While more often than not I leave my iMac on at night, I always turn
off my Powerbook. I guess it just seems more vulnerable left on all
night, for some reason. In fact, until recently, I'd carefully pack it
and all of its stuff back in the softside briefcase I bought for it.
Now I often
Usually I leave it plugged in to recharge for the morning, closed, sleeping,
in its case or in a safe place (table, stand, whatnot).
-Original Message-
From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Claire
Hart
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 11:34 PM
To: G-Books
Subject: shutting
The National Enquirer reports at 1:34 AM -0500 9/14/04, Claire Hart wrote:
While more often than not I leave my iMac on at night, I always turn
off my Powerbook. I guess it just seems more vulnerable left on all
night, for some reason. In fact, until recently, I'd carefully pack it
and all of
From: Claire Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Do you guys turn off your PBs at night?
I have an AluBook 1GHz at work and I always switch it off,
though leave it open. No need the wear the hinges more
than I have to. I just leave it on my desk.
The other day I left it on as I had to catch a bus home and
it
Hey Claire...
My Ti800 G4PB hasn't been ShutDown for a total of more than 3 weeks
in over +2 years of constant use, and then only under certain
circumstances of travel.
I DO ReBoot from ShutDown periodically; And run TTP4, DW and
MacJanitor religiously.
But from OM JAGUAR Instal,
Do you guys turn off your PBs at night?
I usually leave it asleep, with lid closed and power plugged in --
usually on my desk. I don't have any animals and I live alone, so it
seems a pretty safe way. Plus I absolutely love the way its light
pulses in the dark room. :)
Marcin Wichary
e:\
Sometimes when I put my PowerBook to sleep (usually to transport
it to another rooms), it doesn't wake up. The pulsating light is off,
the screen is off, and there's no way to awake the computer (either by
pressing buttons, the power button, closing/opening the lid again,
Marcin,
Had the same problems with an older PB (400 MHz) and when I replaced
the battery (it was a tad loose and it would not hold a charge) all of
the problems seemed to vanish - even sudden shutoffs when I would move
around with the PB open. My guess here, and it is only a SWAG is that
your
On 9/14/04 2:34 AM, Claire Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you guys turn off your PBs at night?
I turn my PB off for two reasons: I know I won't be using it for several
days (that means vacations not involving the motorhome) or I'm sending it
back to the mothership for repair. Otherwise it
I have a Pismo that has similar problems. I think in my case it's a dead
battery (from full charge I may get 15 minutes of use and then the PB goes
to sleep and can only be awaken if the power cord is hooked up).
At this point I don't trust it and only run t off the power supply.
I have a new
on 14/09/04 02:34, Claire Hart at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
While more often than not I leave my iMac on at night, I always turn
off my Powerbook. I guess it just seems more vulnerable left on all
night, for some reason. In fact, until recently, I'd carefully pack it
and all of its stuff
Had the same problems with an older PB (400 MHz) and when I replaced
the battery (it was a tad loose and it would not hold a charge) all of
the problems seemed to vanish - even sudden shutoffs when I would move
around with the PB open. My guess here, and it is only a SWAG is that
your battery
Saw this in www.mac-hints-tips.com, but when I follow the directions, there
is no result produced in my Terminal. How about in yours???
Ciao,
bob
How can I find out the capacity
of my laptop¹s battery? Batteries
remain a bit of a mystery to
most laptop users, but if you are
running Mac OS
While more often than not I leave my iMac on at night, I always turn
off my Powerbook. I guess it just seems more vulnerable left on all
night, for some reason. In fact, until recently, I'd carefully pack
it and all of its stuff back in the softside briefcase I bought for
it. Now I often
For those who responded by asking what are you talking about, to my
request for help concerning my defunct SuperDrive, may I humbly suggest
that if you'd read my original post, instead of the snippets people
quoted, you might have divined that I was talking about the SuperDrive
in my PowerBook
...my special thanks to the helpful gent who accused me of stupidity:
Oh I am sorry that is for the 4X UJ-825 you want the slower UJ-815
which is $15 more from the same source. I'm looking for a solution to
my problem, not necessarily a UJ-815, and certainly not a critique of
my intelligence.
Jeff Hubatka on 9/13/04 8:08 PM wrote:
I never got that message with a 333 or a 400 Lombard. Sounds like you
have a bad processor.
Yes, the processor needs replaced because the L2 cache is bad.
However I was told (by someone who sells PowerBook parts and didn't have a
Lombard processor
... because Panther does not utilize the L2 cache...
I have an old world machine that uses a hack to run 10.3.5. The L2
cache is shut down to permit the startup. Once the machine is running I
use CPU director to enable the L2 Cache. So Panther does utilize the
L2 cache, at least in my case. I
Does anyone have experience with above drive?
