Re: The 17 PowerBook

2003-01-10 Thread Jeremy Derr
On Thursday, January 09, 2003, at 11:31AM, Kevin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The statement that most devices that have USB 2 also have Firewire is just wrong. Maybe y'all are looking at external drives or some other specific segment. Card readers, scanners, speakers, phones, PDAs, there's

Re: The 17 PowerBook

2003-01-10 Thread Stephen Bright
There is no way I'll be able to afford the 17 If you can wait 2 years, you will be able to purchase it used (but, mint condition) for about $1000. And it will be a low end mac. Stephen -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

Re: The 17 PowerBook

2003-01-10 Thread Phillip Burk
On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 09:56 AM, Jeremy Derr wrote: USB2 has become a standard in PC computers. It has yet to really come to play in actual peripherals. Like I said start naming some. About the only decent USB2-only device I've seen would be some of Iomega's newer drives. Even

Re: The 17 PowerBook

2003-01-10 Thread David M. Ensteness
USB 1.x and 2.0 have a major disfunction that FireWire does not they are not peer to peer technologies, USB requires processor resources where as FW devices can talk directly to each other. USB is great for keyboards and printers but it is not the highend transfer technology that FW is nor

Re: 12

2003-01-10 Thread Joe Ellis
- Original Message - From: WebMail Guest [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 11:36 AM Subject: Re: 12 . MacWorld is not the place for anyone without some sort of self control! Tom Like all of you, I've got serious drools for the 17

Re: TiBook Stand

2003-01-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
Andrew Johnson wrote: Can anyone recommend a good laptop stand for my TiBook, I simply want something that will lift the top of the screen up to about 16-17 high. I'm really leaning towards the Griffin iCurve, but wanted to see if anyone had any opinions/revelations about the quality of the

Re: The 17 PowerBook

2003-01-10 Thread Jim Freeman
What's the brand? It would have to snake around from a USB port on the back of my Pismo. I can't believe they used to put ports on the back of laptops! Jim On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 10:15 PM, Kevin Stevens wrote: Have you checked out the USB (sorry, don't think they come in Firewire)

Re: The 17 PowerBook

2003-01-10 Thread Steve Fuller
I think that Kensington sells one. They have them and fans at CompUSA and bestbuy. -Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jim Freeman Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 10:57 AM To: G-Books Subject: Re: The 17 PowerBook What's the brand? It would

Re: TiBook Stand

2003-01-10 Thread Dwayne Walker
I am using the Lapvantage Dome with my TiBook. Works beautifully and raises the laptop 5.5 inches and the base can swivel. You can check it out at www.lapvantage.com Cheers Dwayne On 09/01/03 11:11 PM, Andrew Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recommend a good laptop stand for my

Re: The 17 PowerBook

2003-01-10 Thread Obi-Wan
On 1/10/03 8:19 AM, Phillip Burk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: I know for a fact that there are some MP3 players that have USB2 connections. One of my coworkers has one and loves it. Not true. The iPod doesn't have a USB 2 connection. Are you saying that there are *other*

Re: The 17 PowerBook

2003-01-10 Thread Obi-Wan
On 1/10/03 8:56 AM, Jim Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: What's the brand? It would have to snake around from a USB port on the back of my Pismo. I can't believe they used to put ports on the back of laptops! It's a Kensington Flylight. I have one. I plug it into the back

Re: The 17 PowerBook

2003-01-10 Thread Anthony Vo
I know for a fact that there are some MP3 players that have USB2 connections. One of my coworkers has one and loves it. Not true. The iPod doesn't have a USB 2 connection. Are you saying that there are *other* MP3 players out there besides the iPod??? ;-) I think what he meant : MP3

Re: The 17 PowerBook

2003-01-10 Thread Obi-Wan
On 1/10/03 10:09 AM, Anthony Vo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: I know for a fact that there are some MP3 players that have USB2 connections. One of my coworkers has one and loves it. Not true. The iPod doesn't have a USB 2 connection. Are you saying that there are

Safari problems

2003-01-10 Thread Ryan Coleman
Many of you know that I am a web content developer. I have started to use Safari constantly as my moment-to-moment browser. But I was shocked to find out that sites that worked under NN and IE don't load correctly under Safari. Now I had to code special tags into my pages just for Safari

Re: Safari problems

2003-01-10 Thread Mark
Ryan Coleman on 1/10/03 1:15 PM wrote: Many of you know that I am a web content developer. I have started to use Safari constantly as my moment-to-moment browser. But I was shocked to find out that sites that worked under NN and IE don't load correctly under Safari. Now I had to code special

Re: Safari problems

2003-01-10 Thread dograt
On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 10:40 AM, Mark wrote: I figured since it's still beta there are going to be problems. I tried to do some online banking and it told me that my cookies needed to be enabled. I checked preferences, made sure Safari always accepts, and it still gives me the

2 QUESTIONS

2003-01-10 Thread Guy Masson
Hello list: 2 questions : 1. Is there a source for Super Drives for ice books? 2. is there a method for repair for CD ROM Drives? E-mail me off list if you like. -- Guy -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com |

