on 9/5/02 1:36 AM, Nick at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yep, I agree, the power adapter is flimsy and the wire breaks and
deteriorates easily. I'm on my second power adapter so far. It's not the
adapter itself but the wire that goes to your Pismo...very fragile. Other
than that the Pismo is
on 9/4/02 11:59 PM, Demetrius at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm new to the list. I'm looking for a laptop, and I always hear great
things about the Pismo. What is it about the Pismo that makes it so well
loved? How does it compare to the iBook and Titanium G4? For the price it
seems like a
I'd like to share with the list the way I manage power consumption with
my iBook 500 dual USB with 640 Mb RAM.
I wish also to excuse me because English is not my first language
I bought the iBook on august 2001, and I use OS X as a main OS from
november. Right now I use Jaguar from six days.
I'd like to share with the list the way I manage power consumption with
my iBook 500 dual USB with 640 Mb RAM.
I wish also to excuse me because English is not my first language
I read your email and I wanted to say that your use of the English
language was excellent.
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On 9/5/02 12:55 AM, Antonio Dini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd like to share with the list the way I manage power consumption with
my iBook 500 dual USB with 640 Mb RAM.
Just something little compared to all the great advice Antonio gave...
For those who are using Jaguar, take a look at your
On Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at 05:26 PM, John Haumann wrote:
On Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at 09:30 AM, Jim Freeman wrote:
My battery life has gone to almost nothing with 10.2. I was down to
maybe half an hour before that. Now it won't even hold a charge when
it's sleeping.
At 9:55 AM +0200 9/5/02, Antonio Dini wrote:
I suggest to:
1) Always finish to discharge the battery until you plug in to
recharge, and in Jaguar use the Longest Battery Life set in Energy
Saver.
Wrong!
NiCd batteries are subject to loss of capacity if they are not fully cycled. Lithium
ion
Hi all,
Just installed 10.2. I'm having a problem, though, in that I can't get to
the Help Viewer. I choose Mac help from the Help menu in the Finder, but
as it tries to open, it quits and I get a message saying The application
Help Viewer has unexpectedly quit. The system and other
On 05/09/02 10:34, Philip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
Just installed 10.2. I'm having a problem, though, in that I can't get to
the Help Viewer. I choose Mac help from the Help menu in the Finder, but
as it tries to open, it quits and I get a message saying The application
Help
I found something similar (...apple.help.plist), deleted it, but still the
same problem. I searched for the file name you mentioned, but there isn't
anything by that name. :-(
Philip
On 05/09/02 10:34, Philip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
Just installed 10.2. I'm having a problem,
Nope. No file by that name, either. heavy sigh Oh well. Thank you for
your help. I sincerely appreciate it.
Philip
Strange that you don't have that file. Anyway, you might want to look for
another similar file named 'com.apple.helpui.plist'. Try to delete that one
too, if you have it.
Hi folks,
I'm considering upgrading the drive in my Pismo. At the 40GB size,
there are two IBM models that are attractive, both having the
quiet/fluid bearings. The main differences seem to be that the
cheaper model runs at 4200 RPM, with 2 MB cache. The pricier version
runs at 5400 RPM,
Well, as a last resort, you could try to yank all the files and folders from
your Preferences folder. Don't delete them! Put them away, but keep them
around. Make sure that you quit all running applications but the Finder.
That would tell you if some preferences is corrupted.
-Laurent.
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On 9/5/02 9:24 AM, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
however something in the back of my
mind tells me that I may take a hit on battery life, since supporting
more memory and a faster rotation surely takes more energy.
That's *exactly* what will happen. They stick the 4200 models in laptops
Oops, I said use instead of lose
At 9:55 AM +0200 9/5/02, Antonio Dini wrote:
I suggest to:
1) Always finish to discharge the battery until you plug in to
recharge, and in Jaguar use the Longest Battery Life set in Energy
Saver.
Wrong!
NiCd batteries are subject to loss of capacity if they
on 8/26/02 5:50 AM, Paige H. Adams at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8/25/02 6:44 PM, Randall Van Schepen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder if anyone on list has had this experience upgrading a hard disk on
a Pismo or other PowerBook. I was about to purchase a IBM 48GB hard drive on
ebay from
Leslie Burkholder wrote:
I need something that works with my Pismo in the following way:
(1) I display on an external monitor a powerpoint presentation
(2) I handwrite items on the powerpoint presentation slides using some kind
of input device.
It looks like a pen tablet of some kind will
On 05/09/02 12:47, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
on 8/26/02 5:50 AM, Paige H. Adams at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8/25/02 6:44 PM, Randall Van Schepen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder if anyone on list has had this experience upgrading a hard disk on
a Pismo or other PowerBook. I was
If the process is the same as for a Wallstreet, then yes, it can be done safely
and easily without removing the daughtercard. For mine, I just popped out the
keyboard, removed the heatsink, loosened one captive screw on the HD, and pulled
the HD out. It is in a case though, and it requires a Torx
Well, as a last resort, you could try to yank all the files and folders
from
your Preferences folder. Don't delete them! Put them away, but keep them
around. Make sure that you quit all running applications but the Finder.
