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Insanely Great Mac's Remy Davison has posted an
excellent tutorial on how to do PowerBook hard drive upgrades,
covering everything from the latest TiBooks back to the old 100
series machines.
Remy notes that IBM, Toshiba, Fujitsu, and Hitachi are the main
2.5" notebook hard drive manufacturers, and that most Apple OEM
hard drives supplied in PowerBooks and iBooks have been IBMs and
Fujitsus, with IBMs being the preferred drive.
There is a ton of useful information and many links to more in
this article. If you're contemplating a hard drive upgrade, it's
well worth reading.
TiBook Touchup Paint
Samuel Hotchkiss has paint for touching up scratched Titanium
PowerBooks.
Samuel's packs of grey paint for TiBooks are ready to ship. To
order transfer $11.50 to his PayPal account (hotch@hotch.org) and
he says he will ship within 24 hours.
MCE Technologies,
LLC has announced a 16x version of their Lucid Portable
FireWire CD-RW drive. The Lucid-16 CD-RW drive sports the slimmest
dimensions and lightest weight of any FireWire CD-RW drive on the
market today, as well as a sleek industrial design intended to
complement all of Apple's current system lineup, particularly the
Apple PowerBook G4 Titanium.
The Lucid-16 16x10x24x Portable FireWire CD-RW Drive burns
recordable CD-R discs at 16x speed (2400 KB/Sec) and rewritable
CD-RW discs at 10x speed (1500 KB/Sec), while reading CD-ROM discs
at 24x speed (3600 KB/Sec). It does so while weighing in at less
than a pound and measuring 5.5 inches in width, 6.5 inches in
length, and only 0.8 inches in height. The Lucid-16 also features
JustLink buffer underrun protection to prevent the creation of
defective CDs from interruptions in the flow of data to the
drive.
Since the Lucid-16 CD-RW drive is bus-powered, it does not
require an AC adapter for operation, drawing all required power
from any FireWire port which supplies bus power. The Lucid-16 drive
supports all Power Macs, iMacs, PowerBooks, and iBooks with
built-in FireWire ports as well as those with PCI FireWire cards
which supply power to the FireWire bus. An AC adapter which is
available separately is required when using the Lucid-16 drive with
a system that has FireWire ports that do not supply power to the
FireWire bus, such as with some CardBus-based and PCI-based
FireWire cards. The Lucid is compatible with both Finder burning
and Apple's iTunes under Mac OS 9.1 through Mac OS X.
The Lucid 16x10x24x Portable FireWire CD-RW Drive is bundled
with Roxio Toast CD-recording software, a FireWire cable, and a
user's guide. The Lucid-16 CD-RW Drive will retail for $399.00 The
optional universal AC adapter is listed at $14.99. MCE will begin
shipments on February 1, 2002.
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taking up much valuable space, and is available in custom-fit models for
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Medium $37
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Titanium G4 $39
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The SFBags Super Dooper iPod Case is protective and extremely
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pocket for the ear bud storage.
Shipping third week of February
Do-It-Yourself iPod Sleeve
Norbert Scully has posted a PDF
file containing a pattern that anyone can use to make their own
vinyl sleeve costing less than a dollar for their iPod with about
20 minutes work.
Bargain 'Books
There are two different versions of WallStreet running at 233
MHz, the cacheless MainStreet
version and the later Series II
with a level 2 cache. It's not always possible to determine from
the vendor's listing which is being offered, so we've included
links within this paragraph to the two models.
PowerBook G4/400, 128 MB with an
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refurbished, one year Apple warranty, Brenthaven Titanium 1 case,
$1,699
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Flash drives are great but have some shortcomings. Some thoughts on building better SSDs and notebooks to use them.
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Psystar is trying to paint Apple as a monopoly and force it to license the Mac OS.
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valuable space, and is available in custom-fit models for
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