I have been on ebay and can't seem to find a good high res titanium screen replacement for my 1ghz titanium mac.
It was the first new Mac I ever bought (the original 700Mhz model) - I've had a few since thenBloody love this machine. I always wanted one, but at the time it was released I had a Power Mac G4 so had absolutely need for one...
Lovely find! but please tell me you repasted the heatsink contact point between the base and upper-dome?View attachment 1974417
Scored this little beauty for £20. Was very much dead when it arrived, and looked as though it had been stored in a shed (absolutely filthy, full of muck). However, it turned on and presented a flashing question mark startup disk fail - which I took as a very good sign!
Ordered a refurb IDE drive from eBay for another £15 including delivery.
Got her open and my god it was filthy inside. Someone had clearly been in there before as the ATA ribbon cable was completely disconnected from the mother board, and when I got the drive caddy out it was completely missing its original HDD. Gave it a bit of a vacuum, popped the replacement drive in, managed to get it back together... and now... whirring away and running 10.4 happily!
Bloody love this machine. I always wanted one, but at the time it was released I had a Power Mac G4 so had absolutely need for one... I ended up getting a G5 iMac but was never a fan of its design. The iMac G4 just makes me smile every time I look at it.
I sure did! The old paste had turned to dust!Lovely find! but please tell me you repasted the heatsink contact point between the base and upper-dome?
I just notice that its not mentioned, a lot of people dont realise it has to be done and neglecting to do it is a quick way to fry one of these machines
I have a couple. I just wish the fan could be a lot quieter but I think it has a lot to do with the case design.View attachment 1974417
Scored this little beauty for £20. Was very much dead when it arrived, and looked as though it had been stored in a shed (absolutely filthy, full of muck). However, it turned on and presented a flashing question mark startup disk fail - which I took as a very good sign!
Mine seems pretty quiet... though not silent. That being said, the comparison is against the Quicksilver G4 sat on the other side of my desk (also a very good eBay find - £70 including a 17 inch ASD) which though quieter than my old Mirrored Drive Doors G4 is pretty noisy! It's easy to forget these days how loud computers were back in the day! I remember an office full of G4s and while you got used to it the HUMMMMM made you need to speak a bit louder!I have a couple. I just wish the fan could be a lot quieter but I think it has a lot to do with the case design.
Yeah. The QSes ramp up a bit. I use mine for PPC gaming and it gets progressively louder and obnoxious. Nothing you can do without drastically modifying the internal airflow layout and that would mean a completely different PSU.Mine seems pretty quiet... though not silent. That being said, the comparison is against the Quicksilver G4 sat on the other side of my desk (also a very good eBay find - £70 including a 17 inch ASD) which though quieter than my old Mirrored Drive Doors G4 is pretty noisy!
You will need to find the lid template PDF somewhere so you can print out your own cover designs!Was a long time I didn't bought any new (old) Mac stuff. I needed to make myself a small present I guess...
Got this PowerBook 1400c for 45€. At that price I couldn't resist, these are more seen at 80/100 € + when in good condition nowadays. Was sold as "have no power adapter, don't know if it works", but wow... the thing is in perfect condition,
no cracks on the lid hinge area, it has the transparent lid cover, a 32mg RAM card, and it booted on first try :
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Only... the 2Gb HD died just a few mn after I tried seeing what was on these four 500Mb partitions.
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I have just welcomed a new addition! A 400Mhz 'Pismo' PowerBook G3. Sold as 'untested' on eBay - which I read as 'this machine will almost certainly not work'. so was very pleasantly surprised when I got my power cord out and it booted first time! Display/speakers/optical(DVD)drive all work perfectly fine!
Seems to have been last used in 2006, and from the few files and apps on there it looks to have been previously owned by an art/multimedia school of some description. The most surprising thing about it though is that it is in PERFECT condition. There is not as much as a scratch on the case. It has all four of its feet. Flipping back the keyboard and the internals look as clean as the day it rolled off the production line. It was clearly very well taken care of, and then must have been packed away very neatly for the last 16 years.
Now to decide what to do with it. I actually don't have a Mac OS 9.2 install disk anymore, so can't really reset it to factory settings... though I do have a 10.4 bootable USB... so may just install OS X on it...
Thoughts?!
You will need to find the lid template PDF somewhere so you can print out your own cover designs!
Edit: found them! http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/powerbook-1400-cover-templates
And the Japanese text gives it an "exotic" feeling. I really like that.I found an in box Japanese keyspan usa-28x usb to serial adapter for 20 dollars. Still has the original Japanese language driver cd in the box and everything. I have no idea how it ended up in the US nor do i know how to read the Japanese on the box but i really like owning things in their original packaging.