Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / February 2006

Does anyone have a clue on how to manually trigger the fan in a Pismo?  Im
certain that must be the issue.  After 6 returns to Apple and never
working to full potential I still would like to use the machine.  Now I've
replaced the fan and it still won't.

Anyone else have issues using a Bluetooth mouse on their PowerBook?
I've tried three different Bluetooth mice with my 1GHz 12" pBook, all
with the same very inaccurate results. Fast movements (eg, trying to get
from the corner of one screen to another) are the worst, being almost

Could you recommend the best low-cost sytem upgrade for an aging
Icebook? This is a 600mhz/20gig unit with 384MB of RAM, and is around 3
yrs old. It's been OK-minus in reliability, and I'm a bit embarassed to
say, still runs the OS10.1.3 it was shipped with. Apparently I need to

Hiya,
I'm new to this whole usenet malarky so I'm sorry if I do something I
shouldn't. Also, my knowledge of Apple Macs and Lap Tops is but limited
(I usually confine myself to a Desktop PC).

Hello everyone.  Can someone point me to a tut on putting a new ram module
in a Lombard?
Thanks,
MK

Hi. I just took delivery of a new Apple Powerbook G4 1.67GHz 15". I
bought it from the Apple Store Online. When the display is closed, the
left front corner of the lid is slightly higher than the right. If you
put your finger on the left corner and press down, you can wiggle the

Attn earth.google.com wanna-be's, Google has snuck in map support
for OS X ver 10.3.9 at http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html
That page currently claims to require 10.4, but I noticed an obscure
forum announcement a few hours ago, and tested it on a WIDE screen

Can someone tell me what is going on here. Is it meant to happen? Can I
change it?
I have found that if I leave my PowerBook idle for a while, the
keyboard seems to 'sleep'. That being, nothing happens until the second

Can anybody help me with this? Recently, my Alu G4 powerbook has
started to do a hard shutdown (rather than a gentle sleep) when my
battery goes to zero %. I do get the sleep warning at ten percent or
so. It happens with two different batteries. I have done a PMU reset

Hi usenet,
I was compiling software on my two month old powerbook and went to
sleep last night.  It was plugged in and fully charged.
When I awoke, it was off, the battery was dead, and it will no longer

I have a newish G4 iBook, and a 300GB Maxtor OneTouch. I've partitioned
it in 2 sections (backup/data) HFS+ Extended.
I have no problems with it in USB mode. I run SuperDuper without any
problems.

I've got 3 ipods, all 20gb 4th gen, one was working and the other two
had cracked screens.
I thought that i would check the hard drives from the ipods with cracked
screens,  so i started swapping hard drives and neither worked and when

My '02 TiBook is apparently developing HD problems (i/o errors, even
after erasing the drive, checking for bad blocks, and reformatting),
so I'm planning on replacing it.
Any good place to find out which drives I should use for this

My Dell Latitude D505 was just stolen (may they rot in hell) and I need
to buy a new laptop very quickly. It was configured as a dual  boot XP
- Linux box.
I've been using Linux for 10 years as my main OS, but I´m thinking

Someone stole my mac laptop last-week. )-:
Is there any why of tracking or seeing where my laptop is, if the
person who stole it goes online?? because each and every mac has a SN
number just for that mac.