Re: Interchangeability of ATA HDDs

2004-10-15 Thread Shawn Harley
Herb, Yes and no . Some Toshiba's are not compatible with any G3 Powerbooks. Check the more info link on any Toshiba drive at Other World Computing for some model compatibility info. And I also have not been able to use a Samsung SpinPoint drive in my Pismo. I've heard of no issues with

G 5 Powerbooks.

2004-10-15 Thread invicta
Hello All, Any news when 5 G powerbooks will be introduced now that the 5 G iMacs are running ? Greetings, Andre. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks |

Re: G 5 Powerbooks.

2004-10-15 Thread Darkwolf45
Apple is having a difficult time making a portable version of the G5. right now it requires too much power and produces too much heat to work in a laptop. Also, there are size considerations. The processor right now is too large (physically) to fit in a case as compact as the ones that apple

Re: G 5 Powerbooks.

2004-10-15 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 15, 2004, at 8:34 AM, invicta wrote: Hello All, Any news when 5 G powerbooks will be introduced now that the 5 G iMacs are running ? Don't hold your breath. I think we're going to see Motorola's new 'dual core' G4's (essentially dual processors on a single chip) long before we see a G5

Re: G 5 Powerbooks.

2004-10-15 Thread John C. Swanson
Yeah I really hope Apple releases a PowerBook with the new dual core processor. How cool would it be to carry around a dual processor laptop? Laugh at all those Windows users with their puny single processor laptops. I might even have to give up my beloved Pismo for one of those. -Original

Re: G 5 Powerbooks.

2004-10-15 Thread Marcin Wichary
How cool would it be to carry around a dual processor laptop? Laugh at all those Windows users with their puny single processor laptops. And then Windows users could quite deservedly laugh back at you for not seeing a difference between dual processor and dual core designs. Marcin Wichary

Re: G 5 Powerbooks.

2004-10-15 Thread John C. Swanson
You know I wasn't going to dignify that last comment with a response so I deleted it, but I think I will. First of all I do know the difference between dual-cores and dual-processors. With dual-cores you have two processor cores on a chip, where in a dual processor system you have two processors

Re: G 5 Powerbooks.

2004-10-15 Thread Marcin Wichary
Secondly I feel sorry that you don't have the ability to understand a comment in jest. In the absence of smileys etc., does it surprise you that I took your message as just plain blatant zealotry, and reacted accordingly? There was nothing to indicate that you're joking. Actually, you behaved

Re: G 5 Powerbooks.

2004-10-15 Thread Laurent Daudelin
OK, folks, can we move along and drop this thread? I don't think that the last comments were helpful at all, so keep it off-list if you need to continue. Thank you. -Laurent. G-Books List Nanny. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Reinstalling MacOS X - Backing up iTunes?

2004-10-15 Thread BA
I am going to need to reinstall OS X 10.3 here shortly due to a number of problems that I am not able to fix, etc. The problem I have is that I have approximately $300+ in purchased songs from Apple and approximately 2800 songs I do NOT want to have to reinstall from the original CDs. I have

Re: Reinstalling MacOS X - Backing up iTunes?

2004-10-15 Thread Andrew
First go into your music folder and then copy your entire iTunes folder to the second drive. Next, go into iTunes and deauthorize the computer. Once you reinstall OSX, launch iTunes and let it create an account, then quit the program. Next, copy your old iTunes folder into your music folder

Re: Reinstalling MacOS X - Backing up iTunes?

2004-10-15 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 15/10/04 14:21, BA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am going to need to reinstall OS X 10.3 here shortly due to a number of problems that I am not able to fix, etc. The problem I have is that I have approximately $300+ in purchased songs from Apple and approximately 2800 songs I do NOT want to

How about iPhoto? was Re: Reinstalling MacOS X - Backing up iTunes?

2004-10-15 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 15, 2004, at 11:33 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: On 15/10/04 14:21, BA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am going to need to reinstall OS X 10.3 here shortly due to a number of problems that I am not able to fix, etc. The problem I have is that I have approximately $300+ in purchased songs from

Re: How about iPhoto? was Re: Reinstalling MacOS X - Backing up iTunes?

2004-10-15 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 15/10/04 15:15, Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 15, 2004, at 11:33 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: On 15/10/04 14:21, BA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am going to need to reinstall OS X 10.3 here shortly due to a number of problems that I am not able to fix, etc. The problem

Re: How about iPhoto? was Re: Reinstalling MacOS X - Backing up iTunes?

2004-10-15 Thread darm0k
At 12:15 PM -0700 10/15/2004, Bruce Johnson wrote: While we're on this, how do you do this with iPhoto? [snip] iTunes worked just fine (I didn't even have to re-authorize it) by dragging the old iTunes folder to the new directory. Alas, iPhoto doesn't work this way. If I replace the iPhoto

Re: How about iPhoto? was Re: Reinstalling MacOS X - Backing up iTunes?

2004-10-15 Thread Tom Ethen
I agree! I am tired of iPhoto rearing its ugly hear every time I want to transfer files form my Compact Flash Card and I also can not find a way to stop it. Tom And finally, how do you turn iPhoto OFF - so it doesn't automatically try to suck photos off our cameras and media cards? Thx, -

Re: How about iPhoto? was Re: Reinstalling MacOS X - Backing up iTunes?

