Advertised as: 800MHz G4 tower with 512MB RAM and 40GB hard drive (self install) 17" Apple LCD Turned out to be: Dual CPU 1GHz, 512MB, 80GB self-install Seagate Barracuda 17" …

(Ps. noticed the "Designing Cards and Drivers for the Macintosh Family" there? Maybe I should someday try to build the mythical Nubus USB card, as that book has all technical infor…

So Leik can these work in PPC as well?

Wow, now that's some good reading. Where these hard to get?

Woah! That's a lot of nice books. Good job, enjoy them and be sure to scan all of the pages on to the internet

Hi, I just got something nice in mail yesterday - 13 books of the Inside Macintosh series I was missing, which I caught from a single eBay auction. Now I can really start warming …

http://www.wreckcenter.com/68k/ Here're the images. Click to expand... It would have been nice if you'd taken the little TM and R marks out of the file and folder names.

. . . back again, looked into it, got bored & stopped, but there's probably enough info in this version to do just about anything you want to do with a Mac Portable or i…

The difference is that Apple didn't even use connectors that *LOOK* like an industry standard. (And, at the time, there was no ATX standard.) Click to expand... The standard w…

Thanks! Slurping now.

^ What Anonymous Freak said. Not because of any grudge against Dell for being aholes with an industry standard, but because I can't be bothered wading through the interwebs trying…

In the past, Dell was notorious for using non-standard power supplies; sometimes even including non-standard pinouts! Click to expand... Yup. I avoid Dell power supplies for t…

Yes the adapter sounds great - *if* you have the time to rig one up, and ultimately will be useful if you can then modify it the other way around: to power a standard 3.5" or 2.5" …

Yes the adapter sounds great - *if* you have the time to rig one up, and ultimately will be useful if you can then modify it the other way around: to power a standard 3.5" or 2.5" …

In the past, Dell was notorious for using non-standard power supplies; sometimes even including non-standard pinouts! Click to expand... Yup. I avoid Dell power supplies for t…

Sounds to me like access to the Portable is limited until the owner's files are offloaded. So rigging up a simple adapter to back up the HDD onto another Mac, nets one Luggable to …

http://www.wreckcenter.com/68k/NetInstall/ Above is the link to the complete set of software in a single package.

you could try using an external display (Apple vision) to see if it will display any information there Click to expand... I wouldn't. Even though the Portable uses the same DB-…

If it is the batt that is dead, I know you can rig a power adaptor to the battrie in slot like this guy said on lem Godwin says, "If the acid battery dies, one can bypass it and …

Surely the issue here is the one where the Mac Portable cannot start up because of a dead lead acid battery ... something I need to research on these forums with my own Portable so…

Oh Maaaaaaaaan.....WONDERFUL!!! What a lucky guy!!!!!! Enjoy it to the end!!!!

Can't wait for the images Click to expand... Sweet tetris this song rocks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuXIT9kIQ34 (heavy (from tf2) ) Could you also make a mega File with…

you could try using an external display (Apple vision) to see if it will display any information there

Aww, that sucks, oh well, but how would i go by testing to see if the inverter board is bad?

*Note for some reason it would not let me edit the page* but I am geting the I-book on the weekend, so any help would be appreciated, with this screen problem could it be the inver…