Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / January 2006

what's the supposed life time of the new MacBook?
It got an 80 Wh battery and a 85 W power brick - I suppose it's pretty
hungry and will not last longer than two, max. three hours?
- Martin

My G4 TiBook with combo drive plays DVD's and pre-recorded CD's fine,
but as soon as I put in a blank CD-R it comes straight back out again. I
have set the CD/DVD preferences to 'open finder' for blank CD's.
OS 10.4.4

I finally took the plunge and bought an ipod. I have been reading the
Apple site for car chargers but I keep seeing stories of ipods being
damaged. I did a few cursory searches on the net and cannot find a
guaranteed 100% safe charger. Any ideas?

Hello NG,
do you if there is any software or kext involved in the steering of
the of the cpu-fan of a 400/500 G4 Titanium PowerBook.
It seems that this Book has no readable sensors, so how is that done ?

Is this the best newsgroup for discussing ipod problems?

My firewire ports haven't worked for months. Also on my desktop although
they come back every once in a while. I have heard that people have had
problems with like this. Anything to be done? I'd love to have my
firewire port back on my laptop. I am sure it is super expensive to ...

Returned today to find the cat warming herself on the Pismo Powerbook.
Since then the display is the negative of what it should be.   That is
blacks are white, whites are black, and the colors are their
complements (blues are yellow, etc.).  We are running OS 10.4.4 on a

I have a Nano that my young kids want to use.  Is there a way to
password protect a playlists or menu options so my kids can only listen
to their ?
Thx

 I bought an iPod video 60GB & Griffin RoadTrip for Christmas. From
what I read this was THE Fm modulator to purchase. I thought I might
put my thoughts out for others to read incase you too were considering
this product. For those who don't know what this product is, you can

I was thinking of getting rid of my 1.5 Ghz Powerbook and trade it in
for a new Intel imac.
Any opinions.
I don't need a Laptop for work, it was a luxury.

Recently got my 400 MHz Powerbook G4 (Titanium) revived after a PMU
replacement. Was booting fine for a day.
Today when I tired to boot the unit, it would startup and show the Apple
logo fine (OS 10.2). However, it would stop here after 10-20 seconds and

Sorry if this is the wrong thread to post in, but I couldn't figure out
anywhere better.   I'm trying to find a good place to download movies
for my iPod video.  BitTorrent traffic is being "shaped" by my ISP,
which basically means it's not working at all anymore for me.  Any

Hardware: iBook g4 800mhz w/AirPort Extreme
Software: OS X 10.4 (latest updates)
This is a weird issue that started recently (but can't be attributed to
a particular OS update or other event):

I am trying to use launchd instead of anacron to run a job every day.  
Launchd provides the capability to run a job every X seconds, where X in
this case would be 86,400.  Under OS X 10.4, this is supposed to work
when the computer is asleep, but I wonder what that means.

Anyone know if I can run my G4 powermac 15" laptop to my television.
Is so, how? My television has standard inputs. Composite, and
s-video.
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