My g4 Powerbook has been slightly banged up. It fell twice and I want to buy a new hard case for it and recase the whole thing myself to save extra service costs. Any ideas where I can find a new case and how much it will cost to buy.
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Recasing my powerbook.
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Case parts are not cheap, it's part of the cost of owning a PB -- drop it and the $100 bills start flying out of the wallet.
Look at some of the prices...
http://www.pbparts.com
or some place may have used and scratched parts available...
http://www.ifixit.com
Look up PowerBook Parts and there are quite a few dealers around these days.
Look at some of the prices...
http://www.pbparts.com
or some place may have used and scratched parts available...
http://www.ifixit.com
Look up PowerBook Parts and there are quite a few dealers around these days.
I would recommend eBay. You can usually get some pretty cheap case parts from people who are parting out broken machines. Heck, I got a bottom half of a Tibook for $10 to test my painting on back in the day. The parts aren't always brand new, but if your Powerbook's taken a beating already, it'll be an improvement!
I should sell my mint-condition/desk top queen Ti/AL PBs piece by piece, like a chop shop business model. It seems the sum of the parts is more than the value of the total package....