Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / November 2006

Is there a USB wireless adapter that can be used in a Pismo? I have done
some searching and cannot find one.

Walked up to my G4 iBook today and found battery indicator with an X
over it. Unplugged the power cord, and it instantly died. Whoa. I had
100% yesterday, and as of a few days ago documented several hours worth
of time available on this battery. I did the usual PMU resets, etc. as

When travelling I would like to watch my films in my iPod 80Go video
on a small screen, but larger than the screen of the iPod.
Does such a beast exists ? I don't want to take my MacBook.
Thanks,

..regarding reliability, heat, noise, gen'l operation. I'm using a
PB1400 now and the consensus is that upgrade is
in order. I don't, however, want to lose the *good* qualities of the
1400 in the areas mentioned. Anyone bought

i've got a AGM CW-19 LCD monitor hooked up to my powerbook G4. it
worked fine for a
day. then the next day, i turned everything on, and the monitor looked
all strange. i checked under system preferences, and it said "VGA

Is it possible for the OS X "Mail" application to quickly and easily
switch between two different Internet Service Providers?
My initial attempts to use Mail in this fashion failed, in so far as
using the "Location" feature in the Apple menu was concerned.

..regarding reliability, heat, noise, gen'l operation. I'm using a
PB1400 now and the consensus is that upgrade is
in order. I don't, however, want to lose the *good* qualities of the
1400 in the areas mentioned. Anyone bought

I have a 17' powerbook that has a terrible display. No vertical lines
just colors so off that they don't make sense. For example if I was
watching a DVD the flesh tones would have this weird green in the
shadows. Someone told me it was electromagnetic interference. Sometimes

My G4 iBook died and I was wondering is there any way I could get the
information off of the lappy... i don't mind taking it apart or any of
that... but the information on it is quite valueable... mostly pictures
of my only son...

I am not using one of my laptops as often as in the past. Is there a
rule of thumb for how often the battery should be charged?

I have a webcam (Logitech Notebook Pro) that works in my Dell WinXP
machine. I tried this unit in my iBook 12" (OS X 10.4.8), and it does
not recognize it at all. So I downloaded "macam" tool from Apple thrid
party listing. When I launched it, the window says : " no camera".

Hi, a few very basic questions regarding a G3 800MHz 12in iBook.
1. Does the battery have a 'memory'? That is, should I run it right
down regularly?
2. As it's mostly a static machine, is it better to leave it plugged in

In good working condition; prefer Sonnet 333, but any considered.

How can I install an OS on my Powerbook G4 Mercury 500MHz?
I have hardware.
NO SOFTWARE, none, nada nothing.
The nice guys at Mac Genius plugged on a firewire drive and it seems to

My iMac desktop is littered with icons. Several of them are little
crate-like boxes with .zip on the end, ther others are hard drive icons
with .dmg on the end. Are these just detrius? Can I trash them?