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Posted by: bluekatt on 2008-12-30 19:06:17
i got my hands on a used ibook G4 800 mhz
384 mb ram
20 gig hd
12 inc screen
32 mb ati vid card
it can join the other two who are both 500 mhz G3's
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Posted by: Strimkind on 2008-12-30 21:13:01
Very nice. I wish I had a working iBook. All 3 of mine are in various states.
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Posted by: bluekatt on 2008-12-30 21:15:15
one of my ibooks is ...quirky
the other 500 mhz works fine if a tad sluggish
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Posted by: 4seasonphoto on 2008-12-31 09:07:59
i got my hands on a used ibook G4 800 mhz 384 mb ram
20 gig hd
12 inc screen
32 mb ati vid card
it can join the other two who are both 500 mhz G3's Mine worked great and I got a lot of use out of it. Maybe max out the ram and hard drive (1024M and ~250 G, respectively) while the parts are readily available?
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Posted by: Christopher on 2008-12-31 11:03:45
You could get a hard over 128GB on the 800MHz iBook's?
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Posted by: bluekatt on 2008-12-31 15:08:05
i got my hands on a used ibook G4 800 mhz 384 mb ram
20 gig hd
12 inc screen
32 mb ati vid card
it can join the other two who are both 500 mhz G3's Mine worked great and I got a lot of use out of it. Maybe max out the ram and hard drive (1024M and ~250 G, respectively) while the parts are readily available?
at the moment i dont have any bigger laptop hd's then 20 gig and it has 384 mb ram i had a spare pc 2700 so dimm lying around
in due time ill up it to at least 1152 mb if the 1 gig modules are a bit reasonable
not to keen on upgrading the hd 20 gig is plenty and i have been in ibooks before
not in a hurry to repeat all that again
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Posted by: slimac55 on 2008-12-31 17:26:17
I had an iBook G3 once. It had that GPU issue and I think I reflowed it for too long. The GPU became permanently damaged (by slowly getting less usable to the state of me being lucky if the display backlight were to come on) so I ended up selling it.
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Posted by: bluekatt on 2008-12-31 19:06:41
my 2 ibooks are fine they are the 500 mhz versions and were released before the whole gpu problem became an issue
one of them is ...quirky though
its bak light goes on and off its held together by no more then 10 screws its combo drive lives when it wants to
yet it runs and runs and runs i threw tiger at it and it runs it just fine in only 384 mb ram
the other 500 mhz is in absolute pristine and perfect working condition yet it has 64 mb ram solderd on its motherboard opposed to 128 mb in the other
and thats noticable
..go figure
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Posted by: 4seasonphoto on 2009-01-01 14:50:10
You could get a hard over 128GB on the 800MHz iBook's? Maybe not from Apple, but you can get suitable drives >200 gigabytes from Western Digital. Kind of a fuss to disassemble an iBook, so may as well do that and maybe upgrade to a Superdrive at the same time.
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