Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / September 2005

My neighbour travels with a (Titanium?) Powerbook with Panther
installed, but tells me he has problems connecting to the internet (and
sending email) when at home or indeed anyplace away from his office.  He
has left me his Powerbook for a few days for me to try to sort out the

First time poster alert!!!
I've just bought a "new" second hand G4 iMac that has system OS X loaded (V.
10.1.4).  I've been using Macs for many years and have gone through all the
sysytem 6's through to 9.2......so my brain is having to try and get itself

For those that came in late....
Just got a second hand G4 with OS X (Version 10.1.4) after many years of
system 6 through 9.2
So I'm still wandering aimlessly trying to get my head around the new OS....

I am new to this forum, so I hope I'm asking in the right place.
I have a 7300/180 series PPC [604E] here running OS 7.61 and I would
like to upgrade that to a better OS.
My understanding is that (OS hacks aside) this thing will run up to

To continue the saga..I was also advised to stop Spotlight by making the  
entire disk private. I did it and have had three fast successful start
ups. It's a pity if this is the solution because I can't use the
features I paid for. But perhaps upgrade OS 10.3 or 4 or 5 will fix ...