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AlBook RAM in a TiBook? — #1

We just ordered a new 1.25ghz AlBook in the office. It's 512 megs of RAM is 256x2, and we'll probably update one of the slots to 512, to get 768 in the powerbook and have a 256 me…
MacNN Hardware by C.J. Moof

New mac help. — #1

I am graduating from college in the coming months and I am looking to get either a 15" Alum PB (FW800) or the last model PM G4 (FW800) ASAP. I will be mainly running FCP 3 and even…
MacNN PowerPC by jblaze

PB bus and cache speeds for dummies — #1

Can someone please help: I posted before asking the diff between notebooks and desktops with the same specifications. For the most part I now know that unless the specs are truly …
MacNN PowerPC by reemas

Suggestions on a trade — #1

There's a guy who's interested in trading his 12" Albook (2 months old) for my 15" Tibook (14 months old). Both have 1Ghz processors and superdrives. I have 1gig RAM, he has 768. …
MacNN Hardware by jerseyfreeze

bluetooth headphones yet ? — #1

so, with my new powerbook, I wanted to buy some bluetooth headphones. I did search the forums, but all the threads were somewhat old. so, now I ask again, are there some good "Hi-F…
MacNN Software by Sarc

Virtual Desktop for OSX? — #1

WinXP has a cool utility that is called Virtual Desktop Manager as part of their PowerToys thing. This emulates the Gnome/KDE virtual desktop thing in Linux. Very handy for those…
MacNN General by Switched2Mac

G3 BW HD size limit — #1

Is there a maximum HD size that I can fit in a bw G3? I have 60+6 Go on the IDE bus, and I consider removing the original 6 GB HD and installing a 120GB HD instead. Can the origin…
MacNN Hardware by lapinos

PowerBook Price-drop Predictions (PPP) — #1

I realize that some folks are sick of threads that ask "should I buy a PowerBook now or wait?"; nevertheless, if you'll bear with me, I believe I have a new tack on this topic that…
MacNN PowerPC by selowitch

Anyone ever buy RAM from 1-800-4-MEMORY? — #1

Im looking to get an additional 512 chip for my PB 17 and this place has it the cheapest. Is this joint any good? Also, how do you install it on the 17? I did it on my old TiBook…
MacNN Troubleshooting by drainyoo

Superdrive Scratching CDs — #1

Hi, I've just noticed that the superdrive in my PB 12" 867 has been scratching some CDs slightly. These are dotted in circles, in the outer half of the CD, with each scratch foll…
MacNN Troubleshooting by iMacfan

Bronze Keyboard issue — #1

I opened up my keyboard by pulling back the two little tabs left and right top of the keyboard and it opened fine. I did here some funny sort of click, thought something had fallen…
MacNN Troubleshooting by babagaga

Chrome latch flaking?? — #1

Anyone else experience this? The chrome on the lid latch on my 17" Rev B seems to be flaking off. I thought the latch was metal but it's obviously plastic with a chrome finish.
MacNN Troubleshooting by acadian

lacie pocketdrive vs d2 drive? — #1

Anyone using these drives for their pb? I desperately need to get some extra space (my 20 gig is full on my rev b pb) and was looking at these two models from lacie. Has anyone h…
MacNN Software by Tiny-E

Best Way To Connect 2 Macs? — #1

Hi all, My question is that I already have a 12" AL Pb and am about to purchase a 17" Imac, they will both be on a network (one wirelessly). What is the best way to have them conne…
MacNN Networking by DynastyMac

TiBook Rev. B battery is stuck in case — #1

Ok, this is kind of embarassing, but I had my computer, in my backback with a computer sleeve, fall off of a 4 foot high table, onto the floor. I thought it got through the episod…
MacNN Hardware by editmire

Unusually slow pismo, suggestions? — #1

Lately, something seems slow about my pismo. On SNES9X it gets lower performance than my rev. C iMac, and video files, .avi files in particular have had horrible performance, dropp…
MacNN Hardware by Woehrle46

G5 processor upgrade — #1

It may be too early in the lifetime of the G5 to answer this question, but I was wondering if anyone knew whether or not it's possible to upgrade a G5 1.6 to one of the higher spee…
MacNN Hardware by k_shehadeh

Java UI — #1

So, what kind of tools are available for developing a GUI for a pure java cross platform application? I take it that it is not possible to use Interface Builder and nibs if it's s…
MacNN Development by 11011001

GarageBand and Soundtrack Loop Duplicate List — #1

Here is a list of loops from Soundtrack that were used in GarageBand. The list includes both the GarageBand and SoundTrack filenames, and their locations relative to /Library/Appli…
MacNN Software by Xeo

new ibook g4 wireless set up - which one? — #1

Have a G3 600 combo iBook which I'm selling to a friend and a new G4 800 machine is on its way to me. I have an airport card and regular base station at home (w a DSL connection) …
MacNN Networking by alamosf
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