Second hand Powerbook

I'm looking to buy a second hand 15inch Powerbook. Any ideas on which models to look for(or not)? -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on

Re: Tiger on a Pismo?

ok, only a wake-up the next day results in a hang. I did and archive and install, maybe a fresh install will solve this but so far I haven't found the time. Marc -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbi

Re: Battery life under Tiger

My new Newer Tech battery is also stil calculating the remaining time after a week using Tiger a few hours a day. It calculates the percentage but not the time for some reason. Op May 10, 2005, om 7:33 AM heeft Frank Cornew het volgende geschreven: Nope. Nonetheless, the time remaining for bat

Re: Pismo slow wake-up

I'll go and live with it. Thanks for trying Marc On May 14, 2004, at 10:22 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: On 14/05/04 15:10, "Marc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, when it wakes up I hear both the disk and the dvd(no dvd/cd inside) spinning up. I don't have OS9 so i can

Re: Pismo slow wake-up

spinning either. Have to reboot after that. Battery works fine after that. Marc When you wake it up, do you hear any disk activity? Do you have an OS 9 partition and if so, did you try rebooting in 9 and try to see if it behaves the same? -Laurent. -- -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://l

Re: Linksys et al

The Linksys 54G pccard will work with the Apple Airport-drivers, they use the same chipset. Marc Op 22-apr-04 om 0:15 heeft Andrew Kershaw het volgende geschreven: I did some research of both the D-Link and the Linksys systems when I went wireless (chose D-Link because of their Mac support

g-books@mail.maclaunch.com

Sorry, wrong list :-( Op 6-feb-04 om 7:32 heeft Marc het volgende geschreven: I'm using a 120GB in my B&W and want to get another one. Would a PCI ATA card make a noticable difference over the internal bus I'm using now? Should I go for for Serial ATA or is the B&W to slo

g-books@mail.maclaunch.com

I'm using a 120GB in my B&W and want to get another one. Would a PCI ATA card make a noticable difference over the internal bus I'm using now? Should I go for for Serial ATA or is the B&W to slow for that anyway? Any advice? Thanks, Marc -- G-Books is sponsored by <http:

Re: Keep my pismo or ??

ope. It''s durable, expandable and easy/cheap(?) to repair as opposed to newer models. Marc Op 4-feb-04 om 0:30 heeft James Rohde het volgende geschreven: On 2/3/04, Geoffrey Loeffler wrote: So let the opinions roll, new- used -stay-upgrade Since I have a (for now, not working

Re: so. . where's the beef?

I mean the GX Op 22-jan-04 om 15:08 heeft Marc het volgende geschreven: I got this reply from a salesguy at Powerlogix when I inquired about the G3/900 upgrade for a Pismo: Within a few weeks (we hope), we should be shipping our new G3/1Ghz (wih 1mb cache at 1Ghz). Of course, this is IF IBM

Re: so. . where's the beef?

I got this reply from a salesguy at Powerlogix when I inquired about the G3/900 upgrade for a Pismo: Within a few weeks (we hope), we should be shipping our new G3/1Ghz (wih 1mb cache at 1Ghz). Of course, this is IF IBM does not delay shipping (again). Would this be the 750FX? Marc Op 22

G3/900 for Pismo?

I'm considering this upgrade, can some recommend this(or advise against it). I don't really need the Altivec(I think) and I've already maxed out the memory and gotten a new disk. Are there any other upgrades I sould look at? I love my Pismo too much to trade her in if I don't really have to. A

Re: 802.11G pccard?

Thanx for the tip. I have Panther installed and will go for the Linksys card which is pretty cheap and available here. Marc Op 21-jan-04 om 14:31 heeft Mitch Hogg het volgende geschreven: On 1/20/04 5:16 PM, Marc wrote: Can someone recommend a 802.11G pccard to be used in a Pismo Powerbook

802.11G pccard?

Can someone recommend a 802.11G pccard to be used in a Pismo Powerbook? All I can find here(Netherlands) only have Wintel-drivers. Marc -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web si

Ibook/Panther trackpad problem?

I just got a new ibook g4 w/ Panther, migrating from an OS9.2 system, so I know little about OSX. I've noticed a rather annoying problem already. I keep setting the trackpad's tracking speed in the system prefs, and then every time I close the system prefs, it resets the tracking speed to a

Pismo drive problem - hw or sw?

