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…

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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…

Don't post this in two forums, and don't post it in the inappropriate forum.

Try reinstalling the DVD Software... that would be my first bet. Have you tried inserting the DVDs while holding down the 'command' and 'i' key? Doing so will force the DVD to moun…

Some people have also reported that turning off File Sharing has made that error disappear. tooki

Misha is on the right trach. Hold down the Option, Command and I keys at the same time while inserting the DVD disk. This will cause the DVD to be mounted on the desktop in ISO-96…

This could also be caused by the Mac not being able to read some DVD formats, specifically ISO 9660 Level 3 and Joliet (a Windows thing). There's a piece of freeware, Joliet Volu…

Thanks for all the help. I tried everything you said but ended up taking the darn thing in (it's not actually mine to speak of so I didn't want to hurt it). They later rang and evi…

As I understand it, you can only connect TV or VGA but not both, but I can't say I've done any tests. As for how to get it to use only the TV: Have a USB device nearby (ANY device…

1)Except for Altivec enhanced applications, there isn't much difference between the G3 and G4 except the G4 tower has a larger graphics card. 2)The graphics card in the Powerbook a…

Apple code name for the latest PowerBooks (the ones with FireWire). Named after Pismo Beach, CA, which is known for Pismo clams. The FireWire PowerBook was originally supposed to c…

Interesting.

I think upgrading a 1400c at this point has diminishing returns. The 1400c was a venerable notebook when it was new, but it's pretty useless for even today's office applications. F…

List it on e-bay and put the proceeds towards either an iBook or a Titanium. rh

Well, I'm not making any plans on listing my new Laptop on ebay again, I just bought it there. Let's set this clear: I don't have the money to buy an iBook, even not a used one. […

Word 5 and ClarisWorks 4 are stellar for older machines. Also look into the iCab browser, and Eudora lite 3 as an email client. They all run nicely in low resource environments.

That's a good tip, I'll try to find those. As said, It's just a better typewriter for me at first, maybe something more when it really suites me. But I'm not going to spend $800 fo…

I actually ran 9.0.4 without complaint on my old 1400. I primarily ran Office 98 and PageMaker 6.5+. PageMaker didn't run that well until I got a Newer 250 upgrade and 64mb of ra…

Of course more RAM helps! Doesn't matter what computer you have - if you are running Mac OS X, you need to get all the RAM you can. I suggest having AT LEAST 384 MB of RAM to run …

Thanks Cheesepuff. What are you running? How much ram do you have, and what kind of improvements can I expect?

I had a PowerBook G3 400 MHz with 192 MB of RAM, and running Mac OS X 10.1 was useless because it was too slow. I upped the RAM to 768 and it had a HUGE improvement from booting up…

Thanks again. Just curious: why do you have two laptops?

Quote: Who has found that 512 makes a real difference compared to 256? When I upgraded from 256 MB to 512 MB in my PowerBook G3 (Pismo), I noticed a significa…

You bet it makes a huge difference. I have a Pismo 400 and upgrading to os X I did 2 things upgraded to 5100 rpm HD (the 48gig) and loaded to 768 RAM. Best investment I could h…