Just got my new powerbook about a week ago and am very happy with it on the whole. However, I do have a few troubling issues, I would invite any advice or suggestions any of you might have.
1. It has the screen wobble. Im sure its normal, and I will try glueing a couple rubber feet to stabalize it. I do beleive that this is an oversight by apple, I mean, it doesnt have to be flush to the keyboard, but some support to steady those tiny plastic clips would extend the life of the latch Im sure.
2. Safari is exceedingly slow, granted not as slow as IE, but still much slower than Im used to on my PC. I downloaded Firefox and it is much better, but it takes like 10 seconds to start up, which is quite strange.
3. The trackpad... in a word.. SUCKS! I mean, its not very responsive, it's double-tap click function takes like 3 tries to work... and the clicker is insanely stiff. Also, Im disappointed that there is no trackpad scroll feature (like for the edge of the pad to scroll pages), is there any third party software to fix any of these issues?
4. Quicktime does not play many of my video files. It seems to have trouble with most AVI files and even some MPG files. I have downloaded and installed Divx, which seems to help but it still wont play at least 30% of my videos. Im sure plenty of people here have some advice for me on this one?
5. The UT2004 Demo performs terribly on my 1.5GHz G4, a 1 GB RAM, 128 VRAM, and 5400 rpm drive.
Btw, I was wondering what people have found is the fastest FW800 single drive setup? The LaCie big disk is too expensive and at most I only need 250GB. I assume you can boot and run the OS from an external drive?
Thanks in advance for any help or advice anyone might be able to offer.
1. It has the screen wobble. Im sure its normal, and I will try glueing a couple rubber feet to stabalize it. I do beleive that this is an oversight by apple, I mean, it doesnt have to be flush to the keyboard, but some support to steady those tiny plastic clips would extend the life of the latch Im sure.
2. Safari is exceedingly slow, granted not as slow as IE, but still much slower than Im used to on my PC. I downloaded Firefox and it is much better, but it takes like 10 seconds to start up, which is quite strange.
3. The trackpad... in a word.. SUCKS! I mean, its not very responsive, it's double-tap click function takes like 3 tries to work... and the clicker is insanely stiff. Also, Im disappointed that there is no trackpad scroll feature (like for the edge of the pad to scroll pages), is there any third party software to fix any of these issues?
4. Quicktime does not play many of my video files. It seems to have trouble with most AVI files and even some MPG files. I have downloaded and installed Divx, which seems to help but it still wont play at least 30% of my videos. Im sure plenty of people here have some advice for me on this one?
5. The UT2004 Demo performs terribly on my 1.5GHz G4, a 1 GB RAM, 128 VRAM, and 5400 rpm drive.
Btw, I was wondering what people have found is the fastest FW800 single drive setup? The LaCie big disk is too expensive and at most I only need 250GB. I assume you can boot and run the OS from an external drive?
Thanks in advance for any help or advice anyone might be able to offer.
