On Apr 18, 2005, at 4:23 PM, Rick McCutcheon wrote:
Greetings g-listers,
Some of you will know me from the P-book list which I've been on for ages,
though mostly lurking for the past year or two.
My very trusty PB1400c has been showing signs of strain, all fixable but
enough to get in the way of work, so I recently found a Tibook 400 in
fabulous condition for a good price. Decided to just get it and start the
switch over....
A couple of newbie questions to help get me up to steam.
1) Will a 2.0 USB PC card port give me 2.0 speeds or is there an internal
bottleneck? (How can you tell I've been using a 1400?)
It should be fine, so long as you're running 10.2 or better for USB 2.0 support.
2) As I understand it, any of the battery numbers for the 15" Tibooks (A1012/M6091/M8244/M8511) will work. Did they get better with time?
They've gotten *newer* with time, and so hold a better charge...
3) I take it the choice was either a CD-RW drive or a DVD-CD Rom, which is
what I got. Is the swap easy? Is there a third party option to have both?
Replacing the drive on these is reasonably easy, see pbfixit.com for both instructions and parts/prices.
You can go up to a DVD-R/RW superdrive on them.
4) I've heard hinges are a problem for some? These ones seem fine. What
happens?
Same as any hinge problem, they can loosen, putting extra strain on the display or flopping about at the wrong angles. However, this is a much rarer occurrence with TiBooks in my experience.
5) Can I load OS9.1 straight onto it, then boot from it with a key
combination? (It has 10.2.x and 9.2.x but old software might need 9.1 --
I'll see first if the software will run in classic. Anyone using Word 98
with Endnote 4 in classic?)
Nothing I've ever found didn't run in 9.2 if it ran in 9.1...the differences between these two revs are minimal: pretty much some tweaks to run as classic better and some OpenGL improvements.
Office 98 will run in classic under OS X, Office 2000 won't (this was the very last pre-OS X version and wasn't around very long). Endnote will run in classic, no problems, however upgrading both of those to OS X versions is definitely recommended.
I ran into one problem with installing Endnote 6 on os x, it has to be installed by the same user who installed Office, or the installer fails on a permissions issue. This has very likely been fixed in newer versions of the EndNote installer. (That one took me a day to figure out....drove me NUTS!)
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