G3/400 XLR8 ZIF, 1.5 G RAM eBay ID uwphotoer Live each day like it is your last because someday you'll be right. -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Airport questions
On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 03:29 PM, Alan Miller wrote: I should be able to find this on apples site but... I know the pismo will take an airport card internally, but will a lombard? -- Alan Miller Underwater Photographer http://home.earthlink.net/~uwphoto/ 9600/233 w/ G3/400 XLR8 ZIF, 1.5 G RAM eBay ID uwphotoer Live each day like it is your last because someday you'll be right. No, but (as I've posted before) you can put a third-party 802.11b card in the PC card slot use the IOXperts 802.11b driver for OS X. (I think they have one for OS9 also). Cost for the OS X driver is US$20. I'm using a Linksys WPC11 ver3 card in just this way. The IOXperts site has a list of cards that definitely work with their driver. -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Pismo and open firmware trick
Joe Ellis wrote: Had the problem prior to the upgrade. And yes, I'm pressing the keys immediately, both from a restart and from a full off condition. Well, I've replaced the Power Manager card with no change in symptoms. Replaced (Reinstalled both OS X and OS 9) with no change in symptoms. Any one know of a test I can run on the main logic board other than a swap out? This may not be it but check it out...I had a similar problem quite a while back...I had to re-install the energy saver extension. It came with 9.2.1 and was version 3.0.5 148K Saw you did the reinstall of X and 9...Maybe it isn't in those versions.. At any rate after I replaced it my Pismo would slep properly and wake up. HTH, Mike K -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Row of stuck pixels on screen
Suddenly a thin vertical line has appeared on the display screen of my Lombard, halfway between the center and the right edge. It is not visible when that part of the screen is white. It is my understanding the problem is most likely due to a bad I/O logic board, or possibly a bad backup battery. The machine has sometimes shut off during sleep (the blinker goes off and a power-on is required to bring the machine back up), which to me might implicate the battery. However, I tested the backup battery by shutting the machine off and pulling the main battery and power adapter, and it held the time and date settings OK for 30 minutes. One more bit of info: When running file system check (fsck), I get message: bootstrap_look-up() failed (ipc|send) invalid destination which appears three times on consecutive lines before anything else appears. 1. Am I on the right track here? 2. Is this problem likely to get worse in some way? 3. Does fsck message have anything to do with the screen problem? Any suggestions appreciated. Herb Goodfriend -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Row of stuck pixels on screen
On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 02:38 PM, Herbert Goodfriend wrote: Suddenly a thin vertical line has appeared on the display screen of my Lombard, halfway between the center and the right edge. It is not visible when that part of the screen is white. It is my understanding the problem is most likely due to a bad I/O logic board, or possibly a bad backup battery. The machine has sometimes shut off during sleep (the blinker goes off and a power-on is required to bring the machine back up), which to me might implicate the battery. However, I tested the backup battery by shutting the machine off and pulling the main battery and power adapter, and it held the time and date settings OK for 30 minutes. One more bit of info: When running file system check (fsck), I get message: bootstrap_look-up() failed (ipc|send) invalid destination which appears three times on consecutive lines before anything else appears. 1. Am I on the right track here? 2. Is this problem likely to get worse in some way? 3. Does fsck message have anything to do with the screen problem? i'd doubt it has anything to do with the battery, and i'd say it's 50-50 between the logic board and perhaps the display cabling to the inverter, the inverter itself, or maybe the display itself. depending on exactly what's causing this, it may or may not get worse... if it's the logic board, i'd say no. if it's the video cable (i forget for the moment what it's specific name is), then the answer is probably yes. everything else is gray. the fsck message is probably unrelated. personally, i suggest running the Disk Utility, while booted to the OS X install CD, rather than running fsck. after disk utility, i move on to DiskWarrior. -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Row of stuck pixels on screen
