Re: Confirmation Request (3040057234)
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Re: Tiger Release
But they list clamshell iBooks which had 4MB of Video RAM and up to what, 466MHz processors with a max of what 768MB RAM? The Pismo came with 8MB Video RAM, up to 500MHz processors and a max of 1GB RAM. Doesn't make sense...what could be the limiting factor? - Original Message - From: Aaron Willems [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: G-Books G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 9:41 AM Subject: Re: Tiger Release If you look at the Upgrade chart from Apple, I don't see the Pismo. You might be out of luck. http://www.apple.com/macosx/upgrade/requirements.html -- Aaron Willems I heard that Tiger will NOT install on G3/Pismo's even tho they have the required: G3+, built-in Firewire. Apple does not list the Pismo... The rumor is that it actually henges on what video card is installed, older ATI vs newer AGP. Anyone heard anything more? kim -- 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:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com 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/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Pismo wireless
OSX on my Pismo with a 400MHz G3 and 512 RAM was fast. With the bluechip upgrade to 900MHz and 1 GB RAM it is even better, but even at 400MHz, it was fast enough. - Original Message - From: Bruce Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: G-Books G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 3:22 PM Subject: Pismo wireless Dear Listers Can I tell you a shaggy dog story and then ask for some advice, please? (If not, please just delete this mail!) Got myself a 400MHz Pismo recently. Love it to bits for the look alone but I want to go wireless with it. (I have a wireless router that's accessed by my flatmate's PC and - via ethernet - my G4/400) Fell for an eBay advert for an 802.11g cardbus card that apparently would work with a mac - and won the auction. Here's the rub. The manufacturers say it will work with a mac but only under OSX. OSX is slow enough on a G4/400MHz with 384MB RAM. I hate to think how slow it'll be on a G3/400 with 128MB. (I do have an extra 512MB and a 30GB hard disk arriving soon.) So, do any of the assembled multitude have a clue if the card (Buffalo technology WLI-CB-G54A-3) can be jinxed into working under OS9? Will OSX be as slow as I fear, even with the bigger hard disk and more RAM? Is the delay in going wireless my karma for wanting to go faster than 802.11b? Many thanks Bruce -- 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:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com 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/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Pismo Won't Wake From Sleep
My Pismo has developed a habit of not waking from sleep properly over the past few weeks. It is now to the point that every time I wake it up, the screen will not light up, although I can hear the hard drive spin up. I have to hold down the power button and reboot, but even then the screen won't light up. Three finger salute reboot and still no light to the screen. The only thing that works is pulling the power cord, the battery, resetting the Power Manager and then rebooting. I can reproduce the issue in OS 9 and OS X so I don't think it is an OS issue. Is it a bad PMU? Is it PRAM? Help! -- Mark Edward Attew [EMAIL PROTECTED] Man's greatest desire is not love or hate, but to change another person's writing. -- George Orwell. -- 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:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com 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/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: OSX 10.3.8 on Pismo?
