Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / July 2006

Just Installed Norton Utilities.  When I run Disc Doctor ( SystemWorks
for Macintosh.
Version 7.0.3r006) or any of the other utilities, my HD doesn't show up
in the opening window. Currently running Tiger.  What to do?

Can anyone post their personal experiences with the battery life on Apples
15/17inch display, Intel dual core based laptops?
Thanks..Dave

I have a Powerbook G4 with two batteries. Once the first battery runs
out I put the other one in and vice versa.
But Mac OS gets confused about the life times and doesn't save its state
anymore before shutting down. The problem is that one battery life is

I'd like to hear comments on the following experience I had a with a
Mac Power Book G3.  What kind of problems could it indicate and what
are my options for rectifying them.
The unit seemed to power-up okay but I could not turn it off. I

I have a Powerbook G4/400 (Titanium) recently updated to 10.4.7.
I don't usually shutdown the machine (hardly ever), but had have to do
this a few time recently. Today, the machine would not boot after a
shutdown (restarting was OK). I hear the startup chime, then nothing.

I have the latest Powerbook G4 with 2 GB, and wanted to record a
soundtrack to a Quicktime movie that I made with SnapZ Pro.
I tried to record the audio track with iMovie: running Quicktime
to watch the movie and running iMovie just to record the audio.

a couple of months ago I bought an Airport Express to connect
wirelessly to my internet connection.. I plugged it in and it worked
perfectly; didn't do any set up or anything! Then... it stopped working
and all I could get was the dreaded flashing amber light. I tried

Anybody have the same issue? My MBP 1.83's LCD wont fire up everytime I
turn the laptop on. Have to reset PMU and PRAM everytime and then it
takes about ten tries powering on and off to finaly make the screen
turn gray and boot up.

I've got a Bondi-blue slot-loading iMac that I want to get some files
from. I know I can copy the files to a key drive, and then transfer
them that way, but is there an easier, more direct way? The iMac (IIRC)
doesn't have a Firewire connection, so that's out, and so is CD-ROM (no

I recently noticed that on my wife's iBook (G3 700 MHz, 640 MB, Panther
10.3.9) the Finder always uses every CPU cycle so that the CPU load is
always 100%. about 80% of that is in kernel (system) mode (i.e. red on
Activity Monitor). This is when no other application is running.

QUESTION!  Sony Clies - Which is the best?
Looking for some advice... saw people asking, but not too many
answering. I got the same question. I didn't see anyone say their
opinion.

my ibook (g4, 1.3ghz) is not resetting the pram anymore when pressing
command-option-p-r at start-up and i have no idea why. i tried it a
thousand times at different times (before, while, after the chimes).
resetting the nvram via open firmware prompt did work. however, i did

I have a PowerBook G3 Wallstreet II (300MHz) running Mac OS 9.2.2
What is the lastest version of Virtual PC which will run on my system with
adequate amounts of RAM installed?
I'm not looking for any heavy duty Windows/PC related gaming under

Got a Wallstreet running 9.2.2, and an Adaptec USB adapter card, which
seems to work OK, except...
I have a MPIO mp3 player which my g4/10.3.9 cube recognizes and mounts
just fine as a storage device, and thought it would be handy for

When will the new iPod/Handheld Macs with built-in keyboards and touch
screens come out?
Or the touch screen MacBook Pros?
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