Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / December 2005

The iMic has a 1/8" audio in. From my stereo that would be via RCA to
"Y" cable with a 1/8" male end. My PowerBook has 1/8" line level input.
What's the difference between using the iMic and skipping it?
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PowerBook G4 15", 1.25 MHz, 1.25GHz. memory, about 20 months old.
Imagine picking up your (running) PowerBook in both hands and rocking
it side to side or back & forth.  As the PowerBook is moving, it makes
that humming sound like a lightsaber.  As soon as you stop the

Just got my self a brand new i book g4 couple of weeks ago, and am
already in love with it. OSX is fantastic and rock solid. Will never
use any windows computer ever.
All i miss here is a super drive. My budget is very low. Around 150

I have a problem with my old wallstreet that I cannot seem to fix.
The computer is a G3 powerbook wallstreet 300MHZ, 20GB hard drive, and
right now, 256 MB ram (yeah, I know real high tech...)
It seems to be centered around the PMU board, and the machine will not

I am a proud owner of a new PowerBook (the new 17" version) -- this is
my first Apple.
Everything on this PowerBook is fine except the wireless -- at first,
everything runs fine,

First of all, I know this is a Mac group, but I didn't see any posts
about this software yet, so I figured since it's iPod related, it
might fly...
Anyways, this is about a piece of software I just picked up for

OK, so I have a 'lowly' PC (to appease you Mac advocates), but here's the
thing-- my problem is with QuickTime.
I want to get an MPEG music video to play on my iPod. So I do what the
instructions say-- I use the Export function in QuickTime to convert the

Pismo Powerbook... When I replaced the internal hard drive, machine now
has disk problems. Internal disk works for a bit, long enough to erase
in Disk Utility, copy a few files, then fails. It won't last long
enough, for example, for Carbon Copy Cloner to finish. I get a strange,

Hi y'all.  I have an ibook dual USB circa 2001.
Recently, it tend to make relatively loud click sound from the hard
drive area, occassionally cause the machine to hang/freeze.
Any one experience similar symptoms?

At night when working I hear a rather distracting (for me) noise, kind
of a high pitched whine, it is quite loud. It seems to come from the
disk.
This is what System profiler says about my disk:

OK, so I have a 'lowly' PC (to appease you Mac advocates), but here's the
thing-- my problem is with QuickTime.
I want to get an MPEG music video to play on my iPod. So I do what the
instructions say-- I use the Export function in QuickTime to convert the

This is an ongoing struggle for me...
my powerbook will no longer charge a battery while plugged in.  When my
pb was plugged into the wall it would show the charging icon at and say
"calculating time until full" eternally.  I took the PB apart down to

I'm having a problem with my new iBook G4 (10.4.3) hanging on logout and
not always shutting down. I've tried resetting the pmu, but the problem
persists. I saw a post on the net suggesting background processes might
still be running, thus causing the problem. Regardless, has ...