Re: iBook 500 Questions

2005-04-10 Thread Beniamino Cenci Goga
1. The 'book can accept an Airport card, but are there limitations on which cards can be used? Yes: only the original Airport can be installed, while the WS was able to manage also the newer 54mbit PCcards 2. It has a 10GB hard drive which is... well, not big. I have a 40GB USB drive and want to

Re: iBook 500 Questions

2005-04-10 Thread gladys perez-almiroty
amanda: i had that same machine for 2 years. it is a bit slow, but great and sturdy to carry around. i maxed out the ram, though, please consider doing that too asap. 1-you need the old type card. look and ye shall find. they are more expensive nowadays than the newer cards. mine had it and it

Re: iBook 500 Questions

2005-04-10 Thread Muddle Man
--- Amanda Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. The 'book can accept an Airport card, but are there limitations on which cards can be used? There are two types of Airport cards. Airport and Airport Extreme. Two different form factors/pin outs. Airport is the older type that you must use (802.11b

Re: iBook 500 Questions

2005-04-10 Thread Dan K
Amanda Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. It has a 10GB hard drive which is... well, not big. I have a 40GB USB drive and want to know if the iBook can boot from that drive? I dunno where all the other respondants are (not) getting their info, but the Dual USB iBooks can indeed boot from an

iBook 500 Questions

2005-04-09 Thread Amanda Ward
Hi All, I just bought a 12 iBook 500 from eBay... wanted something a little more contemporary than my trusty Wallstreet. I've done some google-ing and gotten a lot of information, but I have a couple of questions. 1. The 'book can accept an Airport card, but are there limitations on which cards

Re: iBook 500 Questions

2005-04-09 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 10/04/05 01:41, Amanda Ward at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just bought a 12 iBook 500 from eBay... wanted something a little more contemporary than my trusty Wallstreet. I've done some google-ing and gotten a lot of information, but I have a couple of questions. 1. The 'book can accept an