Re: 5300's

nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: >I have a 5300ce on the way from ebay that I got for a great price.. >But my question is this.. Is there a noticeable difference between the >100mhz and 117mhz boards? >Can I upgrade to an active matrix screen without a mobo swap? > And are there any other real adv

5300's

Listers, I have a 5300ce on the way from ebay that I got for a great price.. But my question is this.. Is there a noticeable difference between the 100mhz and 117mhz boards? Can I upgrade to an active matrix screen without a mobo swap? And are there any other real advantages to upgrad

Re: Powerbook 5300 ????'s

some problems with certain brands for using as boot disks on 5300's. You can also get a large enough card to use part of it as VM and part of it for browser cache. Regards, Bob Eye Dallas, TX -Original Message- From: "John Cate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Powerboo

Re: Powerbook 5300 ????'s

> 3 can I use a compact flash card in a pcmcia card as virtual ram for the > system It generally works, although there are reports of incompatibilities with certain flash memory cards, and it's really not that much faster than virtual memory, anyway. The bottleneck becomes the 16-bit PC Card bus i

Re: Powerbook 5300 ????'s

On 2003-03-04 19:20, "Andrew Kershaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hey, they're cute. And, as far as I know, the only laptop to set a lap on >> fire. :-D > > Ha ha ha. > > But really... THIS IS NOT TRUE! Indeed. The real lap-burner was the Wallstreet series of PowerBooks. And more recently, t

Re: Powerbook 5300 ????'s

> > While on the subject...was anything ever made to plug into the expansion >bay where the Floppy drive goes? > >Other than the floppy, that is. Yes. There were magneto-optical drives, expansion bay hard drives, power supplies, and zip drives. There were probably other devices too, but I nev

Re: Powerbook 5300 ????'s

While on the subject...was anything ever made to plug into the expansion bay where the Floppy drive goes? Other than the floppy, that is. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- PowerBooks

Re: Powerbook 5300 ????'s

> Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 09:13:52 -0500 > Subject: Powerbook 5300 's > From: John Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 2 I will need a power supply for the computer- or a good source

Re: Powerbook 5300 ????'s

>>If you are going to harp on the 5300, at least get it right.<< I really don't think I'm harping when I say that I have two of them. Just at a BTW the Focus/Lapis card in the latest 5300 works just fine--both ethernet & video. It's running the LCD and another monitor for my son at the moment.

Re: Powerbook 5300 ????'s

on 3/4/03 6:13 AM, John Ryan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1 can anybody recommend a good ethernet card or have one for sale I got a Global Village combined ethernet-modem card on eBay (NOS) for something like $12 -- both parts work immaculately on a 5300c. But *do* follow Drew's advice and put

Re: Powerbook 5300 ????'s

>Hey, they're cute. And, as far as I know, the only laptop to set a lap >on fire. :-D Ha ha ha. But really... THIS IS NOT TRUE! let me dispel this myth right now. The 5300 did not burn anyone's lap (there's a Dell, though, that recently got a lot of coverage for causing 2nd degree burns on a

Re: Powerbook 5300 ????'s

>>It seems everyone is getting a 5300.<< Hey, they're cute. And, as far as I know, the only laptop to set a lap on fire. :-D -- PowerBooks is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Camera

Re: Powerbook 5300 ????'s

>1 can anybody recommend a good ethernet card or have one for sale >2 I will need a power supply for the computer- or a good source for one. I >haven't seen any on ebay in the last couple of days, or on the mac swap list >3 can I use a compact flash card in a pcmcia card as virtual ram for the >sys

Powerbook 5300 ????'s

It seems everyone is getting a 5300. I have a couple of questions 1 can anybody recommend a good ethernet card or have one for sale 2 I will need a power supply for the computer- or a good source for one. I haven't seen any on ebay in the last couple of days, or on the mac swap list 3 can I use a c

Re: 5300'S

; overheated. >> >> Not an issue on production machines AFAIK. > > Not true. PowerBook 5300's catching fire was a wide=spread problem with > "production machines," and a serious issue, necessitating the Apple REA > program, under which some folks to this day a

Re: 5300'S

> Apple extended the normal 1year warranty to a 7 year warranty to boost > confidence in the mothership. Right enough about the Li-Ion battery issue. IIRC, the batteries were made by Sony, so we should all be blaming them, eh? Also IIRC, Apple didn't create the 5300 REA program and 7 year wa

Re: 5300'S

Folks, when you publish info like this, please back any web-myth up with some real data. There were TWO incidents in Apple's office, of TWO of Apple's units of the 5300's in which 2 separate 5300 series machines (pre-production units) caught fire. The ENTIRE problem was rela

Re: 5300'S

ines fitted with a li-on battery >overheated. > >Not an issue on production machines AFAIK. Not true. PowerBook 5300's catching fire was a wide=spread problem with "production machines," and a serious issue, necessitating the Apple REA program, under which some folks to thi

Re: 5300 REA x3 (repair on PB 5300's)

As this is an ongoing issue, I'll make an offer here.. For anyone needing the 5300 connector repair done, I'll do these repairs for a flat fee of $50, which covers 24hr turn around of your Powerbook.. It involves PCB level work, and is guaranteed.. Thanks, David Wegener Wegener Media