Ok, does any one know about this "black screen" problem? or could it just be the sofware? I do know on the g4 Ibooks this problem was dew to the gpu,also how hard is it to open the computer up to add the ram and new hard drive? and if it has a cd-rom drive should i get a dvd rom drive, ? this is my plan for it

DVD rom drive (Unless it has it)

80GB hard drive (IDE of course)

Max out the ram (I need the limit)

Air Port card

Rebuilt Battery, (so I can have extra long life (Hoping for 9HR)

is there anything I should look at geting aswell, are there apple kits to open the computer up? as I will need that

thanks

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Just make sure you have the screen problem diagnosed before spending any money on other upgrades. It would suck to buy the RAM (512mb sticks are NOT cheap) and all that other stuff only to discover the logicboard is fried. Also, the hard drives in Clamshell's are very difficult to access. You have to do a lot of dismantling in order to get it out, and there are lots of plastics that can get broken in the process. I got about halfway into that project, and gave up. If it doesn't have a DVD drive installed, I don't know if you'll be able to install one and watch movies on it. I think Apple only installed the decoder chip on models that came with the DVD-ROM drive from the factory. Maybe someone else here can verify this?