For the slimline case:
Pros:
*Custom goodness for you to have your way with.
*Small form
*Easily transportable
*Not super heavy
*Cooler running
Cons:
*No more integral disp…
68kMLAHardwareby FranklinsteinFri, 3 Oct 2008 - 20:46
Hack it into a slimline case. The CRT is dodgy and you've already damaged the Airport slot, so use it as an opportunity to build something different. And treat it as a learning exe…
68kMLAHardwareby CharliemanFri, 3 Oct 2008 - 20:38
If anyone can recall one of my recent liberations, 2x 700mhz eMac G4's, you will also remember that one of them runs beautifully. The other one does not. The display has a flicker …
1.42ghz eMacs? Not a bad spec at all, my friend. 133mhz frontside bus with DDR memory and a 1.42ghz G4 is by no means a slouch of a system.
The eMac that does boot could just need…
I was playing around with the Emac that did boot and the video came on. It boots to the loading screen and stays there. The apple screen with the spinning pinwheel. Left it runn…
See if you can get one working unit. From there see if the problems are related to one specific component. The G3 iMacs commonly bad flyback transformers which would allow the comp…
I came across a pile of emacs. They had been tossed off a truck, I picked up a couple of them as I dumped my stuff off. They are 2005 models with 1.42ghz cpu's. . THey are c…
This link sources a few different places you can get it. Also for a few different Apple laptops. I went with Digikey.
http://www.jkllamps.com/laptop.cfm
VERY inexpensive and th…
68kMLAHardwareby Dennis NedryFri, 3 Oct 2008 - 03:11
So, a few days ago, my PowerBook G4 started acting funny, not wanting to sleep, freezing on waking from sleep, etc. Then finally, it locked up during the boot sequence and never ca…
68kMLAHardwareby FranklinsteinFri, 3 Oct 2008 - 02:31
That battery reset actually is written for the clamshell as well. But thats the only iBook compatible.
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I have no idea what you're saying. The OP was talking …
My thoughts exactly. I had Leopard on my dual 450 G4 with 1.12GB of ram and the Radeon 7000, it was alright, but it gets annoying after a while. Leopard seems to chew on hard drive…
68kMLAHardwareby ChristopherThu, 2 Oct 2008 - 01:38
Tried it on a G4 450 with PCI Radeon Mac Edition + 1GB RAM. It ran like an absolute dog compared to 10.4. It's not especially fast on my 1.33 Ghz G4 and that's way above the spec…
AFAIK, there is no reset app on the clamshell -- the one that I'm familiar with works with the earlier G3 powerbooks. On the clamshell, only an extension gets installed, and it's …
I have been considering Leopard on my 800mhz TiBook and my wife's dual 500 G4. The dual 500 has a PCI 32mb radeon 7000 in it and 1.25 gigs of ram. The TiBook has 768mb of ram, thou…
Folks,
I have the same problem as Didius, but different.
Couple of months ago, I rescued a 'dead' iBook (G3/300) at an AUSOM meeting, I was told by the person that gave it to me,…
It was a very good deal. My Pismo is so much brighter now! It also was becoming a bit pink in the left corner which was a sign that it maybe wouldn't have lasted a whole lot long…
68kMLAHardwareby Dennis NedryTue, 30 Sep 2008 - 22:13
Well done -- congratulations! As you noted, it's not so much hard as it is tedious, with lots of little steps along the way. But it's well worth doing, given that a $10 tube can re…
SUCCESS! It was a tricky thing to do, but everything worked fine. I agree that you should work slowly and carefully. I managed to not break either bulb (old & new).
The…
68kMLAHardwareby Dennis NedryTue, 30 Sep 2008 - 16:15
If you have trouble starting it up in the future, try the reset button on the back. I've had to prod that a couple of times to get my Lombard to wake up.
Good info there tomlee59. I got two hours of solid websurfing out of my $20 as-is Lombard battery last night on my first test run, but it went dead with no warning and the battery…