Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / March 2005

I just bought a new iPod Mini and it came with a synch/charging
USB cable. I have seen elsewhere that the iPod's can also use
Firewire, and I have an available Firewire port. Is the Firewire
transfer of files much faster than the USB transfer?

Can anyone here with a clamshell iBook tell me if the machine will run with
the battery removed? I'm working on a relative's 366Mhz machine, and the
amber light goes on when you plug in the power adapter, but the machine will
not boot. I have narrowed the problem down to most ...

I wonder if there's an issue with Panther and USB 2.0 external hard
drives.
I'm running a Targa Databox 250Gb attached to a Wallstreet and am
experiencing a lot of Happy Spinning Beachballs of Death, as well as

I am looking for a replacement Pismo Logic Board

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Hello Anybody,
I'm a Pismo cult member looking to extend the inevitable obsolescence
of my 'book'. I think the Daystar and FastMac G4/550 offerings are
neck to neck. But I don't know much. Who might be able to tell me

Could anyone offer any guidance with a faulty Mac G4 Titanium laptop
please:-
Normally no boot up or display but will very occasionally boot up and says"
cache memory faulty", will then load up the desktop but freezes to death!!

I have the opportunity to get an Adaptec AHA-1480A SCSI cardbus adapter to
use in my PowerBook G3/400.
A look at Adaptec's support pages shows a driver (OS 9 and OS X) for the
AHA-1480 but not the 1480A.

I'm having problems getting my Powerbook 1400CS/133 to work with a
Macsense MPC-10 Ethernet PC-CARD.
I'm running OS 8.1 w/32MB RAM and have installed the latest drivers
(v2.0).  The OS recognizes the card as an"alternate ethernet" device

i am new to the group.  sorry if this has been discussed already.  i
did a search and all i could find was instructions on how to clean the
screen.  my question doesn't have to do with how to clean the screen,
but how do you clean the areas on either side of the trackpad?  is

There is a noticeably higher drive noise (the whirring noise) when
playing a CD in our Powerbook G4 Al 15" compared to the PB G4 Ti.
Is this "normal" for that model?
Any fix?

I have a 30 GB iPod that I use with a PC.  Several months ago, I loaded
it with a couple thousand MP3s and then dumped those MP3s onto CDs (as
data) so I wouldn't have to have all those MP3s on my hard drive.
Now I've added more (different) MP3s to my hard drive that I want to

My TI PowerBook has a 60Gb IBM ATA hard disk. Can I replace it with an Ultra
ATA or do I need to stay with ATA? Thanks, Paul
P.S. Sorry for the double posting, I forgot to post it to this one.

I am new to "Apple family", only recently bought the above laptop.  
While I am impressed with the quality of the machine and its fantastic
ability to display graphics, I am disappointed with its speed related
to editing of my photos in Photoshop CS.

Hi. In January I finally moved my 600MHz 14" dual USB iBook from OS
9.2.2 to OS 10.2.8. I find that now I tend to leave my iBook turned on
for longer periods, sometimes for a day ormore. I opt for logging
myself out instead of powering down.