Re: Apple Mail
On 24 Dec 2004, at 19:39, G-Books wrote: What are the major differences between Entourage and Outlook Express? I have both but has never used either. I've always used the mail application that comes with netscape for my isp mail. What am I missing? TIA. Pete. Outlook Express implements the POP3 protocol only, as far as mail is concerned - it also implements the NNTP protocol for News. Thus an Outlook Express client can be used with an Exchange server, assuming the Exchange system has got its POP3 service turned on. They generally have, but not necessarily so. Outlook (the full Outlook client on Windows boxes) is an implementation of the client end of Microsoft's MAPI protocol. Exchange server also uses this protocol (it's an application-level protocol, not a network-level protocol) so an Exchange server and an Outlook client talk MAPI to each other. This is a more feature-rich protocol than either POP3 or IMAP4. Thus when used with an Exchange server it is 'better', ie more feature-rich. It also includes POP3 functionality, and if used with just a standard mail server (eg an ISP's mail server) probably uses just that, in which case it's not really any better than any other POP3 client. Entourage can be regarded as an implementation of Outlook (not Outlook Express) on OS X. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto: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: Dead Lombard
I don't have anything to offer on the particular question, but I'd thought I'd just throw in an observation. In the last month or so, I seem to have seen quite a few threads (here and on other discussion boards/lists) about dead Lombards, dying Pismos, and totally fried WallStreets. Could it be that these machines are reaching the end of their working lives? The Lombards are going to be about 5 years old, while even the youngest Pismo is approaching 4. Is their day finished? Tom On 12 Nov 2004, at 18:09, G-Books wrote: Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:17:47 -0500 From: David Lesher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Dead Lombard So a user tells me his Lombard is dead. He claimed it worked off the batteries until they failed, but I see them as charged. In any case; I get no response from the power switch, with/without batteries and/or UFO. I'd guess the power controller but Suggestions? At the least, I need to pull the HD to try and save data. Is there a disassembly manual around? -- 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: Does extra RAM make a significant difference in OSX?
On 20 Oct 2004, at 20:30, G-Books wrote: Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 00:55:55 +0800 Subject: Does extra RAM make a significant difference in OSX? From: Mark Philip [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, I'm using a Pismo 400MHz with 192MB RAM, running OSX 10.2. If I was to upgrade the RAM to 512MB or higher, will there be a significant difference in performance? Or am I better off selling off the Pismo and perhaps getting an iBook G4 later on? I mainly use the Pismo for general email, Internet, audio and word processing. Nothing too fancy. Regards, Mark. The one area where the Pismo will always be slow is in the overall Quartz performance. It can't take advantage of 'Quartz Extreme', because of the limitations of the graphics system in it. So some elements of general OS graphics performance - windows opening, etc - are always going to be a bit slow. That said, more ram will certainly improve performance. For what you're doing I wouldn't have thought that going beyond 512 Mb would be worthwhile, maybe even less. Also, at some point you will want to replace the Pismo. I'm not sure, but I think that the ram for Pismos will not be compatible with current laptops. I'll be honest, however, my overall view is that while the Pismos were great machines in their day, the new iBooks are a much better buy. The mid-level 14 iBook is a lot of machine for not too much money, and will give you a big boost in performance. In my family we've had a couple of Lombards, a Pismo (still in use), a 12 PB, and a 1.2 Ghz iBook, all in the last few years. The iBook seems especially sweet - good performance, good price. Not for nothing was the original 14 iBook referred to as 'Son of Pismo'. The current ones are probably 'Grandsons of...', and are every good machines indeed. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: True Processor Speed
Hmmm.. 53332 on a 867 Mhz 12 Powerbook. Tom Burke On 9 Sep 2004, at 13:48, G-Books wrote: I just came across this in a thread by accident somewhere; sysctl hw.cpufrequency I entered it via the terminal and came up with a speed? of 667 on my 1gHz titanium powerbook. I read a lot of back and forth ( most posts were from 2003 ) some people said resetting the PMU made the number more accurately reflect the actual listed speed (do not want to do this). Others said that this would not return an accurate number no matter what. Some said it was totally worthless as any sort of indicator. Some said running XBench is a far better guide. This I did. Great results. As I previously said most of these posts were from late 03, I wanted to inquire as to whether or not anyone else has experienced conflicting numbers with ill effect or otherwise found that this is a generally meaningless issue. Any and all info is appreciated. Thanks. William -- 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: iBook G3
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 17:01:29 -0500 Subject: Re: iBook G3 From: Thomas Ethen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am looking for a 12 iBook 600/700/800 with a CD/DVD drive and would like to know what the going price for this setup is right now. I only need it for traveling and have no interest in one of the new faster models. Thanks Tom I think you'll have to rely on luck to find one of these. There weren't many 12 G3 iBooks with DVD drive; mostly they were fitted with plain CDs. This was one of the enhancements that came in with the G4 range. DVDs were available on the 14 G3 iBooks. To be truthful, my feeling is that you'd be better off looking for a s/hand 12 G4 iBook; the 800 Mhz ones from the beginning of this year are beginning to show up s/hand now, and they are very, very good. Considerably better, IMHO, than the G3 iBooks: G4, of course; DVD; Airport Extreme; nicer keyboard; and it's believed they're free of the motherboard problems that have beset the G3 iBooks. They do cost a bit more, but one result of the reduction of new prices over the last couple of years is that second-hand prices have also been compressed; a 4 month-old 800Mhz G4 iBook won't cost that much more than a 12-month old G3 iBook. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: 2 512 sticks vs. 1 1-GB stick
On 3 Jul 2004, at 19:56, G-Books wrote: One more question on the RAM issue. What if I get the minimum ram, a 512 stick, then order another 512 stick from Crucial later on? Will they be compatible? I don't know why I seem to have stuck in my head the idea that your RAM sticks need to match. Any advice? Again, if you are going to respond to this tonight, please do so directly to me as well as to the list, since I am on digest mode and would like to know the answer to this right away. Thanks, Claire [EMAIL PROTECTED] Years ago, in the days of SIMMs (I think, maybe even before that), it was necessary to install them into 386-class PCs as matched pairs (IIRC). Is it this that you're half-remembering? Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Ongoing problems with Lombard
On 28 May 2004, at 20:30, G-Books wrote: On 28/05/04 09:35, Tom Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last night my daughter's Lombard appeared to give up the ghost. It just stopped dead - no sign of life at all - and would not restart - no chimes. Plus, when I lifted off the keyboard there was a smell of electrical burning. Today it'll power up, but it won't boot - I just get the flashing folder / question mark icon. I have done the following things:- a) reset the pram; b) reset the nvram, having booted into open firmware; c) reset the PMU. I've also tried using Disk Utility via an installation disk, but the only disk that Disk Utility shows is the installation CD; it can't see the installed HD either. I suspect that the Lombard is dead, but I was just wondering if anyone could diagnose what the fault might be. Last night I was convinced it must be a power issue, today the power side of things appears to be OK and the issue seems to be with the HDD. System is a 333Mhz Lombard, 256 Mb Ram, OS X 10.2.8, and a Toshiba 20 Gb HD. I'm confused. You're saying it's dead bu then, later, that the Disk Utility from the installation CD sees only the installation CD. So, it's not completely dead, is it? If you can boot from a system or installation CD, and if Disk Utility can't see the internal hard drive, then it seems pretty clear that the internal drive is toasted, hence the smell... -Laurent. If that was all, yes. But Thursday night, immediately after it crashed, the observed problem was that it wouldn't power up - no chimes, no grey screen, no icons, no sign of life at all. At that time, therefore, my assumption was that it must be the power side. Friday morning, without doing anything in the meantime, I idly tried it 'one more time', and it chimed and powered up, as far as the screen with the question mark / folder. So today, the observed problem seems not to be with the power at all but with the disk. That's what's confusing me - how can the symptoms observed behaviour have changed? Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Ongoing Problems with Lombard