On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 05:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this line is ALWAYS in exactly the same place, and doesn't ever change at all (other than being visible or invisible depending on the color), then it is the LCD, and not anything else. Does it show up as soon as the computer comes on (even before you get a smiley face or welcome icon)? If so, it's definitely the LCD. well not really. it can easily be in the inverter or one of the related cables. in fact, it's more often these than anything else. unless in this model the inverter assembly is part of the LCD (it's not in most, but in a few it is). i haven't had a video on a Lombard in for service recently enough to remember which is the case... -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Exp Bay DVD/CDRW for PB G3
Wegener Media now offers an Expansion Bay DVD/CDRW drive for PowerBook G3 Pismo Lombard models: http://www.wegenermedia.com/pismocombo.htm It's $80 less than the unit MCE has been selling. Does anyone have any experience with this? Andrew Main -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Exp Bay DVD/CDRW for PB G3
Check out xlr8yourmac.com. It details a few users' experiences when they swapped the internal DVD on the Pismo to a Matsushita (Panasonic) DVD/CD-RW combo drive themselves. May be a lot cheaper than buying it from a store. Regards, Mark. Wegener Media now offers an Expansion Bay DVD/CDRW drive for PowerBook G3 Pismo Lombard models: http://www.wegenermedia.com/pismocombo.htm It's $80 less than the unit MCE has been selling. Does anyone have any experience with this? Andrew Main -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Exp Bay DVD/CDRW for PB G3
Check out xlr8yourmac.com. It details a few users' experiences when they swapped the internal DVD on the Pismo to a Matsushita (Panasonic) DVD/CD-RW combo drive themselves. May be a lot cheaper than buying it from a store. Regards, Mark. Wegener Media now offers an Expansion Bay DVD/CDRW drive for PowerBook G3 Pismo Lombard models: http://www.wegenermedia.com/pismocombo.htm It's $80 less than the unit MCE has been selling. Does anyone have any experience with this? Andrew Main -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
17 arrived
Works fine, doesn't get too hot, spiffy performance. I can sit here all day looking at the big, bright, lovely screen with the BIG FAT STUCK PIXELS IN THE MIDDLE THAT APPLE REFUSES TO REPLACE. This is the kind of quality I'm thrilled to have spent my $3200 on. KeS -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: 17 arrived
Works fine, doesn't get too hot, spiffy performance. I can sit here all day looking at the big, bright, lovely screen with the BIG FAT STUCK PIXELS IN THE MIDDLE THAT APPLE REFUSES TO REPLACE. This is the kind of quality I'm thrilled to have spent my $3200 on. How many pixels are stuck? -- Ryan Coleman System Administrator LEMLists.com Get your email account at lemlists.com for $6/year! Visit http://www.lemlists.com/ for more information LEMLists.com is a CobWeb Publishing website. -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: 17 arrived
On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 08:11 PM, Kevin Stevens wrote: Works fine, doesn't get too hot, spiffy performance. I can sit here all day looking at the big, bright, lovely screen with the BIG FAT STUCK PIXELS IN THE MIDDLE THAT APPLE REFUSES TO REPLACE. This is the kind of quality I'm thrilled to have spent my $3200 on. it's actually not a quality issue... it's a limitation of todays LCD technology. supposedly they (they being the LCD manufacturers; Apple has almost nothing to do with this) TRY to cut LCD screens such that bad pixels exist only at the very edges of the screen, but this isn't always possible. bad pixels at the edges are almost imperceptible. in the end, the trade off is this: we want good LCDs at reasonable prices. perfect LCDs aren't really possible in any quantity - even if they can't be readily seen, I can usually find 1-3 dead pixels on any given LCD panel over 15 (this is common enough on LCD screens that I get a lot of practice at it - and just as often with Dells and Gateways and