Or 7200 mAh high capacity Newer Pismo battery?
Thanks,
Stuart
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On Sep 14, 2004, at 10:59 AM, dan_A wrote:
... because Panther does not utilize the L2 cache...
I have an old world machine that uses a hack to run 10.3.5. The L2
cache is shut down to permit the startup. Once the machine is running
I use CPU director to enable the L2 Cache. So Panther does
In the 6 years that I've had this PowerBook, I've almost never turned
it off. I just put it to sleep when I'm not planning on using it
immediately. Including overnight.
I don't usually close the lid either. But then I don't have cats,
dogs or kids in the house. :-)
I must admit that for
Bummer! When I turn my brightness down, the Apple on the lid goes off
too.
Byron
On Sep 14, 2004, at 5:31 AM, E. Moorhead wrote:
Hey Marcin...
On This14 ,Sep,;2004, at 05:52 AM, Marcin Wichary wrote:
Do you guys turn off your PBs at night?
I usually leave it asleep, with lid closed and
On 14 Sep 2004, at 15:04, G-Books wrote:
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Claire Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: shutting down PBs at night
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 01:34:13 -0500
Do you guys turn off your PBs at night?
Claire
Never, my PB 17 stays on 24/7 ,
Don't sweat it. My first G4 had a DVD drive that failed after 4 weeks. These
things happen.
--
Aaron Willems
Network Administrator
Lieberman Productions Philo Television
For those who responded about what a great deal AppleCare seems now
that the horse is out of the barn door, allow me to say
I put one in my Ibook G4 12 inch. I feel the vibrations more than the
original drive and it makes a bit more noise but other than that seems
to work great. I have only had it in for a little over a month so as
for reliability i really can't say much.
Richard
Richard Clark
MawgaDog Computer
My only suggestion is to make sure that when you close it, you do so
firmly to make sure it makes a solid connection, and doesn't pop open a
little right when it first tries to sleep. That might confuse it.
Also, be sure to wait until the light starts to pulse before you move
it. I read that
Pismo 500:1gb ram:40gb Hitachi 5400:Matshita UJ-825B DVD-R:OS 10.3.5
I have owned a BTI battery for about a year and a month ago the capacity was holding
well at 99/100% (about 4 hours for mild use). One day I looked up to see that my
battery had stopped charging at 69%. I was unhappy of course
On 14/09/04 16:23, Peter Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pismo 500:1gb ram:40gb Hitachi 5400:Matshita UJ-825B DVD-R:OS 10.3.5
I have owned a BTI battery for about a year and a month ago the capacity was
holding well at 99/100% (about 4 hours for mild use). One day I looked up to
see that my
My only suggestion is to make sure that when you close it, you do so
firmly to make sure it makes a solid connection, and doesn't pop open
a little right when it first tries to sleep. That might confuse it.
That is true, but I never did it deliberately, so it'll be hard for me
to follow that
Bummer! When I turn my brightness down, the Apple on the lid goes off
too.
It's physically the same lamp, isn't it?
Marcin Wichary
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w:\ www.aci.com.pl/mwichary/GUIdebook Graphical User Interface
gallery
w:\
As you had it, no, I didn't get anything. I suspect the problem was =20
that you didn't copy/paste, but rather re-typed, and ended up switching =20=
some lowercase L for an uppercase I, and skipped the pipe (the | =20
before grep) entirely.
Timothy -
I read that in a document in
On Tuesday, September 14, 2004, at 03:40 PM, G-Books wrote:
I'd say your chances of getting *anyone* to respond to future requests
have gone down dramatically.
Considering the quality of some of these responses and the attitudes
those responses reflect, that eventuality is not necessarily an
On Sep 14, 2004, at 2:40 pm, Stuart Saunders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone have experience with above drive?
I've had one in my Pismo for about 9 months now. Very quiet (compared
to the OEM drive) and noticeably faster.
Or 7200 mAh high capacity Newer Pismo battery?
I have one of their
I usually turn my computers off.
- Original Message -
From: Claire Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 1:34 AM
Subject: shutting down PBs at night
While more often than not I leave my iMac on at night, I always turn
off my Powerbook.
I've just received an iBook/500 (dual usb). The computer came with a dead
combo drive. Does anyone know where I can receive a new one for cheap? I
have enough technical skills to install it myself.
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Small Dog Electronics
Hi,
I have the opprotunity to buy a 1Ghz Ti Powerbook 15 L3 cache quite
cheaply. Is there anything about this model that I should know? I know
there were some problems with latches etc with the earlier G4 Powerbooks.
Thanks
Craig
Craig Rodgers
Service Development Specialist
Service
At 6:32 PM +0200 9/14/04, invicta wrote:
On 14 Sep 2004, at 15:04, G-Books wrote:
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Claire Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: shutting down PBs at night
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 01:34:13 -0500
Do you guys turn off your PBs at night?
