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IR on powerbooks
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Senior User
Join Date: Oct 2001
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a QUICK question... does the PB have an IR port?
and does apple plan to ditch this for bluetooth? I have a palm and cell that have IR. just curious.
thanks.
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: UK
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The aluminium pb's don't. I've got a feeling that the Ti's do, but I'm not certain.
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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Plan to ditch it? They have ditched it. The TiBooks were the last PB's with IR.
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Senior User
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Golden, CO
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Even the newer Ti's don't have Ir. Apple ditched it, then waited a year or so before bringing in Bluetooth.
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
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And OS X doesn't even support IrDA on the TiBooks that have it, AFAIK.
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Plato--what's a "Chickie Run"?
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Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Sarnia, Ontario
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they claim to support it
(i have a rev. A tibook, and it DOES have infrared),
but i couldn't get it to network with my old rev.b imac (running 9.2.2),
at the time the tibook was running 10.2.6, so maybe they don't support it. i couldn't find any help for it either...
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Dec 2003
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ewwww... IR
mmmmm... BT 
May God Be With You.
-Matt
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
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Originally posted by MountainMac:
And OS X doesn't even support IrDA on the TiBooks that have it, AFAIK.
No, it supports IrDA on any supported Mac that has it. OS X support for IrDA was first added for the TiBooks, then in a minor update to 10.1 for the others.
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Join Date: Jun 2003
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When powerbooks went DVI the IR port was dropped.
edit: on second thought, I think it was when they added the sound in on the 667 and 800 revision. (but that's still dvi.. isn't it?)
Maybe sound in was before dvi.. if so that's when it was.. :shrug:
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Aloha
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Join Date: Jun 2002
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Of what use is IR on a laptop?
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Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2003
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Originally posted by Wiskedjak:
Of what use is IR on a laptop?
The only use i could think of for IR is probably to sync to non-BT phones.
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15" Aluminium Powerbook 1.25GHz G4
Panther 10.3
"My first Mac, but definitely not my last!"
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2002
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Originally posted by Wiskedjak:
Of what use is IR on a laptop?
-Syncing of PDAs
-Printing to IR-printers
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mac.goodies webstore / Switched to an iBook in November 2002. Never looking back.
iBook R.I.P. 20 Nov 2002 - 2 Aug 2005
Hello Leopard! On iMac 17" Intel Core Duo 1.83GHz 2GB, iPod 5th gen 30GB and iPhone
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Join Date: Feb 2003
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I would definitely use IR on my Powerbook to sync my Palm PDA. I don't want to spend $130 for the SD Bluetooth card adapter for my Palm. I actively use iSync with my Bluetooth phone (Siemens S56) and my Palm now, but, it's a hassle to dig the USB sync cord out every time to do that.
Bluetooth, however, would be much nicer overall; IR is just cost effective at this point for me.
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Admin Emeritus Join Date: Oct 1999
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On my Pismo, I used it to sync my Palm handheld when traveling... slow, but didn't require me to bring along the HotSync cable.
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