Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / March 2006

I just bought my parents a used Panther iBook to upgrade them from an
old OS9 G3 Kanga.  What's the fastest way for us to transfer useable
files to the iBook?  (The Kanga is pre-Firewire and pre-USB; I do have
an old external scsi CD burner for it, if I can remember how to work ...

I just replaced the 30 gig int. HD in my G4 w/ a Hitachi 80 g 7200 HD.
Let me tell you this HD is sweet. It was a trip replacing it, but well
worth it. Anyway, I would like to put the org. drive in my vst firewire
ext. enclosure but it already has a 6g drive in it.

For my wife's original ibook 366mgh with Panther, want to buy the airport
card, where can I get it a good price?
Also, I have the most recent PBook 17" with airport extreme. Will buy the
Apple airport station that is airport extreme. Will the ibook with the card

I was wondering if it is possible to connect the iPod to any WinXP
computer, using usb cable, without having iTunes installed on the
computer, and use iPod as USB Memory Key.
As we use the usb memory keys to connect to any computer and they are

Hi, folks
I recently got a PB G3 Pismo.
When it is booting or awaking from sleep the display is shining redish.
It dissappears to normal after some seconds (about 30) and doesn't show

Just wondering if there a is a cheaper alternative to the Apple adapter
($$$) that lets me plug my 12" PB video into my TV's S-video port??
Thanks for any suggestions.
Marc P.

I have a question posed by an iBook user friend.
His HDD is virtually full (around 1gb left) and his 80gb external drive
is filling too. He uses the machine to write memos, send email and play
music. He also keeps a lot of photos too.

I am helping a friend with a new PowerBook G4 17" 1.67GHz (he needed a
17" screen and he's not ready for early adopter hardware) and we're
trying to figure out if the screen is as bright as it is supposed to
be.  He is fortunate to have ample light in his office, and his current

Does anyone make a powered 4-port USB hub that receives its power from
the FireWire port? That would seem to be a way to make a very
compact/portable powered hub for most Mac systems.
--phil

Can anyone tell me if any of the myriad of USB video capture devices on
ebay would work on a G4 1GHz ibook? I just want something to put NTSC
composite video onto a disk file on the ibook for later viewing.
I only found one listed as Mac compatible and it was not campatible

I forgot to post this query in my previous post.
My friend's iBook is always plugged into the mains - it's his office
machine, if he needs to take files home he uses his iPod. Should he
remove the batteries?