Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / February 2004

I have a g3 ibook, bought feb of 2003 from apple store. 640 megs ram.
I had a logic board failure, they repaired it. The video fragmentation
thing.
now I have problems with the display. If I move the screen after it

Just got back from the Apple Store, and the staff there confirmed that
my iBook G4 has a logic board failure. Same symptoms as those that
plagued the G3 series. Thankfully it's still under warranty, so the only
cost to me is downtime.

can someone tell me what is current US price of used TiBooks, generation
II or III, say 667mhz?
is it $1000, $1100 or else?
any price drops expected soon?

I am trying to get an additional thing working and that ie either WPA or
WEP and am not very succesfull in that. On the iBook is an Airport
Extreme, OS X 10.3 with the latest updates.
On my (3Com 54) router I have following possibilities:

Hi, this is probably real simple, but I don't know macs.  My friend
has a Mac PowerBook 140 that he hasn't used in a few years.  When we
power it on we get a blinking graphic of a diskette on the screen and
that's all. How do we get beyond this and get the OS loaded?  Info on

Hello NG
i have here a 667 G4 Titanium Powerbook, i think it is PB Titanium III. When
i start the PB the backlight goes on for a second and than wents dark. I
have tested a different extern backlight tube - it is the same. So I think

Howdy,
is the cardbus spec standardized between macs and pcs such that I can
plug a cardbus card in both a mac and a pc without damaging the card
and/or the computer? I'm aware that cards may not work because of

can anyone help please? i'm trying to install the drivers for global village
56k flex ethernet pc card. tried segmenting the files so they fit on a
floppy but the powerbook can't read them for some reason. they show up as
.doc

anybody else having problems with GarageBand on a TiBook DVI? After
installing iLife, all I get is a crash while GB is initializing. The
other iLife apps work. Bummer, I bought iLife mainly for GB.
Installed two time from scratch, updated to 1.01, fixed permissions,

I've had no joy in trying to install jaguar on my g3.  I've got it up
and running 4x's with separate settings only for it to collapse when
setting it up with my personal preferences.  This I did after
partitioning my disk and erasing it several X's.  By collapsing I mean

If, as widely hypothesized, IBM announces next week that their new
970FX 90nm CPU is being produced in quantity and shipping, how long
before we'll see a 17-inch G5 PowerBook?

HI. I have an iBook turqoise with a 3Gb Hard drive and 64 Mb RAM. It
is running 8.6, but I want to take it to OS X. When proceeding, the
system restarts normally and reaches the installer stage where I
select the language I want to use. And it seems to hang there - I've

After upgrading my Lombard 400MHz PowerBook to run 10.3 I find that I
can no longer play DVDs. I get an error message stating "DVD player does
not support the machine or system configuration". It used to play under
system 9 but I opted not to install Classic.

I am finding the annoying pause (mainly), and also the way pages scroll
slowly at first before speeding up, makes osx feel crappy for web
browsing and stuff, and the smooth scrolling option seems to make things
worse. Is there any way to improve this situation?

I've been contemplating replacing my OS 8.6 with a version of OS X --
I want to run iTunes, iChat, etc. A Mac techie advised that my Pbook
G3/333MHz (Bronze keybd; a "Lombard"?) may hang up w/OS X. Is this so?
Tell me I "don't" have to buy a G4, puh-leaze.  (:-0