At 10:17 AM -0400 9/14/04, Barton Brown wrote:
For those who responded by asking what are you talking about, to
my request for help concerning my defunct SuperDrive, may I humbly
suggest that if you'd read my original post, instead of the snippets
people quoted, you might have divined that I
Since I live in the Midwest and we have electrical storms quite often, I see
no reason to tempt fate by leaving my laptop on or even plugged in when not
in use. I sometime let them sleep when I travel so I can access the laptop
quickly when I need to, but even then I turn it off more often than
On Tuesday, September 14, 2004, at 11:32 AM, invicta wrote:
On 14 Sep 2004, at 15:04, G-Books wrote:
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Claire Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: shutting down PBs at night
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 01:34:13 -0500
Do you guys turn off
Barton Brown said:
I'm looking for a solution to
my problem, not necessarily a UJ-815, and certainly not a critique of
my intelligence.
You certainly don't need any help in that department.
Get a grip, man. You didn't even put a proper subject on your first post,
which in my case meant your
On Tuesday, September 14, 2004, at 07:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi,
I have the opprotunity to buy a 1Ghz Ti Powerbook 15 L3 cache quite
cheaply. Is there anything about this model that I should know? I know
there were some problems with latches etc with the earlier G4
Powerbooks.
Craig:
On 9/14/04 5:52 PM, MTH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough:
I don't have a powerbook, but my iBook has only been turned off once in
the year and a half that I have owned it and that is when I shipped it
back to Apple for service. I think that it would upset me to turn it
off every
Bill Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked:
My Wallstreet is now about 5 years old and the original battery is
dead. Also I believe the PRAM or Clock battery is dead. So no
'mobility' and no correct date. (I've done all the reset business in
Open Firmware etc. and no cigar.)
I was thinking of replacing
I'm an Apple Certified Technician and I shut mine off every night and
unplug
it from the wall.
I have my reasons.
Kyle H. Hansen
Kyle:
Unless your reasons are forces of nature, it would be a good idea to
follow your example, no?
Donald
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G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and...
I've been using a couple of utilities which very nicely divine lots of
battery information, X-Charge and XBattery. Graphs and logs and stuff
with a proper GUI. None of that arcane grepping stuff for
dumb-as-a-post-lil'-ol'-me!! :-)
Google for DL links.
dan k
.
On 9/14/04 6:45 PM, Donald Keenan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the
Cybertrough:
I'm an Apple Certified Technician and I shut mine off every night and
unplug
it from the wall.
I have my reasons.
Kyle H. Hansen
Kyle:
Unless your reasons are forces of nature, it would be a good
Bart, I didn't mean to insult you, but drives die. I have had two
different IBM hard drives die within the first month of ownership.
As for the question, your question was this: Is $1000 reasonable,
and the answer is no.
So now what? Go get another drive. Then put it in. You can't void
At 7:30 PM -0500 9/14/04, Tom Ethen wrote:
Since I live in the Midwest and we have electrical storms quite often, I see
no reason to tempt fate by leaving my laptop on or even plugged in when not
in use. I sometime let them sleep when I travel so I can access the laptop
quickly when I need to, but
At 6:29 PM -0700 9/14/04, Kyle Hansen wrote:
On 9/14/04 5:52 PM, MTH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough:
I don't have a powerbook, but my iBook has only been turned off once in
the year and a half that I have owned it and that is when I shipped it
back to Apple for service. I think
From: CJ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Dead Combo Drive
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:53:37 -0500
I've just received an iBook/500 (dual usb). The computer came with a
dead
combo drive. Does anyone know where I can receive a new one for
cheap? I
have enough technical skills to install it myself.
I've
On 9/14/04 6:45 PM, Clark Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the
Cybertrough:
Afraid the black helicopters are going to read your Myst scores
through the power line Kyle? :)
H ha ha. I play BF 1942 and CoD. Myst is for those over 40.
S. I hear a rotor. Where is my tin foil
Should they be OUR reasons? Like Donald, I'd like to know if
this is a good idea for others
Subject: Re: Shutting down PBs at night
From: Kyle Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 9/14/04 5:52 PM, MTH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 18:29:31 -0700
Subject: Re: Shutting down PBs at night
From: Kyle Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 9/14/04 5:52 PM, MTH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into
the Cybertrough:
I don't have a powerbook, but my iBook has only
Clark and Mikael, you fellows have really hurt my feelings. I believe
you owe me a big apology and a sloppy wet kiss. Your public and private
excoriation will almost certainly cost me the G-Spot Popularity
Contest. I know you're both among the the respectable number of
knowledgeable people (or
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