Re: OT: please stop rehashing this old myth!!!
On Sunday, February 1, 2004, at 05:58 PM, Robin Ashe wrote: You're working under the false assumption that I was trying to back up my previous comment. This, however is: Regardless, I don't see how putting the blame on a 3rd party because apple didn't make it has any point. Apple is responsible for the business partners they chose. Same with blaming Motorola for not improving the G4 fast enough. Sure they were dragging their heels, but Apple entered into a business agreement with them, so they're responsible for the outcome. This sort of blanket statement flawed logic is really a waste of electrons. How is Apple responsible for what any 3rd party choses to do? Any rational response must depend on the timescale of course! Time for rational analysis as what to do next. Obviously Apple has finally decided to give up on Motorola and go with IBM. Should they have dropped Motorola earlier? Retrospective hindsight is easy, but one could argue decisions made in haste are usually not optimal. Of course PC makers such as Dell and Gateway always make optimal decisions! Think first before posting, Dingo. -- 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: iMac tray problem OSes
On 1/31/04 11:44 PM, David M. Ensteness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, the subject line of this e-mail thread was written by you and it was about how the tray loading iMac drive was flawed, that is what I referenced [the CD-ROM drives] in my above statement, you reading OK? Need some help? You're the one who needs the help. The title clearly states Re: iMac tray problem not iMac tray flaws. There's a difference. There is a control panel for just that ... you aren't real familiar with Classic Mac OS either are you? Oh and Classic Mac OS after System 7 will respect file extensions if you ask it to. I've already used that control panel, and set all extensions for text based documents to MS Word. It ignored it. As for Flash, if you install Flash player and read the dialog boxes for the installer there is one that states: memory should be increased for your browser, do you want that done at this time? I don't see clicking yes as manually increasing the memory. Clicking is a manual action. And even Linux dynamically allocates memory. It's obviously a bad sign when the Mac needs more configuration than Linux does. Only used it a couple hours, eh? Good luck to you with that. Way to make unsubstantiated comments. Uhm, that is all well and great for viruses that are e-mailed, but the worst and the newest for the past year have all been self-propagating, they don't use e-mail ... I know that is a hard thing to grasp, but seriously, slammer, not an e-mail virus, there have been a couple before and after slammer, in fact there was a new one out this past week. I didn't say I don't use a Firewall, but then again, Mac users use them too. Anyone who says, I know enough ... always makes me smile. I never have to worry about them knowing more than me. Its good to be unsatisfied. As long as you're happy in your little world. You don't have a lot of depth here. The PowerBook G4 Ti was declared the best available laptop by PC World, PC Mag, Business Week, and Business 2.0 when it came out. The PowerBook 12 and 17 models were regarded as being in the top two contenders for high end laptops. That was then, this is now. The Wallstreet was the best when it came out. It certainly isn't now. One thing is for sure though, I would pick a Pismo over a Powerbook G4 any day. You get what you pay for. You are in school, eh? University of something or other you said? College, good, time to learn something. You can buy a cheap car and customize it, or cheap computer components. Depending on if you like analogies or not. However, you can't match the feature set of a pro level Mac with a home built PC at the same price point. You can justify it by writing off features you say you don't need or aren't important, but you can't build something with feature parity so the argument is moot. Are you just blowing hot air or are you willing to back that up? Give me the specs of a specific Mac and I'll show you a PC that does the same job. -- 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: OT: please stop rehashing this old myth!!!
