Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / February 2005

I recently acquired an iBook G4 1Ghz with an Airport Extreme base station.
After 12 years as a Windows user, this was my first experience with a Mac
and I have to say that I do love the product. The OS is very easy to use and
not prone to the typical problems of Windows. That ...

My Girlfriend has 12 inch ibook G4 (1ghz) and all of a sudden the
battery stopped taking a charge. It's only a few months old so, i can't
image the it's dead. It was suggested to me that the power manager may
need to be reset. Seeing as this model doesn't have a "reset power

I plan to buy an iBook with 1.3 Ghz for surfing the web, write some
documents, prepare presentations and so on. No gaming or developing - seems
that 256 MB should be enough, didn't it?
best regards Dirk

Can any one recomend decent software for running on a stock Powerbook
1400CE. I just inherited one. Its a 166Mhz, 24MB Ram, looks like a
300MB HD and Floppy drive.
I'ld like to use it for something. since it has a nice Keyboard and

Good morning,
I have two CD/DVD drives for the hot swap bay in my Pismo. Both have
worked recently, sometimes quite well, for hours at a time, but both
have worked somewhat inconsistently. For example, I've sometimes played

As per title - if so what combination of PCMCIA card and driver have you
got working.
I have a Orinoco Silver, Farallon Skyline & Buffalo Airstation - all
802.11b.  I have a Lombard running 10.3.7.

Trying to help a friend with their PB 1400. I did have a PB 1400 but my
memory isn't that good. ;)
The green light is on (steady) but the computer won't respond. Plug in
the AC power and it won't respond. Tried a Force Restart and it won't

All:
The stereo in my car just gave up. Interested to hear any recommends on
aftermarket car stereos that work well with ipod. I have click wheel.
I was using a cassette adapter with my factory installed stereo. Not

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I attempted to install Linux on my PB1400...big mistake. In pdisk, by
accident I deleted all the partitions on the hard drive, creating one
big partition with no OS on it.
I was able to get a OS 9.1 CD from someone, and I was unable to boot

Greetings. I think this is a simple-minded question, but I simply don't
know.  :-)
When using a bluetooth mouse and keyboard with a PowerBook, are the PB's
own keyboard and trackpad still 'live'?

on my powerbook g4 17"
the keyboard backlight never shows up.
the F10 button shows a transparent window on the screen with
an icon and a level bar,

QUESTION: What's the LARGEST, HIGHEST QUALITY (7,200 or 10,000 RPMs - NO
MAXTOR-CRAP) FIREWIRE "Portable" HD - and where can I find it?
Can either be 2.5" or full size, FIREWIRE 400 OR 800 - as long as I can
easily move it from desk to desk and plug it in (no hunking boxes, but

I have a first-generation TiBook running 10.3.5 and DVD Player 4.0.  
Recently I received some DVDs of my favorite TV show (Northern
Exposure) recorded by a friend, and the same thing happens every time I
try to view them -- they'll play for between 5 and 10 minutes, then

It think (confirm, please) that there are two 1 GHZ G4 15" Powerbook
models, one of which will boot OS 9, and one which will not. Is there a
simple way to tell the difference based on the usually-quite-skimpy
info provided by online retailers?