Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / May 2004

I just installed Office 2004. The Entourage program is quite impressive.
I might switch from Apple Mail if I can figure out how to import all my
existing mail. The program asked if I wanted to do it on setup. It
imported my account settings but not my mail.

I (and my son) love our new 15" Powerbook.
But one weak point is the 4200 RBM disk drive.
It seems really slow compared to the 7200 (7600?) RPM drive in our G4
Desktop.  

Hello-- let me preface by saying I do NOT want to start any sort of a
Mac vs PC war here.  
In any case, I have for a long time been a huge PC supporter.  Then,
last summer while doing some Internet instruction for the local

I am using a portable HDD (format: Mac PC Exchange, 40GB), with
OS X eMac.
I want to rename the external drive, which consists of more that 20GB
of

Has anyone successfully replaced or repaired the low-voltage plug on an
M7332 Pismo adaptor? There's an open in the cord at the plug; it charges
if I push on it. The tip is sort of a mix, half RCA plug, half mini
stereo plug, but not the kind of item I to find in Radio Shack. If ...

The specs say 64 MB. I know that due to technology limitations and larger
cards not being available during pre-release testing, memory limitations are
frequently not absolute.
Is the 5300 truly limited to 64 MB due to bus width limitations? Or can it

I have a G3-based PowerBook that fits the description of the
"Wallstreet" series. I understand that there are two different
versions of Wallstreet -- the first version can only take 192 megs of
RAM, but the second can use 512 megs.

Would appreciate any opinions by owners of the new Powerbook G4 12" 1.33.
Leaning towards that model but also considering the iBook G4 12".
Thanks.

I'm considering finally taking the OSX plunge with my trusty(-ish) ol'
PowerBook G3 333MHz Lombard with 256MB RAM (currently running OS 8.6)
and I'd like to move to 10.3.
I really want to start doing some Cocoa programming with XCode, and I

I did not find an XTools disk with my new 15" Powerbook.
Isn't it supposed to ship with all new Macs?

George sums up what has been said here.  It seems to be, the only way
to send a Web Page on a Mac is as an attachment.  Do you think this is
because of the design of the Mac (Hardware & software)?  Could it be
to accommodate the parental controls Apple builds in and Windows

All through University I've used my computer to watch television, because
there didn't seem much point in cramming two screens into one small room.
Originally, I had a WinTV USB dongle that I used with my Windows laptop.
When I switched to a Linux desktop, I could no longer use this ...

I've just received the USB hub that I needed to tie all my hardware together
and connect it to my Powerbook. I unplugged my scanner from my old Linux
machine and attached it to the hub, and the machine doesn't seem able to
see it. I've tried connecting it directly to the laptop, so ...

Is there any way to tell what in this PowerBook 5300 has failed? I'm getting
only the 3 chimes after the initial boot "gong".
It would be nice to be able to do some troubleshooting, by process of
elimination, but I need to know what the power-on test is looking for.

Is there any reason I shouldn't use a UFO-shaped iBook
power supply with a new 15" powerbook?
As far as I can tell, the specs are as follows:
pBook power supply:  24.5V, 2.65A