Funny Vista Video

This is a really funny video of the Gates CES vista presentation with the vista screen shots replaced by OSX screen shots. Be patient. http://maclive.net/sid/134 -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives

DVD audio extract/mp3?

There is another piece of extraction software called: DVD Backup. But I'm not sure that you can't just drag off the audio file if that's all you want. Meanwhile, the very best soundtrack for Jesus Christ Superstar is the original recording. As you may recall, they could not get fundi

Upgrading from CD-ROM to Combo/Super Drive

If there are all sorts of these slot loading drives out there, does anyone know why I can't take one of these $50 drives and put it in a G3 iMac or a Cube?All of the places that sell replacement slot drives for these want a minimum of $129. -- G-Books is sponsored by

Lombard

I got a Newer LiOn battery at Xmas for my daughter's Lombard. It worked great for a while, running OSX.3.Now it just says: 0% and doesn't charge AT All. I zapped PRAM. Any other tips? Us OS9? Followupnow I find that it actually does hold a good chargebut it always says that it h

Lombard

I got a Newer LiOn battery at Xmas for my daughter's Lombard. It worked great for a while, running OSX.3.Now it just says: 0% and doesn't charge AT All. I zapped PRAM. Any other tips? Us OS9? -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://w

Re: Are batteries covered under Applecare?

I have had Apple replace the battery on my Ti-book. I didn't ask them to, but it was in for something else. The old battery was OK but the new battery was much better. With that new battery I once ran Word for 8 hours on my 550 TiBook and had 30% of the battery left (monitor turned down

Dead superdrive -- Oh, BTW...

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

Dead drive

Bart Says: Apple support quoted me a replacement drive price of around $1000 (minus labor), and that' doesn't make me too happy. Any suggestions/previous experience/mantras, etc.? A: Makes that $400 Applecare fee seem like a trifle, doesn't it? But that drive price sounds high. -- -- G-Books is

RAM Check

We keep hearing about frequent crashes and RAM. Well, every now and then I get a flurry of these things. I wonder if its my RAM. I was wondering--is there ANY utility that can REALLY test your RAM? -- -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://

Re anyone know if the Linksys "SpeedBoost" feature would work with AirPort Extreme?

Laurent wrote: If you're planning to use any laser printer that relies on EtherTalk (AppleTalk over Ethernet), I would suggest you look somewhere else as the Linksys products don't support Macintosh at al A: I have an 3year old linksys router and it supports ethertalk. Linksys will not support t

Re: Wireless Drivers For OS 9 & OS X

For the Record, the IOXpert drivers allow you to use them free for a half hour at a time. How much more time do you need? -- -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished Po

extreme prices for non-extreme Airport cards....

B0b wrote: Clyde, What's a 802.11DS card? I know it's a wireless PCMCIA card. But what's the "DS" all about. And I've seen the "RoamAbout" description before, but I'm not sure what exactly it refers to. Thanx, B0b A: Wow a direct question by name and I am so self-conscious of my innate ignoranc

Explain the 802.11b Card Description

I have a couple of Roamabouts I got at Wegener last fall. They look like the ones in the picture out there now. They are cheap because they are several years old. Mine are orinoco because my system says they are. -- -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electro

extreme prices for non-extreme Airport cards....

Tom Wrote: Way off topic, anyone use USB wireless dongles with OSX? I have a linksys USB that works ok on the PC, is identified in the profiler on OSX, but does not appear in the Network panel. Is this a dead end? A: I have heard some people say they work OK when you have no card slot,--like Wi

Re: extreme prices for non-extreme Airport cards....

Eric wrote: Any suggestions for a decent, reasonable source? A: Source for what? you can always get the old orinoco (roam about) cardbus cards from Wegener for $28--it comes with an OS9 driver but you have to download a $20 driver to use OSX from IOXperts, or orange micro--although maybe pro

DEAD FIREWIRE PORT Re: External harddrive

Before you replace the motherboard. Try this: Shut down and unplug. Hit the system thingy button on the back. Boot back up and IMMEDIATELY reset the date and time (working with the date wrong screws up all sorts of stuff--I don't know why. Then check the port again. If that doesn'

Re: Killing me softly.

marcin writes: does it make sense to bring it back if the HDD seems to behave normally now? A: As someone who knows absolutely nothing about the subject, I feel I should speak up. I have heard rumors (see, Revelations, Nostradamus, etc) that there are diagnostic mechanisms in drives that can s

