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Hello everyone ! While we wait for the drive to come back, I finally got a G4 Titanium 1Ghz

www.ebay.com

Apple Powerbook G4 Aluminum 15" Power PC G4 1.25GHz 1GB 60GB HDD.READ. | eBay

<p>Laptop is in used condition.Powers ON and works.It has a broken right hinge by the screen( pictures) but screen works fine. Battery cycle count is 64.Device has been restored.No password required.</p><p>Device could not connect to wireless network due to airport card.</p><p>Selling AS IS.</p>
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Can I use tape to tape the right hinge ? Seller told me the screen stands up and is stable, but want to know as a precaution can I use tape to reinforce until I can order a new hinge ?

Comes with 1Ghz processor
QE/CI 64 MB Ati Radeon 9000 mobile
1GB memory
Airport card, no Bluetooth(don’t use Bluetooth anything currently)
SuperDrive
I Will put my SSD I have in the G4 Pismo inside this thing. Except for the right hinge, it’s in great shape - all for 84 dollars.

Finally, does anyone have the original discs for this ? I am after OS 9. Jaguar while nice, is useless to me. I will put Leopard on this - also it has 1MB L3 cache - maybe this might be faster than the 7447A/B processor, as it has the 7455 MDD like G4.
 
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@Macbookprodude That's your call, not ours. If it ends up working well for you, then you have your stopgap solution. And if it doesn't, then you'll just have to order your replacement right away instead.

Give it a try.
 
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MacFoxG4

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Found out that my iBook G3’s display no longer works. Connected it to the monitor I use with my Sawtooth and the iBook still boots, so that’s good. Disappointed that the built in display doesn’t work anymore though.
 
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Macbookprodude said:
Hello everyone ! While we wait for the drive to come back, I finally got a G4 Titanium 1Ghz

www.ebay.com

Apple Powerbook G4 Aluminum 15" Power PC G4 1.25GHz 1GB 60GB HDD.READ. | eBay

<p>Laptop is in used condition.Powers ON and works.It has a broken right hinge by the screen( pictures) but screen works fine. Battery cycle count is 64.Device has been restored.No password required.</p><p>Device could not connect to wireless network due to airport card.</p><p>Selling AS IS.</p>
www.ebay.com

Can I use tape to tape the right hinge ? Seller told me the screen stands up and is stable, but want to know as a precaution can I use tape to reinforce until I can order a new hinge ?

Comes with 1Ghz processor
QE/CI 64 MB Ati Radeon 9000 mobile
1GB memory
Airport card, no Bluetooth(don’t use Bluetooth anything currently)
SuperDrive
I Will put my SSD I have in the G4 Pismo inside this thing. Except for the right hinge, it’s in great shape - all for 84 dollars.

Finally, does anyone have the original discs for this ? I am after OS 9. Jaguar while nice, is useless to me. I will put Leopard on this - also it has 1MB L3 cache - maybe this might be faster than the 7447A/B processor, as it has the 7455 MDD like G4.
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Nice find. The 1 GHz Tibooks are my favorite Apple products and mine is a joy to use.
 
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Thanks ! The only thing that is wrong with it is the left hinge.. an easy fix but the rest works great - battery has less than 65 uses.
 
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Macbookprodude said:
Finally, does anyone have the original discs for this ? I am after OS 9.
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archive.org

691 4316 A,PowerBook G4 15 inch. Software Install and Restore. Mac OS X v10.2.3, v9.2.2. Disc v1.0 2003 (DVD) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

691 4316 A,PowerBook G4 15 inch. Software Install and Restore. Mac OS X v10.2.3, v9.2.2. Disc v1.0 2003 (DVD)
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691 4060 A,PowerBook G4. Software and Install and Restore. Mac OS v10.2.1. Mac OS v9.2.2. Disc v1.0 2002 (DVD) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

691 4060 A,PowerBook G4. Software and Install and Restore. Mac OS v10.2.1. Mac OS v9.2.2. Disc v1.0 2002 (DVD)
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RogerWilco6502 said:
Ok, that's too bad >.>
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The display wasn't showing any signs of going bad before this, so this took me by surprise. Only thing I can think of is that the display cable has come loose over time since I put the iBook back together after the optical drive upgrade I did a while back. Either that or I somehow damaged the cable when I put the iBook back together. I've used the iBook quite a few times since I performed surgery on it and the display was working fine until today. Weird.
 
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MacFoxG4 said:
The display wasn't showing any signs of going bad before this, so this took me by surprise. Only thing I can think of is that the display cable has come loose over time since I put the iBook back together after the optical drive upgrade I did a while back. Either that or I somehow damaged the cable when I put the iBook back together. I've used the iBook quite a few times since I performed surgery on it and the display was working fine until today. Weird.
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Do you think you'll open it up and reseat everything?
 
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RogerWilco6502 said:
Do you think you'll open it up and reseat everything?
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I haven't decided yet. Not having a working built-in display kind of defeats the purpose of having a laptop, the iBook is basically like a Mac Mini now. So, I probably should open it up and try and see if reseating would work. On the other hand, I remember how much of a pain iBooks are to work on and I think to myself, "is having a 'Mac Mini G3' so bad?"

The more I think about it...I probably will end up opening this darned thing again, lol.
 
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MacFoxG4 said:
I haven't decided yet. Not having a working built-in display kind of defeats the purpose of having a laptop, the iBook is basically like a Mac Mini now. So, I probably should open it up and try and see if reseating would work. On the other hand, I remember how much of a pain iBooks are to work on and I think to myself, "is having a 'Mac Mini G3' so bad?"

The more I think about it...I probably will end up opening this darned thing again, lol.
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Best of luck should you choose to. There's always the "halftop" option too ;)
 
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Spent the past week trying to fix my 5th gen iPod, so i've needed by 15" G4 Powerbook. It's the most powerful Mac I own and runs the most recent version of os x compared to my other machines.

Just installed foxpep, so will see if that will allow me to use wordpress again on my laptop. Then I can write an article about the RaspberryPi powered Classic I've built.
 
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Amethyst1 said:
It's worth mentioning the CPU is forcibly underclocked to 1 GHz if the battery is dead or missing.

My 4,1 also suffers from this but I don't need full performance for what I'm doing with it.
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oooof, seriously? Is this the same with the 5,2? I might swap the two batteries if not then.
 
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