Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / December 2005

My SO has a PowerBook G4, a so-called TiBook. Because the internal drive is
insufficient to hold all of her applications and documents and such we
configured it with the intention that it would boot off of an external
Firewire drive that is much larger than the internal drive. ...

Has anyone seen or know if anyone is working on an adapter from the iPod
remote connector to dock connector?  Here's my problem.  I have a Burton
Shield iPod jacket.  The connection from the coat to the iPod is done
through the remote connection on the 3G and 4g iPods.  The new ...

i m a fresher and would like 2 know the purpose of a real time
interrupt and a watchdog timer

I also posted this on comp.mac.system....
Help me out here, please.
The only thing keeping me from leaving my ThinkPad at home and
traveling with my trusty Pismo is the complete lack of up-to-date and

I am looking into the possibility of buying a laptop and am very much
inclined to get either an ibook or a powerbook.
I will be using it for displaying projects in progress to clients and
for working when staying in the office is not an option (work at home

Well, the good news is that I was able to take it apart, and put it back
together without damaging anything.
It was by far the most difficult disassembly I've done on a laptop,
including my  old PB2400.  But it was manageable is you don't rush.

My laptop was recently stolen from my office and I´m shopping
around to buy a new one. I'm currently debating between a Powerbook
and a Linux Intel machine (I started a separate thread on this a few
days

Daughter lost her drive recently. Computer only 6 months old, but I can
understand the drive's reliability. It is often the luck of the draw.
Positive side, she now knows what backup means.
1) Went through the 'care' service and determined we need to send in the

Just got a new ipod 60GB w/ video and I'm wondering if I can go on long
runs with it?
I know it has 20 minute shock protection (from the apple web site) but
does anyone know if contant jarring (probably strapped to my arm on w/

Am having this problem again and was wondering whether anyone has any ideas
yet on what I can do to cure it. When it starts, the whole screen is frozen
with the mouse pointer in the top left hand corner.  I don't think that at
any stage during the start process does the system ...

Need something smaller than the odd little white box and cord I now
have. What is that box for anyway?

I've had my Ibm notepad for almost 2 years, but use it for school, so I'm a
bit slow. When I connect it for tv, to wacth movies, the entire screen will
show on tv, the audio works fine, but the movie dont show when I use windvd
4.0. If I close down windvd, the screen shows ...

I recently contacted PFU systems and asked them what their plans were
for a compact Bluetooth keyboard; they said they had no current plans.
I wish these guys would make one. They have a quality compact USB
keyboards already; such a keyboard could be very useful in the Mac

I am attempting to upgrade my roomie's Lombard machine with an older
but perfectly good 40 GB Fujitsu drive. I also have an equally older
but still working Toshiba 8GB drive. Both fail "after some time" when
the machine restarts and puts up a "no entry" sign.

I'm debating whether to get a 1.33 or 1.5. Does anyone know if there
much difference in performance?? let me know ASAP. thank you