I had the issue that was supposedly a G4 PowerBook issue of the screen not coming back on after waking from sleep after I installed 10.3.7. Even with 10.3.8, my Pismo is still doing it. Runs great when I don't let it sleep, but hard restarting after sleep just sucks and I'm sure it is hell on my hard drive. - Original Message - From: Rad Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: G-Books G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 10:22 AM Subject: OSX 10.3.8 on Pismo? I see that 10.3.8 just came out and x.3.7 wouldn't work on my Pismos, wouldn't recognize the CDs. I wanted to know if anyone has put this on a Pismo and had it work successfully yet. Rad... -- 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:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com 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/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Pismo questions
I put a Matshita DVD-RAM UJ-811 which is a CDR/DVDR Superdrive into the DVD caddy of my Pismo and installed Patchburn. Not only can I burn CDs and DVDs with Toast, but with Patchburn 3, OS X identifies the drive as Vendor Supported so even iDVD will work with it. Better yet, the drive's face works the face from your old DVD drive with minor modification, so it doesn't even look like you've changed anything. Mark - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 12:43 PM Subject: Re: Pismo questions OK, next question, are there any replacement/upgrade drives so I can get CDRW and maybe DVDRW? Rad.. As per recent discussions about the Sony 830, there are LOTS of options for a Combo CDRW/DVD and several for a DVD-RW. Check out xlr8yourmac.com under their Drive Upgrades database. Personally I've used several different brands of Combo in my Pismos and can recommend them all: Sony, Matshita, LG, Teac. I've also used a few different DVD-RWs too: Toshiba SD-R6472 which is currently the fastest DVD-R out there (8x for both DVD-R and DVD+R, 4 x RW, 2.4x Dual Layer), as well as the slot-loading Superdrives Apple uses in the G4 powerbooks: Panasonic Matshita UJ-815 and UJ-825, the latter being faster at 4x vs. 2x. I like the slot-loading option, as you could keep the drive if you upgrade to a G4 with Combo in the future: just swap the drives and resell the Pismo with the slot-loading Combo from the G4. IIRC, the UJ-825 is on sale somewhere for about $130, which is a great deal. Highly recommended. Good luck. Chris -- 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 ---
Pismo FTP Woes
I have been having issues since Tuesday logging into my Pismo with 10.3.5. When I use an ftp client from a PC or another Mac, I get the following: Resolving host name 192.168.1.132... Connecting to (192.168.1.132) - IP: 192.168.1.132 PORT: 21 Connected to (192.168.1.132) - Time = 31ms Socket connected waiting for login sequence. 220 deadites.local FTP server (tnftpd 20040810) ready. USER Mark Edward Attew 331 Password required for Mark Edw. PASS (hidden) 530 User mattew may not use FTP. Cannot login waiting to retry (30s)... All I can think is that somehow my permissions got hosed as FTP is turned on in sharing preferences. If I try to login with bad credentials the error message is different: 220 deadites.local FTP server (tnftpd 20040810) ready. USER Mark Edward Attew 331 Password required for Mark Edw. PASS (hidden) 530 Login incorrect. Any helpful hints? Mark Edward Attew [EMAIL PROTECTED] Man's greatest desire is not love or hate, but to change another person's writing. -- George Orwell. -- 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 FTP Woes
Thanks Laurent, Looks like the Security Update hosed me and reverting fixed the problem. Mark Edward Attew [EMAIL PROTECTED] Man's greatest desire is not love or hate, but to change another person's writing. -- George Orwell. - Original Message - From: Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 3:13 PM Subject: Re: Pismo FTP Woes On 10/09/04 18:03, Mark Edward Attew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been having issues since Tuesday logging into my Pismo with 10.3.5. When I use an ftp client from a PC or another Mac, I get the following: Resolving host name 192.168.1.132... Connecting to (192.168.1.132) - IP: 192.168.1.132 PORT: 21 Connected to (192.168.1.132) - Time = 31ms Socket connected waiting for login sequence. 220 deadites.local FTP server (tnftpd 20040810) ready. USER Mark Edward Attew 331 Password required for Mark Edw. PASS (hidden) 530 User mattew may not use FTP. Cannot login waiting to retry (30s)... All I can think is that somehow my permissions got hosed as FTP is turned on in sharing preferences. If I try to login with bad credentials the error message is different: 220 deadites.local FTP server (tnftpd 20040810) ready. USER Mark Edward Attew 331 Password required for Mark Edw. PASS (hidden) 530 Login incorrect. Any helpful hints? Did you install the latest security update? If so, there have been numerous reports that this update switched the underlying ftp executable and for some reason it is turned off. You might want to check MacNN.com, MacFixit.com and XLR8YourMac.com for more details. I've read on the Usenet that you could use sftp, but I don't know anything else about it. I think that sftp is a more secured version of ftp than the regular ftp. -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin Developer, Multifamily, ESO, Fannie Mae mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Washington, DC, USA Usual disclaimers apply *** -- 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: Pismoapoptosis
