alex_ant
Jun 8, 2005, 10:35 PM
Thinking about selling my battered TiBook. G4/550, 30GB 4200rpm IBM hd w/ fluid bearings, 768MB, combo drive, Linksys 802.11g card. No box, but all original manuals and CDs included (OS X 10.1.1 & OS 9.2). Includes Apple phone cord & s-video/composite adapter. Yes, the apple stickers are included too. No dead pixels. Very stable, last kernel panic was several months ago. Relatively new white brick power adapter.
Broken right hinge. Ground off the part of the hinge that connects to the display and glued a thin piece of custom-cut aluminum (from a soda can, painted side down obviously) around the hinge and onto the front & back of the display to keep the display more secure. Takes some extra care to open & close the lid but it can still be done, and it holds secure in transit. Looks rather horrible but it gets the job done.
This was a paint-flaking model where the light gray paint flaked off the carbon fiber part of the palmrests. I stripped all the paint off the whole carbon fiber chassis and painted it a darker shade of gray instead (almost matches the gray of the Ti part). It looked quite professional at first, as I gave it several coats + matte clearcoat layers, but now it too is getting a little worn in the palmrest area. But it's still OK looking.
All paint scraped off of the hinge covers, which are now bare Ti. This was the first step of an aborted plan to repaint the whole computer black, but I've decided I'm too lazy for that.
Other than all this, cosmetically it's as you would expect from a TiBook of this age...
Battery still gets at least a couple hours on a charge (rarely used). Keyboard keys and trackpad are shiny from finger wear but they work like new.
What could this baby fetch? Just wondering... not sure what I want to do about replacing it yet.
Broken right hinge. Ground off the part of the hinge that connects to the display and glued a thin piece of custom-cut aluminum (from a soda can, painted side down obviously) around the hinge and onto the front & back of the display to keep the display more secure. Takes some extra care to open & close the lid but it can still be done, and it holds secure in transit. Looks rather horrible but it gets the job done.
This was a paint-flaking model where the light gray paint flaked off the carbon fiber part of the palmrests. I stripped all the paint off the whole carbon fiber chassis and painted it a darker shade of gray instead (almost matches the gray of the Ti part). It looked quite professional at first, as I gave it several coats + matte clearcoat layers, but now it too is getting a little worn in the palmrest area. But it's still OK looking.
All paint scraped off of the hinge covers, which are now bare Ti. This was the first step of an aborted plan to repaint the whole computer black, but I've decided I'm too lazy for that.
Other than all this, cosmetically it's as you would expect from a TiBook of this age...
Battery still gets at least a couple hours on a charge (rarely used). Keyboard keys and trackpad are shiny from finger wear but they work like new.
What could this baby fetch? Just wondering... not sure what I want to do about replacing it yet.