Gee ... my Pismo has been very reliable since 2000, so maybe I just got lucky. H ... compared to comparable (or even more expensive) PC laptops, I'm singing and dancing and even am able to run the latest OSX operating system (not to mention OS9, Linux, BSD, Windows ... etc) which allows one to have a really nice GUI and Unix as well (rather than the usual Windows/Linux dual boot saga ... been there done that!) (See also http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/vpc/ for how many more operating systems one can run on a Powerbook. Rather harder on a PC laptop.) My opinion is based on being a programmer on multiple platforms since the late 70's and while sidetracked by the wonderful Amiga (where I predicted in 1986 that a consistent GUI on top of Unix would be the ultimate good thing (till the next good thing). Unfortunately, Commodore lost the plot and I had to wait some 15 years to get where I wanted to be! Sigh! (PC's for me were an intermittent passing phase since DOS in the early 80's, I would rather avoid them but have used W3.1, W95, W98, WNT, WXP in more ways than most PC-folks!) Enjoy, Dingo. P.S. Betting on ill-defined statements is rather pointless. On Sunday, February 1, 2004, at 06:00 PM, Robin Ashe wrote: Are you willing to bet money on that? Because I'm willing to bet money against it. Quality Macs have been disappearing since 2000. -- 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: Personal LaserWriter LS on WallStreet
On Sunday, February 1, 2004, at 01:46 AM, John Acuff wrote: On Saturday, January 31, 2004, at 01:13 PM, John Slavin wrote: Well, it's definitely not postscript. You can look here: http://www.info.apple.com/support/applespec.legacy/laser.html Under the language, it says quickdraw. Compare that to my old 4/600, which notes that it is a postscript printer. And If you look at the ports, while they look the same, as the applespec notes, one is a plain old serial, and the other on the 4/600 is localtalk. Admittedly, an ethernet port would be far superior, but at lest with the 4/600 you can use a cheap ethernet to localtalk bridge and print straight out of OSX. One other thing you said confuses me. You say to use gimp-print, you must had a postscript printer. If you have a postscript printer, OSX should have the drivers anyway, apart from gimp-print. True, however Gimp-print provides many more drivers than are included with OS X. But the printer still has to be Postscript. Tho there may be a way to use Ghostscript to make Postscript printers such as the PLW 300 work under X, but I don't know how. Oops, make that non-Postscript printers like the PLW 300. My bad.. Powered by OS X Jaguar! (The power of Unix, the beauty of Apple!) -- 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: OT: please stop rehashing this old myth!!!
On 2/1/04 3:28 AM, Bruce Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 2/1/04 3:21 AM, Robin Ashe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/1/04 2:16 AM, Bruce Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can the moderator please block further posts from this jackass? We don't need a Mac hater on a Mac help list!! There's a difference between being a Mac hater and not being a PC hater. If I was a Mac hater I wouldn't have one. You certainly know how to waste a lot of time and space acting like one. David did just as much wasting. -- 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 ---
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Re: OT: please stop rehashing this old myth!!!
On Sunday, February 1, 2004, at 03:34 AM, Hoju Dingo wrote: Gee ... my Pismo has been very reliable since 2000 snip I second that...I bought my G4 iBook 2 months ago and it is working much better than any *New* Windows I have ever encountered. Apple is how it's always been: making the best computers on the market that pave the way for Windows (as Steve Jobs said in MacWorld, We finally got out ahead again with Mac OS X, and I think you'll see Microsoft copying that in the future.) Sure once in a while someone gets a faulty system delivered, but that's no where near Windows computer makers (such as Dell). Heck, who knows the number of faulty Windows systems shipped every week! Mostly, Windows computer manufacturers just care about making money on cheap computers. The low-end iBook is more expensive than a 1.6 GHz HP laptop! But you can certainly expect more from the Apple now and in the future. -- Andrew, a Mac Freak -- 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: OT: please stop rehashing this old myth!!!
That's odd that that happened with the Dells since the HDD, DVD drive, and power supply are from the same manufacturers that Apple uses. On Jan 31, 2004, at 9:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's something you'll never hear an Apple user say: Yeah, they make a great computer. Well, the hard drive died a week after I bought it and then a couple weeks later the power supply fizzled. After I replaced that the computer ran like a charm for another couple weeks and then the DVD drive stopped working. Apple sent out a replacement and it was kinda hard but I got it working again. So I guess I had a few problems but heck, Apple sure does make a great computer! I must have at least 10 clients who have said something like this to me - about their Dell. Apple users would start up a class action website with this kind of treatment. --markemmanuel -- 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: OT: please stop rehashing this old myth!!!