Okay, I try to keep up with this list, but it's tough given the volume, so I'm not sure whether this one has been asked before. I'll give it a shot. My Pismo suddenly has started behaving badly, and before I spend $ to fix it, I want to get some input on whether and where to spend that money.

Re: A new start and Pismo Upgrades

Fastmac.com offers a G4/550 and you only have to send in the processor-card. Does anyone have this upgrade done with them? And would I really notice the difference in Panther (having a 500 now, using it for video-editing, dreamweaver and photoshop(a little) Marc > on 11/4/03 8:22 PM, Geoff

Re: Improper off-list emails

Can you please(please, please) have this discussion off-list? Thank you all Marc -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDR

Re: Pismo / Panther / Battery Life

not better). Apart from that I'm very happy with Panther, overal performance is better, especially Finder, Mail and iPhoto. Marc Op 24-okt-03 om 18:13 heeft Stuart Saunders het volgende geschreven: Could those who have a Pismo, who are upgrading to Panther take a note of battery life b

iTunes sharing only one-way

I have a Belkin wlan-router with a pbook connected through Airport and a Powermac through ethernet. Both macs can 'see' each other and can share files (afp and smb). Sharing in iTunes is enabled on both, the powerbook shows up in iTunes op the powermac but not the other way around(which is what

Re: iBook sudden shutdown

On 29-07-2003, Charlie Meyerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Forgive me if others have posed this question, but my clamshell >iBookGraphite (SE) has taken to suddenly shutting down when it's on >battery power-- without the standards warning about saving work, etc. > >Needless to say, this causes

Problem with ICQ 3.2 on MAC OS X

Hi, I can't start my ICQ anymore I get this message: Application Launch Failure The application "ICQ 3.2" could not be launched because of a shared library error: "<> Looking for help. Jean-Marc -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and.

Re: rush of intern modem

ok, thank you, sorry I could have found that on my own Jean-Marc On Lundi, juil 21, 2003, at 22:30 Europe/Paris, Laurent Daudelin wrote: On 21/07/03 16:25, "Jean-Marc Melchior" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: it's pretty disturbing that while online, the modem does this sound

rush of intern modem

it's pretty disturbing that while online, the modem does this sound through the speakers, does anybody know how to deactivate these sounds from the modem ? Thanks Jean-Marc -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com |

Re: New User

Are there any other programs or games that I should download, i heard about konfabulator, which is supposed to be handy! Jean-Marc -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web si

Re: New User

I owe a big thank you, to all those who replied to this thread, especially Meg, you all helped me a lot! Jean-Marc -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished Powe

Re: New User

e, lots of Internet, little iLife, lot of iTunes, some Photoshop Jean-Marc -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Suppo

Re: New User

"G-Books" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 19.07.03 11:20:36: > > Jean-Marc, > > Welcome to the list. We need to know a few things: > 1) Model powerbook > 2) Amount of RAM > 3) Hard Drive Size > 4) Currently installed version of MacOS > > After we

New User

ee to add programs, and games, thank you Jean-Marc -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <ht

Re: Pismo Battery dead

Did it work? I have two and they are getting worse everyday. On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 07:25 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: Yes, that reminds me of someone who did post a similar fix for a Newton rechargeable battery. I'll put mine in the fridge right now and I'll see tomorrow... -Laurent.

Use pbook-drive in Powermac

Is there an easy/cheap way to use a powerbookdrive in my powermac? Do I need a special adaptercable or is there another way? Marc -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web si

Lowlevel format

ng. I suppose there is maybe a problem I could fix by formatting it. Marc -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Supp

Re: Anyone (esp. in the UK) purchased goods from WegenerMedia??

ted, I subscribed to PayPal just to order that CD-RW from him. Good communication and fast delivery. PS: Too bad the tray of the CD-RW broke a while ago... Marc, The Netherlands * * -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.

Harddrive is clicking..

