Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / June 2005

i just purchased a new powerbook 12in last week, and noticed that
when i went from typing to using the trackpad the front right corner
would life up and go down. I guess somthing is warped in the case
because one of the pads is about 2 pieces of paper short from

I was wondering if there would be any way to fix an Apple iBook
Clamshell, it turns on but keeps rebootting itself. I'd also like to
be able to do this fairly cheaply.
thnx,

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For basically the same expenditure, which PowerBook G4 15" SuperDrive
configuration will provide the best performance, a 1.67 GHz w/ standard
512 MB RAM or a 1.50 GHz upgraded to 1 GB RAM?  If you had to decide,
if the best-of-both-worlds 1.67 GHz plus 1 GB RAM config were not an

I have an ibook that I have started to use as an external hard drive for my
new G5 imac (running it in target disk mode) which I update every night and
then when I go on the road my ibook is totally up to date.
My question: Is it okay to leave it in Target disk mode for 24 hours a ...

I have a 2001 TiBook running Tiger, an Epson SC777, and an Epson C60 (in
two different places).  Neither printer shows up in the printer list for
Epson Printer Utility, which means I can't clean nozzles or check ink
levels or any of that good stuff.  Eek -- how do I fix this?

When I make the connection between my son's iPod and the PC, two things
don't happen:  1)  The iTunes does not recognize the iPod as having
been connected and 2) the iPod does not indicate that it is connected
to a power source.  In other words, it's as if the cord is not

I've just bought myself a new powerbook, and very nice it is too.
There are just a couple of problems I am experiencing with it; I
wonder if you could give me some advice.
1)  After playing CD's for a few hours the CDs seem to get stuck in

Just a post to keep all informed about a minor problem.
My new 17-inch powerbook, bought about 4/20/05 is afflicted with a
frozen cursor, only when the trackpad is used, only in the "volume
select screen".  (option key at startup chime)

or is the voltage regulator bad and drifting?!?!?!?!
When I shut the lid and put the unit into sleep mode, the little light
on the latch button goes from brite to dim to brite, etc...  as if
where breathing!

Two weeks ago my iBook G3 started showing some serious (bad) symptoms. For
one the screen would go black (and I don't mean due to the sleep timer).
Just recently I started to see some crazy lines and forms on the screen
while I was using several different application programs and ...

Yesterday I was preparing to back up my 3000+, 1+ megabyte photos. They
were being exported to what I thought was a folder on my desktop.
Unfortunately there was no folder and the photos were all dumped onto
the desktop itself. This effectively froze the finder, but I thought

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Steve is not going to be happy about this, LOL!
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hi all. i have a very nice 15" albook for sale. specs are:
1.25 ghz processor
512mb ram
80gig hd

Any ideas  on performance difference.
I have always used a Windows based machine , but I am tempted to try a
Powerbook (Java development) this go aroung.
THoughts ? Experiences ?