1GHZ TiBook

Restart holding down the mouse button. I've had this problem with my AlBook before, and that fixes it every time.

If the disk is seen by Disk Utility, you can tell it to unmount / eject it.

This thread is special to me.

I just got my Ti back a few days ago after loaning it out for about 2 months to a friend in need.

Now that I have my 'main machine' back, I can sell my Thinkpad.

Yay!

wait til i get my 1000 mhz 12 inch ibook G4 il whack you over the head with it ;p

oh Nice! my favorite laptop of all time was a 1GHz TiBook! if you ever need any help with the hardware of those things let me know, i've taken them apart so many times i could do it blind-folded.

and as for the disc, just be patient, if the drive doesn't recognize it the disc it should (if it isn't busted) eject it after a period of time. i would also take the bottom-cover off (6 or 7 torx screws on the bottom and then slide the cover off towards the front and then lift up) and make sure that the ribbon-cable is properly plugged in to the motherboard.

I never liked the TiBook much - bad build quality, and the dark keyboard doesn't match the rest of the design.

bad build quality? if you use them as frisbees, maybe.

truth of the matter is they have excellent build quality. any laptop will disintegrate if you mistreat it.

okay, so i took a look inside of my book, everything seems to be intact. i just now entered a blank cd-r into my book to test if the drive is okay or if it needs to be replaced. if that's true, i'll upgrade to a superdrive.

also i noticed when i was in system profiler, i looked under devices, and it said that no burning device was found... is that some thing little, or is it something i need to be worried about?

thats something to be worried about. the slot-loading drives on the tibooks are hit and miss, the superdrive that came in my 1ghz tibook started to die about 2 years ago and i finally replaced it middle of last year.

if you can afford it, replacing the drives in those things is extremely easy and totally worth it. oddly enough my old tibook has a better optical drive than my MBP, 8x DL compared to 6x DL.

you can get a non-DL DVD-RW for $70 here, or a DL version for $110 here.

thanks dan, for all of the help. i think i'll just go for the non-dl after i get an airport card, which i think i need more.

ah probably. luckily those are also easy to install

when you do get the card be sure to click the antenna plug in all the way, the little square bit should be flush with the card itself (or very close anyways), and you should be able to turn the plug slightly in the socket. Also be sure to "click" the plug down into the little metal bracket, this makes it much easier to install the bottom and ensure that the airpot card won't interfere with the external PCMCIA slot.

actually, i called the place i bought it from, and they said that they would replace the drive free of charge, i just have to take it in.

oh nice. see if you can hang out while they change it. the insides of TiBooks are really nifty.

they actually said that they probably couldn't do it while i wait. but, i have seen the inside, when i needed to check the cables. it looks like they crammed a lot of stuff in there lol.

Free installation is always a good thing.

I need to take my Ti apart and add some Arctic Silver to the CPU. It's running a tad on the hot side and I just know the old thermal paste is nearly dried up and useless by now. Either that or Apple used an entire tube on the CPU.

I say that because for a while that is just what they were doing.

Apple uses a glob of green goo on the CPU, and nothing but thermal pads on the GPU and etc. its kind of a pain to clean off, but once you do get it clean and add arctic silver an odd downside is that the fan(s) start to spin more often as a greater amount of heat is being transferred from the CPU to the heatsink, rather than just being trapped in the CPU. its a trade-off i'm willing to live with, however.

Congrats on getting a 1GHz TiBook! I'm typing this one one right now, and it's a great, great machine. I hope it gives you years and years of good service, especially since it's the fastest PowerBook that'll boot MacOS 9.

If you have trouble finding the correct MacOS ROM version to boot 9 on there, lemmie know. I've got it.

I've got a 550Mhz TiBook - it's a work of art. It served me well for many years. Since the keyboard on my 12" is currently busted, my TiBook is going back into service as my work computer.

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I think they're in much lower supply than the other models due to the $700 premium they commanded over the mostly-comparable 867MHz model. You only gain 133MHz (and double the VRAM, which was what interested me)

Also, considering that they're the last, fastest PowerBook that runs Classic, I think they'll have greater supply and lower demand than other models well into the future.

EDIT: I meant greater demand and lower supply. 1GHz TiBooks are hard to find in my experience. Several other models are quite common, though.

that is also helped by the completely false stigma that TiBook's have reliability and build quality issues. The first generation did have its faults, but if you take care of them (like i hope you would take care of a multi-thousand dollar piece of equipment), they can last forever. Hell, I have a fully-functional 500MHz (aka original) model which even still has the original DVD-ROM drive! granted i had to do some surgery to it after its previous owner completely wrecked it, but just to prove my previous statement my 1GHz TiBook which has been in my family's possession all its life is still in perfect physical condition. yes its optical drive failed, which is definitely a con but from a realistic point of view it was the very first super-drive slot-load ever in a laptop, and only a 1X at that. it was SLOW. it seems to me to be completely reasonable to upgrade to an 8X DL burner drive just for the speed advantage (the added speed is not only on burning DVD's, every single read/burn statistic is at least twice as fast as the original drive) if nothing else.

They are also extremely easy to get into, replacing the HD in a TiBook involves about 5 minutes of work if you take your time, which is a stark contrast to the next-gen AlBooks and the current run of MacBook Pro's. They can easily take 10-15 minutes to replace, which doesn't really seem like a big deal but its more than just the added time. You have to undo roughly 3-4x the amount of screws as you did in the TiBook and they are all very small and very soft, making stripping and/or loosing them very easy to do.

There is no denying that the TiBook's do have faults, they do run hot and definitely do not have the most efficient heatsink design ever, in fact its pretty poor as things go, but it does work.

The only real downside to the TiBook is its cooling fan(s). the rear fan on my 1GHz went out about 2 years ago, and i was lucky enough to find a guy in England who happened to have some new replacements at a relatively reasonable price, which i eagerly bought up. Aside from that, I've only been able to find used ones which have worked but being used I have no idea for how long. And they don't often show up used AND working...

So i dunno...maybe i'm biased because i own 3 ( ), but i happen to love TiBooks.

My Ti is awesome. I love it.

'Nuff said.