Re: AlBook vs. TiBook :o/

I just got a new 1.33 Gig Albook to replace my 550 TiBook. (Obviously, mine is a whole generation above the 1.Gig, since they stopped making the 1Gig family 5 months ago.) I have to say that every single aspect of the machine is better than the TiBook. It is really, REALLY, really more soli

Re: dvd burner

I would guess that rendering a video DVD on a 300mhz iBook would take overnight---but that's OK. The real issue will be disk space and RAM. I will comment that even on my 1Ghz AlBook, with a gig of RAM, and the new compressor from the latest version of iMovie, I am easily in the multiple

Re: dvd burner

Burning a video dvd requires unbelievable resources. It is not a trivial thing. Among other things, it requires huge amounts of disk space, and so you will need an external drive for your portable. For example, DV video takes over 3Mgs a second--more like 15 Gigs an hour. Then you need a

Re Problem with new G4 iBook

Applecare is wonderful; trust me you did the right thing. The Techtools disk is probably too old to boot your machine. There is probably nothing wrong with your machine. Why wouldn't they give you a new disk? did you ask? If they need to see your machine, they usually send yo

ot: new scanner and os 9 after X

I have an hp flatbed with an adaptor for negatives. It works OK for everything except that I cannot get an OCR program to drive the sheet feeder--they all say they will but they dont'. Anyway, if you want to do photos, make sure you have a scanner attachment for your negatives. Scan

TiBook 550mhz with vertical racing stripe on screen

I have seen horizontal stripes on G3 pbooks. These are typically caused by a bad ribbon cable connection or so I am told. -- -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished

Re: Opinions on CDs

The kind of CD blanks you use is really important. It is particularly important if you want your disks to play in some machine other than the machine that burned it. Here is a reference to a site where people spend a lot of time on this issue. http://club.cdfreaks.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&fo

Re: Lombard Will Not Boot after Battery Fails

Laurent wrote: Did you have the battery for some time? It sounds as if the battery is shut and the Lombard go into a deep sleep, possibly causing a problem with system files that are left in an opened state, which might cause the restart problem. Does it do the same thing on AC? A: The battery is

Lombard Will Not Boot after Battery Fails

My daughter is running the fully current Panther on a 333 Lombard with 512MbRAM.Her battery will run until it says (roughly) 30 minutes left and then goes to sleep for lack of battery support. (I have tried running that battery reset program again and again and I can't get the 30 min shut

Re: D-Link Network Card for PB

Tom Wrote If it's already running when I insert card it immediately panics; if I reboot with the card in it, it freezes during bootup. A: In my experience, OSX doesn't like the card to be put in while operating--despite the fact that the hardware was designed that way. Also, make sure you turn

Interesting G-book Take Apart Link

I just picked up this from slashdot : http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/04/05/10/1024231.shtml?tid=137&tid=180 I'm not sure what we are allowe to say about it. -- -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Ch

: G4 to G4 Megahertz comparison (was Re: New Powerbooks announced / I bought my first Mac today)

Doubling a processor speed usually does not result in doubling the computer speed because the rest of the computer does not keep up proportionately. With a powerbook, it helps to have a faster drive because of the slowness of the laptop drives in general. From what I have read, the G4s are st

Re: Help for networking neophite

Q:Has anyone successfully set up a wireless network with one of the RoamAbout cards from Wegener Media and an Airport original (not Extreme) base station? I think that I need to know any tips or suggestions to make it work. Maybe which version of software to use and the proper order to set up e

Re: Compare Apple to Orange (err.. I mean Pentium)

It's really hard to compare G4s to P3s because of the intervention of things like operating systems, software, buses, disk drives, and so forth. I never cease to be amazed at how one system can be clearly superior to another on a bunch of photoshop filters, and then get totally clobbered on a

Re: Airport Alternatives

I am using old "Roamabout" cardbus cards (OEM orinoco) from Wegener for $27. They only come with OS9 drivers (that work fine for OS9) but for OSX you have to download an OSX driver from ioXperts. The driver costs $20 per card and the serial number for the driver is portable from computer to

Re: Friend wants to play PC games on his first Mac. . .

