Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / September 2004

I've been using my Dell Inspiron for about 3.5-4 years now, and though
it's still a sound machine it's reaching its life's end.  Both buttons
on the front have broken off, the screen has a few pixels out, and the
henges on the screen are getting very loose.  For the most part it

I have an older, 2000-vintage PowerBook ("Pismo", "FireWire")
that's stopped booting.  It either won't turn on at all (no
chime, no disk spinup, no prompts, no display, no error messages,
no nothing) or shuts down for no reason.  Sometimes when I try

I would like to use an ipod to maintain consistency between some
folders on a home and work mac.  A while ago there was a home-on-ipod
rumor for panther which suggested carrying around your whole home on
the ipod.  What I would be interested in would more likekly use

Hello all.  I ordered my iBook today from apple.ca and can't wait to
get my hands on it.  I noticed on my order that it says it will ship
"on or before September 22."  I was wondering what the odds are that
it will ship much before then.  Also, out of curiousity, what causes

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 ...

Do I remember correctly, you can get Apple's Extended Warrently
any time in the first year?  My wife's G4 laptop will be a year
old in a couple of weeks.  After reading some of the posts here,
I'd like to get an EW. (if I can).

I have a 300 mhz with 128 mega of ram...
I doesnt  see good..
I want to know if maybe It’s only a low ram problem?
(I hope)

Hi, has anybody successfully used Powerbook AC adapters on a DC-to-AC
converter like the lighter-plug units sold for typically about $40, or
less ??
The issue here is that these things put out a non-sinusoidal waveform,

I just ordered an ibook from the Apple website. After entering my
credit card number and completing the order I get the last page which
shows the total cost. This total included a $72 tax! I have never paid
tax on anything ordered on the internet before. Is this something new

I asked a couple of days ago what the odds were that my iBook would
ship before the predicted "on or before September 22" date Apple
specified.  Well, it shipped today!  I can't wait!  Should be here
sometime next week-- I paid for the 3-6 day shipping (to Canada) so

New to group.  I have searched high and low without luck for a way to
turn off the disply of my TiBook when I use it in target mode.  I tried
the magnet on the touchpad, that didn't work.  Even presetting the
birghtnees before I rebooted didn't work?  Any suggestions would be

I just bought a 12" iBook a few weeks ago, switching from a Compaq
running XP.
I'm over the moon with it, except for one thing.. the mouse/trackpad
button seems very loud and needs too much pressure to click. After a day

Hey folks,
I'm thinking about getting an IBook G4 12",
specifically M9426LL/A, which is priced at $1100.
But I have some questions...

hello all,  i recently came into a powerbook 1400c and would like to
set it up for my 14 year old duaghter to use, mainly light internet
and instant messaging with her friends.  This, hopefully will allow me
to have my computer back.  I got it at a school auction and it has

I've got a 15" Powerbook, about two months old.  Running OS 10.3.5.
When I'm done using it, I just flip the lid down and it goes to sleep.
But about half of the time, maybe more, when I open it up, the sound in
one or both channels is completely distorted - like there's some