That would tell you if some preferences is corrupted.
-Laurent.
I have a Pismo 400 and my wife has an iBook 500. I get iBook envy
because of the small size and because of the ports on the side. Lugging
a big Pismo around is really a pain and I hate reaching around to plug
things in. Battery life is also a big issue for me. My Pismo battery is
worthless,
You could get a new iBook for that ;-)
On Thursday, September 5, 2002, at 05:45 AM, Al wrote:
my two cents
good pismo's sell on ebay for $795 to $995
Sonnet have the Crescendo 500mhz G4 card at $395
around $1200 would give you best of both worlds
compare that with $2499 for a new Ti
no
It may be that the decline of my battery has simply coincided with my
upgrade path. I've been assuming my battery is shot tried to replace it
once.
Jim
On Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at 02:00 PM, John Haumann wrote:
On Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at 09:30 AM, Jim Freeman wrote:
My
That would be good. But I doubt it would be covered.
I have 768 ram, airport and a 40 gig hd, so maybe my system is
demanding more. I guess I could test it under 9.2. I'm getting pretty
tired of always having to plug in or risk having my computer drop dead
after a few minutes.
Jim
On
Jon Glass [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, in the past, the logo was a small rainbow Apple logo. As such, it was
less obvious when the book was open, that the logo was upside down. BTW, the
logo is not upside down when it's closed and you are looking at it. I think
the issue of upsidedownness
Jon Glass on 9/5/02 1:40 AM wrote:
P.S. do all pre-Pismo Powerbooks have the upside-down logo when open? Seems
like a big thing to miss...
Well, in the past, the logo was a small rainbow Apple logo. As such, it was
less obvious when the book was open, that the logo was upside down. BTW,
I have a 700 iBook. How are the jaguar experiances with it?
Also anybody get Oracle installed on one or a G3 powerbook?
Thanks
RM
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I have 1 Gig of RAM and a 30 Gig HD under 9.2.2 and I get about 2 to 3 hours
from each of my batteries, but my third battery seems to have suddenly gone
belly up and won't last more than 10 min.
Tom
I have 768 ram, airport and a 40 gig hd, so maybe my system is
demanding more. I guess I could
I have a 700 iBook. How are the jaguar experiances with it?
Also anybody get Oracle installed on one or a G3 powerbook?
Oracle what? The Database server or application? or something else?
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on 9/5/02 9:52 AM, Jim Freeman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a Pismo 400 and my wife has an iBook 500. I get iBook envy
because of the small size and because of the ports on the side. Lugging
a big Pismo around is really a pain and I hate reaching around to plug
things in.
I find the
I've never really used a TiBook, but I would worry about airport
performance and fragility. I get the impression that they scratch
easily and they seem a little flimsy to me. And then there is price...
My range with my Pismo is much greater than my friends with TiBooks
That is true, the
On Thursday, Sep 5, 2002, at 15:00 US/Eastern, Ryan Coleman wrote:
I've never really used a TiBook, but I would worry about airport
performance and fragility. I get the impression that they scratch
easily and they seem a little flimsy to me. And then there is
price...
My range with my
This may be a duh sort of question, but...If I use
my Pismo 95% plugged in, do I gain any battery life
(length of service...not necessarily time of charge)
if I remove the battery when I'm not travelling?
Thanks.
Doug
--- Paul Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oops, I said use instead of
Paul Nicholson on 9/5/02 11:51 AM wrote:
NiCd batteries are subject to loss of capacity if they are not fully cycled.
Lithium ion cells do not suffer from this effect.
I believe the iBook is Lithium Ion.
If you want your battery to last don't use it. The more charge/discharge
cycles you
Paul Nicholson on 9/5/02 11:51 AM wrote:
NiCd batteries are subject to loss of capacity if they are not fully cycled.
Lithium ion cells do not suffer from this effect.
I believe the iBook is Lithium Ion.
If you want your battery to last don't use it. The more charge/discharge
cycles
Luca Rescigno on 9/5/02 12:35 PM wrote:
If the process is the same as for a Wallstreet, then yes, it can be done
safely
and easily without removing the daughtercard. For mine, I just popped out the
keyboard, removed the heatsink, loosened one captive screw on the HD, and
pulled
the HD out.
Luca Rescigno on 9/5/02 12:35 PM wrote:
If the process is the same as for a Wallstreet, then yes, it can be done
safely
and easily without removing the daughtercard. For mine, I just
popped out the
keyboard, removed the heatsink, loosened one captive screw on the HD, and
pulled
the
Hi Listers,
I am an owner of a PB G4 Titanium with a cracked LCD. I haven't had any luck
finding a supplier (besides Apple) for the LCD. Anyone out there have any
links etc.
Thanks,
JB
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hey, if this is true, then anyone who needs a backup power supply can use a
PB 1400 powersupply.
Right?
d
Yep, I agree, the power adapter is flimsy and the wire breaks and
deteriorates easily. I'm on my second power adapter so far. It's not the
adapter itself but the wire that goes to your
Ryan McNabb wrote:
I have a 700 iBook. How are the jaguar experiances with it?