Last night my daughter's Lombard appeared to give up the ghost. It just stopped dead - no sign of life at all - and would not restart - no chimes. Plus, when I lifted off the keyboard there was a smell of electrical burning. Today it'll power up, but it won't boot - I just get the flashing folder / question mark icon. I have done the following things:- a) reset the pram; b) reset the nvram, having booted into open firmware; c) reset the PMU. I've also tried using Disk Utility via an installation disk, but the only disk that Disk Utility shows is the installation CD; it can't see the installed HD either. I suspect that the Lombard is dead, but I was just wondering if anyone could diagnose what the fault might be. Last night I was convinced it must be a power issue, today the power side of things appears to be OK and the issue seems to be with the HDD. System is a 333Mhz Lombard, 256 Mb Ram, OS X 10.2.8, and a Toshiba 20 Gb HD. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Opinions on CDs
On 26 May 2004, at 08:35, G-Books wrote: Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 20:12:13 -0500 Subject: Opinions on CDs From: Michael Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I need to burn several CDs of pictures, music and documents on my PB G4 wit= h Superdrive. I thought about getting a stack of 50 at Staples, but my friend who was with me said those CDs are junk. He recommended Imitation. I have never burned CDs. Is there are a good brand or bad brand on the market? How good are the CDs at Sam=B9s? Is there anything I need to know before starting this task? My friend say I simply pop the blank CD into the Superdrive, select the music, pictures or documents and click Burn. Is it really that easy? Thank you for any advice or words of wisdom. Michael You might want to have a look at this article on photo.net: http://www.photo.net/mjohnston/column53/ Their interest (and mine) is with the archival qualities of CDs for long-term storage of image files, and some of the conclusions that are emerging about CDs are a bit disturbing. Quite a lot of photographers are realising that the humble photo negative is actually a really good storage medium - there are an awful lot of them that have survived 100 years or more, even 150 years, in perfect condition, with only minimal storage care - basically, keep 'em dry in the dark. Could we see a swing back to film? Hmm, probably not, but archival storage of images is a serious issue. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
D-Link network Card for PB
Sorry to keep harping on about this. I've now tried installing the D-Link DFE-690TDX Cardbus card in the lombard, having first installed the OSX drivers. The Lombard crashes. If it's already running when I insert card it immediately panics; if I reboot with the card in it, it freezes during bootup. It has all the appearance of missing or bad drivers. I've emailed D-Link's technical support but have not yet had a response. In the meantime, I wonder if anyone here has had any experience with this hardware? I know the card is good because it works fine in a Win2K laptop. Also I'm trying to locate where in the file system the driver would have been installed. Can anyone point me to the Darwin location where this can be checked? If it's at all like Linux there ought to be a configuration file pointing to driver files. can anyone point me in the right direction here? Tom Burke PS System is Lombard, MacOS X 10.2.8. -- 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: Ethernet PC Card for Lombard
On 9 May 2004, at 00:09, G-Books wrote: Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Tom Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ethernet PC Card for Lombard Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 19:58:28 +0100 Following on from the built-in ethernet tale of woe, does anyone have any experience of using a PC Card (PCMCIA) ethernet card? Do they just work, or is it necessary to install drivers? Can anyone recommend brands to try or avoid? I ought to mention that I'm in the UK. We have the same brands (just about) but obviously our online suppliers are different. Tom Burke As a followup to the above post, I've just ordered a D-Link Cardbus DFE 690 TXD card. Does anyone have any experience running this in a Lonbard (or similar) machine? I selected this one because it has Mac OS X driver... 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 ---
Suspect lombard Ethernet Port
I emailed the list on Friday about the ethernet port on my daughter's Lombard. I now have the machine to hand. For quite a while this afternoon I couldn't get it to do anything on the network at all. Although phyisically connected (via an ethernet cable I know to be good, into a hub) there was nothing - it wasn't even getting an IP address from the DHCP server amd the port light on the hub was dark, although there had been some flickering as it booted. However, running ifconfig en0 brought the correct response - the flags said it was UP, BROADCAST, SMART, RUNNING, SIMPLEX MULTICAST and mtu was 1500. The 'inet' line showed a self-assigned ip address. All the other important lines in the response - ether, media - showed 'active'. I opened Network Utility and tried a few pings to the router. No response. Then I tried netstat, in the network Utility, and selected Display Comprehensive Statistics for each protocol, and got a long and encouraging response - eg, tcp 3249 packets transmitted, etc, and 3268 packets received, including 17 duplicate acks. Then I noticed that the light on the hub for the port it was plugged into was flickering again. I tried a few more pings and started to get intermittent responses. Then after a while the hub port light came on continuously, pinging, etc, was working everytime. Somewhere in there it had also successfully got an ip address from the dhcp server so I tried to browse the web and it was successful. And it stayed like this for a while. Then I tried rebooting the Lombard. If I did an immediate (or nearly immediate) reboot it came up with networking functioning. If we left it for a while then networking was not working when it came back up, but (after intermittently working initially) came back later. I'm looking for thoughts as to what might be causing this. The obvious one is that there is some sort of intermittent disconnection in the ethernet hardware, or on the motherboard. Can anyone think of any alternative reasons? Oh, my daughter did tell me that there was thunderstorm between the time it was last working properly and the time when it wasn't. However, the Lombard was turned off (actually off, not just sleeping) during that time, although it was connected to the cable modem. 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 ---
Ethernet PC Card for Lombard
Following on from the built-in ethernet tale of woe, does anyone have any experience of using a PC Card (PCMCIA) ethernet card? Do they just work, or is it necessary to install drivers? Can anyone recommend brands to try or avoid? I ought to mention that I'm in the UK. We have the same brands (just about) but obviously our online suppliers are different. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Broken Lombard Ethernet Port
Hello the List! It looks as if the ethernet port on my daughter's Lombard has broken. I don't know for certain yet, and this weekend we'll be able to test it out for sure on my network, but after some months of excellent DSL connection via a cable modem, she now gets nothing. The cable company engineer has attended, everything up to the Lombard tests out OK, and he even plugged in a known-good modem and cable, and this didn't improve her position. Her networking configuration is as it should be, so it's not that either. I know how to do some jobs on the Lombard/Pismo series of PBs, but replacing the ethernet port is not something I've thought about before. Does the physical port connect straight into the logic board, or is it on a replaceable daughter-board? Any other advice for this situation? We've already thought of the 'connect a wifi base station to the cable modem and use a wifi card in the Lombard' solution; that effectively sets our cost ceiling for repairing the Lombard's ethernet setup. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Compare Apple to Orange (err.. I mean Pentium)
