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#1 Mon, 1 Dec 2008 - 18:01 68kMLA

I have the chance to grab three Tibook's that have busted screens from a friend who works for the local high school district.

Is it worth getting them despite the expensive screen replacement?

#2 Mon, 1 Dec 2008 - 18:02 68kMLA

If you get 'em, let me know if you might want to sell one of them.

#3 Mon, 1 Dec 2008 - 18:19 68kMLA

I probably wouldn't because my sister needs a laptop for college, mom needs one to write down notes for when she goes with our foster kids' visits, and I need one for video/picture/audio work.

#4 Mon, 1 Dec 2008 - 18:20 68kMLA

You can use them as servers, media centers, Internet radios, with a spare LCD or CRT monitor you can do whatever the hell you want.

#5 Mon, 1 Dec 2008 - 18:23 68kMLA

You can use them as servers, media centers, Internet radios, with a spare LCD or CRT monitor you can do whatever the hell you want.

That my friend is another good idea. Although I was thinking using my gigbit G4 for media center stuff whenever my folks decide to get a TV with either S-Video or VGA.

#6 Mon, 1 Dec 2008 - 18:30 68kMLA

The screens for the Tibooks are hard to work with, since they are glued together. Keep that in mind. But if they are free, get them for sure.

#7 Tue, 2 Dec 2008 - 01:29 68kMLA

Considering you've been asking for a G4 notebook on the forums for as long as I remember you being signed up, don't even question it.

#8 Tue, 2 Dec 2008 - 02:16 68kMLA

Are they 12 inch screens?

#9 Tue, 2 Dec 2008 - 20:06 68kMLA

You can use them as servers, media centers, Internet radios, with a spare LCD or CRT monitor you can do whatever the hell you want.

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That my friend is another good idea. Although I was thinking using my gigbit G4 for media center stuff whenever my folks decide to get a TV with either S-Video or VGA.

They make S-video to RCA adapters btw.

Also, worse comes to worse, you can sell the 3 laptops for parts machines and buy a working G4.

#10 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 - 16:51 68kMLA

An S-Video to RCA adapter is nothing more than a single capacitor joining the signal wires, and both grounds tied together. Look here:

http://www.epanorama.net/circuits/svideo2cvideo.html

#11 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 - 18:16 68kMLA

An S-Video to RCA adapter is nothing more than a single capacitor joining the signal wires, and both grounds tied together. Look here:http://www.epanorama.net/circuits/svideo2cvideo.html

This works for converting an S-Video out port into a composite out port. Usually that's all the people use anyway. (The same thing works to convert a composite in port into an S-video in port.)

But if you want to convert a composite out port into S-Video out port, (or an S-video in port into a composite in port), this will not work. The color/chroma signal needs to be separated from the brightness/luma signal somehow.