I read about 30 minutes ago that one can expect ~5 hours of battery life with airport on and the brightness way down. What can I expect from about half brightness and airport on?
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iBook G3 or iBook G4?
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With a battery in new condition, typically on the order of 3.5-4 hours, or perhaps less if you do computationally intensive things or run the disks a lot. They were pretty good in this regard, with the caveat that minimum brightness (as specified for getting lots of power) was a lot dimmer than it is these days....
One other nicety is that they can easily survive for several days in sleep mode....
Good. 4 hours is plenty for me. The most intensive task I'll likely be doing is working in iMovie.
That sounds nice. Mind you, you won't get any four hours editing in iMovie... You'd get four hours with minimal tasks like editing a Word document and perhaps intermittently surfing the web.
I expected that. I would keep plugged in at most times. I think the light on the charger is one of the best things about the iBook. When I go on vacation, we usually take the car. Can you get a car charger for an iBook G4?
Probably... yes, a quick google search suggests, you can. Alternatively, you may also be able to get an inverter -- I have a small one that plugs into a cigarette lighter and provides two 120VAC plugs. It's not quite so energy efficient, since the car makes AC energy, converts it to DC, the converter converts it back to AC, and then the power supply converts it back to DC, but it is versatile, and the amount of power involved is small anyways....
Of course you can upgrade the combo drive in a 1.33" iBook 12" G4.
I've dropped the latest ata superdrives in them and they work great.
You upgrade the hard drive to the biggest ata pata ide laptop hard drive you cn get ... I think they now make a 320gb ata hard drive and you are running great. BTW, the secret on the 12" iBook G4 1.33 is that it really is just as fast as the 1.5gzh 12" Powerbook G4 (also last revision of the line).
This is because the iBook has a maximum ram of 1.5 gbs, while the 12" Powerbook only took 1.25gb of ram in its final outing. The CPU speed doesn't do much, in fact, the 12" Powerbook's logic board is just a slightly overclocked G4 1.33ghz iBook's board.
The only difference besides the case is the ram difference in favor of the iBook and the VGA out instead of DVI on the Powerbook.
You upgrade the G4 iBook and you really have a powerbook with a non dentable case.
I just read on the Apple Support Forum that there was a Logic Board problem with the G3s and some G4s. Are a lot of G4s affected by this?
Dude, now it is time to do your own research. we've babied you along so far and I already answered the questions.
Let us know what you do with the iBook when you get it. Good luck.
You're right. So for a wrap up (for now):
The iBook G4 takes an ATA HDD
All of you have been a great help to me!
The iBook G4 takes an ATA HDD
All of you have been a great help to me!