Hello, >I would volunteer, but don’t have mine to hand — packed away in a box just now >whilst >renovating. If noöne else volunteers, I’ll dig mine out and have a go >in a week or so.
Like you, my iMates are not immediately accessible (in fact, you'll probably see yours again before I see mine). Even so, I might be able to help solve at least one mystery: >That occurred to me too: we should get someone to open theirs up, remove the >battery, and >see if it works without, and what difference it makes if it does >work. > My own experience is that without the battery (or rather, with a battery that has gone dead), the iMate instantly turns into an iPaperweight. Three years ago (almost to the day, in fact) I had an iMate die on me. One minute everything is going great guns, the next.......I'm dead in the water. I was baffled as to how an end user could kill one of these things, and so queried the g3-5-list as to what might have happened: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg08573.html Fortunately, Technophobic Tom saw my post (thank you, Tom), and sent me an off-list mail advising me that the iMate had an internal battery, and that it was accessible by splitting open the case. Not having any tools immediately at hand, I quickly discovered that you don't actually need any apart from a set of long fingernails: just insert one into the seam between the two case halves, gently move it around a bit and, presto, it's open. The iMate is encased in a snap-together enclosure, which makes sense, seeing as how it has a battery that, at some point (albeit possibly in the very distant future), will need to be replaced. In my own particular case, the need arose sooner rather than later. I do realize there's a difference in running an iMate with a dead battery and one with no battery. However, I'd be willing to bet money that an iMate sans battery functions as an iPaperweight only. Of course, as an acute sufferer of extreme Scottishness (note the last name), I would love to be proven wrong and so escape the ghastly fate of purchasing batteries that will only work in exactly -one- device I own. ;) Best, James Fraser -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
