Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / June 2007

My boss gave me the mission to seek I much she could get from her
PowerBook G4 titanium 800Mhz that is supposed to have a faulty Logic
board.
It has a good 17 inch display, good case, an original airport card,

Hi NG,
my powerbook dose not switch on if there is no battery inserted.
Even when it is connect with the power plug it dose not turn on with a
empty battery slot. I loads the battery normal and works normal with

I have data that I need to transfer from a Mac formatted drive to a PC
formatted drive. I have a MacBook Pro where I can use both the Mac and
PC sides.
My problem is that I can't transfer data from the Mac drive to the PC

My trackpad does not work when my mouse is disconnected unless I turn
off the "Ignore trackpad when mouse is present" option.  However, if I
do that, my trackpad is always active, whether or not the mouse is
plugged in.

hey. i have a windows pc with a bunch of files i want to transfer to dvd.. i
just got a macbook pro with the superdrive that supports double-layer dvds..
is there a cable that can connect a windows laptop to a macbook pro, so i
can transfer all the windows files and then burn ...

I have a new hard drive installed in my G4 Powerbook. I went through the
erase process with Disk Utility (which I guess is the way to format or
initialize a new HD) and partitioned it also. Now when I select a
partition to install as a "destination", it says "You cannot install Mac

...but it does see it when I open Disk Utility. The hard drive doesn't
show on the OS X installation step, "Select a destination volume where
you want to install the Mac OS X software". Does the drive need to be
initialized or something? Some info I found said that a message would

I am following some directions from ifixit .com to install a hard drive.
To remove the top it starts by saying to pull up on left top corner of
the F1 key until you hear a click and then move finger down to left edge
and pull key up and off. It feels like it's going to break off ...

My first generation Macbook Pro turns itself off after 10 minuets of
use, I think because it is too hot. This is not the random shutdown
phenomenon that I've read all over the internet, but because the fans
never kick in. I hear nothing of the fans, not even before the

I noticed that I have hair line cracks in the piece that supports my
hinges above the keyboard.  The hair line cracks are by both hinges.
Can those cracks be repaired?

I used Microsoft's RDC on my PowerBook and never had any problems.  It
actually works on the MBP, but it is supposed to be only for PowerPC and
it doesn't work quite right.
I checked VersionTracker for RDC programs and they only list

I'm looking for a cheap way to hook up cable to my 12 inch Powerbook
G4 and 15 inch Macbook Pro.  (Don't need anything fancy like the
Miglia TVMax).  Just don't want to buy a TV and I have free access to
cable through faculty housing at UND. Any help would be appreciated.

About three years ago I purchased three Epson Printers.  One 3 in 1 and
2 Stylus 84s.  The Epson 3 in 1 died about a year ago and I replaced it
with a different Epson 3 in 1.  In the past couple of weeks both of the
Epson Stylus C84s have stopped working with the same problem.  Both

I recently bought a USRobotics V.92 USB MiniFaxmodem. System Profiler
recognizes it, calls it a US Robotics modem under the USB devices but
it does not show as a selectable option in Network/System Preferences
in my MacBook/10.4.9.

My son is getting his first Macintosh, a 15" MacBook Pro. I see
there is a choice of matte or glossy screen, and the Apple
website says the following -