Taking Powerbook to the US — #2
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Originally posted by siflippant:
I'm travelling to the USA at the end of January '04 and was hoping to take my Ti800 along for the ride. On my last trip out there…
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Taking Powerbook to the US — #3
I agree with riverfreak 100%.
Just some added tips from someone who travels too much of late .....
1. Wear tennis shoes (sneakers) on the plane, they rarely ask you to take them…
Taking Powerbook to the US — #4
Thanks for the advice guys! Much appreciated
Taking Powerbook to the US — #5
Whether you'll have to take the laptop out of the bag or not really depends on the screener and the airport. I've been to places where they let me send it through while it was in …
Dead Hard drive, please help! — #2
If you have access to one, try installing it into a external firewire case. Then you be able to use Disk utility to check the S.M.A.R.T. status. If it doesn't pass S.M.A.R.T. it…
Dead Hard drive, please help! — #3
The drive is 2 years old. Fujitsu. I will look into the firewire drive idea. Thanks. Is there any other way(if i could not get a hold of one), to test it to see if it is dead? I ha…
Dead Hard drive, please help! — #4
Unfortunately, the fact that you can't boot from CD says that your hard drive's controller board is failing. Being the master device on the bus, the hard drive instructs the CD-RO…
Dead Hard drive, please help! — #5
It will take a power user, to help, but I had a problem where my 15" powerbook would not boot, from the hard drive, and refused to the CD too. I don't remember the keys I had to u…
Dead Hard drive, please help! — #6
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Originally posted by robinpow:
It will take a power user, to help, but I had a problem where my 15" powerbook would not boot, from the hard drive, and refused to …
Dead Hard drive, please help! — #7
If you can't boot from CD (The OSX install CD would be the best), it might be the IDE controller being defect, but it might also be something else. I have a Lombard, which is simla…
Still don't know which laptop 2 buy — #2
Don't get a PC. Buy the best that you can afford. If that is the 15" PB, then go for it. The reason why I say that is that if you do not buy the best, you'll always be left wishing…
Still don't know which laptop 2 buy — #3
The top 3 are all great computers, I would always go for the fastest process you can get, then it really is a question of screen size and portability and this is a personal decisio…
Still don't know which laptop 2 buy — #4
go for the fastest mac you can afford, it will last long and in any moment you will agree you made the right decision.
When i bought my first mac I decided for an ibook with cd-rw…
Still don't know which laptop 2 buy — #5
Although this forum is inherently biased "it is the Mac News Network after all" I would not just blindnesly detour someone off from a PC. PC's are better for some things then Appl…
Still don't know which laptop 2 buy — #6
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Originally posted by Mr. Bob:
As for me, I am very interested in making my next computer a 15" Apple Powerbook, and so am doing a healthy dose of research -- whic…
Still don't know which laptop 2 buy — #7
Good post Drakino, I am leaning toward your machine as the Sony Vaio is dead.
For all those that think apple support is not up to par....just surf on over to dell and other support…
Still don't know which laptop 2 buy — #8
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Originally posted by JerryB:
Good post Drakino, I am leaning toward your machine as the Sony Vaio is dead.
For all those that think apple support is not up to par…
Still don't know which laptop 2 buy — #9
First and foremost you should definately re-evaluate what programs you need to run on the laptop. If its for web browsing or simple stuff then either architectures will work. Not…
Still don't know which laptop 2 buy — #10
i got a powerbook, now i HATE my pc. im looking to sell my tower and get a g5
i was nervous about buyin a powerbook comming from a thinkpad, but ill never look back
What is apple's support email address? — #2
im not the only one with this problem, LOTS of others have it too:
http://discusssearch.info.apple.com/...AN.7@.599d2315
What is apple's support email address? — #3
I use a PC Card reader, attainable for less than $10.00 at Amazon--for a brand name; I believe it's faster too.
(This setup) seems to work fine for me.
What is apple's support email address? — #4
I doubt that it is faster than usb2.0 glad you arent havint problems
Store display Powerbooks always perfect (15" vs. 17") — #2
I bet if you go to a retail store you can ask to inspect the machine before you buy it. I ordered a stock 15Al from the Apple Store for Education, and I've got three major white s…
Store display Powerbooks always perfect (15" vs. 17") — #3
You can't honestly believe that any store would display defective products? As for the white spot problem, everything I've heard about them suggests that most times the spots don'…
Store display Powerbooks always perfect (15" vs. 17") — #4
I was at the Tampa Apple Store 2-3 weeks ago and I saw that one of the 15" PB floor models had the white spots.