powerbook g4

I got myself an mSATA ssd and the Ableconn IDE adapter that people recommend, and I installed it in my TiBook. I made a disk image of the leopard install I had on the old HD, and I was planning to copy it over via target disk mode. The problem is, whenever I hold down 'T' the computer just shuts...

Last month, I bought a PowerBook G4 Titanium 667 GHz - seller said 1 GHz, but it turned out to be a 667 MHz. Anyway, its not a big deal, was just hoping it was at least working. Got a new charger with it too, so that seemed worthy enough to part with $177 ($79 + 100+) for shipping). Import...

Hi, I've been working on restoring a couple of late G4 17" Powerbooks (5,5, A1085), and I have one that does not find the drive on a reboot, but finds it OK on a cold boot. (Got these as basket cases so I have no idea about their history). If you reboot from the desktop, you see a flicker as...

Does anyone here have any recommendations for color correction software that's PPC compatible? I've tried getting Color from Final Cut Studio 2 to work on my early '05 Powerbook without any success.

Hi guys, I have a friend with a PowerBook G4 15" / PowerBook5,8, PowerPC G4 (1.5), 1.67Ghz. It's obviously old, but was refurbed 3 years ago and has functioned well for their needs, but I understand the battery has been terrible for a year - holding only seconds of charge and requiring the AC...

Longtime lurker, first-time poster. I was wondering if anyone here still uses a powerpc mac for any kind of video editing. I use a PowerBook G4 1.67 early '05 and have just installed Final Cut Studio 2 and would like to see if there is a workaround for running Color on my PowerBook. It only has...

A few months ago, I got some beat up PowerBook DVIs cheap, and one has a dead hard drive. When I first got it, it would load the screen with the blinking folder, but now the screen doesn't load, but the fans spin up and the light on the caps lock key works. What could be causing this?

Hey guys I came across an offer of Powerbook G4 keys for pretty cheap. Now I have a macbook pro, 13.3 inch from late 2011 (intel i5) Is it possible to use the powerbook keys on the macbook pro? The PB keys are my favorite style of keyboard, ( i moved to this mbp from a 2008 macbook pro with the...

Greetings everyone! My DLSD 15" PowerBook G4 came with a battery that I tried many times to revive. No matter how long it was plugged in, the amber charging light only came on occasionally and for about 1 minute. The menu bar said "Battery not charging". Recently I bought a used battery: it's...

As title Cannot Boot/Start Apple PowerBook G4 1.67 A1139 - DVD Trying to Access CD/DVD? Just happened out of the blue, working one minute and then...DVD stuck in drive. The drive was removed and the DVD was also removed and the DVD drive was replaced. All seemed straight forward until...

Hey guys! In a wonderful stroke of luck, I picked up a Titanium PowerBook G4 yesterday, in wonderful condition! It also came with a Mac OS X 10.2 disc (the disc 2), and some originally-printed-in-2002 Apple webpages of the PowerBook G4. Neat! So far, I really enjoy using this machine, the...

Hello, i'm repairing a Powerbook G4 Aluminium (PowerBook6,1 (12")) but i have problems with the battery Apparently the battery is ok, less than 400 cycles, but sometimes the laptop suddenly shutdown because the battery dies, even though seconds before the battery is at 90%. how's that possible...

So I've been wanting an 12 inch Powerbook g4 forever. I have a 2013 Macbook air that I use for classes, I mainly just take notes with Google docs and look at my email. Would a 12 inch Powerbook be capable of running google docs and gmail? I know these things get more outdated everyday because...

Hi everybody. I´m new to this forum and at first. Sorry for my terrible English. :-/ I was very interested in the PowerPCs Mac and owned a few. Now i got Powerbook G4 17" with 1.5Ghz from a good friend of mine. Its in pretty good shape and after knowing, that it is possible to upgrade it with...

Having not satisfied the urge to unnecessarily splash my cash on old Macs in too long I thought I'd treat myself to one this Christmas. One obvious gap in my collection is a PPC laptop. And if I'm likely only going to get one for the foreseeable future, I might as well get the best. Thankfully...

Hello, Longtime browser, first-time poster! I have an ancient 15" PowerBook G4 that I recently put up for sale on Craigslist along with a few other old Macs in order to clear space at the office and just get rid of old stuff. The buyers took them off of my hands, and then tried reinstalling an...

Hi, I recently got a powerbook g4 titanium, it is the 1GHz DVI one ("Antimony"). My DVD drive is not able to read disks and sometimes doesn't eject disks properly. Now, the issue is, I live in the UK, and I can only get the part I need from the USA. Will a US DVD drive work in my British...

Hey everyone! A few days ago I picked up two new G4s to add to my list of PowerPC Macs. I found a lady on Craigslist that had listed a bunch of miscellaneous computer stuff, and she said there were some Mac computers, but I only had the photos to go off of, so I shot her an email, and...