Re: 1400 battery rebuild?
Gene Osburn wrote: I've heard that the 1400's NiMH batteries contain AA batteries, and that it's possible to rebuild one using AA rechargeables. True? Can anyone direct me to info/directions on how to do this? NiMH packs can be rebuilt since their cells have standard sizes usually. A friend of mine pointed me to a Hobby shop that sells NiMH cells a while back. http://www.towerhobbies.com/ The site is aimed at people who are into stuff like RC cars and such. -Matt -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:powerbooks@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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
PowerBook 3400 IrDA to Kodak picture Kiosk?
Hi, Has anyone here every managed to send pictures via the infrared port from a PowerBook 3400 to a Kodak digital picture kiosk at a photo lab? I know of a nearby store with one that has Infrared capability for tranfering from camera phones and I'm really curiouse about whether I could do this with my PowerBook...and just how I would do it. -Matt -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:powerbooks@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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Reading a burned 700MB capacity CD R on a PowerBook 3400
Hi, I have some stuff I burned to 650MB CD Rs and those disks read fine in the 6x drive I got with my PB3400 However I have not been able to use 700MB capacity CD R's to make disks for use in the 3400's CD ROM drive. I've tried Fujifilm, Verbatim, and TDK. I'm aware that there are also 12x and 20x CD ROM drives that work in the 3400's expantion bay and was wondering: are either the 12x or 20x drives capable of reading files burned to 700MB capacity CD Rs? I'm guessing that the 6x one just can't handle it and wondered if maybe the 12x or 20x used a little newer hardware that might be more compatible? -Matt -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:powerbooks@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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
VST 5000 charger and PB 3400 batteries
Hi, Can a VST 5000 charger charge the Lithium Ion Batteries for the PowerBook 3400? -Matt -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:powerbooks@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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Files get bloated copying to 3400c
Hi, I'm not really sure which list this should go in. I have an odd problem with my PB 3400c. I currently have it runing OS 9.1 with an Orinoco wireless card.. .hard drive is 40GB, 144MB of RAM, VM is dissabled: I copy a folder that is just over 100MB from my G4 to the PB3400 over Apple talk and wireless and it turns into almost 1GB on the PB3400 I make a stuffit file on the G4 of the just over 100MB folder. the stuffit file is approx 14.1MB I copy the stuffit file to the PB3400 where it turns into 15MB I decompress it and it turns into almost 1GB I delete the decompressed folder and restart with the orinoco card ejected and the extentions manager set to OS 9.1 Base + Stuffit engine I decompress it and it still turns into almost 1GB. I have seen this happen a few times on this computer now and It's really leaving me apsolutly frustrated. I've never seen this happen before having this PB3400c but it seems to happen everytime I try to copy a fairly large folder from the G4 to the PB3400c. Then out of curiousity I hit the keyboard command for duplicate and the copy the folder from the PB3400 to the PB3400...the copy dialog says it's copying a 104MB file folder (which is the correct size) but in the end the final output is another 906.9GB folder. Anybody know what's going on? -Matt -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:powerbooks@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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Files get bloated copying to 3400c
Matthew S. Carpenter wrote: 906.9GB folder. Ahem, did I say 906.9GB? I meant 906.9MB. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:powerbooks@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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Cleaning a display?