On Wednesday, March 24, 2004, at 03:54 pm, G-Books wrote: Subject: Re: Compare Apple to Orange (err.. I mean Pentium) A long time ago, a P3 had to be almost double the clock speed of a G3 to be equal (in some things). When the P4s came out, they had to be double the speed of a P3 to compete with the P3! Part of that was because the P4s had a longer pipeline to get a higher clock speed, and part was because right after it was released the compilers had not been optimized for the P4. The G4 is faster than the G3 for some things--and with those things its a LOT faster. So a 1.2Ghz G3 should be 4 times faster than the 600Mhz P3, and for a few things, the G4 will be maybe 10 times faster on some things. But this all depends on cache size, and location and a bunch of other things---like your disk drive. The different G4 laptops have different speeds unrelated to the chip speeds. If you have a 600MhzG3 it's probably really old, and so everything on the new machine will be a lot better in every way. You have to hand it to Intel (and AMD, for that matter) - they've overcome all the (theoretical) limitations and handicaps of their original CISC design by a) significant redesign yet somehow maintaining compatibility, and above all b) pushing the cpu speed up to extraordinary levels. Hopefully IBM will be able to emulate this aspect of Intel's performance with regard to the PPC 970 cpu and its siblings. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
OT : Image Capture v2.1
Sorry for the OT question. I'm running 10.2.8 on a PB 12, and I use Image Capture quite a lot (I don't want to use iPhoto). I'm having some problems with it. Checking the Apple support site I find quite a lot of references to Image Capture 2.1; however I only have IC 2.0.1 (v127). I can't find any reference to a separate Image capture 2.1 download. Can someone with 10.3 check their version of IC, please? Is IC 2.1 only available as part of Panther? Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Issues Awakening Hibernating PB
Hello the List! I have an annoying little problem. I have a 12 Pb (Mk1) to which I connect an external display, keyboard mouse (via a USB Hub). Most of the time the whole setup is asleep; to wake it up I just open the PB's lid and work using the external equipment. However, I've found that if I accidentally hit a key on the external keyboard when the PB is sleeping (lid shut), the system wakes up - the external screen comes on, I can work, etc - but if I then open the screen on the PB it remains blank, as if it were still asleep. Furthermore closing the lid when it's in this state doesn't send it back to sleep; the external display stays on, etc. The only way to re-establish normal operations is to disconnect the external display, which I don't want to do because when I later reconnect it the whole system loses the display resolutions I've set up on both components. So the question is - when a PB with external equipment is woken up by means of an accidental keyboard operation, how can I can get the base unit to fully wake as well? Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Backing Up Itunes Music to La Cie External
I actually have a couple of 160 Gb LaCie drives, for something similar to what you're thinking about. First thing to say is that I think these are great drives - very solid and , yes, attractive-looking, so well worth the money. I use mine as follows:- drive 1 is actually a big data drive - that's where I keep all my image data (digital photography is my thing rather than music). While I don't strictly need the extra space just yet I'm pretty sure I will do, so I took the decision to buy it now. So my data is spread between the Powerbook's internal 40 Gb drive (documents, some music, local email folders, etc) and external drive 1. Oh, I'm running 10.2.8. I back up selected elements of these two data sources to external drive 2. Mainly what I back up is the actual data stuff - I'm not too worried about the system, I can recreate that. So I'm backing up my 'Home' on the internal hard drive, and the whole of the contents of external drive 1. I use Apple's Backup program to do this. I'm a .Mac subscriber, so backup was a freebie. I'm perfectly happy with it. I usually back up weekly - I'm prepared to accept the loss if something goes wrong in between - or at the end of a heavy session eg when I've just imported 50 new images. As regards leaving the external drives on all time, I don't. If I'm not actually using them, I drag the drive icons into the trash and, once they've stopped whirring and have clicked 'off', I unplug the Firewire cable. Then when I need them I just plug the cable back in and hey presto they're back on the desktop. Oh, I have a Mk1 12 PB which only has one Firewire port, so in my case the two drives are daisy-chained. Tom Burke On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 09:15 pm, G-Books wrote: Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:36:15 -0800 Subject: Backing Up Itunes Music to La Cie External From: tivo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, folks. I recently purchased a 120gig La Cie external HD that is attached by Firewire to my G3 iBook OSX, 900Mhz. [snipped to save bandwidth] -- 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: Keep my Pismo?
On Tuesday, February 3, 2004, at 08:30 pm, G-Books wrote: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: markemmanuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Keep my pismo or ?? Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 09:35:37 -0600 I'd wait a few more months to a year since the G5 will be going into the books soon. as someone has said, the iBooks and Powerbooks don't have the great features that the Pismo had. Applw has been working to replace the G4 in their high end products. In addition to the new 64bit processor, they're throwing in new tech. Umm - I'm not sure what great features the Pismo had that iBooks (icebooks) and later Powerbooks don't have? The Pismo was a good machine in its day, sure, but it's underpowered by today's standards, and natively has a small HD and little RAM - nearly everyone I know who has one (including my wife) has upgraded both of these. The video card is nothing special, either, and I believe isn't capable of running Quartz Extreme. The late 2001 14 iceBook was known as 'Son of Pismo', and the name fits - same size screen, but faster CPU and bigger HD. In my opinion the iBooks in particular are looking like very good value for money at the moment. How much was a new Pismo three+ years ago? Compare that with the price of a new 14 iBook, then compare the specs - that's a good deal. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: iBook Mirroring
The computer I am typing on that I recently bought is a iBook G4 800MH= z 12 and I can't seem to be able to mirror or even use an external monitor with the included adapter. Does anybody know how to get the external monitor to function on the iBook? (Moving On) =20 From what I have read, the iBook and the PowerBook 12 are almost the same; they both use the same LCD screen, have basically the same bus and processor speed (that is, if you are talking about the G4 iBook), and, I believe, they have the same monitor output. The main advantages are the SuperDrive, size and weight, and the stylish case design. The iBook G4 tha= t I have is very small, and it even fits in a PowerBook Duo carry case! Also= , unless the 15 monitor you are talking about has capabilities of 1024x768 resolution or better, it will not be any advantage over the built-in LCD screen, as the iBook and PowerBook 12 both have max resolutions of 1024x768. I actually prefer the LCD over a CRT. --=20 Andrew =95 A Mac Freak =95 Andrew I don't have the 12 iBook but I do have the 12 Powebook which is very nearly the same as the G4 iBook - it has the same mini-VGA video output. And I just connected a VGA lead to the VGA-to-minVGA adapter, plugged one end into the back of the monitor, the other end into the Powerbook, and hey presto there was video output. That really is how it ought to work. Have you opened Displays when the external monitor is connected? Assuming the monitor itself is OK and able to accept the frequency output by the iBook (which is nothing extreme) there are a couple of things to check: a) the VGA lead. Do you have any other computers that you can use with the external monitor and this cable to prove that the cable and the monitor are working? b) do you have access to any other VGA-to-miniVGA adapters? Assuming the VGA lead is OK, the fault must lie with either the iBook miniVGA output slot, or the VGA-to-miniVGA adapter. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Which book to buy?