The desire to play specific games is not quite rational. I am not sure how someone who cannot afford anything more than a pismo can afford Virtual PC. A cheap old PC will work better. HOWEVER, we do play some PC games with VPC on a 350G4BeigeG3 and a 500MhzFlowerPowerG3iMac.Age of Empir

Re: Timing my first Mac purchase

The best way to time your mac purchase is to purchase refurbished or discontinued computers from the Apple store or Small Dog or others. For example, they have periodically (last weekend) had 800mhz emacs for $500+ dollars because they are both discontinued and refurbished. There are some disco

Wallstreet II distorted screen

I have a 13" Wallstreet II with a 500mhz powerlogix running OS9.2.I think somebody may have knocked it and now the screen is all jiggly and jagged running horizontal. The distortion is so bad the screen is virtually unusable.The monitor runs fine though the S-video port. I took it a

Re: Panther and Canon digital Rebel

Harry Asked: Anybody on the list using the camera or printer with either Panther or Jaguar? Is so what have been your experiences? A: There is a reason why everybody pays boatloads of money to use Photoshop---it works better than the other stuff. I scan a lot of film and with that photosh

Re: A new question about data recovery

Stan in Denver writes: But now my FW drive isn't "Recognized by this Macintosh" and wants to be initialized. Now if I do this, can I recover some of the stuff that was there? What can I do to increase my chances? And no, (stupid again on my part) there was no filesaver type software on that drive.

Re: Hard Drive Advice for Pismo

If you are screwing around with lots of mp3s and Photoshop go ahead and get an external drive. You cannot believe how fast photos suck-up disk space. Also, external drives are faster than laptop drives. Keep an eye open for cheap firewire boxes as well as cheap drives in the 160 to 250 gig ra

Re: Personal LaserWriter LS on WallStreet

I was not aware that the Personal Laserwriter LS printers were postscript printers. If they were not then of course Laserwriter8 wont work on them--and the only driver that will work on the printer is the driver for that printer--and that printer only. There has to be info on this on the web

Re: Sharing OS9 printer with OSX powerbook

I don't think use USB print sharing on an OS9 machine unless the client machine is running OS9 or classic. That is not really too much of a problem. I often use Word 98 or 2001 because Word X and other stuff won't print in OSX because OSX has such horrible printing problems--particularly wi

Re: Does D-Link Router support Appletalk?

Kris asked: I am curious about something though, you said you turned off DHCP to work with your existing network. Are you using it as a bridge? A: I just turned off DHCP so I could test the non-wireless part of the router--from port to port and not going through the WAN port. It used the DHCP o

Re: Does D-Link Router support Appletalk?

I purchased a D-link 614+ wireless router. The router does all internet stuff OK in both wireless and otherwise mode. I can even turn off the DHCP so that it can work in the network that already has an asante router going to the cable modem and other switches. HOWEVER, whether I am just goi

Re: Wallstreet Hard Drive

I have tried to put a 4.5 gig travelstar--(orig equip lombard) into my wall street. When it is installed, I get nice chimes, and that's it. I don't even get a question mark. The screen doesn't even light up. The machine won't even boot from the CD. I have tried various shield things--inclu

Re: How do I get rid of the blinking question mark?

First place---if you got to the question mark, you're in good shape. 2d: I can think of absolutely no reason to run 8.6 on your Lombard--it is not faster than 9.2. Don't run OS9.0. The "reset"" button on the back of the Lombard is not the same as a CUDA button or the "reset" button on the Tib

Re: OSX on Wallstreet.

Clark wrote: The solution I use is somewhat simpler. I have the problem and didn't install any shielding. I just turn the computer around a little while tapping the shift key and it will wake up. clyde says: The problem is not the sleep of death, but that for some reason someting seems to interf

Re: Backup/recovery using PCMCIA Firewire adapter?

I booted up from an external firewire on a Lombard using a "mercury" cardbus card. -- -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Su

Re: OSX on Wallstreet.

Also, remember that there are sometimes problems with Travelstars on Wallstreets--having to do with a magnet and needing a sheild of some kind. I had the same problem doing such an installation several weeks ago and I was reminded about this. I have yet to address it. See: http://www.xlr8yo

Re: iMovie stalling

I don't think iMovie would stall because of your disk on any pismo. That's just not going to be a problem.Of course it would hurt to run DiskWarrior. If you are doing it in OS9 you obviously have to pay attention to your settings, turn off VM, turn off the network and appletalk, turn off

Re: OT: Having brain cramp while trying to record analog audio into 'puter

I haven't a clue as to why you would think this was off-topic. Nevertheless, I understand your braincramp because you used to be able to do this all back 15 years ago with system software---why not now? The answer is you can--just not with iTunes. There are many, many, many inexpensive prog

Re: Any way to import video into a Wall Street Powerbook?

