Unless you can find NOS somewhere, options for finding replacement batteries have gotten kind of kind of slim.
Kind of expensive too - as I've seen during searches for iBook batteries.
Unless you can find NOS somewhere, options for finding replacement batteries have gotten kind of kind of slim.
Kind of expensive too - as I've seen during searches for iBook batteries.
Is it also smelling like a dead raccoon on a hot summer’s day?I’m on my second replacement battery for an early ’08 MBP in two years, and this one, like the first, is of questionable quality: it is swelling like a dead raccoon on a hot summer’s day.
Is it also smelling like a dead raccoon on a hot summer’s day?
Yah. Pretty much what does exist out there for PowerPC laptops is exorbitantly high, and the quality is very nearly never so. This is also increasingly becoming the case for early Intel MacBook-based batteries. I’m on my second replacement battery for an early ’08 MBP in two years, and this one, like the first, is of questionable quality: it is swelling like a dead raccoon on a hot summer’s day. The first one just plain died.
I couldn’t care less about having working batteries in my 2007 MBPs — if it weren’t for the “downclock to 1 GHz” issue on OS X.Same thing with Polycarbonate MacBook batteries… only bought one because I didn’t want a hole where it would be. The battery lasted less than a month and no longer charges. At least it hasn’t swelled up like the original.
I couldn’t care less about having working batteries in my 2007 MBPs — if it weren’t for the “downclock to 1 GHz” issue on OS X.
It happens with 800 MHz or faster TiBooks too: they downclock to 667 and disable L3.Yeah, the CPU throttling is annoying. At least it doesn't happen with the PPC laptops when their batteries fail.
It happens with 800 MHz or faster TiBooks too: they downclock to 667 and disable L3.
Learned that one the hard way.
I wonder if the 1st Gen 12" and 17" have the same quirk, seeing as they're also 7455-based 'Books.
I couldn’t care less about having working batteries in my 2007 MBPs — if it weren’t for the “downclock to 1 GHz” issue on OS X.
Perhaps the higher-specced 7455s and their L3 were (deemed) too power-hungry to live off the poor AC adapter alone(?)I’m not sure why they did that with the Ti PowerBooks, but didn’t do so with later Al PowerBooks.
Good point. I don't use my 2007 MBPs for productive stuff, mostly just for playing around with Tiger or things requiring an ExpressCard slot (*cough* eGPU *cough*). My newer MBPs, which I do use for productive stuff, all have working batteries in them to provide several hours of use. My 15" 2007 MBP actually has a working battery but my 17" doesn't.I care. I like having a working laptop with me, even when there’s no outlet around. And for the laptop I use for DJing, having a working battery can make the difference between a show going on and bringing down the house floor in a bunch of disappointment.
Nope. That functionality is now gone.Hi guys, do iTunes 10.6.3 still works on Sorbet Leopard? I mean, mostly authorizing the Mac.
Thanks
I really wouldn't bother with 1.4. The version isn't the issue if neither one works for you yet. I have Sorbet on a 7,3 G5 DP 1.8 and a dual core 2.3 G5. The Dual Core G5 is using a 500GB Samsung 870 EVO SSD.Greetings all!! I recently downloaded the Sorbet Leopard 1.5 and attempted to install it on my G5PPC. I used both disk manager and Carbon Copy to push the .DMG file to a 500GB Samsung SSD. The image deployment is successful but when I go to Settings, Startup Disk to look for the newly imaged drive, it does not show up. I tried downloading ver 1.4 but continue to get corrupt images. Any advice would be appreciated.
Hello ww2_1943:I really wouldn't bother with 1.4. The version isn't the issue if neither one works for you yet. I have Sorbet on a 7,3 G5 DP 1.8 and a dual core 2.3 G5. The Dual Core G5 is using a 500GB Samsung 870 EVO SSD.
Did you install Sorbet on a partition? If so, boot into the other OS partition you have (I usually have 2 partitions on my G5s 10.4 and 10.5 Sorbet). Then go to Startup Disk and check if Sorbet is visible. If so, change the Startup Disk and it should show up in the bootloader and work. I had to do this with some computers.
If you don't have another partition with a bootable OS, put the G5 in target disk mode, connect it to another PowerPC machine and change the Startup disk to Sorbet. Restart the computer (Not the G5. That should be left in Target Disk Mode). You can force shutdown after the boot process. Restart the G5 and it should show up on the bootloader.
FYI-
Here is the procedure I use to install Sorbet-
1. Put the computer (target computer) I want to install it on in Target Disk Mode.
2. Connect the target computer to another PowerPC Mac through FireWire.
3. Use Carbon Copy Cloner (Disk Utility will not work) to restore the image to the drive of the target computer.
4. After the restore is complete, shut down the computer I used to install Sorbet with.
5. Restart the target computer.
Is the SSD you restored Sorbet onto using the Apple Partition Map scheme? Use Disk Utility to check.I installed Sorbet on a 2nd physical drive (Samsung SSD) in the MAC. […] The file system format is Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with a partition size of about 230 GB. […] Startup does not show the Sorbet drive as a bootable option.
Amethyst1,Is the SSD you restored Sorbet onto using the Apple Partition Map scheme? Use Disk Utility to check.
This will erase everything on the SSD! Open Disk Utility, select the SSD, go to the "Partition" tab, click "Options" and select "Apple Partition Map". Then, repartition the SSD and re-restore the Sorbet image.Going back into disk manager, I searched for the option to change the scheme but couldn't find it. How do I change the scheme?
I will give that a try. Thanks again!This will erase everything on the SSD! Open Disk Utility, select the SSD, go to the "Partition" tab, click "Options" and select "Apple Partition Map". Then, repartition the SSD and re-restore the Sorbet image.
I use the disk utility restore function to install Sorbet. You can format the drive correctly to APM and then leverage the restore feature to move the Sorbet files to the partition you want to install to. One stop shopI will give that a try. Thanks again!