On Wednesday, December 31, 2003, at 07:42 pm, G-Books wrote: Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 22:34:50 -0500 From: btripp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Which book to buy? Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi guys, I need an opinion. Or several as the case may be. I'm torn between buying a new 12 ibook G4 and a 12 Powerbook. It has to be 12. I really like the new ibook but am concerned about having only an 800mhz processor and the smaller cache and lesser graphics. I can however, trick the thing out with 640mb of ram, airport and the 3 year extended warranty for about the same price as the powerbook with the options I need. The Powerbook however is faster, has a bigger cache and better video. Plus I could always upgrade the ram far beyond what the ibook allows right? I guess what I'm asking for are your opinions on which book to buy. I will be using it for mostly internet and word processing, but will need the occasional power to run gis applications or some other apps. How good is the 800mhz ibook compared to the 1ghz powerbook? To muddy the water more, what about the 867mhz powerbook? It has different video than both of the others though right? Thanks in advance! Feel free to reply offlist if this has been discussed too recently! -Ben I've got a 1st release 12 PB, and it's fine for my needs, but I wish I'd waited a couple of months and got the G4 iBook, for the sake of the £450 saving! I'm not sure how much difference in practice having 800Mhz, 867Mhz or even 1Ghz would actually make. Yes you could distinguish between them with benchmarks, but in real life? - I don't know. There are a couple of things that you need to know about the iBook specs. First, you can put more ram than specified in them - there is a company in the US that is selling 1Gb SO-DIMMS that fit into the user slot. It's expensive, but the point is that if you need to do it, you can. And moving to graphics, there is the 'Open Firmware hack' that applies to iBook video, specifically the issue of video mirroring vs. spanning. As specified, Powerbooks can do spanning, iBooks are only supposed to be able to do mirroring. Actually, it turns out that the graphics chip in the iBook is perfectly capable of doing spanning, but this capability has been cut back in the iBook firmware (presumably to differentiate between it and the Powerbook). How to undo this is fully documented on XLR8Yourmac.com. So - the iBook can take 1Gb RAM, and it can do monitor spanning. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
iPod and non-Firewire PB
Hello the list! I raised this query a few weeks ago and was given a lot of helpful advice. I'm just reporting that I bought an iPod for my daughter plus a no-name Firewire PCcard, and this has worked just fine with her Lombard. So many thanks to the list for the helpful advice. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: iPods and non-Firewire PBs
Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 21:46:39 -0500 From: Larry Dersch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: iPods and non-Firewire PBs I am very interested in this thread, because I have been trying for awhile to get my 2nd gen iPod to connect to my Lombard (9.2.2). No success with two different Firewire cards, one a generic, the other a VST. I just checked the Apple Store and the USB cable mentioned is listed for windows only, and it's USB 2. I would love to get this thing working with the Lombard. Who has any ideas? Thanks, Larry Dersch Larry My understanding is that only 1st generation iPods can be used with OS 9; all later ones have to be used with OS X (or Windows, of course). Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
iPods and non-Firewire PBs
I know this has been covered before, but it looks this time as if I may actually need to do something on this front. My daughter has a Lombard, currently running 9.2.something. She want an iPod for Christmas! Obviously we could get her an original model which runs on Mac OS 9.2.2, or we could put OS X on the Lombard. Either way, the issue is the fact that the Lombard doesn't have built-in Firewire. Apple guidance re. iPods remains pretty clear: the doc referenced here http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60971 continually refers to 'Macintosh computer with built-in Firewire port'. But I recall posts to this list where the poster has had no problem with a Firewire PCMCIA card in a non-Firewire PB. Can responders confirm that an iPod works OK on an older, non-Firewire Powerbook using a Firewire card? And can they briefly list the config they're using, ie, OS version, iPod generation, and card type? Many thanks. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Kernel panics on 12 PB
On Monday, November 10, 2003, at 08:30 pm, G-Books wrote: Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:30:21 -0500 Subject: Re: Kernel panics on 12 PBook From: Meg St. Clair [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 11/9/03 5:33 AM, Tom Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (edited for length): Yesterday I experienced a run of kernel panics on my 12 PB. After the first panic occurred I was unable to reboot successfully - 4 or 5 successive reboot attempts all resulted in another panic during the reboot. However, I got a feeling that perhaps there was a problem with memory so I took out the 512Mb RAM module, ran the tests again with a base 128 Mbyte system and everything passed. Then I re-inserted the 512 Mb memory module, re-ran the tests, and once again everything was OK. Next step was a boot into single-user mode to run fsck, which also came up OK - no problems revealed. Finally a full reboot into normal mode was successful, and it's been OK since then, with a couple of reboots, and at least one 'wake from sleep'. It's possible that the ram became loose. I periodically have a problem with kernel panics when I pick my 12 pb by the left front. Turns out that, over time and with the jostling that comes of carry it everywhere, the Airport card comes every so slightly unseated. It's not enough to interfere with the Airport functions but it causes the panics. So, I take the card out, put it back and then everything is fine for several months. Could be a similar sort of thing. Meg In fact further checking has lead me to thing that the issue may indeed be with the Airport card rather than the RAM module - it has only happened when I was working wirelessly, and checking the panic.log file revealed a reference to a module called 'com.apple.iokit.AppleAirPort2(3.1.2)' . And indeed I reseated the Airport card last night and it's been OK since then. Meg, when you say 'it's not enough to interfere with the Airport functions but it causes the panics', what do you mean? Have you ever run the Test CD after a crash? Tom Burk -- 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 ---
Kernel panics on 12 PBook
Yesterday I experienced a run of kernel panics on my 12 PB. After the first panic occurred I was unable to reboot successfully - 4 or 5 successive reboot attempts all resulted in another panic during the reboot. I dug out the Diagnostics disk and booted from that. I got confused by the patterns that appear for the Video RAM check - the first couple of times I though this was a symptom of another crash - and I force-rebooted out of the diagnostics once or twice. However, I got a feeling that perhaps there was a problem with memory so I took out the 512Mb RAM module, ran the tests again with a base 128 Mbyte system and everything passed. Then I re-inserted the 512 Mb memory module, re-ran the tests, and once again everything was OK. Next step was a boot into single-user mode to run fsck, which also came up OK - no problems revealed. Finally a full reboot into normal mode was successful, and it's been OK since then, with a couple of reboots, and at least one 'wake from sleep'. There no new hardware or software that might have triggered the panics; the system has not been changed since I installed the 10.2.8 upgrade a few weeks ago. I've had the Powerbook some three months or maybe a bit longer. So basically the position is that I had a very unstable system - unusable, in fact - which I seem to have remedied by re-seating a RAM module ( which was bought with the PB from a UK Apple Centre). This is a common issue on Windows PCs of course, but it's not one I've heard much mention of in the Mac world, esp. not with new Powerbooks. Have others on the list encountered this sort of thing? Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: iTunes Music Store problem
On Monday, November 3, 2003, at 12:53 pm, G-Books wrote: Has anybody else (in the US) ran into this? I just installed iTunes 4.1, and when I started iTunes and went to the Music Store, I got a message saying that the iTunes Music Store is not yet available in your country. Huh!? Since when is it not available in the US? (I'm in Indiana.) I never got this message under 4.0. I'm running 10.2.8, and I have never bought any songs or set up an account with the IMS yet. Does anyone have any idea why I'm getting this message? How does iTunes figure out what country I'm in? I've spent at least an hour searching the Knowledge Base with no answers. Well I get it all the time of course, being based in the UK. As to 'how does it know?' - I don't know, in fact. I've just tried a little experiment - I set all my International and Date/Time settings to US and rebooted. It made no difference. Possibly something to do with IP addresses? - I believe that most ISPs in the UK and Europe use a particular slice of the available Class 3 addresses, so you could make some sort of judgement from that. It wouldn't be foolproof, though. Or maybe there's just something in the OS that identifies the region where it was sold, a config file somewhere. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