I have no way of comparing the Dazzle analog to digital conversion box to the ADS version, but I do know that Dazzle has two models, one is firewire and one is USB and they convert to different formats (perhaps because of the bandwidth problems with USB?) Anyway, I just noticed that these are be

Re: Firewire Enclosures

In reference to prior threads, OWC is having a sale on 2.5inch firewire enclosures--at say $55 and cheaper used: http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_Page.cfm?Parent=510&Title=&Template= -- -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com |

Re: Icebook ribbon and wires

OK OK --- I was looking at some things I was saying about repairing an Icebook and I want to say I'm sorry--I don't own one so I better shut up. I mentioned that I fixed a machine for nothing if you value my time at nothing. I meant that to be ironic. The time required to fix these things

Re: Icebook--was Hey Kyle...

Illovox wrote: I have a 600 with flickering screen. Pretty sure the ribbon in the hinge is shot. How to fix? A: I have one of those "repair manual" CDs for tons of mac stuff. anyway, get access to the manuals for the take apart stuff. But a flickering screen doesn't sound like a ribbon-c

Re: pc monitors with macs

If you've got a G5 you might as well get a monitor and surplus computers has some really knock-your-socks-off mongo huge used monitors cheap. I don't know much about their service though. -- -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.c

Re: Icebook--was Hey Kyle...

I have an IceBook 500 that probably needs to be repaired at a cost of around $300US. Would you repair or simply sell for scrap and purchase a new IceBook? A: Gee, I have a powerbook 180, wallstreet, lombard, and 550 ti-book.They are all turned on right now.Although refurb'ed ibook's

Re: Stupid RAM

A very Long time ago I bought a SODIMM 32*64 PC100 256 MB (TPW 256). I can't see it right now because I put it in the bottom slot of a 333 Lombard with a bigger 256 MB DIMM above. It has been lying around in it's little silver pack for quite a while, and it may have been a teeny bit abused bu

Re: iPods and non-Firewire PBs

Tom Wrote: Can responders confirm that an iPod works OK on an older, non-Firewire Powerbook using a Firewire card? And can they briefly list the config they're using, ie, OS version, iPod generation, and card type? My daughter uses an original 5GB iPod on a 333 Lombard running Panther. She attach

Re: Recomendations for updates for Wall St.

Clark wrote: I'm not sure about the Firewire part but I have had experience with the USB cards. OS 9 includes drivers for USB cards but they aren't installed unless the card is present during installation. I am not sure that what Clark says is true in all cases, but I do know, that if you want to

Re: External firewire DVD burners with Powerbook

I have a Pioneer DVR-105 that I put in a nameless firewire box I got from OWC. It works with my G4-powerbook, cube, and works on the Beige G3 using Toast. I don't know what you want to burn, but if you intend to do CDs, your $50 Lite-On Cd burner is going to be a whole lot faster than your DV

Can't SwapHardDriveInWallstreet

I have a Wallstreet. It has a 500mhz upgrade of some kind and 128MRAM. It was working fine with the original "Apple" brand 2 Gig HD. I tried to install the 6 Gig travelstar that came installed in my TiBook. Both disks have clean installs of OS 9.2. When I started up with the travels

Re: Powerbook G4's and Photoshop

I've been doing PS7 on a 550PBook with 512MB RAM and a 40Gig IBM travelstar---but not the fast travelstar. I work primarily on 39 Meg TIFF files. PS7 works quite well except on things that are disk intensive--like when you attempt to browse a folder with 80 39meg files--and then you may noti

Re: Non-working Ethernet Port: what's the fix?

-Laurent. says: On a Wallstreet, if the Ethernet port is not working, I'm assuming the logic board/motherboard has to be replaced. Am I right? I once had an ethernet port that wasn't working. I bought a PCMCIA card to replace it. Some other things were not working right so I pulled the batte

Re: Firewire case

I have a really cheap container for my laptop HD that I got from OWC over a year ago. I think its an OWC brand, but it has no brand name on it. It clips together very easily with no screws, and is easy to get in and out of. It is powered from the firewire and it is the most wonderful thing

Re: All your base are belong to us

I need a reference to figure out whether to go with an Asante base wireless, or an Apple Extreme Airport refurb with no antenna jack---or buffalo tech--or another. I think I want the Buffalo Tech repeater thingy, but it's not due out till January. I just want a cheap wireless broadcaster for ho

Re: Pismo Rubber feet.

