Today at work, I visited our satellite facility a few towns over, an even larger warehouse where lots and lots of electronic devices are stored! And because they don't bother to resell old PowerPC Macs on our eBay store, my bosses said I could take any such older Macs from our facilities for my own personal use, to tinker with them and whatnot, and so I got me this...
A 15" aluminum PowerBook G4! It's the 2005 A1106 model with a 1.5 GHz processor; currently it has 512 MB of RAM in it and no hard drive. We also don't have any 65W PowerBook G4 AC adapters, but I was able to test it at work by using my power supply box with a universal power jack with the compatible adapter tip for PowerPC iBooks and PowerBooks, set to the proper voltage, and it started up to the flashing question mark folder icon!
I've got quite a few plans for this new addition to my growing collection of older Macs. I'm going to get a compatible 65W AC adapter for it, install a 120 or 160 GB PATA hard drive inside it and load Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger along with a Mac OS 9.2.2 system folder for Classic application usage, and max out the RAM to 2 GB!
I've always wanted to get a nice PowerPC Mac laptop for my collection, and I think I've made a great choice!
A 15" aluminum PowerBook G4! It's the 2005 A1106 model with a 1.5 GHz processor; currently it has 512 MB of RAM in it and no hard drive. We also don't have any 65W PowerBook G4 AC adapters, but I was able to test it at work by using my power supply box with a universal power jack with the compatible adapter tip for PowerPC iBooks and PowerBooks, set to the proper voltage, and it started up to the flashing question mark folder icon!
I've got quite a few plans for this new addition to my growing collection of older Macs. I'm going to get a compatible 65W AC adapter for it, install a 120 or 160 GB PATA hard drive inside it and load Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger along with a Mac OS 9.2.2 system folder for Classic application usage, and max out the RAM to 2 GB!
I've always wanted to get a nice PowerPC Mac laptop for my collection, and I think I've made a great choice!