Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / April 2005

I've noticed except for purely processor functions (filters,exporting
movies,etc) my g4 cube screams compared to my powerbook yet the
powerbook has faster bus, much faster cpu, faster memory
in general usage aka launching applications,boot time, switching

  My girlfriend's iBook connects to her home wirelesss router using
some sort of key. She doesn't know what that key is, or where it is
stored, but lent me the iBook and invited me to try to find it. When I
click on the airport icon, I see the network checked in a dropdown

I am trying to network my neice's Win 98 PC with her Jaguar iBook. I
foolishly thought that the PC would not need to be configured, as it is
hard wired to the Cable modem via the Airport Extreme base station. The
iBook is online, but not the PC. I can easily upgrade the OS on the

im looking to upgrade the internal hard disk in my Powerbook to 80 or 100 gigs.
Anyone got any recommendations that wont break the bank.

Oh lets say 256 MB ram?
how bout 512?

Is there a special tool for opening the display housing on the PowerBook G4
Titanium?
If so, is it offered for sale? A brief Google turned up nothing.
Thanks,

Thanks,

Does anybody know where to find an OS X driver for my Orinoco / Lucent
wireless pcmcia card? It works fine on OS 9, but I want to upgrade...
Thanks in advance,
Dennis Jansen

My Pismo's LCD screen has developed an oddity (just as I was thinking of
selling it...curses!) A wavering shadow appears, smearing up to an inch
or so to the right of vertical lines or any solid blocks of colour. It
appears to involve the vertical stripes of LCD 'cells' ...

A odd thing has started happening with my Pismo. I normally use it with
the clam shell closed and external monitor/keyboard/mouse.  No issues
when using it this way.
The other night, I was moving the Pismo around (basically sliding it a

I have an iPod mini that I am trying to setup on a WinXP system.
So far it is showing an Apple logo on its screen.
Unplugged from a power supply the logo will flash every 12 seconds or
so. It does the same when it is also attached to a power source.

My clean re-install of OS 8.6 (retail CD) on my beloved PB3400c 240Mhz
still produces frequent freezes/hangs when I try to shut down or
restart. Apple's specs for this machine and its sisters show a software
enabler, but System Profiler‹which has a space for one‹reports "none

I am seriously considering buying a 17" powerbook.
Something that expensive, I think that I would feel a lot better if it
was inside a hard case that would protect it from accidental drops.
I can't seem to find anywhere that sells such a "briefcase" type of

I want to know that why Powerbook 600MHz is more expansive than 1G ibook in
the second hand market ? thx in advance.

I have a PowerBook G4 17" (1.33 GHz) under Mac OS X 10.3.8.
Since a few days, it does not detect the Airport card. The
airport icon in the menu bar says "No Airport card installed".
I tried to reinitialize the PRAM, the motherboard, the PMU,