Also anybody get Oracle installed on one or a G3 powerbook?
If you read the stuff on Oracle's web site, Oracle Server calls for Mac
OSX *Server* not OSX.
Now, I don't know, beyond the administration software,
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On 9/5/02 11:38 AM, Ryan McNabb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a 700 iBook. How are the jaguar experiances with it?
Also anybody get Oracle installed on one or a G3 powerbook?
Thanks
RM
Well...Jag runs great on my 500 MHz iBook with 640 megs RAM, so I imagine it
will be even better
On 9/5/02 12:22 PM, Philip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nope. No file by that name, either. heavy sigh Oh well. Thank you for
your help. I sincerely appreciate it.
Philip
Strange that you don't have that file. Anyway, you might want to look for
another similar file named
That did it! Thanks for the tip!
Philip
On 9/5/02 12:22 PM, Philip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nope. No file by that name, either. heavy sigh Oh well. Thank you for
your help. I sincerely appreciate it.
Philip
Strange that you don't have that file. Anyway, you might want to look
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 9/5/02 12:33 AM wrote:
I've always been perfectly happy to use the built-in
keyboard (although, since I have an early TiBook, I do hate only having one
command key).
I was so happy to see the Command key on both sides of my iBook's space bar.
About a week after I got
would recommend you try ebay, they seem to have some
best
chris
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From an article on Ziff Davis...
As Apple Computer Inc. draws up its game plan for the CPUs that will power
its future generations of Mac hardware, the company is holding an ace in the
hole: a feature-complete version of Mac OS X running atop the x86
architecture.
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Walter Basil wrote:
As Apple Computer Inc. draws up its game plan for the CPUs that will power
its future generations of Mac hardware, the company is holding an ace in the
hole: a feature-complete version of Mac OS X running atop the x86
architecture.
Comments?
It
On 9/5/02 3:03 PM, Kevin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It doesn't seem germane to G-books. Since you asked.
KeS
Well..that's not what I meant, but you know that don't you?
You are tolerated...this time ;)
Walt
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on 9/5/02 2:55 PM, Thomas Ethen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
on 9/5/02 9:52 AM, Jim Freeman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I find the iBook too small and the 14 to close to the size of my Pismo and
not nearly as versatile although the small size of the iBook would be a plus
for transporting, but
Ha-ha...
An extra feature of dot mac ;)
Walt
On 9/5/02 1:48 PM, Philip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That did it! Thanks for the tip!
Philip
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On Thursday, September 5, 2002, at 05:56 PM, Walter Basil wrote:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,496270,00.asp
Comments?
It's a rumor to be ignored as it has little to do with how we use our
Macs today.
Shawn King
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On 9/5/02 3:03 PM, Kevin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It doesn't seem germane to G-books. Since you asked.
KeS
Well..that's not what I meant, but you know that don't you?
You are tolerated...this time ;)
I think Apple will be digging its own hardware grave if they do that.
They
I called AppleCare yesterday with several nagging questions.
They told me that once the battery life drops down to an hour OR SO,
it's an issue that they'd consider worthy of replacement.
PowerBooks are supposed to be desktop equal, no? i would hope that your
RAM and AirPort wouldn't hobble the
Sorry Jim...in an earlier post i referred to your TiBook. That should
have been Pismo.
I agree about your concerns about the TiBook. That's why I bought a
Pismo myself.
We're all waiting for that anodized TiBook, no? The next one is rumored
to be black with silver as a built to order option.
In a message dated 9/5/02 2:35:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am an owner of a PB G4 Titanium with a cracked LCD. I haven't had any
luck
finding a supplier (besides Apple) for the LCD. Anyone out there have any
links etc.
Try www.pbparts.com I have never ordered from them,
The x86 version is simply a academic exercise to ensure portability and
keep good programming practices. Heck, sometimes bugs don't show up on
one hardware platform but it does on another.
Of course, you can't rule out the possiblity of Apple releasing MacOS X
on the 'other' platform when
The x86 version is simply a academic exercise to ensure portability and
keep good programming practices. Heck, sometimes bugs don't show up on
one hardware platform but it does on another.
Of course, you can't rule out the possiblity of Apple releasing MacOS X
on the 'other' platform when the
I agree about your concerns about the TiBook. That's why I bought a
Pismo myself.
That's why I _still_ have my Pismo.
We're all waiting for that anodized TiBook, no? The next one is rumored
to be black with silver as a built to order option.
That's fine. But I don't give a rat's ass about
I agree about your concerns about the TiBook. That's why I bought a
Pismo myself.
That's why I _still_ have my Pismo.
We're all waiting for that anodized TiBook, no? The next one is rumored
to be black with silver as a built to order option.
That's fine. But I don't give a rat's ass about
on 9/5/02 9:43 PM, Dwight Hines at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hey, if this is true, then anyone who needs a backup power supply can use a
PB 1400 powersupply.
I don't have it with me, but I think the PB 1400 ps has fewer watts than the
Pismo's. I would guess that that would increase charge
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