Nice freebie haul today, should keep me busy for a while.
There's nothing specific known about these machines yet, so I'll cut right to the chase. Today I picked up 7 Apple notebooks, all of them with various issues.
- 3x PowerBook G4 15-inch
- 2x PowerBook G4 17-inch
- 2x MacBook Pro 15-inch (2.2GHz / nVidia GeForce 8600M GT)
The PowerBook G4 15-inchers and 17-inchers all run, but they're all missing parts, some consistent between them. I'm confident I can rebuild the 17-inch systems, but I'll need to source spares before I can fully reassemble the 15-inch systems.
The MacBook Pros have nVidia GeForce 8600M GTs in them. This requires no further explanation. I'm optimistic that I'll be able to repair these as well.
I also picked up a Power Macintosh G5 enclosure, case only. I'll keep it in case a damaged G5 turns up (as they do every so often) or consider case modding it. Sitting on top of the case is a LaCie 2big Quadra RAID unit that apparently blows any drives that are fitted to it. I'll test this with a couple of junk drives and see if I can repair it.
Finally, I picked up a couple of Intel Xeon "Woodcrest" dual-core processors, clocked at 2.66GHz each. I don't have anything to fit these to at the moment, unfortunately.
Cheers,
Michael.
There's nothing specific known about these machines yet, so I'll cut right to the chase. Today I picked up 7 Apple notebooks, all of them with various issues.
- 3x PowerBook G4 15-inch
- 2x PowerBook G4 17-inch
- 2x MacBook Pro 15-inch (2.2GHz / nVidia GeForce 8600M GT)
The PowerBook G4 15-inchers and 17-inchers all run, but they're all missing parts, some consistent between them. I'm confident I can rebuild the 17-inch systems, but I'll need to source spares before I can fully reassemble the 15-inch systems.
The MacBook Pros have nVidia GeForce 8600M GTs in them. This requires no further explanation. I'm optimistic that I'll be able to repair these as well.
I also picked up a Power Macintosh G5 enclosure, case only. I'll keep it in case a damaged G5 turns up (as they do every so often) or consider case modding it. Sitting on top of the case is a LaCie 2big Quadra RAID unit that apparently blows any drives that are fitted to it. I'll test this with a couple of junk drives and see if I can repair it.
Finally, I picked up a couple of Intel Xeon "Woodcrest" dual-core processors, clocked at 2.66GHz each. I don't have anything to fit these to at the moment, unfortunately.
Cheers,
Michael.