Hey... the longer I have this PowerBook 3400 the more things I notice I want to change. Anyway... there's some dirt on the screen that the duster didn't get off and I was wondering what substances you clean an LCD screen on a PowerBook with without damaging it. -Matt -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:powerbooks@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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Orinoco 7.2 drivers
Thanks for all the replies. I have my PB3400 networked now. -Matt -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:powerbooks@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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: PB 3400 Battery Question
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/28/06 4:08:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wasn't aware the was any difference between a 3400 and a 3500 (Kanga) battery and they certainly work in the 3400. Maybe I just figgr'd there was a difference, because they're labled differently, but I think I remember reading somewhere that the Kanga could hold a better charge than the 3400c batteries. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo Ivy F., AL Roll Tide! Beiges, 'Books and other oddities xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo I actually found a seller on ebay who is listing unused unopened batteries for the 3400 and 3500 powerbooks with $7.99 BINs (s/h is another $7..you might be able to work something out if you get more than one though you'd want to contact the seller before taking the BIN). If you do a search on PowerBook 3400 Battery in the next 20 hours you should get one of these auctions at the top of your search. The following is something I remember from asking a friend of mine. Anyway... the charge held depends on the mAh rating on the battery... the higher it is the longer the battery will go... I don't know the rating on Apple's battery(as far as I can tell it's not listed anywhere on it) Lithium Ion Batteries are what shipped with the 3400. They don't develope memories and start holding lesser charges real quick...but they do eventually stop working once they've been used a lot. NiMH batteries can be used in the 3400 but they develope memories if you don't let them drain all the way before recharging They also can't be used for as many charge/drain cycles as Lithium Ion batteries but they do have one advantage At least with older hardware where new batteries are hard to find... from what I'm told: typically it is possible to break open NiMH battery packs and rebuild them with new cells Lithium Ion batteries use custom cells that aren't easily replaced. I've found both types for the 3400 through frooglewww.froogle.com... though no where near as cheap as those ones I found on ebay.(but I should mention that most of the ones I found through froogle apear to have a much better warranty)... if you look on froogle make sure you're buying the main battery pack and not the pram batteryand always note the type and the mAh before getting deceved by what looks like a good price. -Matt -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:powerbooks@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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Orinoco 7.2 drivers
Hi, I'm trying to find a copy of the Orinoco 7.2 drivers so I can take my PowerBook 3400 on my wireles network. It seems that the company that made them has made it almost impossible to find them for download. I looked it up on versiontracker.com.. the download link is old and doesn't work.. it's the same one linked in this article: http://www.penmachine.com/techie/airport1400.html On versiontracker someone posted a link to what is supposed to be where it is downloadable, but stuffit on the powerbook chokes on it. http://www.sst23.com/orinoco.smi.zip I tried decompresing it on my G4 running OS X and then copying the file to my PowerBook but then attempting to run the smi file the PowerBook gives me an error. I havn't been able to find any other sites on Google except for more dead download links. If anyone can help me get the Orinoco 7.2 drivers so I can get my powerbook online wirelessly, it'd be really appreciated. Thank you, -Matt -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:powerbooks@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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Bent pin in PCMCIA slot on 3400
Hi, I have a problem. I need to be able to use both pcmcia slots on my 3400 at a time... but I just found out that the lower one has a bent pin in it... and I'm not really sure how to get into the pcmcia slots to bend it back. I have replaced the hard drive in this comptuer so I know how to dissasemble it to a point.. but I do not know how to get the sheilding off the pcmcia slots so I can get in there to attempt to bend the pin back. -Matt -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:powerbooks@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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Newbie 3400c question
Hi, I have never owned a PowerBook(or any laptop) before so I'm totally new to this. Anyway seeing as I can only have the floppy drive or the CD ROM drive in at a time are they hot-swappable or do I have to turn the 3400 off before I change between them? I havn't been able to find anything to tell me this for sure(I'm probably not putting the right keywords into google). thank you. -Matthew S. Carpenter. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:powerbooks@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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
PowerBook 3400 Hard drive compatibility
Hi, I just bought my first PowerBook... it's a PowerBook 3400 and I'd like to replace the 2GB drive with something bigger sometime in the next month or two I was thinking 40GB...probably overkill...but that's never stopped me before. :-) Would this Seagate be likely to work? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148085 If that isn't going to work... would you know of any 40GB drives that would and could be bought new rather than used?...I'm trying to find one that has lower power consumption. Also, on LEM's page for the 3400 it says that anything bigger than 3GB will preclude the SCSI disk mode that just means I can't use PB as a hard drive on a desktop computer and doesn't mean I can't hook up external disk drives if I use an internal drive bigger than 3GB right? Thank you. -Matthew S. Carpenter -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:powerbooks@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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
