Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / May 2004

The DVD/CD drive in my tiPB 400 died and a replacement from apple is around
$700!!!  Anyone know of an alternative source or have a PB they have
canabilised and want to get rid of the optical drive from?  Otherwise I
guess an external firewire drive is one option but not as portable ...

I have inherited an Indigo iBook (G3 366, 10GB HDD, 320MB RAM) and I would
like some info about Office Suites for Mac desktops (I am a Linux code
monkey myself).
The clamshell is currently running OS X 10.2 (I am not likely to buy Panther

As per above, am seeking an LCD display for a Powerbook 145/b.
Anyone have one lying around?
Cheers
Travis

PowerMac 7300 with Sonnet G3/400 daughtercard, OS 9.1, 384MB RAM
(3x128MB), 13GB storage (1x9GB, 1x4GB), USB, Firewire, scanner, ext.
CD-RW, 17-inch AppleVision etc etc. $350 ono.

I have a dead hfs hard drive, it spins up and Nortons can see it, but it
cannot repair it or retrieve any data. Tried the latest Nortons and
Techtool pro, both crash. Anyone have any ideas ? Anyone use that
Stellar for mac ? does it work ? What are my optins, not the

Greetings all,
I am using Office v.X and keep pasting Excel graphs as picture in PowerPoint
and having PC users on Office 2003 show me that little red X instead of the
picture when they open the chart.

For Sale
iMac 266mhz
for specs see http://everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/stats/imac_266.html
OS 9.1

Does anyone know whether the ram from my Titanium 800 will fit in my wife's
new Aluminium 1.33 (the model released last week?).
Another question; whether the ram in the new Al PB would go into a brand new
1GHz G4 iBook?

I finally got round to adding 256MB of RAM to my slot loading 350Mhz
iMac (it currently has 64MB). Anyway, the install was a breeze but
when I start it up it gets to the OS9.1 screen then freezes.
I know that adding RAM makes booting up take a bit longer, but there

Three PowerPCs, each with G3/400 or G3/450 upgrades, at least 256MB
each. $280 ono pick up only. Plus monitors, SCSI CD-RW drives etc.

Would appreciate to know the battery life one has after a full recharge
for a Powerbook G4 15.1" 1.0GHz Combo.
Mine only shows about 2hrs 40min to 3hrs 11mins after a recharge.
This is so much less than the 5hrs Apple says the Powerbook is capable off.

A friend of mine has a G4 PowerBook which he imported
from the States.  He is running OS X 10.3.
He is not sure if he is covered by an Australian warranty.
After the computer worked perfectly for a few weeks he updated

Since downloading the latest ipod update my ipod continually flashes "do not
disconnect" any ideas?
David
www.ripview.com.au

I am running an iMac with OS 9.1. I really need to optimise my hard
drive. I tried to buy Norton Utilities from Symantec's US site, and
from a local Apple reseller here in WA but could not get a compatible
version (only for OSs 9.2 & X).

Ribfeast
Thanks for your reply on my post "iMac Hard Drive Blues". So you don't think
it's the logic board - just the hard drive?
Kevin