Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / July 2007

Ok I get so much help from these groups, and here's one way I think I
can do some good, at least to those new to an Apple laptop.  I've been
using 12" iBooks, and now a 13.3" MacBook, where the screen is
relatively small, right?  And my eyesight's not what it used to be, and

Back in June I bought a MacBok Pro and transfered everything from my PB.  
Since then the PB won't charge.  The battery, which is relatively new,
won't take any charge at all.  I am wondering if Migration Assistant set
something on the PB that is causing this.  More important, how ...

I finally bought a MacBook Pro (2.4GHz, 15.4" glossy screen) and got to
wondering about the necessisity of running defrag on my Mac.  A Google
search for articles on the subject produced a number claiming that this
was unnecessary on a Mac.  Is this correct or do I need to look ...

My first post was on comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc. This is a supersede to the
more suitable comp.sys.mac.portables.
About the last generation Powerbook G4/1,67MHz 15-inch with 1440 high
resolution [1]: Has anyone ever tried to install 2 x 2048M = 4096M memory

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I've been seeing pink irregular streaks horizontally on my 400mhz
Pismo's screen for a few months. They're sort of like cirrus clouds, and
while they don't make text illegible or seriously screw up images,
they're an annoyance. With Safari's window up behind MT-Newswatcher's,

This is too costly to be commercially available but is worth just
looking at it.
http://www.nachofoto.com/foto?i=4c89ac96b347

Well, my trackpad (ibook g4, two years old) has gone as of yesterday.
Gone most of the time. If I push real hard on the edge or tap hard on it
the response comes back for a while.
I'm using my trackball for now, but it is supposed to stay with the mac

Last version of MacBook Pro (introduced in October 2006).
Bought in November 2006, still under one year warranty and eligible for
Apple Care extension.
MacBook Pro 2.16GHz Core 2 Duo (MA609LL/A)

I need to adjust the hinges on my Titanium G4.  I think there are
instruction for doing that process on the Net.  Does anyone have the
address or instruction to adjust the hinges on a Titanium?
Jon H. Thrift

I recently acquired an old 300MHz Tangerine clamshell iBook from a
friend at work.
Other than a dead display, which appears to be suffering from a blown
inverter, it's ready to play. (Well, it's going to play Linux, once it