Well uh, this is somewhat awkward because, I sorta dropped out of the hobby after a debacle with a MDD G4 (it's a long, and boring story) and other life factors, and I had no idea where to put this but anyways...
I've got another iBook G3 (clamshell, 466SE graphite) for the great sum of $Free.99 (well not quite but I repaired two laptops for a client and she accepted to give me that iBook that was part of the lot I fixed) and it's not in good shape. At all.
The apple on the back is completely missing (!) the CD drive cover also has gone a long time ago, the battery is dead (expected) and the hard drive is... Well, let's face it, dead as a doornail (click click click click click).
Well, here is the tough part, I'm debating using it as a spare parts donor for my other iBook, notably the bezel as my other iBook's got a cracked bezel yet this one:
It isn't cracked! I never thought I'd see a clamshell with an intact bezel, and there it is!
On the other hand, it powers on, just needs a new hard drive, so, I think I'll try and save it, and use it as a testbed, because, yes, I plan on doing either a XGA mod and/or a LED backlight mod to this one to train myself on it, and before I potentially irreparably mess up my other good iBook.
I'll probably try and get a Linux distro on this one just for kicks.
I'm reading through a iBook G3 teardown guide and it really looks intimidating, but IMHO at a first glance, it doesn't look like it's as difficult as I was told it is (famous last words).
So far what I've done with it, inspect this unit and clean it up, then see what I'll eventually do with it.
Also I'm preparing my other iBook (not pictured here) for a SSD swap, I've got a mSata SSD in a IDE carrier waiting to be put to good use.
It's been far too long that I've been away from the hobby, so, I need something to get myself back into gear.
Cheers,