And add a PowerLogix Bluechip G3 900 to the mix and you've got Pismobluechipapoptosis. -Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stuart Saunders Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 7:30 PM To: G-Books Subject: Pismoapoptosis Progressive stepwise uselessnessisation of the Pismo as a portable with each new OS, upgrade or update, due to ever shorter battery life. Aided by the lack of a battery reset app, such as in Wallstreet. On 14 Jan 2004, at 4:30 AM, G-Books wrote: Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:41:51 -0500 From: Kochkodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Pismo Batteries In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FMIWhat is Pismoapoptosis??? Regards, Mike -- 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 Battery
These new replacement batteries by NewerTech claim to have 12.5% increase in capacity over the original Apple batteries. http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_Item.cfm?ID=5833Item=NWTBAPLLILF $145.99 -Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dante McLean Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 1:35 PM To: G-Books Subject: Pismo Battery My battery life isn't great, even with really aggressive power management (I get about an hour and fifteen minutes), and I got stuck having a lecture in a class with only two outlets; one on the smart podium, and the other at the front of the room, below the blackboard. Not ideal for student PB users to thieve power! So, it is time to get a second battery. Few questions; 1) I assume that using a second battery in the media bay will do the trick here, even if the three-year-old one in the left bay is on the way out. Will having a new battery in one bay, dying battery in the other bay, affect power manager and/or the new battery? 2) What companies have people been happy with, and does anybody have suggestions for price range? Thanks. -- Regards, Dante McLean Dante McLean Photography [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- NeXTmail soon to be welcome! [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: My newly repaired pismo
It is common. It happened to a used PowerBook I bought. It was fine for a month then exhibited the symptoms you mentioned on every wake from sleep, every bootup. It will fade and shouldn't be noticeable as long your brightness is on full. Rumors were that it was the Samsung LCDs and not the LG LCDs that Apple used, but for me it was the opposite. I replaced an LG with a Samsung a few months ago and I've been fine ever since. -Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David M. Ensteness Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 1:41 PM To: G-Books Subject: Re: My newly repaired pismo Couple years back there was discussion of pink LCD problems on some Pismos. Never happened on mine and as far as I could tell while it was real it was not very wide spread. I spose its possible you have one that has that problem, its a direction to look in. David On Jan 2, 2004, at 2:43 PM, Joe wrote: I just fixed my pismo, and when I turn it on the lcd is very red and then after about the time it takes to get to the log in screen the red tinting is gone, is this a common thing on pismos, or do I need to start looking for a new lcd for mine? it works great other than this, and it doens't bother me at all, but I was wondering if this means its failing or something? -- 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 video out
When I've attempted to do this, the predictable outcome was that the visible display shrunk down so that there was a huge black box outside the desktop. The only way I've found to keep the desktop at full screen is at 1024 x 768, but maybe that has to do with the monitor as well. This was a 21 inch Dell I was trying to hook it up to. Mark Attew -Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 10:33 AM To: G-Books Subject: Pismo video out The Pismo powerbook specs say that the video out is VGA at a maximum of 1024x960. What happens if I run eg a 1600x1200dpi monitor off the video out? Is there any predictable behavior? Thanks Leslie Burkholder Department Philosophy UBC -- 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: Exceeding the RAM max
