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    Powerbook G4 12" - 867mhz - MPC7440 - schematic or overclock info?

    Hello lovely forum, I've acquired a 867mhz with the intention to overclock it. Its battered, but was nice to discover it has 1gb of ram and a working battery. Looking at Everymac, this model was supposed to have a 7455, but looking at motherboard pictures shows 7440 (low power version of the...
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    Functional 12" Powerbook G4, Trying to Install OSX Panther

    I have a functional 12" powerbook G4. Everything works including the internal CD/DVD drive. Currently running OSX 10.5.8 Leopard, although a bit sluggish. I wanted to do a fresh install and roll it back to something a bit faster and decided on Panther. I have retail install CDs for 10.3.2...
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    Powerbook G4 12" keyboard and trackpad connection

    hi there, I currently own a very unhappy Powerbook G4 12" and was thinking about using it for another project (for context, the hard drive and disk drive have gone and before that it would constantly shutdown or refuse to let me log in at all for weeks at a time). I am thinking about trying to...
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    12” PowerBook G4s: Leopard v Tiger

    Hi all, Is there a consensus on which OS is better for a 12” PowerBook G4? I’ve installed Tiger on a 867mhz model, and Leopard on a 1.5Ghz. Both with max RAM (1125 on the low end), both with a SSD upgrade (mSATA to IDE). What’s surprised me is that the Tiger machine feels just a touch...
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    USB Booting a PowerBook G4 12"

    I've been installing a bunch of operating systems on my PowerBook G4 12" 1.33GHz (PowerBook6,4) lately. For [reasons] I only wanted to install said operating systems using the built-in USB2 ports — I did not want to use the DVD drive. I have experienced many, many hours of frustrating failures...
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