From: Joshua B. Watkins Hello to everyone, I just purchased a G4 1.0ghz 12
Ibook,
Josh:
1/ Don't capitalise the i in iBook. Capitalise the B.
2/Go to the Apple Support site on the internet and have a look at the stuff that
everyone with a 1 GHz G4 iBook has submitted. Ignore the stuff
Keeping it as cool as possible would be my #1 priority. Heat is the biggest enemy
of your PB. So I would suggest getting some sort of device to let air circulate
under your unit. Anything from a CoolPad to one of the many PB stands or USB fan
units that are available.
While
Congratulations.
Your System Profiler may MISS some of the stuff inside your Mac (if RAM is loose) but
it won't make stuff up that isn't there.
If it says you have a bigger hard drive and more RAM than you expected then thats what
you have. Live with it.
If you doubt it, use the Disk
I suspect that my laptop computer never overheats.
The fan has never come on.
I wrote a short piece for the Double Click newsletter (either the April or May
issuedownload from Files menu on the www.mause.ca website) about active and
passive coolers for laptop computers.
I am using the
My own 1-GHz iBook is absolutely no problem but my daughter is visiting friends and
she emailed me to ask about an iBook there (new 12 iBook from about 7 months ago)
that is so S-L-O-W that there is a lapse of three or four seconds before commands are
recognised in the Finder. Windows are very