He's not saying he likes Windows based PCs. He's just stating saying we either don't care or some of us have a superiority complex. I don't care unless I am building a box for someone. Talking about busted PCs, my old Beige G3 had its HDD die three months after my Apple Care warranty died, six months after that, my powersupply died. I had to buy a replacement part on eBay. A year after my computer just stopped working. I bought a new motherboard hoping that would do the trick. I swapped everything on the old board and put it on the new board. Everything booted up fine. Since my computing needs became increasingly mobile, I was seriously considering a Dell or Sony. I ended up with a Pismo because my old 6100 was very dependable. Honestly, there are times where I've considered going Win because my computer can't play the latest games and run other stuff like photoshop. Fortunately for Apple, I don't play video games much and my Pismo is still running strong. BTW-I'd be using Windows XP if I had a Windows based computer. My brother's box has been running if flawlessly. john, how often do you use the power of UNIX and its super flexible CLI? On Feb 1, 2004, at 12:52 AM, John Acuff wrote: I don't buy that. I think it's more likely that Mac users don't care or like to think that PC users put up with crap so that they can feel better about themselves. You know, this really begs the question; if you are such a PC fan, what are you doing with a Mac in the first place? Maybe you should sell that Wallstreet to someone who would appreciate it, and buy yourself one of those quality Dell laptops. Then you can run your beloved Windows ME to your hearts content. Powered by OS X Jaguar! (The power of Unix, the beauty of Apple!) --markemmanuel ___t_h_e_w_o_l_f_p_u_p_._c_o_m_. Markemmanuel F. Rodriguez http://www.thewolfpup.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: OT: please stop rehashing this old myth!!!
I personally thought they were getting better. On Feb 1, 2004, at 1:00 AM, Robin Ashe wrote: Are you willing to bet money on that? Because I'm willing to bet money against it. Quality Macs have been disappearing since 2000. --markemmanuel ___t_h_e_w_o_l_f_p_u_p_._c_o_m_. Markemmanuel F. Rodriguez http://www.thewolfpup.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: OT: please stop rehashing this old myth!!!
On Feb 1, 2004, at 3:26 AM, Robin Ashe wrote: You're not familiar with the concept of conservation of energy are you? Nitpicking is a dangerous thing. He was just screwing around. They're responsible for choosing the third party. Yeah, you have a point. They have to make sure they're receiving dependable products because they have their names stamped on the stuff. It ultimately becomes their responsibility as it could tarnish their reputation. People were saying they should have dropped Motorola for years before they moved to IBM. Making the switch 1 or 2 years earlier wouldn't have been hasty. If Apple switched to IBM two years ago we'd be using G3 chips running cooler and faster. There would be no G4 in Macs. Also, Apple might had had a contract with Motorola as well. --markemmanuel ___t_h_e_w_o_l_f_p_u_p_._c_o_m_. Markemmanuel F. Rodriguez http://www.thewolfpup.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: OT: please stop rehashing this old myth!!!
I realized you were a troll and that we were wasting people's time so I apologized and stopped. Maybe when you grow up you can make big decisions too. Now, the list nanny has asked for this thread to stop as well ... perhaps this time you can not just rename it and keep plugging along Robin ... I for one and done with all this. David On Feb 1, 2004, at 6:08 AM, Robin Ashe wrote: On 2/1/04 3:28 AM, Bruce Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 2/1/04 3:21 AM, Robin Ashe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/1/04 2:16 AM, Bruce Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can the moderator please block further posts from this jackass? We don't need a Mac hater on a Mac help list!! There's a difference between being a Mac hater and not being a PC hater. If I was a Mac hater I wouldn't have one. You certainly know how to waste a lot of time and space acting like one. David did just as much wasting. -- 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: Wallstreet fixed in the PDQ? What is the PDQ?
Actually I haven't ever heard of wide spread sleep issues on WS PBs. However there was a hinge problem with them. David On Feb 1, 2004, at 12:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the info about the Wallstreet 'sleep' problem. What's the PDQ? Any other problems I should be aware of with this model of laptop? Jocelyn Jocelyn Then it should be a good deal. I don't know if it was fixed in the PDQ, but my Wallstreet has major troubles going to sleep, and most of the crashes I have are after it has gone to sleep and been woken up again. If you have to save battery power it's probably better to just turn it off. Otherwise disable the hard drive sleep settings. Having the screen go to sleep quickly is probably the best method of saving power. -- 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: Wallstreet fixed in the PDQ? What is the PDQ?