G4 AiBook External Monitor settings
I'm having an annoying problem when running an external monitor off my 12 PB. The monitor is a 19 Iiyama, and I like to run it at 1280 x 1024, 75 hz, and also make it the primary display. And once this is set up, it all works fine. However, most of the time the PB isn't connected to the external monitor, it's just occasionally that I connect it. What's annoying is that sometimes when I connect it the system remembers how I want it all set up and just switches the displays (both of them) to the way I want it. But on other occasions when I connect the monitor I get mirrored displays with both of them set to 800 x 600. Does anyone know why I should be experiencing this variable behaviour? Tom Burke PS I'm running 10.2.8, and it's a Mk 1 12 PB, so it's using the analogue video out port and the 'video to VGA' connector supplied with the PB. TB -- 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: Anyone moved to a new G4 iBook
On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 05:39 am, G-Books wrote: Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:06:41 -0800 Subject: Re: Anyone moved to a new G4 iBook From: Illovox Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/29/03 7:33 AM, Tom Burke at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think they close the gap a great deal. Last Christmas my wife was looking for a Mac and bought a used Pismo rather than an iBook; for her the attraction of the Pismo was the DVD player. And again this summer I bought a 12 Powerbook rather than an iBook for much the same reason Tom, what are you talking about? iBooks have had DVD playback option for years... Sorry, I should have been clearer. I was referring to the entry level 12 iBook, which until this upgrade just had a CD drive, plus of course a G3. That was what my wife was looking at, and abouit 11 months ago a used Pismo looked like a better deal - 14 screen, DVD player, etc, etc, for rather less money. With the latest upgrade the entry level iBook has come on a long way - G4, Combo-drive, 30 Gb disk, etc. I was just wondering if the differences in spec between the entry-level 12 iBook and the entry-level 12 Powerbook are worth the considerable difference in cost? Powerbook: 1 Ghz CPU; extra video capability (non-mirrored monitor at different resolution); digital video out; 40 Gb HDD; umm - anything else? iBook: 800 Mhz CPU; mirrored-video only; analogue output only; 30 Gb drive (as standard, 40 Gb available as 'build-to-order'). Pretty much everything else is much the same, as far as I can see. So that's my thesis - the 12 Powerbook was an attempt to bring in an affordable Powerbook that was still clearly differentiated from the iBook. Looking back at it, the Mark 1 12 Powerbook was always a bit of a hybrid. Now the iBook has gone to G4, I'm not sure I can see much of a space for the 12 Powerbook - the obvious progression is: 12 iBook; 14 iBook; 15 Powerbook; 17 Powerbook. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Anyone moved to a new G4 iBook
On Wednesday, October 29, 2003, at 01:19 pm, G-Books wrote: -- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 11:22:13 +0100 Subject: Anyone moved to a new G4 iBook From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those new G4 iBooks do look nice. And for once, Euro pricing has hit the sweet spot: 999 Euros for the 12 model. Wow. Anyone moved to a new iBook from a Pismo? I'd love to get your impressions on speed improvements in OS X and on the iBook's screen vs. the Pismo's. Just how small is stuff on that screen? The wife is thinking of moving to OS X and she wants something light, so the new iBook looks tempting at that 999 Euro price point. An added bonus would be Panther for free (in practical terms it's like knocking another $120 off the price). Even more tempting is the fact that used Pismos, in all their glory, are still fetching close to 1000 euros over here, so the new iBook might be an even trade or close to it. Chris I think they close the gap a great deal. Last Christmas my wife was looking for a Mac and bought a used Pismo rather than an iBook; for her the attraction of the Pismo was the DVD player. And again this summer I bought a 12 Powerbook rather than an iBook for much the same reason, though in my case the extra video features were also a significant attraction - when I'm doing image manipulation I plug in an external monitor and run it at a higher res, which you can't do with the iBook. I haven't actually seen the new iBooks yet, but for me the 12 screen on the Powerbook is fine. I appreciate the small real-estate the things occupies and the screen is fine. Pricewise it's OK - £849 from the Apple store for the 12. I think that's a better deal than the equivalent G3 iBook was for £799. The 12 Powerbook is £1299, an extra £450. That's over 50% more than the 12iBook; do you get more than 50% extra I ask myself? I can't help feeling that 12 PB sales are going to drop as the iBook will compete very effectively with it - I might have been very tempted to live with display mirroring and take the G4 iBook had it been available. I could have bought an iPod as well and still spent less than I did on the Powerbook! And the Applecare package is less, too - £199 as against £279. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
LCD Screen on new iBook
I was told once (by a dealer) that one of the differences between the G4 P'books and the IceBooks was the quality of the graphics screen - the one on the Powerbooks was better eg, better colour fidelity, better angle of viewing, etc. This must have been 18 months to two years ago, in the days of the 500 and 667 Mhz Powerbooks and the early 14 IceBooks. Does anyone know if that was in fact true information? And if so, does anyone know if it's still true with the new iBooks? Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Which Powerbook?
On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 03:30 pm, Jim Eddy wrote: -- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 18:08:40 -0400 Subject: Which Powerbook? From: Jim Eddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My wife is buying a new Powerbook to go with her new teaching job. So the question is, which one? My suggestion is for the 12 G4. My reasoning is that it represents the most recent technology, where the 15 TiBook is a bit older design and the iBook even older with a G3 processor. It also is very small and light--a plus. Still, it would be nice to have a bigger screen than the 12. If that were so, how would the 14 iBook go versus the 867mhz TiBook. Any thoughts or suggestions? One immediate thought - wait until after 16 September! It seems quite possible that there will be announcements on that day regarding the portable range. The most common rumours are of a replacement for the TiBook, to match the 12 and 17 AiBooks. There may also be speed-bumps for those two machines,especially the 12 - its minimum speed (867 Mhz) is looking slow now. And who knows, there may also be price cuts. Of course it's unlikely that any new machines will actually be available immediately, but at least you'll know the overall situation. I won't go over the ground that others have already covered. One thing that I don't think anyone has mentioned is the ability of the Powerbooks to run a second monitor at a different resolution from the LCD screen. I have recently bought a 12 Powerbook, mainly for the portability, but when I'm in my office here at home I generally hook it up to a good 19 monitor and run that at 1280 x 1024. When I'm settling down for a Photoshop Elements session it's nice to have that extra screen area to use. Only the Powerbooks can do this; the iBooks are limited to mirroring, at the same resolution as the LCD screen. Oh, I also learned that the 12 Powerbook, with its mini-VGA connector, certainly benefits from using a high-quality VGA lead to the monitor. The crappy cheap lead I was initially using caused screen ghosting, and had me worried for a while. Switching to a good VGA lead changed everything. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: PB Networking
