Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / April 2005

I have a Pismo PB, the problem that started it off was a faulty AC
connector on the sound card. Well, the connector was fine actually, it
just broke off 2 of the 3 contacts. I find this is not an uncommon
occurance. So, using the pbfixit.com step by step guide, I took the

Hrrmmm, so I'm having some problems with my 15" Powerbook Titanium G4
1Ghz.  Awhile ago one of the hinges broke and each time I changed the
position of the screen it just got worse and worse on the frame
surrounding the screen.  Eventually it got to the point where if I

Having been thinking about it for months I am about to take the plunge
into the Mac world - probably with an iBook 12" (although it may be
worth waiting a few weeks to get a Tiger in my tank?)
Can anybody help me with the following:

my 1 yr warranty is almost up on my pb.  I'm shopping around and
surprised at the differences in price for this service. example:
350 - apple store
300 - smalldog

Rumors are floating around that Tiger will be released on April 15th.  The
intel seems kinda solid from what I'm reading, but who knows.
My question is, assume the rumor is true for the moment.  Does that mean
all of Apple's hardware line instantly switches to Tiger as well?  When ...

I bought a 12" iBook a couple of weeks ago and I love it. It is so much
faster than my trusty G3 B&W.
Unfortunately the video resolution is 1027*768 at max, also when using
external screens. I found a piece of software called "Screen Spanning

I am on a tight budget, so I  can only afford either the iBook 14"
Superdrive or the Powerbook 12" Combo..
Which should I got for and why?
Thks Vab

I am thinking about buying a Powerbook G4 to replace my Sony Vaio.
Probably the 15" Combo.
My history of buying things, not just computers, is that within 48
hours a new model is available and the one I bought is obsolete.

Finished up my first month of honeymooning with my powerbook and been
getting alot of productive use out of it.
Question -- How much power can these machines provide through the USB &
FW bus (normally, in battle mode, etc.)?  Been noticing the PB getting

Does the Powerbook 5300CE will work with this notebook hard drive including
Mac OS 7.5.5?
Does it limit the hard drive capacity or incompatible with BIOS?
Will it be overheat after the hard drive installed?

My pb titanium g4 is about 2 years old. Just in the last week i started
noticing that when i wake it up, even when it not off but running the
screensaver, large areas of the screen are dark - kind of a reddish
brown color - that gradually returns to normal after about 5-10

I've got a 1GHz G4 17" Powerbook running 10.3.7 (I don't think I upgraded
to 10.3.8, but maybe my wife did ) that all suddenly went to sleep while
I was downloading a large file (it wasn't anywhere near done).  It
shouldn't have gone to sleep because I was actively using it... ...

I recently bought an external 3.5" 40 GB hard drive to use with my
ibook g4. I use Carbon Copy Cloner to make a backup of the ibook onto
this external drive. I choose the option in CCC to "make bootable".
After making the backup, I specify it to be the Startup Drive then

I have a 12" Powerbook around a year and a half old. It has a 4,500 rpm
hard drive, which I perceive to be a bottleneck in terms of speed.
Could I install the OS, all of my programs, and move all of my data to
a 7,200 rpm Firewire hard drive, and run the whole thing off that?

I recently was given a PowerBook G3 m3553, and it will not turn on.
I'm using an AC adapter (the black old kind) as I assume the battery is
shot.When I plug it in, it doesn't do anything. The speakers make a very
faint static sound. Holding the power button on the keyboard doesn't ...