Kbase Article of the Week: PowerBook 100 through PowerBook 5300: Resetting Power Management Unit⇢

Apple Support:

This document describes the PowerBook Power Manager and explains how to reset it. Resetting the power manager also resets the date and time. After the reset, on some PowerBooks, the system clock is set to 00:00 on 1 January 1904.

This document refers to Apple products manufactured before November 1997. Click here for products manufactured after that date.

Naturally, that link is broken, but the Internet Archive grabbed it.

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Emergency Kbase Article of the Week: How to Clean Your Apple Card⇢

Apple Support:

The titanium Apple Card is laser-etched with the card holder’s name and the Apple logo. A white finish is achieved through a multi-layer coating process that’s added to the titanium base material.

If your titanium Apple Card comes into contact with hard surfaces or materials, it’s possible that the coating can be damaged.

Some of the details here are amazing:

  • Some fabrics, like leather and denim, might cause permanent discoloration that will not wash off.
  • Place your card in a slot in your wallet or billfold without touching another credit card. If two credit cards are placed in the same slot your card could become scratched.
  • Don’t place your titanium Apple Card in a pocket or bag that contains loose change, keys, or other potentially abrasive objects.

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Kbase Article of the Week: Apple Cinema Display (30-inch DVI) Might Show 1280 x 800 as Maximum Resolution⇢

Just in case you thought the UltraFine Display being limited to 4K resolution when connected to a USB-C device like the MacBook or iPad Pro, as opposed to showing 5K resolution when connected over Thunderbolt 3, this sort of problem is not new:

When you connect an Apple Cinema Display (30-inch DVI) to your computer, you may find that the highest available resolution is 1280 x 800 even though the optimum resolution for the display is 2560 x 1600. This can happen if the display has a single-link DVI connection instead of a dual-link DVI connection.

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Kbase Article of the Week: Mac Pro (Early 2008 to Mid 2012): About the PCI Express Slots⇢

Apple Support:

PCI Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express), or PCI-E, is a newer implementation of PCI which uses a much faster physical-layer communications protocol than older PCI bus architectures.

Rather than using a bus as PCI did, PCI Express uses dedicated, unidirectional, point-to-point connections known as “lanes” to communicate with PCI Express devices.

The first generation of Mac Pro came with a program named Expansion Slot Utility:

I wonder if the new one will come with something similar…

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