Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / June 2006

Hey all, I installed an Airport Extreme card into my iBook G4 about a
month ago, and I've noticed when I'm out and about very often I can pick
up stray signals; they're almost always very intermittent however, even
when I'm stationary--is that everyone's usual experience?  Often ...

I have an frustrating problem with Safari on my 17" 1Gig running 10.4.6.
When I use it on my home or office network either wired or wireless, no
problem with response and download time.  For that matter, never a
problem on any network but one.

Hi, I know that it sounds crazy, but my MacBook Pro does not seem to
like planes... Since I bought it, I have tried four times to use it on
an airplane. In every case, it somehow seems to loose connection to the
internal hard disk. If I put the machine to sleep before boarding and

Wondering if anyone else has experienced an inexplicable loss of one of
their audio channels on a late-model iBook? It has only happened a few
times, but strange. I plug in headphones or speakers and only get sound
out of one side, unplug them and there's nothing coming from the

I keep getting a blue screen shortly after boot up on my
two month old 12" G4 iBook(OS10.4.6). Sometimes the
Desktop reappears after a few seconds, other times I
have to do a hard restart. I've scanned the HD for faults,

I just found a Belkin wireless pcmcia card for one of my pismo .... I
really would like to use it under os 9 .... is there any driver to find
somewhere to accomplish this ?
Jo

Anyone have a ballpark idea for how long Apple maintains
the capability to repair old machines?  My 4 year old
iBook G3 700 still seems to be beating the odds given the
notorious failures to which this model is susceptible and

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I have a PB Ti 500 that the screen is very dark. The only way I can see
what's even on it is to hold a flashlight right up against the screen.
I have now replaced the motherboard, the inverter card and the LCD. I
have a new PMU on the way as well. I know it isn't the backlight bulb

Any first hand feedback on how well the Macbooks (non-pro)handle themselves
(especially graphics)?

Before I begin, let me say that I'm not knowledgeable about the
macintosh paradigm.  I bought the powerbook about 4 years ago
because OSX is based upon Mach and freeBSD.  Knowing that will help
you to comment in ways that I can understand.

Battery is going. where can I find a replacement, I heard they are
$150+1

Has anyone had this problem and then removed the piece of plastic over
the rear vent?  Did this take care of the problem?
thanks
Richard

I'm looking into buying a Macbook (not pro) for personal and school
use.  The issues with the "Pro" scared me, though.  Would you recommend
waiting to see if problems are discovered with the regular Macbook?  Do
they (Apple) announce when said issues are fixed? (Hardware revisions

You would not believe what I went through to save my six year old
Lombard powerbook from the scrap heap.
My main reason for upgrading the Lombard from OS-8.6 to OSX was to get
away from the Internet Explorer browser, which Mac versions are no