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Clamshell Questions PLEASE HELP!!

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Kalinatek

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I just got a 300mhz iBook Clamshell (Tangerine) with 288MB Ram,3GB HD,CD..etc and i have a few questions guys!

1-Which Airport Card should i get ? the original or Apple airport card? of course its not the extreme?


2-Is there a way to display a res higher than 800x600? am running 10.3.9


3-The seller told me that the battery is dead (its shows 0% on the screen) is there a way to test/fix it? before i get rid of it?


4-Is there a way to get a better video card?


5-Is there a way to get an internal dvd burner?


6-I Have 10.3 installed and also OS 9 how can i delete the older OS 9 ? (so i can have more free space on my lil 3GB HD!)



any more tips or info would be great,thanks.


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1-Which Airport Card should i get ? the original or Apple airport card? of course its not the extreme?
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You need the Airport card. They are not cheap. You might be able to use a USB dongle though instead.

2-Is there a way to display a res higher than 800x600? am running 10.3.9
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Not with the internal LCD.

4-Is there a way to get a better video card?
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Short answer - no.

Long answer - noooooooooooooooooooo.
 
Kalinatek said:
6-I Have 10.3 installed and also OS 9 how can i delete the older OS 9 ? (so i can have more free space on my lil 3GB HD!)
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I think you can just delete the System Folder and suchlike from your drive. I installed OS9 on my PowerBook by just dragging the entire folder over from my old iMac.
 
Ok, if I were you I wouldn't run OS X on that thing because of the screen size and amount of memory. How could you possibly do anything with a 800x600 resolution? Also, if you stick to running OS 9 you can probably get away with a 3GB hard drive (unless you have a lot of music or something) but if you use OS X you will almost certainly want to upgrade that.

You should also probably do a clean install of the operating system so you can start fresh. Again, I'd highly recommend sticking with OS 9.
 
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