When I suggested a glue gun I was not trying to be facetious. Glue guns are amazing things and you do not need a rubber foot underneath them. As Phil suggested, the glue itself is the foot. You can shape it any way you want--but I suggest not using your fingers to shape the glue unless you

Re: Pismo rubber feet

Brent writes: Does anyone else have a suggestion for a reasonably priced source of black powerbook feet? A:Glue gun. -- -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerB

Re: Pismo/iPod

The reason your iPod doesn't recognize your wife's Pismo is that an iPod will only hook up to a single computer with regard to iTunes. It is designed that way--partly to "prevent piracy" by using the iPod to transfer music files to multiple computers. Of course, this is sort of a weird way

G3 Lombard 333

my daughter runs jaguar on her 333 Lombard with 320MB RAM. It works a lot better than I think it should.However, she has a 20 Gig drive in it. I think you will really be pressed for space with a 6Gig drive--not to mention speed of the old drives. Get a new drive. -- -- G-Books is spon

Re: TiBook WiFi Reception

I have been putting off doing WiFi for a long time figuring that the new standards would make it more attractive. So 11(g) is more attractive, but its also more expensive and apparently the range issues cut down on realworld speed. (I've already conceded that I'll use hardwires for any file

Re: Making the switch to OS X (yeah, I know...)

I'm not much of a help here with regard to OSX software, (Photoshop Elements 1.0 is not carbonized) but, don't be afraid to run stuff in classic. I find classic works great. The only time I boot in 9 is to print in photoshop 7--because it won't boot in classic, and as you all know, if you t

Re: (Why no extended warranty in Florida): Was: I got mine!

Uh, Al Gore? -- -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac G-Books

Re: Pop-up menus

Don't forget that sometimes keys can stick. I never remember this when it happens to me and I go nuts trying to figure out why this or that is happening, and all that is the matter is that a key is stuck. -- -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicsht

Re: Dragon Naturallyspeaking 7 and Virtual PC 6

I would be really surprised if naturally speaking would be better than IBM ViaVoice. Computer speed is REALLY important in voice recognition, so I suspect that using VPC would negate any improvenment over ViaVoice. The reason speed is important, is that ViaVoice wants you so slow down or to

Re: Crash! went the HD

Tony says: So I ran Disk Doctor on Partition 1 hoping to cure it. It found some "major problems" and instructed me to fix them. I did (but didn't make a note of what they were sadly). Restarted and - oh horror! - the first partition, with my work on, had disappeared. I say: Don't run Disk Do

Re: broken charger plug

Good luck with the charger plugit's really complicated on the TiBook---but I think that you don't absolutely have to have the little light thingys. My little light thingys went out and the plug still worked. Apparently, though the thingys went out because the motherboard was bad and apple

Re: G4 Ti 550 getting hot ???

My 550 Ti-book gets hot up in the corner when I run GLTron. It doesn't get that hot otherwise--except--when it is 90ºF and its on my lap and I am in shorts. I only have 512 ram & I usually do boring things with it. When you have it plugged in--you are both powering it and charging i

Re: OT..Sorry..Help w/ 10.2.6 Mail

This is a baffling post and I will assume its not a gratuitous flame. OSX is a little different--but if you want OS9 all you have to do is use OS9 in classic mode. I use classic mode ALL THE TIME. My secretary and I both prefer classic mode to OS9 because of its wonderful stability, and it

Re: gaps in frame TiPB G4

no gaps in mine. -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac G-Books l

Airport, Softbase and OSX

From my experience, I would skip weird networking stuff, get a 4-port router with a Wi-Fi card and use that for any broadband networking. In fact, I'll b If you can afford 2 macs and broadband, you can afford a router and its going to work better than any other solution. Also it allows anyo

OSX running really slow

Eric said: We also had an original 233Mhz iMac rev. B running OS 9.2.2 that was getting frequent "pauses" where the system would lock up for 3-10 seconds and then start working again intermittently throughout the day... really causing a lot of heartache and wasted time. As soon as I switche

iTunes Importing

I find it interesting that there are complaints about MP3 Quality. I remember when CDs first came out. They were really really awful. Portions of some recordings sounded like fingernails on chalkboards to me. This is because taking good music and converting it to digital seriously degrades

Laserjet Help

Can you administer your router? If you can you should be able to find the TCP/IP address that way. After all, whatever it is--its handled through the router. -- -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives |

E-Mail Software

I'm thinking this is OnTopic because Email is so important to laptops. I use Eudora, but I think its is getting a little long in the tooth. I have several email POP servers and I need to be able to route incoming emails to folders or accounts (like eudora) but I would also like to b

Printer problem

>KP Wrote: > The printer in question is an Apple Personal Laserwriter (LS?). It >is quite old (I got it in about 1995). It's starting to print a grey >stripe down the left hand side of the page, in the margin. Obviously >some toner is getting where it shouldn't. Does anybody know how to fix

CD-ROM Burner Compatibility issues

I have tried to find some comprehensive site that will explain to me why some home-burnt cd-r disks won't play on some drives. I have some "Staples" (gold/silver) and some "Imation"(silver/silver) 16x 800Mg disks that I burn on either my FlowerPower iMac (matsushita) or my 8x Yamaha d

CD-ROM Expansion Bay Problems.

