• • • • • • • • • Lombard/Pismo Battery From Michael Bearpark Hi, You mentioned the Newer Tech replacement batteries for Lombard/Pismo PowerBooks in a recent column. I've used one of these batteries in a Lombard for a few months, and my impression is that it lasts almost twice as long as the stock battery ever did. Highly recommended.

Worth buying one of these older PowerBooks to install this battery if you need long life between charges at times. Best wishes, Mike Bearpark Thanks for the report, Mike. I need a new battery for my Pismo and you've helped shorten the list of candidates. Charles Yahoo Mail, Hotmail Problems with OS X From Steve Eberly Hello Charles, I have scoured the Net and gone thru all your in search of an answer to my problem. Nothing seems to deal with my situation.

I assume it is so simple that I can't see it easily. I have happily been running my and with OS 8.1 Last month, my son gave me a with OS X installed. I cannot open either my or my with it regardless of what browser I use.

I have tried IE 5, 2.9.8,, and now I just downloaded (which is nice). I can always open to the log in page with no problems, but once I try to log in I get a drop down message telling me the document (my mailbox) has no data. If I go over to the 3400, everything is fine. I have thought that this iMac, which was from a corporate clearance sale, may have some things blocked to prevent employees from doing personal mail.

OS X is OK for me, although I like Classic lots more and don't need OS X as such. Is it the system, the browser, or me?

Thanks so much for your thoughts. I truly enjoy your columns. Regards, Steve Hi Steve, It's not the browsers. It's not OS X per se. My son uses Hotmail (with a hacked and OS X 10.3) and has mentioned no problems.

It may be the particular installation of OS X on your iMac. The potential cure would be to do a clean system reinstall from a regular install disk.

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Either that or just use OS 9.x since you like it better anyway. Charles iBook and OS X From Jamie Saunders I have an (no FW) with 364 MB RAM. Will it run OS X at a decent speed? I didn't know who else to ask and I did a search. Jamie Saunders Hi Jamie, It will run, but 'decent speed' is a value judgment. It will be a lot slower than OS 9 on that machine. My son ran OS X on a for a couple of years, and the current owner of that machine continues to do so.

My personal view is that I wouldn't want to use OS X on anything less than a 500 MHz G3 or 400 MHz G4 with 640 MB of RAM, and consequently I run OS 9 on my. Many would disagree with me. Charles Editor's note: I've used OS X on an overclocked,,, my, and some faster Macs. 'Decent speed' is a personal call, but even with lots of memory, the G3/333 machines feel slow. The 400 MHz G4 is comfortably fast. Dk Adding FireWire to a G4?

From wen Hello My in 2001 and got the extra 1 gig of RAM, I had no idea that I would need FireWire when I bought Final Cut Pro. How do I get the FireWire now so I can use last years version on F.C. Wen Hi Wen, What sort of G4 has no FireWire? [Editor's note: None.] However, if you have PCI expansion slots, it's a simple matter to add a FireWire upgrade card, and they're relatively cheap.

Charles Re: Recalcitrant B&W From Gahanna Both hard disks I have are at least OS 9, although both are HFS (not +). Now, I'm not too sure about the memory speed. It's Kingston, so I know it's good. Also, how would this Mac take to 133 memory?