on 01/02/04 13:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the info about the Wallstreet 'sleep' problem. What's the PDQ? Any other problems I should be aware of with this model of laptop? Jocelyn The PDQ was another code name for the second generation Wallstreet, IIRC. See http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_g3/stats/powerbook_g3_300.h tml -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelinhttp://nemesys.dyndns.org Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] fiber-seeking backhoe: [common among backbone ISP personnel] Any of a genus of large, disruptive machines which routinely cut critical backbone links, creating Internet outages and packet over air problems. -- 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: External USB Drives question
From: markemmanuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: External USB Drives question Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 11:25:15 -0600 Okay, so... I encountered my first school project that requires that I have a floppy. My Pismo doesn't have a floppy and I won't be using floppy until another few years. On eBay there seems to be a large number of floppies up for auction but I want something to black like my pismo. The only ones I've found that are black are the Dell, Sony, and Teac drives. Will they work on my 'book? --markemmanuel If you are looking for an external, then any USB drive should work, at least in OSX. You can get a SuperDisk floppy to use internally with a Pismo, which goes in the expansion bay. I have one that I use with a Pismo and Lombard. They come up cheap on eBay frequently enough, or check with the Swap List. OSX recognizes them with no software, OS9 may need the downloadable driver. They won't format disks in PC format, but reading and writing to same are fine. --- JSH TiBook -- 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: External USB Drives question
This thread is dead. Drop it. -- Kyle H. Hansen G-Books Nanny It's Always darkest... right before it gets totally black. -- 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: OT: please stop rehashing this old myth!!!
Forget that. I say we all meet at a Quake site and have at it! :-) On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, David M. Ensteness wrote: We all going to meet on the playground during recess and settle this? Your bet money thing is cute, I haven't heard it since the beginning of high school, but its cute ... Come now, more Mac bashing with a complete lack of substantiation ... What does that equal T-R-O-L-L. Cheers to you, David On Feb 1, 2004, at 1:00 AM, Robin Ashe wrote: Are you willing to bet money on that? Because I'm willing to bet money against it. Quality Macs have been disappearing since 2000. Here's something you'll never hear an Apple user say: Yeah, they make a great computer. Well, the hard drive died a week after I bought it and then a couple weeks later the power supply fizzled. After I replaced that the computer ran like a charm for another couple weeks and then the DVD drive stopped working. Apple sent out a replacement and it was kinda hard but I got it working again. So I guess I had a few problems but heck, Apple sure does make a great computer! I must have at least 10 clients who have said something like this to me - about their Dell. Apple users would start up a class action website with this kind of treatment. -- Non Illegitimi Carborundum -- 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: External USB Drives question
Kyle, Why are you killing my thread? I want information on USB Floppy drives for my Pismo. I want a black floppy drive to match the computer of my 'book. All the USB floppy drives on ebay that's listed for macs are all fruity iMac colors. The black ones were IBM, Dell, and Sony products so I wanted to know if it works before I place a bid on it. It's not my fault that my school is using all Windows computers and my teacher wants my project done on a floppy disk. Plus, it's a difference between paying $5 and $25. Before killing my thread, I learned of an internal floppy drive by Smartdisk. It was very informative and that post meant that I didn't have to haul a USB cord or an external floppy drive if I can find the product on eBay. I'm really offended that you think that I'm adding excess fuel to that flame war in the thread Re: OT: please stop rehashing this old myth!!! Yes, I gave my opinion in response to certain posts to this thread but they were due to my experience from my old Beige G3. Look, after debating whether to go to Windows stayed with Macintosh because of the quality of my 6100. I have a Pismo that hasn't caused any problems for me and that's why I'm on this list. I'm really really offended that you consider me and my new thread trollish material. I insist you apologize or tell me that you wrote that accidentally. On Feb 1, 2004, at 1:47 PM, Kyle Hansen wrote: This thread is dead. Drop it. -- Kyle H. Hansen G-Books Nanny It's Always darkest... right before it gets totally black. --markemmanuel ___t_h_e_w_o_l_f_p_u_p_._c_o_m_. Markemmanuel F. Rodriguez http://www.thewolfpup.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: External USB Drives question
Sorry for posting this to the list. I meant to send this to Kyle directly. On Feb 1, 2004, at 3:04 PM, markemmanuel wrote: Kyle, Why are you killing my thread? ... --markemmanuel ___t_h_e_w_o_l_f_p_u_p_._c_o_m_. Markemmanuel F. Rodriguez http://www.thewolfpup.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: OT: please stop rehashing this old myth!!!
On 2/1/04 12:06 PM, Frank P. Eigler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forget that. I say we all meet at a Quake site and have at it! :-) I'm more of an Unreal Tournament fan, but Quake would probably be better considering it doesn't make good use of the second mouse button! -- 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: OT: please stop rehashing this old myth!!!
