DIY upgrade to backlit keyboard?

Not sure about the upgrade, but I was skeptic about the usefulness of it at first. Now that I have the backlit keyboard, I wouldn't do without it.

Yes, you can turn the brightness up and down and even turn it off with F8, F9, and F10.

 

Especially in Japan, it gets done with iBooks a lot. I can't remember the name of the site, but a search on google to the effect of "backlit iBook" or whatever will show you the sites I'm talking about.

The Powerbook is packed a lil tighter though - the transformer needed to DIY backlight the keyboard would be too big, imho... at least it was in the previous (ie. not brand new) pb's...

To be honest, the results can be sketchy. Most people use DIY snake light to do the upgrade, and that inevitably results in pretty varied luminous intensities, so you could end up makin it look worse, rather than better.

andy

 

it can be done, to varying degrees of success, but it never looks nearly as good as Apple's own backlit keyboards do.

paul