Posted by : Dennis Sellers Mac Advisorhed: Tweaking the PowerBook G4dek: the new Titanium PowerBooks are selling like hotcakes, but many are more fragile than their titanium shells would suggest.dek: the PBG4 is far from perfect, but its few flaws all have workarounds.by Dennis Sellers

I think Apple's new Titanium PowerBook G4--or PBG4, for brevity's sake--is the best laptop the company has ever made. Its titanium shell and 15.2-inch screen are simply elegant.

Now if only Apple had made it perfect. Unfortunately, the PBG4 has a few flaws. Thankfully, all of its flaws have simple workarounds. Also, note that your G4 laptop may not experience all of these problems. Heck, it may not experience any of them.

Perhaps the most aggravating of the problems--and the only one that I've personally experienced--is a battery-related glitch. If you carry or use the portable at a slight angle, it may suddenly shut off and reset the system date to Jan. 1, 1904.

If this problem is severe on your PBG4, you'll notice it. Oh, how you'll notice it. The glitch became glaringly apparent to me when I took my shiny new PowerBook to my daughter's softball practice, intending to finish this article. The story didn't get completed at the time because every time the PBG4, sitting on my lap, was tipped the slightest way in any direction, it would shut off and reset the system data.

If your PBG4 has a less severe case of the problem, you may not have noticed it yet. ...

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