I've just purchased my first laptop, one of the new 12 powerbooks. As
far as I can find, the only advice before moving the powerbook is to
wait until the light on the latch is blinking slowly (indicating that
the hard drive is spun down).
Do I need to shut down before taking the powerbook to
Do I need to shut down before taking the powerbook to work, (car
commute) or is it good enough to sleep and spin down the hard drive?
The only time I shut mine down is if I'm not going to be using it for
a few days (which doesn't happen very often :-)). Otherwise I just
put it to sleep, put it
on 09/10/03 17:03, Carl Testerman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've just purchased my first laptop, one of the new 12 powerbooks. As
far as I can find, the only advice before moving the powerbook is to
wait until the light on the latch is blinking slowly (indicating that
the hard drive is spun
On 10/9/03 5:03 PM, Carl Testerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've just purchased my first laptop, one of the new 12 powerbooks. As
far as I can find, the only advice before moving the powerbook is to
wait until the light on the latch is blinking slowly (indicating that
the hard drive is spun
mine (along with thousands more I would imagine) have even slept
through the X-ray machines at the airport, 100% safe!
-Andrew
On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 07:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In all the years I've owned PowerBooks - I go back to the original PB
140 -
I have only turned my
mine (along with thousands more I would imagine) have even slept
through the X-ray machines at the airport, 100% safe!
-Andrew
(Hey, nice name!)
I think at one time that this was actually a MacWorld user tip. They
suggested that when going through security, you have your Mac
sleeping so that
I haven't actually shutdown my Pismo for anything more than a restart
since I added RAM to it ... that was in January. I never shutdown my
Pismo basically.
David
On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 04:03 PM, Carl Testerman wrote:
I've just purchased my first laptop, one of the new 12
Do what your most comfortable with. Sleep or shut down. I sleep em' if
I will be using them and shut em' down if I'm not.
Brandy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've just purchased my first laptop, one of the new 12 powerbooks. As
far as I can find, the only advice before moving the powerbook is to