On 2/1/04 10:42 AM, David M. Ensteness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I realized you were a troll and that we were wasting people's time so I apologized and stopped. Maybe when you grow up you can make big decisions too. Now, the list nanny has asked for this thread to stop as well ... perhaps this time you can not just rename it and keep plugging along Robin ... I for one and done with all this. I wasn't the one who renamed it. Dan K brought it up again. Get your facts straight. -- 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: OT: please stop rehashing this old myth!!!
On 2/1/04 9:20 AM, markemmanuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't the main reason for new Apple hardware to run the latest BSD stuff (sans FreeBSD), Linux, Windows (via VirtualPC), and other stuff due to Apple's acceptance of Openfirmware while Windows based manufacturers still rely on BIOS? Also, isn't running Virtual PC make Window's painfully slow on Apple hardware? Remember, there's always an open source project do do crazy things like bring MacOS X to the x86-64 environment. I get decent performance out of VPC as long as I don't run any graphic intensive programs. The S3 Trio it emulates is really slow even when it comes to screen redraws, and games would be completely unplayable. I've benchmarked my VPC as a 333MHz P5, which for basic software is about as good as my desktop. The 4200 RPM hard drive does become a bit of a bottleneck 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: External USB Drives question
On 2/1/04 11:47 AM, Kyle Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This thread is dead. Drop it. Seems like a valid question to me. Why is it dead? -- 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 ---
Linux on Mac hardware
Hi All, All hardware can have problems but I've experienced more problems with PC systems, particular PC laptops (e.g. a Gateway brick) and PC workstations (a highly configured Pentium research machine where my disk died/fried?). On Monday, February 2, 2004, at 04:20 AM, markemmanuel wrote: Isn't the main reason for new Apple hardware to run the latest BSD stuff (sans FreeBSD), Linux, Windows (via VirtualPC), and other stuff due to Apple's acceptance of Openfirmware while Windows based manufacturers still rely on BIOS? The advent of Open firmware may have made it easier but Linux (and BSD and possibly even Minix) have been available on the Mac platform many model aeons ago. see e.g. http://www.maconlinux.org/ http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org/ Now I've only played with YellowDog personally but spent much happy time with LinuxPPC as a dual boot on my Pismo with OS8/9 until a more mature OS X (10.1) came out. I'm happier not to have to dual boot and also not deal with the cross-partition format incompatibilies. Your link failed to include links to Debian, Mandrake, and Yellow dog. They all make Linux for Macs and work on in a very dilligently The link ( http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/vpc/) was just an (rather tongue in cheek) aside. 8-) A site I came across where some dude chose to stuff as many OSes as he could on his PowerBook (mostly using VPC) and it wasn't the main flow of my response to the erroneous assertion that Macs have been getting less reliable. Your sentence appears to fade off here hmmm ... I already referred to Linux in my original post. One flavour is much like another (all Linux is like icecream!) Actually there are (were) many more distributions e.g. LinuxPPC, Suse, MKLinux, HA Linux. See http://www.linux.org/dist/list.html or http://www.distrowatch.com/ for a current list. Regards, Dingo -- 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 ---
PRAM battery
Hello Listers, I am new to PowerBooks but not to Macs. I suspect the PRAM battery has failed on my WallStreet 233 mhz revised model with 512k cache. The date keeps on needing to be reset every time I bootup. On my desktop Mac this is normally corrected with a new PRAM battery which I have fitted my self. I have checked in many books to find what a PowerBook PRAM battery looks like and where it is fitted inside but with out any luck. Could someone point me in the direction for this information, and what type of battery and cost could I expect. The desktop version is normally under £10.00 UK and I am able to obtain one at a good electronics shop. Would this apply to the PowerBook version. Thanks for any info John Abraham. -- 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: PRAM battery
On 2/1/04 4:02 PM, JOHN.E.ABRAHAM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Listers, I am new to PowerBooks but not to Macs. I suspect the PRAM battery has failed on my WallStreet 233 mhz revised model with 512k cache. The date keeps on needing to be reset every time I bootup. On my desktop Mac this is normally corrected with a new PRAM battery which I have fitted my self. I have checked in many books to find what a PowerBook PRAM battery looks like and where it is fitted inside but with out any luck. Could someone point me in the direction for this information, and what type of battery and cost could I expect. The desktop version is normally under £10.00 UK and I am able to obtain one at a good electronics shop. Would this apply to the PowerBook version. Thanks for any info John Abraham. I can't provide any specific advice, but http://homepage.mac.com/sysop/PhotoAlbum3.html might help with finding what the PRAM Battery looks like and where it is. -- 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 ---
