Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / September 2004

The original DVD-ROM drive in my Pismo has failed, since I need to replace
it I think that it would be nice to have a Combo drive instead. Does anyone
know of good make and model that I can fit inside the original drive caddy
that is supported for Apples own iApps?

Hey all,
I've got a PowerBook G3 Series II (Wallstreet II) at 300MHz, 192MB RAM,
8GB HD running Mac OS 9.2.2.
Currently I use a two button NeXT ADB Mouse, and also have a CH Products

Curious on others experiences/reactions to the physical design of the
15" PB G4 Al compared to 15" PB G4 Ti.
For some reason the position of the trackpad, the front edge of the case
and the keyboard are much more comfortable on the Ti than the Aluminum

My 2 month old, 12" powerbook's battery was low, in the red, so I
plugged it in and continued to type away.  All of a sudden the screen
flickered and made an audible flickering noise and then just went
black.  Now when I plug it in the light on the powercord lights but it

Do I buy another version of Panther for our second Powerbook?
BTW, NO I'm not trying to evade any Apple licenses! I'm trying to find
out what I'm required to buy and what will work on our Macs.
We have a new PB G4 Al and also a PB G4 Ti.

Has anyone successfully gotten a Linksys WRT54G working using WAP with
a Titanium 1GHz using the builtin wireless b card?  It works great
without encryption, but it would be really nice to have encryption
turned on.  I saw some posts about appending a $ in front of the hex

My brand-new 12" G4 DVI PowerBook runs the fan pretty much all the time,
and absolutely all the time when driving an external display.
Marcel Bresink's Temperature Monitor program indicates that the GPU
(graphics processor) is the problem: when the machine is idle (nothing

im using Virtual PC on my iBook and want to interface it with my
external PIC Programmer that takes a parallel port connection. 25-pin.
but as u may know, all i have is USB and Firewire.
what can i do.

I cannot for the life of me get any firwire drive to mount on my snow
crt imac running 10.3.5
problem started when i updated the system sometime last year and
thought updating it would help, I have just bought a new lacie porsche

contol, command, power does not cause restart and
hitting any key does nothing.
It just sleeps with the indicator light pulsating.
Any ideas, other than taking it into the Apple Store?

I hope someone can help me. I have a just-over-one-year-old (of course)
17" G4 PowerBook with a SuperDrive. After a year of working flawlessly,
reading and burning all brands of CD and DVD, yesterday I went to put in
a blank CD to backup some data with Toast, and got an unhappy ...

I have a 17" Powerbook currently running OS 10.3.5 and have it paired
with 2G 20gb iPod and now a new 5G 20gb iPod.  Both units do this and
have done it for several of the last OS upgrades.  It doesn't happen all
the time, but now and then I'll come back to my machine after it's

Hello everyone! I just found an old PB 165 for $2 today at a flea market. I got
it home, powered it up, the contrast and brightness was going crazy. When I
bought it, I thought one of the hinges had broke, and so, I "think" that I may
have broken the flex cable that goes from the ...

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Is this normal?
Fully charged the PB G4 Ti.
Did not use it for about 2 months.
Then: