PowerBook failings...and solutions

Yikes, there are a few things not as good on the PowerBook G4 in comparison to the MacBook. It is funny how you take certain things, often very small things/features, for granted on newer machines yet miss them hugely when they are not available on older ones. For example, the MacBook has track pad scrolling and the PowerBook does not, I assumed that "technology" would have been around for ages....yikes, I really miss it.

Luckily, although I haven't tried it yet, there is a 3rd party application called iScroll2 available for older PowerBooks. Hopefully this will do the job. (UPDATED - boo hoo, it doesn't want to install on the PowerBook so it is back to square one on that front)

Possibly even more alarming is that there was no Safari installed, instead it came with Internet Explorer...yuk. What an absolute pile of poo that is/was for the mac platform and a horrible throwback to the days when Microsoft ruled not  only their land but everyone else's computing land too. Of course this is also easily solved by downloading Safari and/or Firefox but I won't need to do that as Leopard is going on very shortly. Hopefully, this will also restore the strangely missing Bluetooth features previously mentioned??

By Wednesday, I should have the PowerBook set up the way I need it

• maximum amount of RAM allowed 1.25gb
• Leopard up and running and updated to the lastest version, without the 6gb of gunk that I will never need
• the Airport Extreme card installed and subsequently being able to connect to the home wifi network (downloading the Leopard updaters is dependant on this working!)
• the new Apple battery fully charged and working
• have Bluetooth working properly, not so much working in fact, just actually being there would be nice.