Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / June 2004

Ok,
This is probably a lame question, but I'll ask anyway !
I have a 1 GHz 12" iBook with an Airport Exteme slot. Can I install a
standard Airport card in this slot or do I have to install and Extere

I have several problems with my Pismo and was wondering if anyone had
ideas on how to attack them.
First, it is a Pismo 400 with 768 MB RAM,  a 30 GB Travelstar, running
10.3.1.  I have an external FW drive always connected, and many USB

I bought used Apple Powerbook 400MHz but it it loads, Mac OS X Server
asks for user and password. I tried to install fresh version of Mac Os
X Jaguar, but it does not boot from CD. I've tried to boot from Linux
Redhat, SuSe CDs but they all fail. It starts spinning CD and then

What are the names of the devices which allow one to play an iPod on a
car cassette player, and can anyone give reviews or recommendations on
these devices?

I search the upgrade of carbon lib,
where is possible download this?????
Help me
Thanks

OK... I've got a little bit of a problem, I think, but hopefully you
guys can help. ;)
I recently upgraded my Lombard from OS 8.6 to OS X (10.3.4), and in
the main it's running great (even with 256 MB!). However, since I

Anyone waiting for Bookendz to come out with a dock for the 17" TiBooks
shouldn't hold their breath.  When I saw them at MacWorld/SF this year
they said it was under development.  I spoke with someone there last
week in the hopes that it was coming soon.  They pulled the plug on ...

I have had rampant kernel panic problems since updating to 10.3.4.  
Originally used Software Update, but also tried the combo updater last
night.  Still panics even if there is no extaneous hardare attached.
I am running a TiBook 400mz, 128mb Ram.

Im considering upgrading my pismo 500Mhz G3 768MB RAM to Panther as new
software seems to be fizzling out for OS9.
Will I see a real decrease in performance, or will it be for the better?
Or will it run about the same?

My daughter has a 2001 ibook (g3/600) with just a CD drive. I would like
to upgrade this to a DVD drive. Can anyone suggest vendors/sources?

I'm considering buying a laptop. I'm a linux user on the desktop, but osx
has caught my interest. My question is, do the ibooks have any security
features like unique id's, calling home, etc. I know on some winblows
laptops they have a unique id and call home with it every time they

thanks to all that replied to the below question... as promised i said
i'd pass along notes / photos for others to follow...
the good news: the rebuild is complete and I still have my fingers, toes
and eyes!

Airport Express w/Airtunes is something I've been certainly waiting for,
and I pre-ordered one. But tell me if I have this right:
It obviously needs to be near your stereo, let's say, in your living
room, so if you want to print on the USB printer port, you better put

I am looking at these two machines.  The native resolution of the PB is
1440 by 900 pixels.  But I can't find the native resolutioon of the 17"
iMac.  Anyone know for certain?
TIA

PB G4 15" Al Combo.
New computer and just noticing that whenever I wake it from sleep there
is a "click" noise. Sounds like it may be coming from the Combo drive.
But my hearing is not the best. ;)