Quote -"The gunk gets on your screen because the keys are rubbing against it. I can't see how any amount of cleaning will reduce that friction. The finger funk is just one symptom …

i'd like to hear more about your experience of cajoling Apple into behaving and helping you with your issues, whatever they were... details, details... Okay, if you insist. The …

gracious of you to respond, and i really do appreciate that edifying post, thank you http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/wink.gif

Any time :-) Cipher13

I might buy a new PB in the next few weeks. Does the touching keys problem persist in new machines? and are they quite strong/durable? Any other good/bad points about PBs or would …

Oh, Wlonh, I forgot to mention after the third HD crash, they offered to replace it with a Rev A iMac. I refused. The 5500, in my opinion, was a more capable machine. Maybe not fas…

Wow, Cipher, what an ordeal. I am so glad that has never happened to me ever with Apple. I would have taken the Rev. A iMac at the time though! My Pismo has the screen probs and h…

Quote: Originally posted by j: i constantly watch full dvds on the battery...run photshop 5.5, final cut pro, premier, sound edit 16 pro, cubase vst 4.1 all painlessly…

Quote: "How well does the ua 30 work? is it very durable and well made." yes, its a solid little item. its still made of plastic but everything seems cool (so far anyway!) the fad…

PEOPLE, please read the TOPIC of this thread... it is NOT about anything but the keyboard... please get back on topic, thanks

Good activity over on MacFixIt lot's of people calling Apple and starting a case with Apple repair. Not much over here anyone called and complained or opened a case?

I have many friends with G3 powerbooks (from 99 to pismo), myself included (pismo), and I wont say they all have that problem 'cause Im not shure, but I would make that affirmantio…

After having my Powerbook for about 6 weeks, the dreaded key marks are showing up on my screen. I just got off the phone with Apple, and they gave me the "oil from your fingers... …

I have had a PowerBook 520c and PowerBook 540c both worked great and just won't die. They are small and yet big enough to work on. They are light but they don't feel cheaply lig…

Is there a way to upgrade the video chip in this machine?

I'm sure it's possible with hours and hours of soldering and hacking work. I would say it's impossible, but everything's possible. In other words, the task is impossible. http://…

The DVD kit uses a hardware processor on a PC card, so I'd guess that you can do some video off of the motherboard. As far as replacing the onboard processor, forget it.

I am ordering a $290 18GB IBM 2.5" HD to replace my original 3GB drive. Everyone wants $60 less than MCE for the same drive. Actually I suspect the MCE drive is a Toshiba by the sp…

I used to work for a company with over 3000 of these things, so I got familiar with the process. Unfortunately I haven't done it in a long time, so I'm a little fuzzy on the detail…

You can download the full tech manual in pdf format from this site: http://download.info.apple.com/Apple...k_3400c.g3.pdf It has complete instructions for your hd replacement.

The PB3400 won't utilize any storage beyond 3 GB, even on a much larger drive. Quote: Originally posted by ThermoNuclear: I am ordering a $290 18GB IBM 2.5" HD to repla…

Apple Spec for PB 3400: "Minimum Internal HD Size: 3GB" http://www.info.apple.com/info.apple...ec.taf?RID=239

We have a PB-3400 that is still chugging along just fine! It has been updated with a 6 GB HD, max RAM and passed along in the company as senior people get new Pismos! Word of caut…

This isn't true. I bought a 4 GB drive for mine a couple of years ago (from MCE), and they told me that the only problem with larger hard drives for the 3400 is that if they're abo…

Oh, by the way, our PB-3400 was one of the early model PB-3400/200c with the active matrix display and the 6x CD-ROM. When we did the update, we added 128 MB of RAM (total now 144 …