Wallstreet, pram battery, and other battery question
Ok, I test drove the Wall street PowerBook that is for sale for $200 today. The date and time is not holding, so I assume it needs a Pram battery. The guy told me laptop don't have a PRAM battery. Is that true? If it does have a PRAM battery, I need a webpage for PRAM batteries with prices. Also, it has a SCSI adapter since the SCSI port on the Wall street is nonstandard. His adapter looks like a pin is missing. He said it came looking like that. He did not have a SCSI peripheral to demo the adapter. When he did a demo on the internal zip drive, he just opened the ZIP Tools disc window and commented on the loud sound of the ZIP drive. It sounds like my old ZIP, but I'm remembering that some ZIPs were recalled due to chatter problem and for ruining zip discs. I don't know if he had a recalled zip drive. Then, when he unplugged the laptop from the wall, it died. He finally confessed that the battery was not holding a charge. So I need a website for a battery and the price. I went to the webpage that a nice list person sent me today. It says that this model usually goes for $500- $700. So, I'm a little nervous about the low price. I asked him to meet me at a Mac place to have it checked over next week. I have a gift certificate to that store from my User group. I told him I'd apply my $50 gift cert toward the inspection of the laptop. Maybe that was too generous on my part. He is giving me several licensed software programs that I need, but I need to iron out these other issues. He seemed a bit too attached to receiving the $200 right away. Any help and info regarding these issues would me appreciated. Wow, this is like buying a used car. Jocelyn -- 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: Wallstreet fixed in the PDQ? What is the PDQ?
At 2:11 PM -0500 2/1/04, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 01/02/04 13:54, David M. Ensteness at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually I haven't ever heard of wide spread sleep issues on WS PBs. However there was a hinge problem with them. I've read about a few sleep problems, not sure if they involved a Wallstreet. The problem can occur if you replace the internal hard drive. As I understand it, when you close the lid, there is a magnet-based switch that tells the PowerBook the lid is closed. When you open the lid, the magnet releases the switch and the PowerBook can awake. There are some drives that will generate a stronger magnetic field which may causes the switch to stay closed, thus preventing the PowerBook to notice the lid has been opened. That problem does indeed happen on the Powerbook. One can shield the drive with Mu metal to fix it. This is a material that has a high magnetic permeability which keeps the magnetic fields from the drive confined. I instead just keep turning the computer while tapping the shift key till it wakes up (which it always does). -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway -- 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: Linux on Mac hardware
The advent of Open firmware may have made it easier but Linux (and BSD and possibly even Minix) have been available on the Mac platform many model aeons ago. see e.g. http://www.maconlinux.org/ http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org/ Now I've only played with YellowDog personally but spent much happy time with LinuxPPC as a dual boot on my Pismo with OS8/9 until a more mature OS X (10.1) came out. I'm happier not to have to dual boot and also not deal with the cross-partition format incompatibilies. It made things a lot easier as FreeBSD, Debian, and Mandrake created ports of their OS. mklinux was a pain when I used it on my 6100 and so many people flamed me it wasn't really Linux because it relied on a Mach kernel on the MacOS side and it needed something like BootX. I got it running but all I did was play Tetris. :-P It was supposed to become my Apache server at home. A site I came across where some dude chose to stuff as many OSes as he could on his PowerBook (mostly using VPC) and it wasn't the main flow of my response to the erroneous assertion that Macs have been getting less reliable. okay... Your sentence appears to fade off here hmmm ... I already referred to Linux in my original post. One flavour is much like another (all Linux is like icecream!) Actually there are (were) many more distributions e.g. LinuxPPC, Suse, MKLinux, HA Linux. See http://www.linux.org/dist/list.html or http://www.distrowatch.com/ for a current list. Yeah... I had to type it out quick as I was on my way to church. --markemmanuel ___t_h_e_w_o_l_f_p_u_p_._c_o_m_. Markemmanuel F. Rodriguez http://www.thewolfpup.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: Linux on Mac hardware
I forgot to ask the question... Is the mkLinux project dead? --markemmanuel ___t_h_e_w_o_l_f_p_u_p_._c_o_m_. Markemmanuel F. Rodriguez http://www.thewolfpup.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: OT: please stop rehashing this old myth!!!
