Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / January 2005

Woe is me. I dropped my workhorse PB G3 Wall Street. It was inside a
case, but that wasn't protection enough. Now it won't start up. When I
press the power button, it makes a repetitive clicking noise. When I
have the AC adapter plugged in, the clicking is about 15-20 clicks per

I have a wallstreet that is basically working OK on 10.2.8 but for a few
annoyances.  One, there is no sound from the modem even though it is
"turned on".  If I boot from 9.2 there is sound, just not with 10.2.8.
Second, Internet Connect has the nasty habit of setting itself to

I was considering upgrading to a 12.1 Powerbook 1.33. I am currently
using a 867 15 inch Powerbook. However I walked into the Apple store
and I have to say the 12.1 screen didn't look very good at all! I
turned up the brightness as much as I could but it was still blurry and

does Apple offer keyboards with both French and Arabic letters on them ?
English/Arabic are quite common, but French/Arabic is a bid harder to
find. In particular I'd be interested in having this in a PowerBook.
Thanks

I'm a potential switcher, but I have some software questions first:
MULTIMEDIA:
Is there a Mac app that is an all-in-one media player like RealPlayer
10? It ain't the best player out there, but I LOVE how RealPlayer

Has anyone besides me contemplated buying the 100 GB 2.5" Fujitsu drive
for their Pismo powerbook?
It is somewhere around $200, depending on where you buy.
It is a slow 4200 rpm drive, however that does not bother me.

Well, sheesh, (he said)
My Powerbook 170 went defective yesterday;
it's only used to support a spreadsheet
application that won't run on MAC's with

Can anyone recommend a graphic package such as Paint Shop Pro that
will run on an iBook?

I just moved into a house and i'm trying to hook my mac up to the
internet. It's not feasible for me to run an ethernet cable, so i'd
like to try to do it wireless. I'm having a hard time figuring out what
kind of card I need. Can I use an airport, or airport extreme card (or

Hi there, I have a query and just wondered if anyhone else had a
similar problem, and suggests a solution. Some water got spilt on my
ibook last night and since then the battery has been acting weird.
Basically when I start it up it's there, but with no charge, all I get

I thought I'd ask advice from this group before going ahead and
experimenting myself. I have a Lombard 400 Mhz which my partner now
uses. I'd like to be able to have it play DVDs, which OS X doesn't
support. There is only a 6GB hard drive, and 192 MB of RAM. For whatever

I just got my new iBook (switched from PC) and
would very much appreciate help with some
very basic questions...
What is the preferred Newsreader for mac OS X panther?