On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 12:38 pm, G-Books wrote: Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 16:17:47 -0400 Subject: Re: PB Networking Problems From: Lewin Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What does ifconfig en0 tell you, though? ipconfig getipaddr doesn't back if that seems to make any difference. Ah, no it doesn't, I've just checked with my normal command (ipconfig getifaddr en0) and got the The point I was making is: ipconfig doesn't appear to do what it's documented to do, but that's neither here nor there. In order to get useful diagnostics on your actual problem, you'll need to use ifconfig. I actually never used/heard of ipconfig before; I always use ifconfig. ipconfig doesn't give anyone any results at all. It might use an ioctl that isn't implemented in Darwin. -- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards http://www.zws.com/ Learn how to build high-performance embedded systems on a budget! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0750676094/zws-20 Umm... ipconfig works fine, surely? It's documented in 'Mac OS X in a Nutshell', and when the ethernet port is running OK the form of the command I use (ipconfig getifaddr en0) returns the IP address of en0. When I've got the problem it returns the error message. This is what 'ifconfig en0' returns: en0: flags=8863UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::20a:95ff:fe82:3624%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 inet 192.168.0.25 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 ether 00:0a:95:82:36:24 media: autoselect (10baseT/UTP half-duplex) status: active supported media: none autoselect 10baseT/UTP half-duplex 10baseT/UTP half-duplex,hw-loopback 10baseT/UTP full-duplex 10baseT/UTP full-duplex,hw-loopback 100baseTX half-duplex 100baseTX half-duplex,hw-loopback 100baseTX full-duplex 100baseTX full-duplex,hw-loopback I think when I ran ifconfig last night when the problem was present, it gave me all that but with blanks after inet netmask. I'll check some time. 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: PB Networking Problems
On Monday, August 4, 2003, at 03:44 pm, G-Books wrote: Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 10:10:56 -0400 Subject: Re: PB network problem From: Lewin Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a 12 PB with a wifi card. The PB has a static IP address. Occasionally I find that when using the ethernet connection the PB is no longer able to transmit or receive across the network - no browsing, What does ifconfig en0 tell you, though? ipconfig getipaddr doesn't work for me at all under OSX (I get the same error you do). -- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards http://www.zws.com/ Learn how to build high-performance embedded systems on a budget! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0750676094/zws-20 *** Thanks for the various responses on my post about PN networking issues. I'm on a home network, with all IP addresses statically configured, and I'm certain that there's nothing else on the network with the same IP address as the PB en0, so it shouldn't be IP address conflict. All devices connect tp a 3Com 10bT hub, which in turn is connected to an ADSL router. There's nothing wrong with the router or the hub; whenever this problem happens with the PB, another machine (Win2K laptop) continues working fine, including external comms through the ADSL router. Since I first posted I've tried something my dealer suggested, which was to do a 'clean re-install'. My system disk installs 10.2.3, and I downloaded 10.2.6 combo upgrade. This time I haven't done that - I've got a 10.2.4 upgrade CD that I burned, and I've installed that. I'll report back if that seems to make any difference. Ah, no it doesn't, I've just checked with my normal command (ipconfig getifaddr en0) and got the error message again - I'm on Wireless at the moment. Incidentally, when en0 is happy, that command returns the IP address currently in use on that port. Thinking about it, I'm not surprised to see the error message at the moment - I switched Locations when I unplugged the laptop moved downstairs (wireless connection) - my two Locations each have just one working network port; one has Airport, the other ethernet. At the moment I'm using a Location that only has airport enabled, so reasonably enough that port is switched off completely, therefore no IP address is assigned. But this error has happened when I've been connected via ethernet, and have not been switching locations, hence there's no reason why the port should error. Maybe I'll go back to one Location with both ports enabled. But it's interesting that other people are seeing the same error message that I am. I have to say, I'm not impressed with this - this is exactly the sort of thing I'm used to with PCs, and that I never had with my Lombard running 10.2.4 though ethernet and airport. Ah well. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
PB network problem
I posted about this problem a few days ago but there's been no feedback; maybe my post was too long. I'll rephrase it briefer. I have a 12 PB with a wifi card. The PB has a static IP address. Occasionally I find that when using the ethernet connection the PB is no longer able to transmit or receive across the network - no browsing, no email, no ping, even to devices within my own local suib-net. This happens intermittently, and when it does happen it's only after a while - an hour of use? - and some days never. The network configuration looks OK, but running this command: 'ipconfig getifaddr en0' in a terminal window gets this response: 'get if addr en0 failed, (os/kern) failure' Has anyone else ever seen this? Does anyone have any idea what might be causing it? Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Problem with PB networking
Hello the list! I've recently treated myself to a 12 PB (just a couple of weeks ago) and I'm having some unexpected problems with networking. I have a small home network with static IP addresses for all machines in the 192.168.0.n range. When using wires, all machines connect to a 3Com hub, which in turn is connected to a D-Link ADSDL router. There's a PC laptop, the new PB, an old (gigabit ethernet) PowerMac, and there used to be my old Lombard. In addition there's a Belkin wireless basestation, and the new PB, my old Lombard my wife's Pismo can all connect wirelessly. Wireless connectivity is absolutely fine. The problem arises when I've got the new PB connected by ethernet. This morning was typical. At first everything works fine - I can pick up mail, browse, etc. After a while (during which time the machine was actually not being used) I went back to it and was unable to connect. No networking tasks of any kind are successful. Doing a bit of diagnostics, I opened a terminal window and ran the command 'ipconfig getifaddr en0'. This produced this result:- get if addr en0 failed, (os/kern) failure which is pretty clear - the OS kernal has decided to stop running some portion of the network stack. I can restore connectivity by a number of means - rebooting, obviously, but also just removing the cable replacing it. There's nothing else on the network with that IP address. The Airport Extreme port is turned off in the Location I use when I'm connected by ethernet. I'm running OS X 10.2.6. The cable hub are fine - I've tried different cables with the same result, the old cable works fine in other machines. The hub is fine. I'm beginning to think that there's an intermittent hardware problem with the ethernet socket on the PB. Mostly it's fine but occasionally it produces some weird transmissions which the OS can't understand so it switches it off. My dealer has been pretty unhelpful so far - said that they've never had a 12 PB returned, and maybe I should re-install the OS. I really don't want to do this. I'd like to bottom this out a bit more before I contact them again. Anyone got any ideas or experience about this? Any further diags I can do? Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Ebay Powerbooks
On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 08:45 AM, G-Books wrote: I would have to agree with Chris. I reported the 'Buy Information...' items to ebay UK, and they didn't seem to be too bothered. Although I would concede that in those cases, the item description is strictly correct and no ostensible fraud is taking place. Like many others I've bought a number of items from ebay UK, including 3 powerbooks (2 Lombards 1 Pismo) and a PowerMac G4 ( in the last 18 months my family have switched almost completely to macs, though only to s/hand ones) and all my rtransactions have gone well. The only issue I've had with ebay Macs has occurred recently - Derbyshire constabulary took a statement from me about the Powermac which I bought last November, and examined it took serial numbers. So that one may have a murky past. Tom Burke Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 08:12:07 +0100 Subject: Ebay powerbooks From: Christopher Hack [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have bought several powerbooks on ebay from here in the UK. There is a big scam (certainly with ebay in the UK ) where people list big ticket items including PowerBooks, and then offer to sell them outside the auction with lines in the advert like contact me to buy this. Many of these seem to have a lot of positive feedback, but I have discovered they have either stolen someone else's ID (and you can identify this because you will find not much recent feedback), or they build up a feedback profile by buying many cheap items. The giveaway sign seem to be no pictures of the actual powerbook - just pictures from the brochure. I would recommend: 1. contacting the seller and asking for a serial number and recent photos of the item 2. asking if they are prepared to use escrow (even if you don't plan to use it), I have found the fraudsters always find some reason why they cannot accept escrow. 3. suggest you will pay in cash and collect the item (again even if you don't intend to, this will flush out the fraudsters who will immediately say it is not possible. You can do this even if the item is overseas by saying something like I will be in your country on a business trip next week could I drop by and collect it...) I contacted ebay fraud office and told them about these scams but they have done nothing. Best of 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 ---
OT - Sticky' Page elements on eBay?