I had the same problem with my 333 Lombard. Worked fine for years, All of a sudden, it won't recognize some home-burnt disks. I haven't investigated the problem very thoroughly though to find the parameters of the problem so i don't know what disks and circumstances are involved. -- -- G-

USB printer sharing X->9

I have had intermittent problems with the 9 to X serving, but it will work if you are sure that the printing is turned on at the server machine properly in Classic. Try booting up from 9 and seeing if it will work that way. Try installing the driver when booted up from 9. Try updat

New PB

Mark wrote:I'm looking for suggestions for the next PB (used). I do mostly word processing and a little surfing, My 14" 333 Lombard will get up to 5.5 hours on a battery if I set it on low power consumption, running Word '98. And remember, if you don't need the CD-ROM drive

Comments on the Travelstar

I have a 40G deskstar on my cube and a 40G travelstar on my Ti-book. I purchased both from OWC--the deskstar in 2001 and the travelstar last summer. Both cracked up in the first 3-4 days. The TiBook drive in particular made unbelievably horrible, grating sounds. Shipped them both

Virtual Memory question for OS9

I have found that there is a dramatic advantage to using Virtual Memory with Microsoft software. I allocate 50 Megs to Explorer for example, in my 192 meg Lombard, which I usually set to 193 VM. I think I read that this is because VM turns on a more modern memory manager and that MS likes th

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

Josh: If you are new to the list check out the archive--these are standard topics. Here goes: ><192 megs of ram, 4 gig and was just wondering what >< you guys have as far as your >Also, I'm thinking about upgrading the HD, >it would appear for not much more I >could get a Newer Firewire card,

OSX file listings

I hope this isn't off topic, but does anyone know how to print out file listings for folders in OSX? There used to be several ways to do it in the old OS, but other than rebooting I can't see any way of doing it in OSX. I must be missing something big time. -- -- G-Books is spons

Followup on Lombard ethernet

Last September I lost the ethernet on my Lombard. I tried it on each of six different busses and switches.I bought an asante cardbus card for it and it worked great. Then I has some horrible problems with OSX and the cardbus---wiping out parts of my disk and so forth.

Ti-Book Battery

I have a 1-year-old ti-book. I have always used OSX. The battery used to get 5 hours (no kidding). Now I am getting only about 2--or even less. Is there anything that will recondition this battery at all--like with the old G-3sor do I have to get a new one? -- -- G-Books is

Lombard Upgrade

I have a 333 Lombard and putting a fast disk drive in it will really speed it up. -- -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! |

Smashed 14.1 Lombard Display

My energetic Family smashed our 14.1 inch Lombard screen. The rest of the computer is just fine and because the upper left corner works I can actually access part of the apple menu. I can access the computer on the nework. Does anyone have any ideas where or how to get another display? (I

Powerbook G3

Bob Johnson Wrote: We are having a problem with my daughters Powerbook G3. Purchased new on 6-25-99 I have the exact same thing you have--a Lombard with 192 meg running Office 98. It originally came with OS 8.5 and you should at least be running 8.6, but I presume you are running OS9.

IBM 20GB PowerBook drive

Andrew Main at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I recently purchased one of the new 40GNX 5400RPM 20GB IBM drives > (model IC25N020ATCS05) for my G3 PowerBooK-In fact, the drive > is noisier than the earlier model 4200RPM 20GB fluid dynamic bearing > IBM drive I bought last year

PC-card cooling fan for Wallstreet?

Kent wrote: Does anyone know of a pc-card (pcmcia) cooling fan that would work with a > Wallstreet? I thought Cyberguys would have one--since they have about 50 coolers for desktops--including one with colored lights that looks really really cool. I found a few on Google including: h

ethernet ports

Tom wrote: Clyde seems to loosing quite a few Ethernet Ports, which makes me wonder it there is something in his network that is burning them out, as I have yet to loose even one. I have thought about the same thing. I have had bad electricity in the office--I lost 2 ports in my router and t

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