Hi all,

I've started on the G4 area of my collection in ernest now.

This week, I scored an iBook G4(listed as 800Mhz) sans power supply for a modest $280.

I made a quick power supply converter cable to run from another apple 45W/24V supply and away we went.

It appeared that the DVD drive was not working, and so I had to install OSX via firewire target disk mode.

To my surprise when I powered it up after the install, it turned out to be a G4/933 and with more RAM than I anticipated too.

In attempting to problem solve the DVD drive, I found that it does accept disks. However, they need to be pushed almost all the way into the slot. I am not used to doing this, as the only other slot load I've used is on my Cube - and gravity helps there a lot.

So in the end, a perfectly nice little G4 book to add to my G4 collection. It now stands at:

G4 Cube (modded to 1GHz)

G4 Digital Audio (733MHz)

G4 Quicksilver (733MHz)

G4 Xserve (v1, 1GHz)

G4 eMac (ATI - 1GHz)

G4 iBook 14" (933 MHz)

Regards,

Macdownunder