Quote: Originally posted by JHromadka: Since this was posted in the Powerbooks section, I assume that's what you are referring to. With the exchange program going on ri…

i belive apple offered to give you some money if you trade in an old ibook or powerbook but i dont think its much and it is the same price for all models

Quote: Originally posted by Sakino: Exchange program? http://www.thinksecret.com/news/pbg4upgrade.html . Other sites have confirmed this.

I got mine almost a year ago (last Feb), I've had no problems with the screen other than one stuck black pixel towards the lower left. It's not really noticeable most of the time..…

Just like to report I have no problem as mentioned. Better check with AppleCare.

Nope. Mine's fine.

Same here. Fine.

No problem here...

Nope. *knock wood*

Well, now it isn't. My PB is weird

And I thought I was the only one... Yes, I have had this problem, too. Well, having really, because it happened just yesterday. The sound comes back after a (long) while, though, …

the beeping alone would make me think logic board. either way, it doesn't sound like anything I could tell you a quick-fix for.

I've experience similar freezes on a brand new dual 1.8Ghz G5 (with 10.3.2). I get the same second or two of looped sound that continuously repeats. I've been doing some looking,…

my g4 does this too lol.. You sure the beeping isn't because you're holding down the power button on bootup? I'm positive it's the RAM, myself... because my machine's motherboard…

I don't think colored PowerBook would help sales at all. Most people (Pros especially) already love the Al finish as it is. Colored iBook was available for a while, did they help…

there is already a thread here..

yes...maybe bad idea

User customizable covers are already available for some powerbooks/books: http://www.macskinz.com/

How often do you run the cron jobs? If your computer is turned off every night and started up in the morning, chances are (unless you have changed the settings for cron) that they …

Try running top in terminal or use Activity monitor to see what is using your cpu%. I have seen WeatherPop go whacked and suck up all remaining cpu time. For that reason, I quit us…

MacJanitor seems to have cleared up the issues. I put my laptop to sleep at night so I was missing all cron jobs. thanks.

you can also change the time the cron jobs run. No need to add yet another program to do this for you in terminal, you can type: sudo pico /etc/crontab then put in the admin pa…

If your processor is 1.33 Ghz ( aka. rev. B) then you have it, otherwise you have standard USB. You can check that under about this mac that is under the blue apple at the top lef…

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If you go under system profiler and click USB in the left hand menu it will tell you. It'll say something like USB USB Highspeed USB