Quote: Originally posted by stevesnj: Take it in for repair or replacement, the drive would be making a heck of a noise if it's scratching discs...i would stop using the…

I opened up my keyboard by pulling back the two little tabs left and right top of the keyboard and it opened fine. I did here some funny sort of click, thought something had fallen…

It's been a while since I've used a bronze keyboard machine, but doesn't the spacer the middle tab is attached to have a small screw on it (flathead). IIRC turning the screw retrac…

>> but doesn't the spacer the middle tab is attached to have a small screw on it (flathead). No, no screw, i've lifted the keyboard out many times with no problems, thanks a…

never thought to look on the back!? thnaks, it worked great! cheers ~demetrius

Anyone else experience this? The chrome on the lid latch on my 17" Rev B seems to be flaking off. I thought the latch was metal but it's obviously plastic with a chrome finish.

The latch button on my 15" seems to be metal but with a transparent protective finish. Before they replaced my bottom case, I had peeled it off as the flaking was annoying. Are yo…

12 inch powerbook experiencing the same- but its just cosmetics

No, I see plastic beneath the flaking chrome. More flaking paint issues, great.

Ok, this is kind of embarassing, but I had my computer, in my backback with a computer sleeve, fall off of a 4 foot high table, onto the floor. I thought it got through the episod…

Lately, something seems slow about my pismo. On SNES9X it gets lower performance than my rev. C iMac, and video files, .avi files in particular have had horrible performance, dropp…

R...A...M

RAM.

Quote: Originally posted by PowerMacMan: RAM. I realize that adding ram would help, but from what ive been told 320 mb should be plenty for just running one or two…

I run a 400 pismo with 320mb RAM and have never felt that my system suffered from a lack of RAM. I can't speak to the RAM requirements of SNES emulation, but my initial thoughts ar…

alternatively, I have also experienced dramatic slow downs on my Pismo by allowing the drive to fill up. My perception is that with less than 1 GB free on teh hard drive, Panther …

Quote: Originally posted by rjc3: alternatively, I have also experienced dramatic slow downs on my Pismo by allowing the drive to fill up. My perception is that with le…

Disk Warrior can also help with speed problems associated with suboptimal directories. This can happen even with a half empty HD -- scattered files really hurt the OS. I know with…

8megs of videoram... so the ext monitor MAY be the problem. if the pismo screen is completely useless, will be hard to confirm this. try some other screen resolutions? just a thou…

RAM -- Mac OS X alone, after just a little bit of web browsing, can easily take up hundreds and hundreds of MB of RAM. For example, all I have running now is iChat and Safari, but …

Trade up.

It may be too early in the lifetime of the G5 to answer this question, but I was wondering if anyone knew whether or not it's possible to upgrade a G5 1.6 to one of the higher spee…

At this point, I think it's too early to tell what may happen. I don't think I've come across any detailed discussion about if there will ever be processor upgrades for the G5 mode…

I can tell you that there is no way to add a second processor to the 1.6GHz model. The connectors and glue circuits are missing from the motherboard.

Apple seems to have killed the upgrade market. Upgraded computers kill new sales and Apple is all about new sales.