Mucking around in the garage yesterday, I came across my old 12" iBook G4 1.33 and thought I'd fire it up, format the hard drive and then trash it.
After charging the battery I started it up and found everything working fine, updated TenFourFox to the latest, tinkered around a bit and decided to keep it. It's on Leopard by the way
TenFourFox working much better and more quickly than I remember, and all those PPC games to play with
The battery is good, only 80 cycles, and I also have a spare.
The only problem is the airport card gives KPs when enabled (a common trouble I believe), so I'm using a USB wireless module which works fine.
I'm typing this on the iBook at the moment, but, is it worth the bother of totally stripping it down to put an SSD in?
Looking at a Kingspec 64GB for about £40, or a 64GB CF card with IDE adapter? Failing that I have a 60GB 5400 spinner to spare; the original 40GB 4200 is still in place at the moment.
Thoughts?
Cheers
Hugh
After charging the battery I started it up and found everything working fine, updated TenFourFox to the latest, tinkered around a bit and decided to keep it. It's on Leopard by the way
TenFourFox working much better and more quickly than I remember, and all those PPC games to play with
The battery is good, only 80 cycles, and I also have a spare.
The only problem is the airport card gives KPs when enabled (a common trouble I believe), so I'm using a USB wireless module which works fine.
I'm typing this on the iBook at the moment, but, is it worth the bother of totally stripping it down to put an SSD in?
Looking at a Kingspec 64GB for about £40, or a 64GB CF card with IDE adapter? Failing that I have a 60GB 5400 spinner to spare; the original 40GB 4200 is still in place at the moment.
Thoughts?
Cheers
Hugh