Compaqs as with Macs - dead pixels know no product bounds). Sometimes it only happens with the screen set to a certain color, and sometimes you have to look at the screen in a checkerboard pattern... but they're there. yes, dead pixels suck. i have 1 myself, green, in the middle of the top left quarter of my screen. for the first week, i couldn't help but see it every time i turned on my PowerBook. after that, i hardly notice it. the real question ends up being this to be able to guarantee fewer dead pixels, the cost of the LCDs would have to be substantially higher. how much would you be willing to actually pay for a 17 laptop? $4000? $5000? $1? perfect SCREENS, much less laptops with perfect screens, probably can't be made for even that much. in the end, the LCD manufacturers make this distinction: we can sell LCDs that have a low rate of dead pixels, or we can go into another line of business, because no one will buy LCDs for what we'd have to charge for them with no dead pixels... IF they can even be made with no dead pixels. shawn may know the exact quote, but IBM has said that they could make a hard drive that will never fail. EVER. what a boon it would be to have such a product on the market until you look at how much this drive would cost! -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
17 PowerBook vs Pismo 500 Xbench
Exec Summary: Overall performance almost exactly 2x, memory operations close to 4x, OpenGL not much different. KeS Pismo: Results 46.22 System Info Xbench Version 1.0b5 System Version 10.2.3 Physical RAM512 MB Processor PowerPC 750 [500 MHz] L1 Cache32K (instruction), 32K (data) L2 Cache1024K Bus Frequency 100 MHz CPU Test53.94 GCD Recursion 45.96 1.79 Mops/sec Floating Point Basic46.62 157.14 Mflop/sec Floating Point Library 80.56 3.62 Mops/sec Thread Test 38.93 Computation 31.89 256.95 Kops/sec, 4 threads Lock Contention 49.95 627.01 Klocks/sec, 4 threads Memory Test 31.62 System 28.63 Allocate90.32 47.51 Kalloc/sec Fill35.59 204.07 MB/sec Copy15.24 76.19 MB/sec Stream 35.32 Copy35.51 155.29 MB/sec Scale 35.61 155.36 MB/sec Add 34.47 156.86 MB/sec Triad 35.70 156.86 MB/sec Quartz Graphics Test54.82 Line48.42 1.23 Klines/sec [50% alpha] Rectangle 56.48 3.97 Krects/sec [50% alpha] Circle 59.48 1.37 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha] Bezier 57.19 621.43 beziers/sec [50% alpha] Text53.88 878.30 chars/sec OpenGL Graphics Test133.12 Spinning Squares133.12 93.16 frames/sec User Interface Test 48.00 Elements48.00 16.33 refresh/sec Disk Test 34.48 Sequential 36.61 Uncached Write 30.37 13.25 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 30.85 12.55 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 70.45 11.10 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 33.63 14.51 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 32.59 Uncached Write 20.36 0.31 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 32.70 7.50 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 48.82 0.32 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 44.35 8.69 MB/sec [256K blocks] 17: Results 92.56 System Info Xbench Version 1.0b5 System Version 10.2.4 Physical RAM1024 MB Processor PowerPC G4 [1000.00 GHz] L1 Cache32K (instruction), 32K (data) L2 Cache256K L3 Cache1024K Bus Frequency 167 MHz CPU Test109.56 GCD Recursion 98.87 3.86 Mops/sec Floating Point Basic115.38 388.89 Mflop/sec AltiVec Basic 109.48 5.94 Gflop/sec Floating Point Library 116.34 5.22 Mops/sec Thread Test 65.61 Computation 63.10 508.35 Kops/sec, 4 threads Lock Contention 68.32 857.55 Klocks/sec, 4 threads Memory Test 124.32 System 122.50 Allocate123.21 64.81 Kalloc/sec Fill200.20 1148.02 MB/sec Copy87.89 439.45 MB/sec Stream 126.19 Copy124.68 545.22 MB/sec [altivec] Scale 127.85 557.81 MB/sec [altivec] Add 128.77 585.89 MB/sec [altivec] Triad 123.60 543.09 MB/sec [altivec] Quartz Graphics Test120.40 Line124.36 3.17 Klines/sec [50% alpha] Rectangle 119.38 8.40 Krects/sec [50% alpha] Circle 132.76 3.06 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha] Bezier 119.25 1.30 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha] Text108.80 1.77 Kchars/sec OpenGL Graphics Test123.58 Spinning Squares123.58 86.48 frames/sec User Interface Test 104.39 Elements104.39 35.52 refresh/sec Disk Test 61.08 Sequential 62.11 Uncached Write 56.17 24.51 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 51.74 21.05 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 121.13 19.08 MB/sec [4K blocks]