My (Fujitsu) harddrive in my pbook expansionpack suddenly started to make a loud clicking noise and is now no longer recognized by the system. I guess it has died or is there still something I could try. The warranty has expired, unfortunately :-( Marc -- G-Books is sponsored by <h

Re: Laptop Sleep

Shayne Croy wrote: > Stupid guy question... Are you saying I SHOULD disconnect it before I > sleep it? And then, do I Just plug it back in when I want to use it? TIA Shayne you said that if your Lomard goes to sleep with the USB zip connected it won't wake up so the first thing I would do if

Re: strange brightness issues

|n|i|c|k| wrote: > This program wont delete important caches? or ones that are still > usefull? I don't know how it decides what does and what doesn't > workbut if it worked fine for you I might as well give it a > try...where do I get it? I suggest you download Cocktail, it'll trash the

Re: Laptop Sleep

Shayne Croy wrote: > I can't believe it, my first sleep problem with my Lombard! I have been > doing some housekeeping the past few days, going through some older > media. Every time I try to sleep my Lombard with a usb zip 250 drive > attached, I have to do a three figure salute to get it back

ebook-reader?

Can someone direct me to a ebook-reader for .lit-files. I've found Palmreader (for macs) but I can't open any .lit-files with it. Thanx marc -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Ch

Re: New Drive Issues

terested, because I have that HD, but not in my Mac, but in my PC, but want to use it in my Mac later on when I've got a PCI ATA controller. HTH, Marc * * -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refu

Re: Sleep in OSX is really simple

Eric Morrison wrote: > "S" for Sleep > "Enter" for shut down > "R" for restart > "Command-Period" to cancel the dialog Even simpeler: instead of using Command-Period, use the Esc key, works for every Cancel button on the Mac :-) -- "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affecte

Re: DVD-ROM for CD equiped Lombard?

Does the Pismo support hardware-dvd-decoding in OS X or also only in 9.x? And does that also work for videocd's, or does the cpu does all the work? And is a g3/400 fast enough for that? Marc On vrijdag, maart 14, 2003, at 10:20 , Eugene Lee wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 05:55:20

Boot from install cd

happens after I remove the extra ram. It's a Lombard with no other peripherals and the original dvd and disk. Any ideas? marc -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for

Re: Booting from pccard?

Hal(and others), I've cloned my jag-cd to my microdrive, that worked like a charm. Booting from the microdrive creates a nice kernel panic unfortunately :-( Could this be the 'bad ram' problem I've been reading about, or does anyone have another idea? Marc On zaterda

Re: Booting from pccard?

Thanks Hal. I have a Lombard, but being a novice in the mac-world I just copied over the files and tried to boot. Didn't work, how does one 'clone' a cd to a disk? marc On zaterdag, maart 8, 2003, at 09:49 , marc wrote: > Thaksx Hal. I have a Lombard, but being a novice

Booting from pccard?

Is it possible to copy the files from the 2 jaguar-cd's to a microdrive and then boot and install from it? Having trouble with my dvd-drive and can't boot from my usb-cdwriter. Marc -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://

Classic won't start

When I try to start Classic (9.1) from OSX 1.5 I get the message: Insufficient priviliges to run Classic from /System/Library/CoreServices. Correct permissions and restart. Can't find it on the support-site. I use the " repair priviliges" utility, but that didn't work. Ma

OS X 10.1 -> 10.2 ?

Is this a free download(that I can't find)? Yes, I'm a newby, only my second day behind a Mac(g3/400 powerbook) -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks

dvd-player on a Lombard

I'm looking for a DVD-player for a g3/400 powerbook (bronze). Can't find one that's compatible on the apple-site. I'm using OS X 10.1. -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for

Re: WallStreet And Lombard on 802.11g

Can someone recommend any other wireless 802.11b pccards for a Lombard other than Airport ? Is there a list somewhere with compatible WiFi pccards for OS.X? Marc - Original Message - From: "Guy Masson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "G-Books" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Wallstreet - help separating HD from cage

Morning. Want to test a Wallstreet HD. But unable to remove the HD from the cage that holds it. Four screws though tightly fixed, turn freely when one tries to undo them. Is there a trick to this? Is there a reason one can't separate the HD from the cage? Regards, Marc -- G-Boo

Wallstreet service/repair in UK - suggestions?

Wallstreet no longer under warranty. Dead to the world. Needs diagnosis/repair. As to repair options - any recommended UK centres? If not, any recommended US centres? Regards Marc -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalld

Helping a Wallstreet

Chasing down Torx in the meantime. Any assistance much appreciated. Marc -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Suppor