I believe (from when I had a clamshell SE) the onboard soldered RAM is 64MB and you have one expansion slot. At the time, I think the max. RAM chip you could get was a 256MB, maxing you at 320MB. Now you can buy 512MB chips that will slide into your expansion, maxing you at 576MB theoretically. Apple reports that the Pismo should max out at 512MB. With 2 RAM slots and 2 256MBs that would be true...but with 2 512MBs in mine, I have 1 GB. Moral: Apple doesn't update the specs on their older machines on their Web site. -Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mathew Peace Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 6:35 PM To: G-Books Subject: Exceeding the RAM max In my previous query on running OS X on the old clamshell iBooks, I have read 2 replies that say they have upped the RAM on their old iBooks to 512MB, when the max I have read from Apple is 320MB. How is it possible to exceed the factory maximum RAM? Mathew -- 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 BlueChip Upgrade
I upgrade my Pismo to the 900MHz G3 and yes, the System Profiler reports that it is a 550Mhz G3, but the CPU Director utility that comes with it reports the 900MHz properly. Mark -Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Opacki Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 1:32 PM To: G-Books Subject: Pismo BlueChip Upgrade Hello, Does anyone reading this newsletter, have any experience with upgrading a Pismo with the PowerLogix BlueChip processor? I ask because I've held the belief that the 400 Mhz Pismo and the 500 Mhz Pismo would have different final processor speeds, if the same chip was installed in each of them. I had thought the 400 Mhz Pismo wouldn't be as fast as the other version of Pismo. I'm now informed by a reliable source that my beliefs are incorrect. Will the system profiler be in error when calculating the processor speeds with that upgrade chip installed? Thanks. Tom -- 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: G3/Mac OS X Settlement
Right, I was an iBook SE 2000 owner and was a bit miffed about no hardware acceleration for my video card when X came out. My iBook was really almost unusable in X with the slow video redraws. I too bought a Pismo that I upgraded with the G3 900 upgrade and a gig of RAM so I am not complaining now, but the iBook was never really meant to be upgraded. Putting a 60GB hard drive in the Pismo took 10 minutes...I have seen pictures of swapping a drive in an iBook and it was not pretty...you've got to take a few hundred pieces apart. RAM maxes out low due to a soldered main chip so the issue really is that Apple purposely builds in obsolescence into some of their computers...the lower end, and develop their OS to work best with the newest hardware, so we'll buy new machines. They're bread and butter is hardware so if we could all still use our 98-2000 machines with Panther (aside from my Pismo which does run Panther quite nicely, but cost a pretty penny to upgrade), they're going to continue to innovate for the new hardware. Right or wrong it makes good business sense. Should they be responsible for making claims that don't quite pan out? Maybe...the lawyers are looking to make the real money, while some consumers feel that they deserve something based on the principle that they've been misled. I had my yo-yo power adapter spark, melt the power cable and burn a bit recently and called Apple. They sent me a new one right out, yet there is even now a law firm looking for people to complain on just this issue so they can file a class action. Since Apple took care of me, fair is fair and nobody was hurt, but if this is as common as the lawyers want you to believe and there is a safety hazard, that is a different story altogether. But that's a whole different can of worms there isn't it. I did follow the thread at the beginning before it turned into a class action. I think the original intent was to force Apple to complete the ATI RageLT driver so that those users would benefit from video hardware acceleration. I did drop the ball when I moved to a Pismo, so I don't really what happened, but it looks like Apple didn't want to do it, hence it resulted in a class-action... Just my $0.02... -Laurent. -- === Laurent DaudelinDeveloper, Multifamily, ESO, Fannie Mae mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Washington, DC, USA -- 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 / Panther / Battery Life
Overall battery life seems the same, but charging time has improved in my case! -Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 10:52 AM To: G-Books Subject: Re: Pismo / Panther / Battery Life I have a Pismo and my battery life (with 2 aging batteries) went from 3:30 hours back tot 2:30 when upgrading from 10.2.6 to 10.2.8(2nd edition). I've upgraded to Panther this morning and with both batteries charged it is stil indicating 2:30 hours, so it hasn't gotten any worse(not better). Apart from that I'm very happy with Panther, overal performance is better, especially Finder, Mail and iPhoto. Marc -- 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 ---
No sound with Virtual PC 6.0 and Windows XP
I know I know, why am I putting Windows on my Mac? I need it for one application that MS won't port to Mac. I had Virtual PC 5.0 with OS 10.2.8 and Win 2k and sound worked fine. Now with Windows XP, Virtual PC tells me there is something wrong with my version of OS X and I need to update it to get sound to work. What's going on? Mark -- 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 ---
