Apple mac owners

And Leopards fun too

aiden - if you haven't already, i highly recommend joining demonoid.com

an angel from on high (well, edinburgh) sent us some apples in the post today, which has made lisa and i very happy bunnies indeed


cole. x

Pen draven... Huh?

Nice one for the link cole... as soon as i get my machine back in ship shape i'll have a look.

My mac got sooooo hijacked as soon as i bought it... i've barely had time to break it, let alone fix it. Im a bit of a geek so i'd be dissapointed if i couldnt break it a bit.

What would you do if you had no tv, loved movies and your flatmate bought a 20" imac...

leopard
my favourite part is that expose has been improved in *exactly* the way i wanted it too

anyone know how easy it is to upgrade hard drives in the old g3 ibooks...?


cole. x

Cole,, It's not monsterously hard,, but if memory serves you'll probably need Torx drivers sizes 6 and 8 to undo all the screws (but my memory is rather flakey so could be wrong)

thanks pen.

i think you can very well expect get a bombardment of mac questions from me again in the coming weeks...

much like this one:
if i have a 600mhz g3 ibook, what is the latest mac os that will run on it and where do i obtain a copy from...?


cole. x

Sweet

I expose. love it... and Gestures

Macs are so cool

Can I ask a question? What is the spec of the mac you got cole? Cos I have no idea what mine is....

No Worries Mr Cole Always glad to help

You should be able to chuck 10.4 on it no worries,, but if its got less than 256 meg of Ram in it it'll struggle a lil so maybe 10.3 might be a better option. You can buy either of those from your local Applestore/ online or just do the usual and errr {cough}

Good lil app i use for mac specs and helpfulness is Mactracker http://www.mactracker.ca/

MCP Good way of finding out all your specs is to launch System Profiler (Its in the utilities folder in the Apps folder) All the info you need (and a shedload more) will be listed in there

thanks mr draven (can i call you nick/nik/nic/gnyq?)

meg = the angel i mentioned earlier

i found out the specs by removing the keyboard (use the two little slide switches at the top in-between the keys) and looking at the serial sticker above the airport card slot.

they are both 12" dual usb models (from around 2001) and the sticker says something like "600mhz/128mb/15gb/cd", which i guess means its a g3 600mhz processor with a 15 gig hdd, 128 meg of ram and a cd drive

of course, if you can turn them on and that, you can just click the apple on the menu bar and go to 'system info' then click the 'more info' button if you need more (this will launch the system profiler app that pen mentioned).

this wiki page lists all the ibook models with basic specs and release dates

if when i can turn them on it turn out that they only have a cd drive, i'll be replacing it with a dvd drive.

i only need to get one airport card though as one of them already had one in it!


right, i'm off to look for 10.3...


cole. x

wow, I'll have to find the time at some point this weekend to unfreeze mine and look at it. 10-15bg eh... might just fit my video collection...

I think the cd drives are all combo dvd cd/rw drives... which should be sweet.

Cole,, of course you can call me Nik

hmmmmmm

ooh meg - what exactly did you do to freeze your ibook...?

just wondering so i don't end up doing the same thing!


cole. x

handylinx:
http://repair4laptop.org/disassembly_apple.html

that os x panther install cd is still in there... and always attempts to boot from it, then fails and stalls. Not that I've actually gone down the paperclip / holding mouse button down route yet... due to busyness...

do ya think its a dodgy panther install disc problem then?

let me know if you need an alternative


cole. x

Hey chaps
I recall being able to make my iBook a target drive of someone else's iBook by connecting the two with a firewire to firewire cable then holding down apple T during start up on mine. It's not working though when I connect with Dave's.
I know that a firmware password witl lblock that function, but
I don't have firmware password as far as I know...that's not something that would automatically instal with a software update is it??

Or maybe I've just mashed my cable somehow by carting it around?
Clues?

You might need to get into target disk mode, then connect the cables. If it's showing just the disk icon it's in target disk mode.

If you can get into open firmware (Apple+O+F) then you don't have a password (just type boot to carry on booting).

Firmware updates can't be done in OSX anyway, as you need OS 9 for some reason (PITA doing it with a Japanese copy ).

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A G3 should be fine running OS 10.4, so long as you stuff it with memory. My G3 clamshell (466Mhz) happily took a 512mb SODIMM (more than Apple says it can take), and with 640Mb total runs Tiger well enough. An upgrade to a faster hard drive can help too.