Re: iBook 500 Questions
1. The 'book can accept an Airport card, but are there limitations on which cards can be used? Yes: only the original Airport can be installed, while the WS was able to manage also the newer 54mbit PCcards 2. It has a 10GB hard drive which is... well, not big. I have a 40GB USB drive and want to know if the iBook can boot from that drive? If the USB contains a 2.5 drive I'd suggest to replace the HD. I don't think you can boot off USB stuff. 3. I'd like to run OS X on the machine and was wondering if the 500 MHz cpu would give acceptable performance? I don't do graphics stuff... just some word processing, spreadsheets and listen to an occasional music CD. I have an iBook like yours with 384 MB RAM, and I admit you must be very patient with it and OS x 10.3. On the other hand the WS with a PowerLogix GH3 500 Mhz seems faster and more responsive than the iBook. How much RAM do you have? Ben -- 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: iBook 500 Questions
amanda: i had that same machine for 2 years. it is a bit slow, but great and sturdy to carry around. i maxed out the ram, though, please consider doing that too asap. 1-you need the old type card. look and ye shall find. they are more expensive nowadays than the newer cards. mine had it and it worked well. no problems with reception. actually, it was better than the ti book. 2- sure, you could do that, but i chose the firewire enclosure for 2 reasons: they are bootable and you don't need an additional power supply. 3- i ran os 10.3.8 without any problems in the ibook. just remember: it is not fast, but it is more than acceptable. i mostly used it for the same things and the occasional dvd watching. one thing: the isight won't work with it because it needs g3 550+. good luck! gladys On Apr 10, 2005, at 1:41 AM, Amanda Ward wrote: Hi All, I just bought a 12 iBook 500 from eBay... wanted something a little more contemporary than my trusty Wallstreet. I've done some google-ing and gotten a lot of information, but I have a couple of questions. 1. The 'book can accept an Airport card, but are there limitations on which cards can be used? 2. It has a 10GB hard drive which is... well, not big. I have a 40GB USB drive and want to know if the iBook can boot from that drive? 3. I'd like to run OS X on the machine and was wondering if the 500 MHz cpu would give acceptable performance? I don't do graphics stuff... just some word processing, spreadsheets and listen to an occasional music CD. Thanks for any input! Amanda -- 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: iBook 500 Questions
--- Amanda Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. The 'book can accept an Airport card, but are there limitations on which cards can be used? There are two types of Airport cards. Airport and Airport Extreme. Two different form factors/pin outs. Airport is the older type that you must use (802.11b 12Mbps). Airport Extreme is 802.11g @ 54Mbps. The first iBooks that could use Extreme were the G4 iBooks (I have a G3 900 and it uses standard Airport). 2. It has a 10GB hard drive which is... well, not big. I have a 40GB USB drive and want to know if the iBook can boot from that drive? Can't boot from USB. The USB ports on your iBook are the ver 1.1 variety. Running an OS off that drive, if you could, would be unreasonably slow. Better to perhaps get a larger internal drive. If not that, then a firewire drive. Solves the boot problem and gets you more space. 3. I'd like to run OS X on the machine and was wondering if the 500 MHz cpu would give acceptable performance? I don't do graphics stuff... just some word processing, spreadsheets and listen to an occasional music CD. 500Mhz will do for that. I've run X on a Bondi Blue iMac 233, so I know a G3 500 can do it. With OS X, more RAM is always better. Max RAM is best. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ -- 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: iBook 500 Questions
Amanda Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. It has a 10GB hard drive which is... well, not big. I have a 40GB USB drive and want to know if the iBook can boot from that drive? I dunno where all the other respondants are (not) getting their info, but the Dual USB iBooks can indeed boot from an external USB drive. Not that I'd recommend it as USB 1 is dog slow, but it CAN be done. Rule of thumb for USB booting: A Mac is bootable if it has USB _and_ AGP-based video (incl. those macs with video integrated on the motherboard.) Some info at Apple: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58430 dan k . http://macdan.n3.net/ carracho://dankephoto.dhs.org:9700 hotline://dankephoto.dhs.org:9500 . -- 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 ---
iBook 500 Questions
Hi All, I just bought a 12 iBook 500 from eBay... wanted something a little more contemporary than my trusty Wallstreet. I've done some google-ing and gotten a lot of information, but I have a couple of questions. 1. The 'book can accept an Airport card, but are there limitations on which cards can be used? 2. It has a 10GB hard drive which is... well, not big. I have a 40GB USB drive and want to know if the iBook can boot from that drive? 3. I'd like to run OS X on the machine and was wondering if the 500 MHz cpu would give acceptable performance? I don't do graphics stuff... just some word processing, spreadsheets and listen to an occasional music CD. Thanks for any input! Amanda -- 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: iBook 500 Questions
on 10/04/05 01:41, Amanda Ward at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just bought a 12 iBook 500 from eBay... wanted something a little more contemporary than my trusty Wallstreet. I've done some google-ing and gotten a lot of information, but I have a couple of questions. 1. The 'book can accept an Airport card, but are there limitations on which cards can be used? 2. It has a 10GB hard drive which is... well, not big. I have a 40GB USB drive and want to know if the iBook can boot from that drive? 3. I'd like to run OS X on the machine and was wondering if the 500 MHz cpu would give acceptable performance? I don't do graphics stuff... just some word processing, spreadsheets and listen to an occasional music CD. Amanda, The only limitation on the AirPort card is that it uses the first generation Apple AirPort card. These cards are kind of in short supply and sometimes, you may end up paying more than the more recent and current AirPort Extreme card. As I understand it, you cannot boot a Mac from a USB drive. It has to be FireWire. You could probably find a FireWire enclosure for $25-$30 and transfer the drive from the USB enclosure into the FireWire one. If the drive is a 2.5 one, then you could also transfer the drive into your iBook. For basic stuff like you describe, OS X would work fine. I did run OS X on my old PowerBook Pismo at 500MHz before I upgraded to a PB 17 and OS X did run fine on it. -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelinhttp://nemesys.dyndns.org Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] flowchart n.: [techspeak] An archaic form of visual control-flow specification employing arrows and 'speech balloons' of various shapes. Hackers never use flowcharts, consider them extremely silly, and associate them with COBOL programmers, card wallopers, and other lower forms of life. This attitude follows from the observations that flowcharts (at least from a hacker's point of view) are no easier to read than code, are less precise, and tend to fall out of sync with the code (so that they either obfuscate it rather than explaining it, or require extra maintenance effort that doesn't improve the code). See also PDL, sense 1. -- 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 ---
