Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / July 2005

Powerbook 12", 1.5 gig G4, 512 megs of ram, 80 gig drive, DVD burner.
Purchased in February day of release, works perfectly. Unfortunately I
find myself doing a lot of VS.NET development so I need to get a Windoze
machine. Will include copy of Tiger with system.

Just downloaded the 10.4.2 upgrade today, and after the install I'm
having some strange problems with the menu bar. The date, VPN status,
battery status, etc. won't show up. Checking the Prefs, I noticed that
"Show date and time" was unchecked. rechecked it, date won't show up in ...

What's the purpose of web browsers requiring the user to first click
somewhere in a newly arrived-upon page before scrolling with the up/down
arrow buttons is activated?
I like to use the arrow buttons on my iBook to scroll webpages because

I have a friend's pb 3500 here and it needs a new hard drive. Any
recomendations for a good fit? I'm looking for something 6gigs or less.
Will any of the IBM travelstars work ok in this computer? How about
Fujitsu or Toshiba? I'll probably be getting one off ebay and I just

I think I have a hardware problem.
My beloved ibook, when booted up, the display is not working (stays
black).  If I plug in and external monitor, it still stays black.
But I can hear the boot up chime, and if I go through the shut down

Does anyone here know for certain whether modern Mac powerbooks have
the ability to turn their main power on with software?
(not merely from sleep, but rather main power on, the same as pressing
the power button of the Mac powerbook)

Hello, for my old PowerBook 160, OS 7.1, I would like to get a Pascal
or Modula compiler. Are these still available?
- PeterN

Hello. Here's my situation:
Computer got virus, had to wipe entire thing, lost ALL mini ipod
purchased music on PC...but I do still have it all on the ipod.
I have been trying to find a way to download stuff on ipod to

My LCD screen on my ibook g3 (dual USB) just went partially dark. I
can faintly see the HD, cursor, etc... when it runs but it seems as
if the lamp light blew out. Ive searched the forum and paticularly
this discussion topic helped.

I would like to transfer some video to my Mac, and I used to do that on
my G3 desktop with either a video capture card (Iomega Buz) or a Belkin
USB Bus II. Both were for OS 9.x
I've tried hooking the Belkin cable to my G4 laptop, which runs OS X

My dear wife tried to get me a special gift for my birthday since I've
had a rough year. She bought me a used ibook 800 G3 for approx $850. She
meant well, and I don't want to let her know I'm disappointed. She paid
too much and probably could have gotten a Tibook 667 G4 for the ...

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

Machine: PowerBook G4, 17", Panther OS
To start what I thought was a normal reboot I punched
the power and then selected the reboot option on the popup.
The screen cleared and the rotating widget started spinning

Is $750 a good price for a used ibook with the following?  bought in March
1.2 GHZ

Okay guys, so we all know the ipods are awesome!
One of the defects or downside to them is that they get SCRATCHED
EASILY.
Here is what I do,