[Dr. DDS]

When i close the lid all the aplications stop running?
A saw a steve job's presentation of the ibook and he put a CD to burn and closed the lid. He was using iTunes. The CD stops burning or it finish the process?
And other aplications? when you close the lid it goes to sleep but can't finish do download a file and other stuffs?

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ibook g4 1.42 / 512 / 60GB

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Originally Posted by Dr. DDS

When i close the lid all the aplications stop running?
A saw a steve job's presentation of the ibook and he put a CD to burn and closed the lid. He was using iTunes. The CD stops burning or it finish the process?
And other aplications? when you close the lid it goes to sleep but can't finish do download a file and other stuffs?

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ibook g4 1.42 / 512 / 60GB

Not sure which presentation you mean, but I'm guessing that Steve Jobs was using a PowerBook, not an iBook, and I believe that the PowerBook can continue running when the lid is closed. The PowerBooks are better as venting the heat they generate, so the lid can stay closed (although this still scares me a bit, even though I use my Dell PC this way all day at work). The iBook is not so good at getting rid of its heat, and it vents a lot of heat from the keyboard itself, so, if you closed the lid, and let it continue to run, the heat would vent through the keyboard and cook the screen. There are software hacks available that allow the iBook to continue running while the lid is closed, and, while I like certain hacks for the iBook (Screen Spanning Doctor, for example), this is one area that scares me, and I don't want to risk damaging my screen. I even wait for my iBook to cool down before closing it at the end of the day.

[Dr. DDS]

thanks, but the presentation was really about the ibook when he lauch the first white ibook g3. Was a 12" ibook g3.

[Tuoder]

I wouldn't think that the iBook would generate enough heat to actually damge the screen.

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Originally Posted by Dr. DDS

thanks, but the presentation was really about the ibook when he lauch the first white ibook g3. Was a 12" ibook g3.

Ah...haven't seen that one. Maybe that model could do it. Current models can't without the hack, though.

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Originally Posted by Tuoder

I wouldn't think that the iBook would generate enough heat to actually damge the screen.

I was just going on what I've read in a few places. It could be BS, but my iBook gets rather hot, but not really at the keyboard. It gets super hot at the left-hand palm rest, and the underside in the same place, which explains why there are air vents on that side of the machine.

[Dr. DDS]

my ibook gets hot at the same place

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Originally Posted by Dr. DDS

my ibook gets hot at the same place

Yup, that's the hard drive generating all that heat. Here's a photo of the guts of my iBook. The hard drive is on the left.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmetzcher/123968594/

[Dr. DDS]

i saw the photos. You did that??
i really want to change my HD to a faster one 7200 rpm.
do you think it's gona be more hot or i will just spend mor battery?
It is too hrad to do?

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Originally Posted by Dr. DDS

i saw the photos. You did that??
i really want to change my HD to a faster one 7200 rpm.
do you think it's gona be more hot or i will just spend mor battery?
It is too hrad to do?

I used a 5400 hard drive. I honestly didn't see any 7200 hard drives that were 2.5" and would fit in the iBook. I didn't know they made the smaller drives that fast. My guess is that you would see a huge decrease in your battery life if you went with a 7200 RPM drive. I'm not sure yet what the 5400 RPM drive is costing me, in terms of battery life, but I can't imagine it's going to be a great deal, compared with the 5200 RPM drive that was in the iBook originally. As far as the heat generated, I'm not sure if 7200 RPM would generate a lot more heat than my 5400 model. My guess is yes, but I can't say for certain. I'm sure if the drives exist, someone has done it. I would look for "ibook 7200 RPM hard drive upgrade", or something like that, on Google.

It wasn't that hard to upgrade the hard drive, to be honest. I sweated quite a bit before cracking open the case, but, every step of the way, I found that things were easier than I had thought they would be. If you are interested, the link below contains all the pictures I took of the whole process, along with my notes. There's also a link in the article to the iFitIt guide that I followed, and another link to the place where I bought the 100GB drive that I installed.

http://www.mymacblog.com/index.php/a...new-hard-drive

I've never completely taken apart a notebook computer before, so this was my first time. I am fairly comfortable with this sort of thing, however, as long as I have a step-by-step guide to walk me through the process, and the guide I used was perfect. If you think that this sort of thing is for you, and you are comfortable doing it, it can save you quite a bit of money.

[Dr. DDS]

I'm not sure yet what the 5400 RPM drive is costing me, in terms of battery life, but I can't imagine it's going to be a great deal, compared with the 5200 RPM drive that was in the iBook originally.

i'm confused. Isn't the original ibook's hard drive 4200 rpm? I'm sure mine is.
I read your blog and i don't think i will try to replace mine. And i became scared with the message that apeared when you reestarted and MacOS didn't recognized the hard drive. If you have booted with the instalation CD did the instalation would be OK?
Why did you partitioned the HD? It was necessary?

Sorry about my english, i'm from brazil.

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Originally Posted by Dr. DDS

I'm not sure yet what the 5400 RPM drive is costing me, in terms of battery life, but I can't imagine it's going to be a great deal, compared with the 5200 RPM drive that was in the iBook originally.

i'm confused. Isn't the original ibook's hard drive 4200 rpm? I'm sure mine is.
I read your blog and i don't think i will try to replace mine. And i became scared with the message that apeared when you reestarted and MacOS didn't recognized the hard drive. If you have booted with the instalation CD did the instalation would be OK?
Why did you partitioned the HD? It was necessary?

Sorry about my english, i'm from brazil.

No, you are completely right. The original drive is 4200 RPM, the new one is 5400 RPM. I'm not really sure what was going through my head, but I was a bit confused, and must have forgotten the the original drive was only 4200 instead of 5200 (there is no 5200 drive, duh).

The drive was not recognized because there was no boot volume on it. That was all that was wrong. It was normal. Yes, had I booted from the CD, things would have been fine. The reason I didn't, was because I was booting from from a clone of the original hard drive, which was on a FireWire drive, so that I could (1) format the new drive and (2) move all my files from the clone to the new drive. Don't worry about the error message that I received. I received the same error when I plugged a FireWire drive that had no partition on it yet. The error is just telling you that the Mac OS doesn't recognize a volume on the drive, which is normal when you buy a new OEM drive from a reseller.

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Originally Posted by Dr. DDS

i'm confused. Isn't the original ibook's hard drive 4200 rpm? I'm sure mine is.

Thank you for pointing this out to me. I must have been thinking 5200 when I was referring to the old drive, forgetting that it was 4200 RPM. Weird. Thanks again, I updated the article and struck out the text causing the problem.

[lilford]

Originally Posted by Dr. DDS

When i close the lid all the aplications stop running?
A saw a steve job's presentation of the ibook and he put a CD to burn and closed the lid. He was using iTunes. The CD stops burning or it finish the process?
And other aplications? when you close the lid it goes to sleep but can't finish do download a file and other stuffs?

____________________
ibook g4 1.42 / 512 / 60GB

Closing the lid is like basically shutting the computer off without actually shutting it off. All files will stop downloading, your internet will disconnect, so If you are talking on AIM it will sign you off. The nice thing is though, once you open the lid back up, everything goes back to normal and everything connects within seconds. I'm not sure how the ibook was still burning a CD while in sleep mode. Maybe steve Jobbs had the hack on his ibook haha. Putting the laptop to sleep with significantly save battery because the optical drive is not running, the hard drive is not running, the screen is black, no applications are running, but when you open the thing back up, everything is back to where you were before you left.