Actually, I have an IBM Thinkpad 240 and it sleeps and hibernates perfectly. In fact, it sleeps when I close the lid and wakes up when I open it. The only time I have a problem is…

So, can a PowerBook (or iBook) take the jolts of a car? I never knew they were so sentitive. ------------------ Why 1984, won't be like "1984"

Actually, I'd be more worried about the CD/DVD drive than the Hard drive when moving around. I've noticed that the CD makes rather unpleasant grinding noises if you tilt the Pismo …

I use my powerbook on the train, I have done so for the past 2 years. Sometimes the train shakes so much it is hard to hit the correct key. My powerbook still works as it should. …

Harald_G You obviously use the UK's West Coast line run by Virgin Trains! I do regularly with my Wallstreet and have had no hard disk problems. Delays and cancellations yes, HD p…

I'd like to use my Pismo in the car as an MPEG-3 player. Do you just connect your PowerBook to the cassette player and leave it on the seat, or do you have some sort of mounting th…

Heehee, sean, you make it sound like if you had your own car to mount it in! ;-) tooki

Quiet, "tooki". http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/biggrin.gif (You know that is in a joking tone, because we're friends, right? *ahem* Just making sure everyone else doesn't know …

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…

There are many updates you should be running: OS 9.0.4 FireWire 2.4 Multimedia Update 1.0 Final Cut Pro 1.2.5 (free update) Set your disk cache to 128k (memory control panel). Sco…

OPTION key allows you to choose any bootable device T key allows you to go into "target disk mode". Happy now? Scott [This message has been edited by slboett (edited 07-14-2000)…

Sorry, Scott, you're wrong about the "T" key. It puts the PowerBook in Target Disk mode, turning into an external HD (either SCSI or FireWire) to be connected to another Mac. The "…

Tooki, the T key doesn't just work on the PowerBooks. Plus, I never stated that the T key booted into Mac OS - if you got that from my post, you misunderstood. Hold the COMMAND ke…

BUT HERE IS SOMETHING NEW!!!!!! I was playing with my Pismo keyboard yesterday when starting the machine and I discovered that, when pressing the Z key on startup, you get a cool b…

Scott: 1. this is the PowerBook forum, in case you hadn't noticed, but you are right, Apple seems to have expanded the FireWire Target Disk Mode to work on all AGP-based Macs. Not…

Suggestion: chill out? Scott

Oops, sorry! I forgot to say that you need to press the Z key a few times as holding the key pressed doesn't do much... Voila!

My power adapter hums too, but according to tooki, that's normal. It hums the same way an Electrical Plant hums when you drive by it. or something like that. Anyway, the humming …

Mine never used to hum, though, and it's not consistant... it'll hum for a second, stop, hum again for a second, stop, hum for a minute, etc...

It is VERY easy to tell who made your adapter: it says so right on the device! Right below the electrical specifications. Some are made by Delta Electronics (Apple's power supply m…

aha! yes, i checked my UFO and it is a Delta... maybe the Samsung ones are the only ones that are having all the various difficulties because my Delta unit works just fine after mu…

(Totally useless bit of semantics): I just realized we're calling the AC adapter the UFO. But it's the Airport Base Station that's the UFO. The AC adapter is the yo-yo. tooki

My problem is different... I have hard times pluging my adapter to my Pismo, it's really damn hard... I'm always scared of breaking something. As well, you can easily step on it by…