So I was trolling the apple laptop section of epray last week and happened upon a disassembled powerbook g4 15in. The owner had no idea what the processor was, it had no hard drive but did have a gig of ram. I thought what the heck if nothing else I'll have a parts machine. No one else had bid on it so I put a minimum .99 cent bid and lo and behold I won it for that same .99 cents.
I didn't have high hopes for it but I got it today, cleaned it up (man it was grimey) put it together with a spare hard drive I had,plugged her in and....that's right, she booted right up. Turns out it probably just had a bad hard drive and the previous owner knew nothing about laptops.
Long story short, she is a 1.67 model, the one with the build in airport card. The display is nice and crisp. The only things she is missing are the external case screws and the ram door cover.
So for .99 cents and the cost of shipping, i have a nice new toy to play with. In fact, I'm typing this on her right this moment.
Oh, as a bonus, in the dvd-r drive there was an oem apple powerbook g4 install disc.
I didn't have high hopes for it but I got it today, cleaned it up (man it was grimey) put it together with a spare hard drive I had,plugged her in and....that's right, she booted right up. Turns out it probably just had a bad hard drive and the previous owner knew nothing about laptops.
Long story short, she is a 1.67 model, the one with the build in airport card. The display is nice and crisp. The only things she is missing are the external case screws and the ram door cover.
So for .99 cents and the cost of shipping, i have a nice new toy to play with. In fact, I'm typing this on her right this moment.
Oh, as a bonus, in the dvd-r drive there was an oem apple powerbook g4 install disc.
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