Morning guys
I'm currently writing this on my new (old) iBook G4 1.33Ghz. I picked it up from my fathers last night, not really had time to do much with it, other then install a few apps. I have to say I really like the keyboard on the G4 over the G3, the build quality feels better but I'm not so sure about this tiny return key. I keep catching the surrounding keys instead of the hitting the return.
Thanks for the tip about the G4 fan control, incidentally I posted a thread about ibooks and extending their life. I was pretty sure I had read somewhere about a fan control app, but nobody seemed to know what i was on about. I'm glad to see I wasn't just imagining it!
One thing that did happen, which I'm hoping is just a one off. Was after unpacking the iBook and powering it up, the laptop froze with the apple logo on the screen and the spinning circle below. I ended up having to pull the battery. On the second boot the ibook gave me half of a bong and then beeped at me, followed by the sleep light flashing. I don't know how many times it beeped, I was too busy trying to get it to boot and didn't think to make a mental note DOH! So i don't know if this is has anything to do with bad ram. That happened last night after initially unpacking, I've booted it up several times since then and it has not reoccurred. So keeping my fingers crossed, would hate to have bought a £74 lemon.
I'm currently writing this on my new (old) iBook G4 1.33Ghz. I picked it up from my fathers last night, not really had time to do much with it, other then install a few apps. I have to say I really like the keyboard on the G4 over the G3, the build quality feels better but I'm not so sure about this tiny return key. I keep catching the surrounding keys instead of the hitting the return.
Thanks for the tip about the G4 fan control, incidentally I posted a thread about ibooks and extending their life. I was pretty sure I had read somewhere about a fan control app, but nobody seemed to know what i was on about. I'm glad to see I wasn't just imagining it!
One thing that did happen, which I'm hoping is just a one off. Was after unpacking the iBook and powering it up, the laptop froze with the apple logo on the screen and the spinning circle below. I ended up having to pull the battery. On the second boot the ibook gave me half of a bong and then beeped at me, followed by the sleep light flashing. I don't know how many times it beeped, I was too busy trying to get it to boot and didn't think to make a mental note DOH! So i don't know if this is has anything to do with bad ram. That happened last night after initially unpacking, I've booted it up several times since then and it has not reoccurred. So keeping my fingers crossed, would hate to have bought a £74 lemon.