This is OT as strictly it has nothing to do with Macs per se at all, but I can't think of anywhere else to ask the question. So my apologies, and I ask for your indulgence. I frequent eBay.co.uk. In recent months I;ve noticed a strange phenomenom, in that it can take a very long time for a page to load. I mean minutes. I have an ADSL cinnection, so it's not line speed, and indeed looking at my router during most of the delay there won't be any traffic. I get messages on the status line like this completed 1 of 4 items : 2 errors. The bizarre thing is that this beaviour varies from week to week. Last week, for example, the site was very responsive. Since their weekly Friday morning maintenance shut-down, it's been like treacle. I've tried raising the issue with eBay but with no success at all - they won't even acknowledge it. Furthermore I'm pretty certain it's an external issue - it's the same using both Safari IE on my PowerMac, Safari on the Lombard, and even IE5.5 on a PC laptop. Does anyone else see such behaviour? Anyone got any suggestions as to why it happens? Reply off-list of you'd prefer not to take up list bandwidth. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
UK List members: Did you buy from 'Samsud'?
Last autumn there was a chap selling Powermacs on ebay.co.uk, with (IIRC) the ebay id 'samsud'. It could also have been 'umardegreat', and that was certainly his email address at that time - [EMAIL PROTECTED] I bought a 400 Mhz AGP graphics G4 Tower off him (one of several he was selling). I know he's been very active on eBay.co.uk, selling Powermacs, Powerbooks and iMacs. The point of this story is that yesterday I had a visit from Derbyshire Constabulary, who are investigating the activities of this individual. They interviewed me to learn about my contacts with him, and also took details of the Powermac. At the moment I've got still got possession of it, but I've been told that I mustn't sell it or otherwise dispose of it. So if you were a buyer from this person, expect a phone call. -- 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 ---
Computer Capability - was Re: [OT] [PB]F key shortcuts
On Friday, April 4, 2003, at 03:49 PM, Eric D. wrote: I really wonder where things'll go. I think that in the next few years we'll see a make-or-break situation for computers and OSes. [snip] About the only thing that's really demanding on CPUs is the modern video game, and, for that I'd rather have a console than a computer any day. Video games stress a computer physically and I'd rather pound away on an attachment to a $300 console than the keyboard on a $2000 laptop (which does a worse job of playing games anyway). This was a good summary of where we are, and I agree with it. It's analogous in many ways to photography (another of my interests); while digital cameras are still changing dramatically, there are a whole load of SLR users out there using 10, 20, even 30 years old equipment. I own a 43-year-old fully-manual Leica, which I even use sometimes, and on the occasions when I get the exposure calculation in my head right, the pics I get are probably better than from any other camera I own. Most of the time, however, I use one of my EOS's but even there I prefer to use one that's 14 years old and another one that's about 10 years old. The big improvements in camera lens technologies (aspheric lenses, programmed exposure control, autoexposure - and I do recognise that not everyone regards all/any of those as 'improvements') have all happened, there's little difference between this year's new Canon EOS and last year's or the year before's. Going back to computers, however, one area that might tempt a user towards a newer machine might be stuff that we don't do professionally but nonetheless do do, occasionally. As a an amateur photographer I like to do my own image processing and output the results to my photo-quality inkjet printer. There's no doubt that CPU-intensive tasks like that benefit from a faster system, and (in the case of Macs) specifically from a G4 as against an equivalent-speed G3. There can be other benefits from a later machine, too - more ram may available, bigger/faster cacheing (though not in the case of the 12 PB), faster system bus, and all of these may well produce better performance for that sort of usage. So there are benefits from upgrading, though they may not be compelling ones. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Lombard Video in OS X (Was: lombard identification question)
On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 05:11 AM, Richard Smykla wrote: All, The Lombard's video card IS supported as of OS X.2.4. Still not very exciting video, but you don't need the hack any more, and you can change resolutions without problems. HTH. Rick Just hijacking the thread here What meant by 'not supported' and 'supported'? I have a Lombard (333) on which I have run retail Jaguar and then the 10.2.4 upgrade. I can't say that video performance was noticeably a) worse before the 10.2.4 upgrade or b) better afterwards. Of course, I'm really just using it for browsing, email and simple stuff like that. But what practical difference did the 10.2.4 upgrade make? Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
12 Powerbook Keyboard
On Saturday I had the opportunity to play with a 12 PB at a UK
dealer's premises (Gordon Harwood at Alfreton). I certainly liked the
little PB a lot, and I have to say that I'm seriously tempted.
While playing I found the Enter key rather uncomfortable to use, very
narrow and squashed over to the r/h side of the keyboard. Then when I
got home I noticed that in the illustrations on the big poster ('2003 -
The year of the notebook') and on the little brochure the keyboard is
different - the Enter key is horizontal and a decent size. Thinking
back to my encounter with the actual PB, the keyboard layout was the
same as on a 12 iBook next to it.
So have they altered the kb since the publicity shots were taken? Or is
this a UK thing?
Tom Burke
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Re: PowerLogix BlueChip Pismo G4/500 processor upgrade
I've never really ujnderstood why the Powerlogix G4 500 Mhz for the Lombard is a user-install, while the Pismo upgrade requires the CPU board to go to Powerlogix. Is there some difference between the daughter boards that I'm missing? Tom Burke (who's got a 333 Lombard is therefore very interested in the Powerlogix upgrades) On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 08:35 PM, Eric Morrison wrote: All I can say is Wow! This is a great, great product. (and no, I am not related to PowerLogix in any way, just a very, very satisfied customer). -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: 17 PowerBook vs Pismo 500 Xbench
On Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 04:21 AM, Kevin Stevens wrote: Exec Summary: Overall performance almost exactly 2x, memory operations close to 4x, OpenGL not much different. KeS Pismo: Did you read the 867 Mhz 12 PB review in April MacWorld? They compared it with the 867 15, 1Gb 15, and 800 Mh iBook. The PB ran a little bit slower than than the 867 15, and that difference would be accounted for by the different cacheing arrangements. But what was most interesting was how much faster, on suitable tasks (Photoshop tasks, iMovie rendering, MP3 encoding) all the g4 were than the G3 iBook - 3 time quicker in the case of the Photoshop tasks. That's where the benefit of the G4 lies, not in day-to-day browsing/ emailing/ wp, etc. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: 17 PowerBook vs Pismo 500 Xbench
On Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 04:21 AM, Kevin Stevens wrote: Exec Summary: Overall performance almost exactly 2x, memory operations close to 4x, OpenGL not much different. KeS I'm wondering how surprised I am about this. Much of the difference seems to be accounted for by the simple difference in CPU speed, which is indeed 2x. You would expect memory to be faster on the 17, and the disk looks to be about 50% quicker. But that isn't a great deal of difference, all things considering I wonder how a G4-equipped Pismo (or Lombard) would compare against, say, a 667 or 887 15 TiBook; it would still only be 500Mhz, but you'd get the Altivec improvements. There again, you're still hobbled by the old ATI Rage (Pro? 128?) graphics card, so in that aspect of performance any TiBook (or AiBook) ought to shine. Of course, these aren't real-world tasks. What's your subjective feeling about comparative performance in actual work? Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Connecting two AirPort cards
On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 04:03 AM, Eric D. wrote: (d) has anyone figured out how to get non-Apple cards into the airport slot? There is a report on www.Macintouch.com (I think that's where I saw it... maybe it was on dealmac.com's discussion forums (it was today I saw it)) that said it was possible to get a non-Apple card working in the Airport slot (it just didn't fit properly) -- the Mac OS supposedly recognised it as an Airport card. Eric. I think there may have been something on XLR8YourMac about this, but I didn't pay too much attention to it. Why do you need to do this? Have you got something else in the PC card slot? I've put a Linksys 802.11b card in the slot in my Lombard, I'm using the IOXperts drivers, and it works just fine. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Airport questions
On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 03:29 PM, Alan Miller wrote: I should be able to find this on apples site but... I know the pismo will take an airport card internally, but will a lombard? -- Alan Miller Underwater Photographer http://home.earthlink.net/~uwphoto/ 9600/233 w/ G3/400 XLR8 ZIF, 1.5 G RAM eBay ID uwphotoer Live each day like it is your last because someday you'll be right. No, but (as I've posted before) you can put a third-party 802.11b card in the PC card slot use the IOXperts 802.11b driver for OS X. (I think they have one for OS9 also). Cost for the OS X driver is US$20. I'm using a Linksys WPC11 ver3 card in just this way. The IOXperts site has a list of cards that definitely work with their driver. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: broken key on new 12
I haven't seen a 12 PB yet. How similar is the keyboard between the 12 Powerbook the 12 iBook? Tom Burke On Monday, March 17, 2003, at 05:08 PM, Steve Fuller wrote: FWIW, the 12 Powerbook at my local CompUSA had a couple of keycaps broken off if it already after just 2 weeks on the display shelf. Steve -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com --- -- 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 ---
Strange Lombard 'Semi-Meltdown' event....
