Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / November 2005

I have an iPod that I have installed the software to my PC. I have my
own music library etc...
Now my girlfriend wishes to get an iPod too. Does anybody know whether
I can connect her iPod to the same machine? I wasn't sure what the

My Wallstreet laptop has become decidely recalcitrant! It won't start.
If I plug it in, the fan and the green LED light come on and stay on.
No chime. Nothing else happens. I suspected the PMU and I replaced the
PMU board but this has had no effect. The PRAM battery has power. Right

I'm running an old 100MB Zip drive to a coal-fired Powerbook Duo 2300c
with Mini-dock and OS 8. I've been running this combo as a portable
wordprocessor for years, but now when I boot up, I immediately get a
large SCSI symbol with the numeral "2" inside it. This comes up before

How do you transfer an mp3 back onto your hard drive *from* the ipod?
It seems like there must be some way to do this, but I've had no luck
figuring it out so far.

I don't see any kind of AC adaptor for the iPod, so I was wondering if
it was possible to use it while it's connected to the charger, so that
it can run continuously?

Summary: I have a G4 1.3GHz less than a week old.  Just now after leaving
it to charge overnight I found it extremely hot, the fan was going, and
when I opened the case it failed to respond until I power cycled,
whereupon it restarted normally.

Yes, yes, I am a Luddite who not only still uses dial-up to check email
from home, but is still using an original TiBook 400 mHz.  That said, I
have recently been having tremendous difficulty connecting, with constant
modem errors.  Usually if I keep trying to connect I'll ...

I am upgrading my Pismo Powerbook G3/500 Mhz and just got a firewir
external hard drive.  My question is:  will the HD recognize th
software that is downloaded into my original HD and I will be able t
save new information on the bigger HD?  

Quiz question...
I traded out some mac support for a Lombard, the specs are as follows:
333Mhz, 320MB Ram, 4GB HD, CD, Apple Battery. Very little use of this
unit, very clean.

I'm noticing a few things on restart on a 39-month-old powerbook - the
screen brightness parameter keeps changing, and the volume resets. I've
also noticed a few other anomalies during day to day operation and am
wondering if this could be the death of a PRAM / backup battery? The

When I inserted a CD into my 15" PB (10.3.7), it failed to mount.  When
the desktop Icon failed to appear, I opened Disk Utility which simply
hung.    I was left with a spinning disk in the combo-drive and no GUI
way to eject it.  Fortunately, restarting the PB produced a desktop ...

I have a Powerbook G3 Wallstreet 266Mhz, 160MB RAM, DVD, OS 9.1.  I
recently replaced my USB PC card that stopped working after about 2
years.  The new USB card is a Dynex 2 port USB 2.0.  My problem is
that anytime I plug even just one device into it I get a message

My iBook has started asking for my password twice when waking up from
sleep mode.
I enter it the first time and the screen flickers and goes immediately
back to the password screen. I know I'm entering the correct password.

I am getting ready to travel to London, and want to take my iBook g4
with me.  Travelling on a Boing 777-200 both ways.
What is the best way to have power on the plane, as well as in London?
Should I get a 12v power supply for the plane, and Apples foreign plug

Any iPods that are both Mac and PC compatible?
I can pick up an iPod relatively inexpensively at Wal-Mart or Sam's Club, but
they say they are for Windows.
Any reason I can't pick up one of those and use it with a Mac?