I stand corrected: the current model does not permit access through
the
battery compartment, just slightly older models.
Thanks, Jason, for pointing this out.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Bracy [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 12:21 PM
To: Cole, John (Civ, ARL/CISD)
Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Removing Bluetooth & Airport from Laptop
Actually, no. On the current line of PowerBooks Apple moved the
Airport
card. It in now located underneath (or on top of, depending on your
perspective) the PC Card cage. It is a fairly difficult procedure, as
the entire case and PC Card cage need to be removed, but most Apple
Stores are willing to do this for you at the time of purchase.
Jason
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On May 6, 2005, at 8:28 AM, Cole, John (Civ, ARL/CISD) wrote:
The airport card is easily removed through the battery compartment on
current powerbooks, no tools needed.
-----Original Message-----
From: fed-talk-bounces+cole=email@hidden
[mailto:fed-talk-bounces+cole=email@hidden] On Behalf
Of
Michael Kluskens
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 5:30 PM
To: email@hidden
Subject: [Fed-Talk] Removing Bluetooth & Airport from Laptop
It is possible to completely remove the Bluetooth and Airport modules
from any of the current line of iBooks and Powerbooks?
Just turning them off or disconnecting their antennas is not an
option.
We got around the no removable hard drive problem by removing the
internal harddrive and booting from an external firewire drive, a
process that Apple started making harder as of about 10.3.5 because
10.3.5 will not directly install on our LaCie firewire drives
(starting back at 10.3 solved that puzzle). Hard to disconnect the
firewire drives when applying an update if the firewire drive is the
boot drive (and only drive on the machine).
Michael
