Looking to upgrade PowerBook Bronze hard drive to 12/16 gig. What brand and what size / rpm should I look for? Where (online) should I shop? Thanks for the tips...

I have always liked IBM hard disk drives. IBM has recently come out with hard drives that hold 30 gigabytes, if I remember correctly. These drives spin at 5400 RPM, one of the fast…

5400 RPM is one of the SLOWEST drive speeds, not the fastest. more importantly seek and access time would be better numbers to look at if you are going to do any high disk i/o. [T…

"residentEvil", I don't think you've understood. We're talking mobile drives. The standard rotational speed for mobile drives is 4500 RPM. Before you flame another member (sorry i…

nope, it was not a flam and i do read. the question was about mobile, you answered merely as ibm. assumption was mobile, but you said market and to me, thats all inclusive to all h…

I dunno, I think that it was pretty clear that 5400 was in reference to mobile drives (I think 12,000 is the fastest for desktops?)... regardless, sean is right... 5400 RPM is the …

i wasn't saying anyone was right or wrong. i said 5400 is slow. man, people have a complex here. if you say 5400 isn't slow, deskptop or laptop, then the entire point was lost. get…

You might backup your posts with facts, like the difference in speed between whatever and whatever. If mobile hard disk drives were faster, with the technology we have today, they…

While some of sean's claims above were wrong (specifically those about thermally induced noise), he is correct that 5400RPM is the fastest available for notebook drives (4200 is st…

About the searing heat warping the innards, it turns out I was wrong. Drives might require thermal recalculation, but their innards won't warp enough to make more noise.

Whoops, I guess we posted at the same time... http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/biggrin.gif

thank you for letting me rant. thats all i was getting at was it's slowness compared to other drives on the market. i made no claims other than to stick with seek/access times for …

http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/biggrin.gif Delete your account? That would be abuse of power. Most definitely. I just became a moderator today, perhaps right after I said "I do…

no harm, no foul. i'm easy going http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/smile.gif

Getting back to the original question, I don't think the 5400 RPM drives are available yet. Are they? I just installed an 18 gig Toshiba (standard 4,200 RPM) in my G3 266 Wallst…

Does anyone remember the apple ad campaign for the first Powerbook G3? It showed an aggressive shark desktop image fitting the 1024x768 LCD of th PB. I'd like to have that image o…

http://www.macdesktops.com/images/10...ws1024x768.jpg

My FireWire PowerBook, named Phoenix, burns Pentium notebooks as a daily chore... I've got a really, really cool Photoshopped (by yours truely) picture of a phoenix and FireWire im…

G R E A T ! Thanks alot!

I'm getting a Pismo and dad has one. What I reckon apple should go back to doing is making docks for powerbooks. A Pismo with a dock containing drive bays, PCI slots would be da bo…

MacNZ, the integration of such ports (PCI, AGP, drive bays) would be quite difficult. The PowerBook's display is connected directly to the graphics card. The only reason they made …

There's a post over at MacDebate (I think) in the Powerbook area that discusses PCI expansion chassis for the Lombard and Pismo powerbooks. It also has a page reference that takes…

Ok, I see, thanks. Yeah, there are plenty of ports on the new powerbooks. Was just wondering whether it could encorporate PCI which the powerbook lacks and maybe full 5.25" size dr…

I've scanned in a seris of photographs that I want to build a short movie out of. However, when I try to render the movie using the DV codec, playback is very choppy. QT Player rep…

Not even the fastest G4 can currently play DV codec video on High quality at full frame rate. The data rate is just too high. For viewing on the computer, just go into the movie'…