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Whats the "nub" on the side of my PB?
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Next to the PC Card slot there is that little thing which pops out when you push it. It looks like a little antenna but Im just guessing. What is it?
Also, what do you PC Card slot users find is the most useful device to use with it?
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It's the built in antenna for the pcmcia card. stick a pcmcia card in and then push the antenna and the built in software will load the card. :grin:
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The "antenna" also doubles as the eject button!
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Originally posted by King Chung Huang:
The "antenna" also doubles as the eject button!
Its just an eject button :-) nothing more.
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Originally posted by tooki:
RTFM
tooki
Settle.
I did have a secondary question too if you RMFP (Read my F#@*in Post).
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inappropriate admin that was just a wee bit rude.
To answer swiz' second question: I use a CF-PCMCIA adapter for copying images taken with my digital still camera. It's much faster than the USB interface, and works swell with iPhoto.
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Why is everyone so insincere... the question may be "stupid" to some, but a lot of PB users are new, bought used are are just curious.
Try to be helpful or just take a chill pill!
I notice a lot of bad attitudes recently!
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I just want everyone to know, my balls are really huge right now. I'm playing bocci
The little spring-loaded button is for ejecting PCMCIA cards when they've been loaded. When the bay is empty, the nub provides hours of repetitive entertaining as you push it in, hear it click and slide out, push it in and hear it click and stawy, push it in... Like the button CD-ROM trays on old iMacs and the common PC. Wonderful stuff.
I've not found a good use for the PCMCIA slot. I don't need GPS, nor a little hard drive, nor a modem, nor a FireWire slot, nor a wireless networking card, nor a dongle for attaching my camera to the computer. There are many uses for PCMCIA, but Macs have lost of goodies built-in.
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After seeing the same questions come up in your forum over and over and over again (question #1 is in the manual, question #2 was recently discussed in detail in a long thread about just that topic), you lose patience at the fact that few people take the time to do a quick search on the forums or with google.
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Originally posted by tooki:
After seeing the same questions come up in your forum over and over and over again (question #1 is in the manual, question #2 was recently discussed in detail in a long thread about just that topic), you lose patience at the fact that few people take the time to do a quick search on the forums or with google.
tooki
I suppose you would prefer that there be only about eight topics in the whole forum and that they go on forever and ever and ever. There's only so much one can talk about in a PowerBook related forum and sure, the same topics are going to come up again and again. What's the big deal?
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If you look at the manual, the eject button is not referenced iin the "additional features" diagram on page eight. It is mentioned on page 38 under PC Cards. By the way there is round button on the right side of the book just past the keyboard does anyone know what........
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Originally posted by haunebu:
Mr. ass pirate admin
Ooo. I'm sure your daddy must be proud of you.
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Originally posted by tooki:
RTFM
tooki
Did you feel all warm and fuzzy when you sent that one-liner? I'm sure you've never posted a question here that couldn't be found in a manual or on google.
It feels odd reporting an admin's post as abusive. Not that it probably will matter though.
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Originally posted by JHromadka:
Did you feel all warm and fuzzy when you sent that one-liner? I'm sure you've never posted a question here that couldn't be found in a manual or on google.
It feels odd reporting an admin's post as abusive. Not that it probably will matter though.
It matters, but how much depends on what your expectations are for a response. If you have low expectations, you'll continually be pleasantly surprised.
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If this post is in the Lounge forum, it is likely to be my own opinion, and not representative of the position of MacNN.com.
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You guys need to stop beating up on Tooki. RTFM is a perfectly valid response to a question such as this. If the original poster had taken the one or two minutes required to find the section of the manual that referred to it and read that section, he would have saved himself some time. As for searching the forums, I honestly believe that almost nobody does that. I've accepted that as just a fact of MacNN, and I think it contributes to the friendliness of this forum. At least here you don't get shouted down for asking a question that was asked two years ago, like you do on some other boards.
Oh, and if anyone is upset that Tooki used the F-word, keep in mind that "RTFM" is a regular phrase that is used quite often in the computer industry.
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I do searches periodically and find them generally helpfull. I encourage other to search, although in the case before this thread, a little self-respect would have gone a long way-
about that button to right of the keyboard.....
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Originally posted by parsec_kadets:
Oh, and if anyone is upset that Tooki used the F-word, keep in mind that "RTFM" is a regular phrase that is used quite often in the computer industry.
And more's the shame. Common usage doesn't elevate it any.
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Also, what do you PC Card slot users find is the most useful device to use with it?
I think the most usefull is the slot itself. I use it as a digital camera card reader and maybe a GPS card.
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I use the pc card slot with an adaptor for my compact flash cards that are in my digital camera.
I don't have to take extra cables, just the adaptor that slots into the side of my camera case (or could be left in the laptop).
No tangles, nothing to forget and faster than using the usb 1.0 cable for the connection. I have it set up so that when I pop in a card full of photos, it automagically saves them to a defined folder and renames the photos according to the time they were taken, hence they're always in a logical order.
We're fortunate with powerbooks that we don't need most of the extras that were so common in the pc world until the manufacturers started to catch up, but I can see things like gps cards as having a use for those that need them.
Interesting to see what other people use,
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