I'll put in my vote for a SuperDrive, since my only computer is my portable. Besides, it's great for backups, not just video DVD burning.

Quote: Originally posted by Scooterboy: <STRONG>I'll put in my vote for a SuperDrive, since my only computer is my portable. Besides, it's great for backups, not …

Wow, reading this reminds me of a few years ago when all of a sudden the power supply in my dock died right after coming home from the road. I think the Duo 210 was on and when I …

Are you talking about a minidock or a desktop dock? The only way you should be able to connect to a desktop dock while the Duo is "powered on" is while it's asleep, in which case t…

Yeah, get a 280c to replace it. The Dock may still be OK. Try resetting the power manager and PRAM first, though. You may not have hurt anything.

Apple sure doesn't have a repair kit, but you might reset the power manager. Disconnect all power - including the battery - from the computer and leave it there for ten minutes to …

Quote: Originally posted by coupchoos: Hello, my powerbook 3400c battery only charges once in a while. Does apple have some sort of repair kit, and does anyone know who …

Hey, I had the same problem with my PowerBook 500, It is most possible that the battery if fine, it's the powersupply that might be frayed or damaged... So use as ussual, and fiddl…

Remember, this is speculation. It's a cinch that the new PBs will look different, but how different waits to be seen. I'm hoping that it looks more like the Cube than the iBook. G…

I hate the new trackpad on the iBooks! Please do not replace the solid-state kind... http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/frown.gif

Here's something to wonder: How is Apple going to appeal to customers in a megahertz-influenced world? The average consumer is going to think the portables are getting slower! ht…

I'd imagine the Mercury's will be 500 MHz. Don

I agree with Sean, I also hate the ibook trackpad. The button is way to hard and tricky to be functional. I guess a 500/600MHz range would be resonable, ie purchasable, even thou…

Quote: Originally posted by seanyepez: I hate the new trackpad on the iBooks! Please do not replace the solid-state kind... http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/frown.gif …

Quote: But,laptops are getting extremely slim and shiny and I have no idea how Apple is gonna stand with all this... Let's hope Apple can keep the design mome…

Quote: If they made a laptop as beautiful as the Cube I might have to purchase it on the spot. Amen. I am still stunned by the look of the Cube. Especially wh…

Quote: Amen. I am still stunned by the look of the Cube. Especially when it's driving the 15" flat screen Wow. Do that to a PowerBook and they'll sell like hotcakes. …

Quote: Originally posted by Don Pickett: If God's in the detail, I know what kind of computer s/he/it uses. . . You do remember the old joke about Bill Gates dying …

I do remember that joke, and some others. There isn't a computer maker around (and hardly a manufacturer, for that matter) with design as integrated and effective and Apple. Every…

Don: That's very encouraging news indeed. But the gentleman from Newer put it best when he said that an design that is made specifically for the G4 (i.e. Mercury) will be able to …

Which is why I set the time frame at a year or two. Hopefully, by that time, lower power/heat G4s will be out. As far as I can tell, the big difference between the Mercury and the …

I would say that everything depends on the charm of the new comer, ie mercury. After all, I like to have a new machine every season and people asking me "Oh, is this the new one?..…

[quote] But it would be easier and cheeper for me to upgrade the cpu and vram.[/qoute] Upgrading the processor is, as we have seen, relatively easy. Upgrading the VRAM is some ver…

What I want is a 3D card that you can add to a notebook via PCMCIA. It's fast enough, right? The only problem is getting the signal from the PCMCIA slot to the display without cau…

Both Newer and Magma make PCI expansion chassis which give the PowerBook the ability to add video cards, SCSI, etc. I don't know how the performance is with video, but it might be …