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Ibook G3 Clamshell
Posted by: bibilit on 2015-06-28 03:18:49
Collected this morning for 10 euros, already have a pair, but this was a Firewire unit.

Complete with charger, Mac Os 10.2.8, 192 Mb of Ram, unfortunately is the Blue one so only 366 Mhz.

The CD-Rom is not working, should find a solution to format the drive and do a clean install.
Posted by: G4 MDD on 2015-06-28 03:34:51
Good one for €10 !! 
Posted by: bibilit on 2015-06-28 06:25:00
Update, done a quick install (to my surprise was able to accept 10.4) posting with it right now, will post some pictures.
Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2015-06-28 06:33:37
10.4's cutoff is generally the presence of a FW port. The 466 just has a DVD drive and faster clock speed, the 366 is still pretty good.
Posted by: bibilit on 2015-06-28 07:10:37
some pictures:

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The battery is holding some charge as well....

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was able to use it without charger.
Posted by: CC_333 on 2015-06-28 11:46:23
I think this is probably my favorite model (next to the Tangerine one for sentimental reasons (it was my first laptop)).

I'm glad yours was cheap. For some reason, they're hard to find (at least in the US), and expensive when found, so I overpaid quite alot for my collection. Another thing is that the Indigo (which yours is), is hard to find in good cosmetic condition. Every one I've come across has had some unsightly fading of the rubber from a deep blue to a kind of greyed out blue-ish color. Yours looks to be in decent condition, fortunately.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy it!!

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Posted by: galgot on 2015-06-28 13:08:25
Congrats mate 🙂 10€ is really cheap for that.

I Have the exact same one, indigo. Running OSX 10.0.4 now. But Think I'll try Panther next, nothing much you can do with 10.0.4...
Posted by: techknight on 2015-06-28 18:22:47
Lucky. My first laptop was a Presario 1247, got it brand new for christmas in 99. That thing had the worse screen on it of any passive displays I had seen. 
Posted by: CC_333 on 2015-06-28 18:41:52
Techknight: I was (and am) well treated, and often quite spoiled 😉

But it wasn't my first computer, per se. My "first" computer was a generic Pentium II PC that ran Windows 95, when it felt like working (which, sadly, was almost never). I kinda wish we still had it (it got either lost or stolen (never found out for sure) during a move about 15 years ago), as I could've probably got it working better than new with what I know now, seeing as it suffered from fatal (and in retrospect, quite simple) software problems for most of its existence in our house, although I did figure out how to reinstall Windows 95 on it one day.

Anyway, back on topic now. This is bibilit's thread.

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Posted by: bibilit on 2015-06-28 22:57:49
Yours looks to be in decent condition
Yes it is, the Apple leaf is still present on the screen, which is rare as most of time is missing, and no cracks in the small apple under the screen.
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