Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / December 2006

Does anyone know a way of manually controlling or configuring the fan
of an iBook G4 ?  Presumably this would work for the Powerbook as well.
In my case I know there is a fan, and I know it works because my 10.3
install cd turns it on full blast whenever I boot from it.  My problem

I am trying to convince my employer to purchase me a MacBook or MacBook
Pro instead of another manufacture laptop with an Intel Core 2 Duo
processor.  So I would like to be able to compare apples with oranges
or HPs, Dell etc.

What's the Biggest Hard Drive Available today for between $400 and $700?
Must be completely dependable, and use FIREWIRE 400.
Can buy drive and enclosure separately if needed.
Looking for:

How much would this iPod Shuffle cost?
iPod Shuffle
1 GB USB FLASH Dribe (holds up to 240 songs)
Earphones and dock included

Not again were my first thoughts:
The battery of my 17" MacBook Pro (April 2006) develops the battery
bulge problem!
Model A1189  (Assembled in China)

Hello all...
I remember seeing the instructions here for using a powerbook that is
connected to an external monitor with the lid on the PB closed, but I
can't remember well enough to do it now that I need to do it.

I have an old G3 Lombard PowerBook. With the memory maxed out, a larger hard
drive installed and a USB 2.0 or FireWire PCMCIA CardBus card for external
storage and a DVD/CD burner, this can still be a serviceable machine.
Since I'll be using a different card in the PC Card slot, ...

12252006 1130 GMT-6
Yup. Christmas morning and Im working.
Meeting with a business this week for a large programming job. Just so
happens they are also purchasing some new equipment. I got the word the

The MacBook Pro has no PC card slot, just a 34mm Express Card slot. The
problem with that is that until recently there were no CF card readers that
would fit in this slot. The slot is much too narrow for a CF card or anything
holding it to be inserted completely, of course.

My Pismo battery died earlier this year but I didn't replace it as I was
content just to use mains power. Despite working fine the Pismo now
won't start up using the power adapter. Pressing the reset button has no
effect. Visually I can see nothing wrong with the power adapter, ...

I replaced the original 30Gig hard disk on my iBook G4 with a 40Gig,
same manufacturer Toshiba, same drive type. I believe I completed the
hardware replacement properly but I have not been able to start the OS
installation.

I have an IBOOK G4 which I need to replace the lcd screen.
Can I replace a LG Philip LP121X04 (C2)(K2) 1024/768 pixel XGA 12.1"
screen with a LP121 800/600 pixel SVGA 12.1" screen?
The LG Philips LP121X04 (C2)(K2) 1024/768 pixel XGA screen is $395 at

I tried changing /Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Displays to a different
profile, but each time I restarted the computer the default was
restored.  It is Color LCD-4270800.icc.
I created a PhotoCal Profile that I want to use.  It should give me a

I bought a 15" Powerbook G4 (1.67GHz, Superdrive) a little over a year
ago, which probably means that my warranty has expired, which in turn
means that I can do anything with my machine ;-)
One slight (sometimes more than slight if I run "heavy" tasks for

someone gave me a powerbook g4 mercury m5884 without a power supply?
someone else said they heard that powerbooks can be booted using a
firewire connection to another computer as a power supply. is this true?
if so, is it just plug in the cable and go or do you need to remove the