This thread was killed ... you should check your facts. David Robin: I wasn't the one who renamed it. Dan K brought it up again. Get your facts straight. -- 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: PRAM battery
Hi John to greatly simplify the equation just go to any Apple resellers with the precise version of your Wallstreet and they will sell you the proper battery on top of it they will be glad to give you some tip as to how to change it and reset (case being) the Cuda. Regards Hugo Trottier GoMac Canada On 1-Feb-04, at 7:02 PM, JOHN.E.ABRAHAM wrote: Hello Listers, I am new to PowerBooks but not to Macs. I suspect the PRAM battery has failed on my WallStreet 233 mhz revised model with 512k cache. The date keeps on needing to be reset every time I bootup. On my desktop Mac this is normally corrected with a new PRAM battery which I have fitted my self. I have checked in many books to find what a PowerBook PRAM battery looks like and where it is fitted inside but with out any luck. Could someone point me in the direction for this information, and what type of battery and cost could I expect. The desktop version is normally under £10.00 UK and I am able to obtain one at a good electronics shop. Would this apply to the PowerBook version. Thanks for any info John Abraham. -- 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 ---
Is this an urban myth? iBook funk after one year of use.
A Mac repair guy was telling me that iBooks develop a smell after a year due to the kind of plastic used. The heat makes the plastic stink. Anybody know if this is true? Jocelyn -- 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: Wallstreet, pram battery, and other battery question
Jocelyn here are my 2 cents; You could always get the serial number and go yourself to a Mac Resellers, get it check 1) To make certain that it is not stolen good (in that case no Apple resellers will repair it) 2) To know exactly it's age and who was the original owner. If the sellers does seems to eager to get his $$$ be careful, it's always better to walk away with your $$ than a Mac that is going to become a headache over time and that will end up costing 2 or 3 times as much just in parts. Good Luck Hugo Trottier GoMac Canada On 1-Feb-04, at 7:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I test drove the Wall street PowerBook that is for sale for $200 today. The date and time is not holding, so I assume it needs a Pram battery. The guy told me laptop don't have a PRAM battery. Is that true? If it does have a PRAM battery, I need a webpage for PRAM batteries with prices. Also, it has a SCSI adapter since the SCSI port on the Wall street is nonstandard. His adapter looks like a pin is missing. He said it came looking like that. He did not have a SCSI peripheral to demo the adapter. When he did a demo on the internal zip drive, he just opened the ZIP Tools disc window and commented on the loud sound of the ZIP drive. It sounds like my old ZIP, but I'm remembering that some ZIPs were recalled due to chatter problem and for ruining zip discs. I don't know if he had a recalled zip drive. Then, when he unplugged the laptop from the wall, it died. He finally confessed that the battery was not holding a charge. So I need a website for a battery and the price. I went to the webpage that a nice list person sent me today. It says that this model usually goes for $500- $700. So, I'm a little nervous about the low price. I asked him to meet me at a Mac place to have it checked over next week. I have a gift certificate to that store from my User group. I told him I'd apply my $50 gift cert toward the inspection of the laptop. Maybe that was too generous on my part. He is giving me several licensed software programs that I need, but I need to iron out these other issues. He seemed a bit too attached to receiving the $200 right away. Any help and info regarding these issues would me appreciated. Wow, this is like buying a used car. Jocelyn -- 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: Wallstreet, pram battery, and other battery question
on 01/02/04 19:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I test drove the Wall street PowerBook that is for sale for $200 today. The date and time is not holding, so I assume it needs a Pram battery. The guy told me laptop don't have a PRAM battery. Is that true? If it does have a PRAM battery, I need a webpage for PRAM batteries with prices. Also, it has a SCSI adapter since the SCSI port on the Wall street is nonstandard. His adapter looks like a pin is missing. He said it came looking like that. He did not have a SCSI peripheral to demo the adapter. When he did a demo on the internal zip drive, he just opened the ZIP Tools disc window and commented on the loud sound of the ZIP drive. It sounds like my old ZIP, but I'm remembering that some ZIPs were recalled due to chatter problem and for ruining zip discs. I don't know if he had a recalled zip drive. Then, when