Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / May 2006

I am concidering buying an old Ibook clamshell. I am wondering how
upgradable are they???

My new MacBook Pro has the following annyoing bugs:
Noise: high pitched noise from both loudspeakers (similar to the power
turbines that generate electricity for an aircraft), especially when the
processor is idle (no relationsship to display brightness), when not

Anyone have any recommendations for an external USB case for a 2.5" HD.
I'll be using a Hitachi HTS541080G9AT00 out of a  crashed G4 powerbook
with another G4 powerbook.  Also wondering if I'll be able to recover
data or will initializing the drive re-format it.  Thanks in advance.

I need help. Can I connect a Sony Digital 8 (DCR-TRV510) to my
Powerbook G4 and burn a DVD from the tape on the camcorder? If so, can
somebody tell me how to do this? thanks! I'm no video buff and have no
clue how this is going to work or even if it will. thanks in advance.

We have a Powerbook G3 Lombard (333) that we have been using for travel.
It fits the needs.
Decided to upgrade it from OS 9.2 to Panther. All seems OK so far during
testing but not speedy. ;)

small enough to run with.......
mp3 player
AM/FM radio with recording
voice recorder

Hello NG,
what is the maximum size for the harddisk and max RAM that fits in a
iBook tangerine? Can it boot panther or tiger ?
Thank you for you time and help.

Hello, I have a 17 inch powerbook around 1 1/2 years old, working fine
with macosx 10.4.6.
I have about 20 gb's in music on my itunes. What I first did was hook
my ipod up and use ipodrip to put all the songs from my ipod onto my

Space bar is starting to be unresponsive - especially at the ends where
I have pounded it in "next-page" mode.  Is there a DIY way to remedy
this; can the key be pulled?
Seems unfortunate the space key is overloaded with the page-down

Hi, I have a strange problem here. My year old PB G4 tends du do wierd
things when it's
woken up from a long time of sleep mode (usually overnight).
It presents me the login screen and after login the desktop where I can

I recently acquired the latest PowerBook G4 12" model. My previous
computer was an iBook G4 12" (Late 2004 model I believe). I upgraded
the RAM in my iBook, and was wondering if I could use the RAM that I
installed in my iBook in my PowerBook. Thanks all!

Just tonight the weirdest thing has been happening: when I type on some
of the keys, more than one letter is displayed e.g. I hit the G key and
'gh' displays etc.
Has anyone experienced this and know why?

Does usage of a battery reduce it's life?  I want a PB17 battery to
last several years, so should I limit to only a certain number of drain
downs per week or month?
This model gets alarmingly hot while being used or charged.  I very