This happened to me recently when I was, umm, playing with the new Lombard. My wife has a 400 Pismo, and I decided I'd see if the DVD drive from her Pismo would work in the Lombard. (I hadn't, at that time, read the Apple KB article that tells me absolutely definitely that it won't). I'd also been playing with RAM, and the HD in the Lombard - I think I'd had the whole of the processor card off, and the HD out (both these are candidates for replacement, indeed subsequently the HD has been changed). Anyway, I popped the Pismo DVD drive into the r/h Lombard expansion slot and booted up. The Chime rang, but nothing else - no 'white apple'. Then I noticed first a burning smell and then a whisp of smoke emerging from the ventilation slots at the back of the r/h side. So I pulled the power adapter out and popped the battery out, and thing went dead. My first fear was that the Pismo DVD drive had fritzed itself/everything, but on popping that out it was quite cold, and there was no evidence of heating around it at all. So that went carefully back into my wife's Pismo. Then I unhooked the keyboard and went back to the areas I'd been digging around in before. The processor card seemed OK, but the HD seemed pretty hot, esp as it hadn't really been on for any length of time. Further investigation revealed that the orange ribbon cable connecting the HD to the motherboard was scorched, in part of the wide area under the r/h side of the HD; indeed, there was a hole burnt through the cable. Looking carefully at the cable I realised that there weren't actually any conductors in the burnt area, so it can't have been an overheating wire. Then I found that a small hole had actually been burnt in the bottom casing, just below where the cable was. After leaving everything to cool down I reconnected, booted up, and it ran fine. Since then I've had no trouble. I've also replaced the HD with a 20Gb IBM (because the original was too small, not because of problems), and that went in without any problems. All I can surmise is one of two things: a) there is something in the Pismo DVD drive which caused this, even though it didn't seem to affect the DVD drive itself; or b) when I replaced the HD earlier I didn't seat the cradle properly in the sockets in the heat-sink chassis that are intended to accept it, and as a result the heat, being unable to dissipate itself through the heatsink conducted through the cable to a point on the casing that the drive was in fact pressing against. This was pretty worrying, of course, and not what I wanted to experience. Has anyone else experienced anything similar? Any knowledge about this sort of event 'in the community'? Many thanks for any words of wisdom! Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Strange Lombard 'Semi-Meltdown' event....
Malcolm Not unless you're also James Hendry! I bought the Lombard off him via eBay a few weeks ago, and I did go back to him with a query about this, after it happened. But assuming the two incidents are not related, that's interesting. Tom On Sunday, March 16, 2003, at 05:17 PM, Malcolm Cornelius wrote: on 16/03/03 17:10, Tom Burke at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This happened to me recently when I was, umm, playing with the new Lombard. This was pretty worrying, of course, and not what I wanted to experience. Has anyone else experienced anything similar? Any knowledge about this sort of event 'in the community'? Tom Someone recently contacted me with an almost identical story - was it you ? Best wishes Malcolm Cornelius - The Powerbook Fanatic www.pbfanatic.co.uk MSN Messenger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ - 47738640 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Strange Lombard 'Semi-Meltdown' event....
I ought to make it clear, having mentioned the name of the person from whom I bought the Lombard, that I wasn't suggesting that it was faulty when I got it. Exactly the opposite - when I got it it was fine; then I messed about with the insides of it; and only after that did it nearly catch fire. So my responsibility, obviously. Tom Burke On Sunday, March 16, 2003, at 05:26 PM, Malcolm Cornelius wrote: on 16/03/03 17:19, Tom Burke at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not unless you're also James Hendry! I bought the Lombard off him via eBay a few weeks ago, and I did go back to him with a query about this, after it happened. But assuming the two incidents are not related, that's interesting. Just that it was a UK contact by telephone. Astonishingly similar, melted under tray, burnt through HD cable etc. -- 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-ROM for CD equiped Lombard?
Well, I can't answer this on a technical level, but I know we can play DVDs quite happily on my wife's Pismo 400. That's in OS X, however - we don't have a native OS 9 to install, we have a retail Jaguar which doesn't include it. Tom Burke On Sunday, March 16, 2003, at 08:50 PM, Marc wrote: Does the Pismo support hardware-dvd-decoding in OS X or also only in 9.x? And does that also work for videocd's, or does the cpu does all the work? And is a g3/400 fast enough for that? Marc On vrijdag, maart 14, 2003, at 10:20 , Eugene Lee wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 05:55:20PM +, Tom Burke wrote: : : I've just bought a 333 Mhz Lombard with CD drive. I'm interested in : fitting a DVD Rom drive instead, but I gather from the list archive : that I couldn't play DVD movies if I did so unless I get a PC card : hardware decoder. I'd be grateful if someone could confirm, or deny, : this. I'm pretty sure this is the case, because almost 333 MHz Lombards did not come with on-board DVD hardware decoder. Now if you are one of the lucky few who do have one of these, DVD playback should work like the 400 MHz Lombards. -- 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 ---
DVD-ROM for CD equiped Lombard?
Hello the List! My apologies if this question has been done to death. I've been through the archive but can't quite get a clean reply. I've just bought a 333 Mhz Lombard with CD drive. I'm interested in fitting a DVD Rom drive instead, but I gather from the list archive that I couldn't play DVD movies if I did so unless I get a PC card hardware decoder. I'd be grateful if someone could confirm, or deny, this. And if it's confirmation, I'd also be grateful if someone could send me info on where to buy both items - the DVD Rom the hardware decoder. UK sources first, please. If this is true, this is a bit of a blow - I've already just put a Linksys wifi card in the PC Card slot, using the IOXperts OS X driver. Works fine. Oh, I'm running Jaguar with 192 Mbyte of RAM installed. RAM is next for the upgrade, I think. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
