Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / January 2006

Dear Mac devotees,
I have a Mac SE, an older toaster-style Mac. I seek to install Clarisworks
4.0 (which I have), but Clarisworks 4.0 requires System 7.0 or System 7.1
. Presently, the SE has an early version of System 6.

Hi there
Has anyone flown BA Business recently, and could you tell me what power
set up I am likely to need to connect my Powerbook. The BA website just
says there are 'laptop powerpoint and cables' by each seat. Last time I

When I record from the preamp out to the iMic to the iBook G4, the
sound is fine. However, using the direct turntable connection, with EQ
selected in FinalVinyl, the sound is terrible. Very loud background
noise, which analysis with my electrical engineer cousin showed was not

My daughter recently brought back a DVD from Germany. Its label has the standard
"DVD Video" logo, plus a "PAL 2;4" emblem. Before opening it, we want to
determine if we can play it on our American equipment. A quick internet search
makes it look like it will not display properly ...

What is the likelihood that the price(s) of the current powerbooks will drop
when the new "Macbook Pro"'s start being delivered?
Right now the 15" models are priced exactly the same -- and yet unless you
are willing to pay something for Classic compatability I can see no reason

My wife got a Kensington Noise Canceling headphone set
for Christmas.  Strangely, in use there is considerable 60 Hz
hum, which kind of ruins things when one is listening to audio
which has quiet passages.

Does anybody know how the Griffin TuneBuds manage to get audio out of
the Shuffle without plugging into the headphone port?
I want to make a really neat installation for my Shuffle in my car.
Specifically, I don't want to have to put the iPod in a cradle and then

Actually, two questions here. I just picked up a Western Digital
external 80GB USB drive at Costco. Haven't opened it yet, so
I can still return it without any problems if I'm not able to
use it as an external drive and boot from it.

From a few days my pismo refuses to boot ..... when I press the startup
button I can hear the hard drive spinning and then nothing more ....
black screen ....  I have tried a reset but no success ...
Yesterday I succeeded to boot and working for the whole day. But today

A dumb, simple question.  My small dog managed to pop my "page up" key
off the keyboard by walking on it (don't ask).  I can see exactly how it
needs to go back on, but can't get it to work.  Has anyone had any luck
with this, and can you give me tips?  Tools that'll help?

Yes, I've dug through the archives and found some comments, but not many, on
the topic, and most are several years old so I don't know if they are
current.
I'm in the market for a Mac laptop and want to get one before I'd be forced

I proudly bought a new powerbook g4 1,67Mhz a couple of days ago and
I allready have a adapter problem (the adapter that came with the
PBook).
While using and loading it at the same time yesterday, the light just

I have a 12" powerbook with a consistent problem...as I type, the
cursor intermittently jumps to another spot on the screen and of course
my text gets all garbled. Sometimes (like in Mail) the program opens a
new message window and the second half of my text is in a new message

I've got a G4 Powerbook (the latest model, currently available) and
bought a nice Crumpler bag which has a "pouch" that for the laptop
itself. It's great!
But the material is a bit "rough" and I'm afraid that in time the

Hi, I've got a 1.67GHz 15" G4 powebook (PowerBook5,8), and have
replaced the 512MB samsung RAM with 2x1GB Simpletech RAM,
STA-PWBK533/1GB, and the system consistently freezes / crashes anywhere
from 20mins to 2 hours into operation.