If you want a tip, and this is my advice... get to know your school/uni IT departments and administrative staff. The broken equipment will be due to throw out and if they know you're keen, they can sometimes let you have some of it.
Fix it, and you're good to go.
These iBooks are a pain to pull apart, but much simpler than comparable PC notebooks i've worked on. The Compaq Armada and IBM ThinkPad are good examples. While they work great, open them up and you'll see a maze. Open up an iBook G4 and you just need to separate the top case from the bottom case, everything else is straightforward.
10.3 is installing on the drive now. I know it has reasonable specs for 10.4 or even 10.5, but I have a soft spot for Mac OS X Panther, plus some legit Panther discs just sitting here going to no use. May as well use them.
Fix it, and you're good to go.
These iBooks are a pain to pull apart, but much simpler than comparable PC notebooks i've worked on. The Compaq Armada and IBM ThinkPad are good examples. While they work great, open them up and you'll see a maze. Open up an iBook G4 and you just need to separate the top case from the bottom case, everything else is straightforward.
10.3 is installing on the drive now. I know it has reasonable specs for 10.4 or even 10.5, but I have a soft spot for Mac OS X Panther, plus some legit Panther discs just sitting here going to no use. May as well use them.