he unplugged the laptop from the wall, it died. He finally confessed that the battery was not holding a charge. So I need a website for a battery and the price. I went to the webpage that a nice list person sent me today. It says that this model usually goes for $500- $700. So, I'm a little nervous about the low price. I asked him to meet me at a Mac place to have it checked over next week. I have a gift certificate to that store from my User group. I told him I'd apply my $50 gift cert toward the inspection of the laptop. Maybe that was too generous on my part. He is giving me several licensed software programs that I need, but I need to iron out these other issues. He seemed a bit too attached to receiving the $200 right away. Any help and info regarding these issues would me appreciated. Wow, this is like buying a used car. Jocelyn The Wallstreet does have a rechargeable PRAM battery. If the main battery is dead, then it may explains why the PRAM is dead. I think you need a good battery in order for the PRAM to recharge, but I'm not 100% sure. IIRC, the SCSI pin is normal. There are 30 pins on the Wallstreet while on regular cables, it's 29 pins. Again, this is off memory, so I could be wrong. Wallstreet don't fetch $500-$700. Do a search on eBay for completed items. They go from around $200 to $400 depending on the condition and the accessories that come with it. For a battery, there is laptops-battery.com. They have Wallstreet batteries with higher capacity cells for $104: http://www.laptops-battery.com/catalog/product_info.php/manufacturers_id/3/ products_id/5403 -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelinhttp://nemesys.dyndns.org Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] bytesexual /bi:t`sek'shu-*l/ adj.: [rare] Said of hardware, denotes willingness to compute or pass data in either big-endian or little-endian format (depending, presumably, on a mode bit somewhere). See also NUXI problem. -- 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: Is this an urban myth? iBook funk after one year of use.
A Mac repair guy was telling me that iBooks develop a smell after a year due to the kind of plastic used. The heat makes the plastic stink. Anybody know if this is true? Jocelyn I'm sniffing mine as we speak -- six months of age, no smell yet. What kind of a smell should I be on the sniff-out for? -- 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: Is this an urban myth? iBook funk after one year of use.
No, its not true ... its silly though ;-) David On Feb 1, 2004, at 9:55 PM, tivo wrote: A Mac repair guy was telling me that iBooks develop a smell after a year due to the kind of plastic used. The heat makes the plastic stink. Anybody know if this is true? Jocelyn I'm sniffing mine as we speak -- six months of age, no smell yet. What kind of a smell should I be on the sniff-out for? -- 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: Wallstreet fixed in the PDQ? What is the PDQ?
Clark, I'm wondering what you meant by 'keep turning' the computer.what does that look like? Could you describe a bit more? Thanks, Jocelyn That problem does indeed happen on the PowerBook. One can shield the drive with Mu metal to fix it. This is a material that has a high magnetic permeability which keeps the magnetic fields from the drive confined. I instead just keep turning the computer while tapping the shift key till it wakes up (which it always does). -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting -- 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: Wallstreet, pram battery, and other battery question
Thanks all you replied to my inquiry. Your info and advice was very helpful. Jocelyn -- 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: Is this an urban myth? iBook funk after one year of use.
Thanks to all who took a whiff of your iBook. Glad to know that is really is an urban myth. The guy sounded so confident when he told me that. He said he doesn't re-sell used iBooks due to the smelly funk. Maybe his nose is extra sensitive to smells? Jocelyn -- 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: Is this an urban myth? iBook funk after one year of use.
My answer was tongue in cheek -- or perhaps up my nose. But I really needed a giggle, even I had to provide it to myself! And truth be, one never nose. No, its not true ... its silly though ;-) David On Feb 1, 2004, at 9:55 PM, tivo wrote: A Mac repair guy was telling me that iBooks develop a smell after a year due to the kind of plastic used. The heat makes the plastic stink. Anybody know if this is true? Jocelyn I'm sniffing mine as we speak -- six months of age, no smell yet. What kind of a smell should I be on the sniff-out for? -- 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: Is this an urban myth? iBook funk after one year of use.
Yes, it is a laughable topic!! That's why I had to find out if it was true!! Jocelyn -- 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 ---
