Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / August 2005

My friend's computer is acting really strange.  Every time she wants
to type a lower case f key, nothing happens.  If she uses types an
upper case F, it works fine.  Btw, this is a G5 all in one desktop,
not a laptop.  She even switched keyboards and this is still

I'm sure this is here somewhere, but I came up empty on the search
query.  How (if there is s a way)do you disable the ibook from going
into sleep mode as soon as the display is closed?  I don't care if it
goes to sleep after the timer runs with the lid closed, but I want to

A good friend has a 15" 800MHZ TiBook that is in excellent working condition
with the exception that the firewire socket has gone bad to the point where
it has killed several external firewire drive controllers. We have been told
that to fix this problem will require the ...

Any advice/recommendations on a replacement internal hard drive for my
Pismo? I want to get a 60 GB (Toshiba? or IBM?) but am looking for the
"quietest" drive I can find (ie. one that doesn't "whine" all the time.
Any advice appreciated.

     I want to add USB (1.1) capability to my 1998 Wallstreet Powerbook
(family #M4753).  I purchased a Belkin "Busport Mobile" PCIMCIA card
(mod. F5U022) which fits my card slots.
     I found that when I loaded OS 9.2.1 from the disc, that the USB

Hello lovely MacPeople,
I have been in the market for some time, sniffing out one of these
beautiful machines and have been offered, for a grand, the
following:

I purchased a Dension Ice link to hook up my iPod through my car stereo,
a few weeks back, and just thought I'd share with you my experiences
with the product and the company.
Overall, the product is OK. The sound is pretty good-I am one of the

Recently my powerbook (PB15 1GHz Ali , 10.3.8 ) has developed a
problem with the built-in ethernet port . After a while ( several - 20
mins ) pb stops ``reading'' packets from network . I can see outgoing
packets from my pb on another machine with tcpdump and replies sent

I have a Powerbook G4 with a 15 inch screen and I am interested in
buying a security lock for it. I have looked at the Kensignton locks
(such as the MicroSaver and the ComboSaver) but am not sure which
system works with the security slot on the Powerbook. Can anyone help?

Does anyone here use small RAID assemblies with their powerbook?
Recently I moved 9 GBs onto my Pismo by ordinary drap-and-drop, it took
me an hour and a half to complete.   I calculate that it would take 12
hours to move 73 GBs into my internal drive's storage partition.

I love my ipod but now it's useless.  I downloaded the latest version
of i-tunes and also tried to transfer a new playlist.  I got a message
saying my computer wasn't compatable with my i-pod.  Long story short,
I "restored" the i-pod, losing all my existing playlists/music.  I have

Anybody have an Ethernet (wired) PC Card (cardbus) that works with Mac
OS X 10.4 (tiger)?
I have a D-Link DFE-690TDX card that worked fine with 10.3, but not with
10.4. There's no sign of D-Link updating the driver anytime soon.