Pismo Bluechip G3 900 Eats My Battery
I have my Bluechip G3 900MHz upgrade happily accelerating everything Mac on my Pismo and so far the performance boost is tremendous. My only complaint is battery time...before the upgrade while I was running at 400Mhz, my battery would last about 3.5 to 4 hours which is pretty good considering the age of the battery. With the upgrade in place, I am lucky now if I can get 1.5 t 2 hours, usually closer to 1.5 out of a full charge. I know I am running more than twice the CPU speed and expected a decrease in battery time, but there are folks with G3 900 iBooks who get better than 1.5 hours in their machines. I tried slowing the clock speed down, which you can do using a little application named CPU Director, but even slowing it down to 400MHz doesn't increase the battery life. Is it time to invest in a second battery to get 3 hours or is there some other way to improve the battery life? I've used Energy Saver to optimize for battery life, but this doesn't buy me too many minutes. Mark -- 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 ---
Pismo Bluechip G3 900 Eats My Battery
I have my Bluechip G3 900MHz upgrade happily accelerating everything Mac on my Pismo and so far the performance boost is tremendous. My only complaint is battery time...before the upgrade while I was running at 400Mhz, my battery would last about 3.5 to 4 hours which is pretty good considering the age of the battery. With the upgrade in place, I am lucky now if I can get 1.5 t 2 hours, usually closer to 1.5 out of a full charge. I know I am running more than twice the CPU speed and expected a decrease in battery time, but there are folks with G3 900 iBooks who get better than 1.5 hours in their machines. I tried slowing the clock speed down, which you can do using a little application named CPU Director, but even slowing it down to 400MHz doesn't increase the battery life. Is it time to invest in a second battery to get 3 hours or is there some other way to improve the battery life? I've used Energy Saver to optimize for battery life, but this doesn't buy me too many minutes. Mark -- 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: DVD-R/W in Pismo
Another question is, why do we want to burn DVD's on a Pismo/Lombard? FWIW, I just burned a Video CD in Toast - for 38 minutes of video, my TiBook 500 took 4:20 to prep the file. That's hours. I'd think a G3 will be somewhat slower I'm hoping my G3/900 upgrade will help in the speed department. ;) Also, I am looking mostly to burn data DVDs. M. - 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 ---
DVD-R/W in Pismo
Has anyone tried making their own DVD-R/W using a Panasonic/Matshita drive and their old DVD caddy from their Pismo? I was going to buy an MCE drive, but 1. They're out of stock and 2. They're about $500 shipped. I was looking at the slot loading Panasonic slimline multi drive UJ-815 which sells for about $299 and is what is being shipped in the new 17 Powerbooks. Think it would work or should I just wait for the MCE? Mark -- 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: DVD-R/W in Pismo
I tested a Toshiba SD-R6012 DVD-R inside a Pismo optical caddy and it worked with DVD Studio Pro and Toast, but not with iDVD. I don't know what iDVD looks for to decide if a Mac + DVD-writer is supported or not. Weren't these they grey drives that the faceplates wouldn't fit? I saw a picture somewhere and it wasn't too aesthetically pleasing. It _should_ work fine hardware-wise, the drive you mention is of the standard slim formfactor which fits right in the Lombard/Pismo caddy. In fact if you get the tray-load version (UJ-811/UJ-812) it _may_ even be usable with the original Apple/Matshita faceplate. http://www.esbuy.com/paslno2xdv.html Hmm, a slotload mechanism in a Pismo _does_ have its appeal though . . . I looked up the UJ-811 and compared it to my DVD-ROM module and it seems the open/close button and pin release will line up alowing me to use the original faceplate...now that would be awesome since I want it to look original. Is the UJ-811 compatible with OS X...can I burn from the Finder for CD-R and will the DVD burning work with Toast and iDVD. I did a Web search and couldn't find compatibility info for the UJ-811 and Powerbooks. Being that the UJ-815 comes with the 17 Powerbooks, I'd imagine it would be fully supported with all applications. But the ability to use the original faceplate is important to... There are quite a few slim DVD-R drives available these days, any mechanism should fit the caddy and work at least with DVDSP and/or Toast: http://www.esbuy.com/sldvdre.html They've got them in stock, but I have a feeling the UJ-815 would look a bit square in the Pismo's curved slot. :p I'd go the build-it-yourself route, but that's just me. :-) As always, I invite you to check out my still-to-be-completed EBMs page: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/macdan/ebms.html Yep, your site is looking good, if I go the UJ-811 and can get the faceplate to work, I'll send you some pictures. -- 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 ---