Re: 2 QUESTIONS

2003-01-10 Thread Obi-Wan
On 1/10/03 12:09 PM, Guy Masson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Hello list: 2 questions : 1. Is there a source for Super Drives for ice books? Not yet. 2. is there a method for repair for CD ROM Drives? For an Icebook? Remove and replace. It is not authorized by Apple

Re: 2 QUESTIONS

2003-01-10 Thread Guy Masson
What about a combo drive? GM On 1/10/03 12:09 PM, Guy Masson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Hello list: 2 questions : 1. Is there a source for Super Drives for ice books? Not yet. 2. is there a method for repair for CD ROM Drives? For an Icebook? Remove

Re: 2 QUESTIONS

2003-01-10 Thread Obi-Wan
On 1/10/03 12:25 PM, Guy Masson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: What about a combo drive? Yes. -- == Kyle H. Hansen Apple Certified Technician Apple Solution Expert Macintosh Server Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Safari problems

2003-01-10 Thread Paul Nicholson
This browser was so nice until that discovery. It is still a beta. Use the bugreporter icon to submit the problem to Apple. Maybe they will fix it. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our

laptop light w/extra bonus

2003-01-10 Thread Peter Stein
On the subject of laptop lights - I just stumbled across this: http://www.shopezonics.com/cgi-local/SoftCart.100.exe/products/cobracam.html ?L+scstore+mmsf4585ffac73ac+1050014306 (combine address if broken) The Ezonics CobraCAM. For $20 you get a 40cm flexible USB powered light. The best part is

Re: The 17 PowerBook

2003-01-10 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Jeremy Derr wrote: name some. name a phone that's USB2 (hint: they're going to BlueTooth, not USB2). Name a PDA that is USB2. Name some USB2 speakers. USB audio doesn't anywhere NEAR saturate a USB 1.1 bus, so bumping speakers to USB2 would be pointless. name a USB2 card

Re: laptop light w/extra bonus

2003-01-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
Peter Stein wrote: On the subject of laptop lights - I just stumbled across this: http://www.shopezonics.com/cgi-local/SoftCart.100.exe/products/cobracam.html ?L+scstore+mmsf4585ffac73ac+1050014306 (combine address if broken) The Ezonics CobraCAM. For $20 you get a 40cm flexible USB

Re: laptop light w/extra bonus

2003-01-10 Thread Peter Stein
That link was great. I will be running X soon enough and the supported Ezonics camera listed the same WDM driver for windows, so... I'm gonna get one and check it out. I'll let the list know what I find. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: laptop light w/extra bonus

2003-01-10 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 10/01/03 16:50, Peter Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That link was great. I will be running X soon enough and the supported Ezonics camera listed the same WDM driver for windows, so... I'm gonna get one and check it out. I'll let the list know what I find. Yes, please do! -Laurent. --

OT: IBM Network Printer 17 postscript simm

2003-01-10 Thread Peter Stein
Sorry for OT but it is for my Pismo... I have a IBM NP17 networked and running print services for my PCs and I have a Canon BJC-3000 directly connected to the Pismo via USB. I am going to go with a wireless setup soon and I have been frustrated in the past when I try and locate one of these

New to the list and have some questions..anyone?

2003-01-10 Thread Clyde Kahrl
Josh: If you are new to the list check out the archive--these are standard topics. Here goes: Hello to everyone, I just bought a Lombard..333mhz, 192 megs of ram, 4 gig and was just wondering what you guys have as far as your OS on your Lombards.. I have a 333 Lombard with 192megs and it

safari

2003-01-10 Thread wappling
Hi all, Im on a new machine and new to jaguar.thankyou for the advice about safari. for web surfing no hangs freezes or crashes so far after about 10 hours.internet explorer is hanging freezeing and crashing after less than two'''this is the first mac ive ever turned off because I actualy

Airport problems

2003-01-10 Thread Ryan Lee
This started happening to me just a couple of nights ago. I do not use an Apple base station though, I have a Linksys wireless router. It seems to have started after the keynote, after I downloaded the new browser. Before then I had no problems with being able to connect from anywhere in my

SCSSI disk mode G3 wallstreet to 520 powerbook?

2003-01-10 Thread Andrew
Just recently my 7 year old daughter asked for a laptop. We decided it should be a powerbook because she likes the jigsaw puzzle (her grandpa introduced her to the puzzle on his 1400). Being the pack rat that I am I pulled open a file drawer and pulled out 3 (well 2.5) 520 powerbooks. We soon had

Re: best ram

2003-01-10 Thread Larrie Easterly
Just got some from Data Memory Systems, http://www.datamem.com, for my Lombard. Had tried another supplier but their ram would not behave itself in my machine. Great service, paid for second day FedEx and got it in one day. Lowest prices I have seen for 256K modules. Larrie Easterly Oregon

Re: best ram

2003-01-10 Thread Luca Rescigno
Who makes the best ram for the 550 in 512 upgrade? I've always had good luck with Other World Computing. Their RAM isn't the cheapest, so I don't always get it, but I always trust them when I order. If you want to make sure your ram is THE BEST, I suppose you could order straight from a