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I installed a new 80GIG Toshiba drive in my Powerbook 12"/1.33GHz, exactly as specified in the ifixit manual. I turned the Powerbook on and it boots using recovery disks, but nothing appears in the Select a Destination volume section of the installer. The new drive is nowhere to be found...

I searched the forums for this problem and I am VERY glad to find such an informative post. The HD on my PB12/1.33GHz is failing. I just ordered a replacement HD from one of the links provided, and I printed a fixit guide with instructions for replacing a HD on a PB12. Wish me luck!

I deleted the iPhoto index file and it works now! Thanks! :)

I have a Powerbook 12 (10.3.4) with iPhoto 05. I wanted to copy some pictures to my father-in-laws eMac (10.3.4) running iPhoto 04 (or whatever the previous version of iPhoto). Using my Powerbook with iPhoto 05, I used the export feature to save a bunch of pictures to a CD. I took the CD to my...

My older version of iPhoto (eMac 10.3.4) was disabled after importing some pictures originally edited in iPhoto '05. How can I resume working in iPhoto again? :mad:

Well, guess what? I just heard that they are in fact updating the eMac: http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=949 It figures. Yesterday I made the leap and ordered a refurbished eMac. Got a decent deal, $650 for the 1.25GHz/Combo drive model, so I can't complain. But its already...

I didn't consider that! Maybe the next time Apple upgrades the iMac, they'll lower the price of the current 1.6 iMac to $999 or less. That would be a smooth way to phase out the eMac. So, then, when is the iMac due for an update? Another few months?

Will the eMac die soon? I have a gut feeling that its doom will be announced any day now...but thats only a feeling. I say this because I want to buy a computer for my toddlers, and the eMac appears to be built like a tank. I like that! Both the mac mini and iMac seem to be much more...

I thought Jobs said that the G4 will be around for a really long time in Powerbooks, because of the serious technical hurdles of putting a G5 in a laptop.

Another laptop line? Well--what about portable computers? Remember the old Compaq suitcase portable from the 80s? It was bigger than today's eMac and iMac, which are not laptops, but still fall under the "luggable" category. I think that all of Apple's consumer lines of computers are already...

I've done some research on this--you can't use iDVD on anything except an internal Superdrive. There was a hack at one point for a certain type of external DVD burner, however, once Apple learned of it, they put a stop to it. Not sure if its corporate laziness/efficiency (ship all computers with...

Use a good password. You may have a rock-solid 128 bit encryption program but if you use a short silly password (like the name of your dog) for your key, and someone takes physical possession of your computer with the key on it, then all they have to do is crack that simple password to get to...

Right...Like those of us in IT (who are paid to work on a computer) have the option of limiting our time in front of it. Incidentally, my lower half is protected from radiation by the wooden table and wrinkle-resistant khakis. Safe!

The ribbon idea is more plausible than the pizza box mockup posted above. I mean, come on, isn't the whole point of Apple's design philosophy to get away from set-top/pizza box designs? That mockup looks like a Sony product. Yuck.

What's the deal with that? They included iDVD on my non-superdrive Powerbook for a reason, right? I am trying very hard to make the iLife suite work for me (as advertised), without buying additional software for my Mac. What is the technical and business justification for dedicating iDVD...