2004-10-15 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 15/10/04 15:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:15 PM -0700 10/15/2004, Bruce Johnson wrote: While we're on this, how do you do this with iPhoto? [snip] iTunes worked just fine (I didn't even have to re-authorize it) by dragging the old iTunes folder to the new

Re: How about iPhoto? was Re: Reinstalling MacOS X - Backing up iTunes?

2004-10-15 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 15/10/04 16:26, Tom Ethen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree! I am tired of iPhoto rearing its ugly hear every time I want to transfer files form my Compact Flash Card and I also can not find a way to stop it. Tom And finally, how do you turn iPhoto OFF - so it doesn't automatically

Re: G 5 Powerbooks.

2004-10-15 Thread Frank P. Eigler
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Oct 15, 2004, at 8:34 AM, invicta wrote: Hello All, Any news when 5 G powerbooks will be introduced now that the 5 G iMacs are running ? Don't hold your breath. I think we're going to see Motorola's new 'dual core' G4's (essentially dual

Re: How about iPhoto? was Re: Reinstalling MacOS X - Backing up iTunes?

2004-10-15 Thread Richard Clark
it is actually quite easy to stop it just open the image capture program in your applications folder go into the preferences and under camera change when camera is connected, open: to whatever you like or nothing at all. Richard On 15 Oct 2004, at 10:26 PM, Tom Ethen wrote: I agree! I am tired

How about iPhoto? was Re: Reinstalling MacOS X - Backing up

2004-10-15 Thread walter
From: Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How about iPhoto? was Re: Reinstalling MacOS X - Backing up iTunes? Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 12:15:37 -0700 While we're on this, how do you do this with iPhoto? Dragging an iPhoto folder into iPhoto causes a huge mess. A new roll is made for: each

Re: How about iPhoto? was Re: Reinstalling MacOS X - Backing up iTunes?

2004-10-15 Thread Roger Shufflebottom
At 3:59 pm -0400 15/10/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just starting to look at iPhoto and so far -- we just don't like what we're seeing. We're used to being able to move pictures around, etc, directly from the Finder then manipulate them with tools like GraphicConverter's browser window. But

Re: G 5 Powerbooks.

2004-10-15 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank P. Eigler Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 16:57 To: G-Books Subject: Re: G 5 Powerbooks. I thought that most of these issues would've been dealt with considering they have G5 servers.

Re: Interchangeability of ATA HDDs

2004-10-15 Thread Jeff Drummond
On Oct 15, 2004, at 2:30 pm, Herbert Goodfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a larger HDD for a Pismo, and was notified by Dealmac that Dell for Small Business (!) has Toshiba and Seagate 40GB 5400rpm drives at good prices. Transintl has a decent selection of HDDs for Pismos:

Re: Interchangeability of ATA HDDs

2004-10-15 Thread Seth Austen
On Oct 15, 2004, at 3:30 PM, G-Books wrote: Are ATA drives interchangeable so that I can use the Seagate drive in the Pismo? I put a Seagate 40 G in my Pismo, it's behaving well. Seth --- Seth Austen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sethausten.com -- G-Books is

Re: G 5 Powerbooks.

2004-10-15 Thread Mikael Byström
Frank P. Eigler said: I thought that most of these issues would've been dealt with considering they have G5 servers And G5 servers are as thin as the current Powerbooks? -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished

Re: Interchangeability of ATA HDDs

2004-10-15 Thread John C. Swanson
On Oct 15, 2004, at 3:30 PM, G-Books wrote: Are ATA drives interchangeable so that I can use the Seagate drive in the Pismo? I have used Hitachi(IBM) and Seagate drives with no problem. I would recommend a 5400rpm drive as it will make things a little faster, and with prices so cheap now I

Re: Are batteries covered under Applecare?

2004-10-15 Thread Jim Eddy
The Apple rep told me that batteries are considered disposable, like the tires on a car. I bought a high capacity Newer battery. I can't compare it to an apple battery since I just got the Tibook used, but battery life seems quite good. The one I replaced had a life of 5 minutes. On Oct

Re: G 5 Powerbooks.

2004-10-15 Thread Steve Fuller
I thought that most of these issues would've been dealt with considering they have G5 servers. A 1 rack U server is 1.75 thick, 19 wide and quite ways deep. There's a lot more volume in a server, along with the fact that most people don't care how noisy their servers are. They do care how noisy

Re: How about iPhoto? was Re: Reinstalling MacOS X - Backing up

2004-10-15 Thread Steve Fuller
Best way I know of is: throw away the current iPhoto library and empty trash. Copy your old iPhoto library somewhere on your HD apart from the 'pictures' folder on your home folder. Launch iPhoto. It should say: I can't find the iPhoto library, do you want to import blah blah. Say yes and

D-Link DWL-650 wireless card....help

2004-10-15 Thread Kevin Thomas
I have a DWL-650 wireless card that I'm trying to get to work with a PowerBook G4/400. I'm lostApple Airport Utility is not helping. I am trying to connect to a Netgear Wireless Router. I know this is a PC specific card but I had read here somewhere that it would work with Mac's and it

Re: G 5 Powerbooks.

2004-10-15 Thread Clark Martin
At 7:13 PM -0500 10/15/04, Steve Fuller wrote: I thought that most of these issues would've been dealt with considering they have G5 servers. A 1 rack U server is 1.75 thick, 19 wide and quite ways deep. There's a lot more volume in a server, along with the fact that most people don't care how