Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / April 2005

My Pisma Powerbook has recently started a behavior that has me stumpted.
Here is the schtick. I connected a powered Firewire hub and a powered USB
hub.. I for years have used a power supply distributor that has plug
receptacles on the back and toggle switches on the front. It has ...

I'm trying to reinstall OS 10.2 from CD onto my old Wallstreet.
When I boot from the CD (holding the C key down), first I get an
old-style happy mac, then the machine reboots itself and the OS X screen
comes up. Seems odd that it starts in OS 9 and then restarts, but maybe

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=88234
says that 640 MB is max. But I know that max memory is, partly, determined by
what size memory modules are available at the time the computer is released.
What is max possible memory?

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I saw doom3 for the G4-G5 Mac at Fry's Electronics yesterday.  Just curious
has anyone tried this game with a G4 powerbook?
I'm thinking about buying a 15" G4 powerbook fully loaded.  This is not
a deciding factor, but I'm just curious what the performance is like.

I've got a Graphite iBook Clamshell 366MHz, with 310MB memory, 30GB
HDD and of course, the internal 12" screen.
By default, this screen is only capable of 800x600 resoltuion.  Is
there any way to hack the available resolutions in OS X (I'm going

I just purchased a Powerbook G3 from my job and the battery is dead and
stuck inside the slot. I'm a new comer to the Mac notebook computer
world and am a little aprehensive about handling it as I would a PC.
Can anyone give me any suggestions on how I could safely remove the

Can anyone point me to a site which shows how to dissemble a G3 300 MHz
WallStreet? This unit is completely dead, wont power up, wont light any
lights charging its battery even on plug-in.
Might be something simple such as a connector come loose under the keyboard

Looking for some advice.
I have a TiBook and an original Airport base station. An Epson printer
which has an ethernet card which relies on AppleTalk for printing. I
borrowed a friends SkyLine Wireless card which helped extend my poor

I am looking for a solution to a problem that I encountered
on my 300Mhz WallStreet,  I have an Avaya Gold WiFi Card (Orinoco/
Lucent) that I use in my WallStreet.  I am using the Orinoco Drivers,
and MacOs 9.2.1, and everything works just dandy, except when I tried

I'm planning on getting an external hard drive and an external DVD
burner for a 15" Powerbook G4.
The external hard drive because I'll be doing video editing and music
recording, and the external DVD-burner because I don't think buying the

The letters on the keyboard of my 6 month old ibook are wearing off!
Since I do not have particularly long nails, and do not strike the keys
hard at all...is this just a fluke or are others having this problem as
well? Had a previous ibook and never had this problem at all!

I am in the market to buy a PDA. Can anyone here tell me what web
sites will give me everything I need to know about them, including
recommendations on specific makes and models?
-Jonathan

Does anybody know of a good PowerBook G3 (Wallstreet I and II) and/or
PowerBook Titanium FAQ document online?
I am the author and maintainer of the PowerBook 1400 FAQ, and I am
trying to decide whether to dedicate some time and energy to create FAQ

I'm beginning to come to the conclusion that the sound-in on my PB
doesn't work. I have the correct settings selected- Line In. When I
switch the microphone on/off, I see a brief surge in the Input level,
but I can't get any level after that. (Input volume is on MAX.) I have