Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / March 2006

My 17" PowerBook has been stolen from my car today. It has the serial
number W8543EP5SX0.
The insurance will pay, the police will not search for it - what can I
do to spoil the new owner's delight?

I need to buy a protective sleeve for my 15" G4 Powerbook, but I've
gathered that there's a bunch of different Powerbooks that are called
"15" G4 Powerbooks", so which one is mine?
I keep coming across the terms "TI Powerbook" and "AL Powerbook", and I

I have got a new phone recently, a Panasonic VS2 and I have made heaps
of photos and little movies on it with the camera, but now the phone is
full up with all that stuff so I want to know if there is a program for
macs that will let me transfer pictures from the phone to the Mac ...

I have a Powerbook G3 (Wallstreet), with no upgrades or hardware
replacements. Just as it came.  128 MB RAM
~4GB HD
It was running 8.6, then 9.2.

I bought an Apple ibook G4 one year ago for traveling use. I use dial
up modem at home for the internet connection. I did have the airport
extreme card installed to my ibook G4. What else do I need to do in
order to use my ibook G4 wirelessley when I TRAVEL? In the National

Wow - I moved from a pismo to an ibook,
replacing the hard drive in a pismo takes
5 minutes - in an ibook, 2 hours with major
chances for damaging the machine. Sheesh

Hi all, I recently picked up a Tangerine iBook (300mhz G3), and
everything works great about it (surprisingly fast considering its
age), except the battery.
Now the obvious reply is "its a six year old li-ion, it'll be dead",

I have a dead iBook 600Mhz. I need do some homebrew diagnosis as to why
exactly it won't start. Is there an online manual out there that will tell
how to do it? I maen the elementary multimeter kind of stuff. Most likely
the logic board is dead, but I'd feel bad trashing it until I ...

For some reason my powerbook beeps whenever I type. It's not a system
beep, it sounds like it is coming from the hardware or something. It
only happens in dreamweaver but occasionaly happens in textedit.
Anyone have any ideas?

I just got a Belkin PC card F5D7011 .11g+ PC card for my G4 667mhz
laptop. I was hoping to use it with my Linksys .11b wireless router as
the card is supposed to be compatible with .11g+, .11g, and .11b
networks. I did research online and the F5D7011 was recommended for my

U may want to check for latest security fix (for OS 10.3.9 anyway).
Had nasty lockup preventing restart or shutdown, until downloaded apple
fix and pulled out battery...

I got hold of Missing Sync and it was working
fine.  Now, it seems to not sync new events and
tasks from iCal.  I've "upto-dated" everything
and got the latest version of Missing Sync and

i'm looking at the g4 ibook.  i plan on keeping my pc for emails, web
and all that nonsense.  but want to go mac for running music editing
software.  namely samplitude and reason.  i'm thinking about getting
the 60gig drive upgrade... and a gig of ram.  now... i can't quite

Just wanted to follow up on the problems I've been having with
exporting DV movies from iMovie 3 to my Sony HandyCam TRV-280.
When we try to export movies to the camera, the resulting video is very
choppy and the audio frequently goes pretty badly out of sync.

Hi group!
I'm hoping you can assist me in helping my grandmother.
She currently has a G4 Powerbook with a black keyboard.  The keyboard
works great, but it is hard for her to see the keys with her vision