Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / August 2004

I have an iBook G4.  My system, not including home directories, is
taking up about 10+ gigs.  I've seen OSX systems at work that take up
several gigs less.
I've removed the World Book Encyclopedia already.  What else can I do to

This 400mhz Pismo is getting erratic: I can't always control where the
cursor moves, whether it moves at all. Sometimes it wants to select the
entire line I'm on, or all the lines to which I move above or below the
cursor.

Hi, I would like to expand my iBook memory.  Now it has 256MB (i guess
it's built-in, and it has an SO-DIMM slot (what is an SO-DIMM).  But I
really don´t know if I can buy any SDRAM DDR (What DDR means?).
Also, I would like to know if there is no problem getting a 256 or 512

I am a german student and I am starting to study material sciences in
October. Since I want to save paper, I'd like to buy a notebook and I
want to try Apple. I have never used an Apple computer before and
never worked with MacOS. These Powerbooks look horribly cool, but what

I just bought a 12" iBook with 30GB hard drive. I notice that out of the
box quite a lot of drive space is already used and I'm wondering what I
can free up without trashing the system in some way?
I'm already managed to remove Garage Band, as I'm not really into it.

Greetings. Does _anyone_ make a pcmcia/pc-card/cardbus card for
'G'-speed wireless under System 9, or could the reason I can't find one
be that they don't exist?
TIA.

  I'm going to upgrade my Pismo to a Powerbook 17 G4 - anyone know about
what the relative speeds will be between the two?
  My Pismo is a 400mhz unit with a 100mhz bus, and the PBG4 is 1.5ghz with a
1.66mhz bus. Both use ATA/100 drives@5400rpm.

I bought my 15" Powerbook G4 about a year ago and didnt have a problem
until now. My CD drive just won't accept any kind of CD that I put in.
I was going to fix it and get a new CD drive. One day I put in one of
the Audio CD and it worked! later on, I ejected it and put it back

I have an odd battery issue going on here.  I had send my Pismo off to get
some work done on it.  When I sent it out, the battery I had was generally
carrying a charge for about an 1:30 or so.  At some point during the work
process, I was told that the battery was (suddenly, AFAIK) ...

Hi all. I'm running the latest update of Panther on a 17" G4 laptop. I've
noticed in the last few months that the fan is on an awful lot.  I don't
think it was this way before. Is there any way I can find out why? I have
one of those apps which measures CPU temperature and it says ...

I just switched to a mac iBook from windows. Today I noticed that there
is no number/hash symbol on the keyboard, the kind you use to make a
sharp symbol in music. Am I missing something, how do I make this symbol
on mac?

All:
I've had my 40Gb click wheel iPod for just a couple of weeks and it's
already getting all scratched up. I use it a lot, but I wonder if I'm
abusing it, or if that's just the price of doing business?

I have to admit that Apple seems to be putting out some decent products,
but is Apple -- as a company -- really any better than IBM or Dell?
For instance I heard that there was a class-action lawsuit against Apple
because of white blotches that showed up on some 15 inch LCDs on ...

My PowerBook manual claims that DVD Player can play DVDs on a connected
television with the computer closed. However, the computer sleeps upon
closing regardless of whether DVD Player is running. I don't see anything
relevant in DVD Player or Display Preferences. What am I missing?

Does anyone have any sources for a replacement battery for my special
edition graphite I-Book (clamshell)? Apple's is pretty costly and only
has a three month warranty.
Thanks,   willwend