So my PB is sluggish (has been for the last year) and everytime I play YouTube videos (much less DVD movies), the system overheats in like 5 minutes. Within 10 minutes of this over…

I think the best thing to do is to list all the upgrades separately, and offer "free installation with buy it now" or something like that. I may even have the original 6 gig Quant…

Good to know! Thanks for posting your experience

All but the ROM and the internal ethernet work just from a retail 8.6 CD.

One other thing that has occurred to me that is completely unrelated to the topic of the correct firmware required for booting into 8.6 is whether any additional 8.6 system files w…

I have done a lot of googling and have discovered the following: If you have upgraded the sawtooth firmware (aka boot rom) using the 4.x update, the ability to boot into 8.6 is di…

As far as I have found, wire connected Fast Ethernet upgrades for the PowerBook 1400 are recommended rarely. Some years ago I have got a cheap 10/100 Fast Ethernet PC card from a P…

You'll need to get a can of "Aroma of newly moulded plastic" to spray everything with. Include a calendar of 1999 and an invite to see the fireworks in Sydney at the end of the yea…

Let us know what the items end up selling for.

That's true. The original G3 ZIF is there, in the original Sonnet packaging. I was thinking I'd put the original back in and sell the G4 separately, with a link in the Mac listin…

Ah, sweet. I just also discovered ADTPro, which works a treat on the platinum. It's kinda like the A2GS except you need a disk drive, but I do like the loading of prodos over seria…

No luck for me yet, with ROM 2.5.1. My machine (ID 406) doesn't want to work with a September 1999 G4 boot CD. It also doesn't want to work with a retail OS 8.6 install with ROM 2.…

If you have a G3 ZIF laying around, I'd plug that in and sell it with that. Of all people, Bunsen, you should know the value of G4 ZIF's. It's not often you can get one for cheap, …

Nonetheless, there are those who will prefer a Beige G3 in quasi-original (?) cosmetic as well as functional condition, and be prepared to pay more to get it. Given a Rev. C ROM (…

Thanks for this. These prices are great.

It's not a TAM or Cube, so I wouldn't put it in the collectors bracket.

Interesting call Unknown_K, I'll put it to my boss. Right now it's showing whatever internal HD it has as grr And it needs a PRAM battery. I'm not sure the "collector" scene ar…

It's booting from CD

Thanks for the tip Dr. Bunsen ! Click to expand... Muh? Wait a minute! I read this on Wikipedia:...although there are issues when installing Mac OS X (above 10.0) if b…

Actually I think you would get more selling the G3 as stock with the original CPU and selling that G4 seperate.

Unknown_K and Quadraman, you both make good points. But rpaxton already has the Sonnet in his hands, so Definitely RAM would be the next thing.

Yeah I think I'll double list it in Apple->Desktops and Computers->Vintage

$100 maybe because its mint, boxed, and has that G4 zif. Depends on the market over there.

I should also note it's in pristine cosmetic condition. And it's in Australia, where Macs of any sort in this condition don't come up very often.

Price check on aisle 5? Click to expand... It's in the eye of the beholder.