What have you just bought?

[pixelatedscraps]

That is a fine looking TiBook! Nice score - even for the $$$. I'm sure it will be well cared for

I know it was expensive but the condition and extras seem to make it worth it. I literally cannot wait for it to arrive, it's going to bring back so many memories. Right after I left university in Australia, I sold my Ti and moved back to Hong Kong and got heavily into PC gaming (overclocked Opterons and DFI boards, ftw) , this would have been around 2002-2005, and where I took a hiatus from Macs until I picked up a black MacBook in 2006.

 

[1042686]

This is next on my list, I’ve got a 3 week old doing tummy time on the living room floor right now!

My son hates tummy time - He’s always just cried. He’s sitting up now & trying to figure out scooting on his bucket but doesn’t like the crawl position. I think he’s going to go straight to standing/walking vs crawling as he’s trying to pull himself up on things as well.

Congrats btw. Kids are the best (even better than ppc macs)

 

[CooperBox]

[doublepost=1527089309][/doublepost]And some shots of the 1Ghz thats incoming...
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What a superb, pristine-looking TIBook example. Congratulations!
My very first Apple purchase ever was in Hong-Kong, also a TiBook. A G4 Gigabit Ethernet model, which was my pride & joy until JuniorCooperBox wrecked it. A number of years later it was my very first attempt of renovating it which set off the collecting bug, which has since completely spiraled out of control. I'm still taking the medication but it's having no effect.......

 

[pixelatedscraps]

Oh man, this is making me think of scouring eBay to put together my 2004 PC gaming rig. Wholly off-topic and way out there in retro PC land, but this is what I am fighting to stop myself from putting together again...

• Athlon 64 3000+
• MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum
• 2Gb Crucial Ballistix (2-2-2-5 2x 1Gb)
• ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (before upgrading to a Geforce 6800GT)
• 36Gb WD Raptor
• Seasonic S12 430W
• AOC 17" LCD (17"!!)
• Lian-Li PC-V1000 (I was still a die-hard Mac fan back in my PC days, I remember looking everywhere for a case that matched the G5 aesthetic. I remember this cost almost as much as my GPU back then...)

 

[pixelatedscraps]

this is what I am fighting to stop myself from putting together again...
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Just in case anyone was curious, this is the end result of the above but it’s more circa 2005:

AMD Athlon FX-60
ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe
2Gb OCZ Platinum 2-2-2-5
ATI Radeon X1800XT 512Mb
Corsair SFX450W

Currently looking for a small ATX case and may have found a suitable one in the Thermaltake Core G3 Slim.

Right, that’s it. No more talk of PCs. June is going to be an interesting month once these and the Ti’s and ACD HD 23” acrylic arrive. Can’t wait!

 

[pixelatedscraps]

 

[CooperBox]

My son hates tummy time - He’s always just cried. He’s sitting up now & trying to figure out scooting on his bucket but doesn’t like the crawl position. I think he’s going to go straight to standing/walking vs crawling as he’s trying to pull himself up on things as well.

Congrats btw. Kids are the best (even better than ppc macs)

Strange that comment about 'tummy time', as years ago our little sprog never had any problems of that nature. Perhaps it was the Absinthe flavoured dummy (pacifier?) that killed all germs on the way down.......

 

[pixelatedscraps]

Here is the first Ti that just arrived, it's a A1025 867Mhz, 512Mb and 40Gb HDD with a standard Airport card installed Overall, it worked out of the box, seems to hold a good charge (2+ hours already and only displaying 37 battery cycles in System Report). I don't think I'm hanging on to this one for long as I was surprised by winning my bid for the 1Ghz Ti. It comes with a generic charger which I'm also not happy about.

Apologies for the quality of the photos, these were shot with my 7 Plus.

 

[AphoticD]

That looks great! The condition isn't bad at all. It's a shame the TiBook keyboards often leave marks on the screen like that.

Not sure why you need to apologize for the photos. They are about as clear and sharp as could be!

 

[CooperBox]

Condition-wise it looks wonderful, photo quality great too.
And in my experience so far it's unusual to find a TiBook with a serviceable battery. Whenever I'm able to pick up a PowerBook with a useable battery for 30euros or less, I consider I've bagged a 'freebie'. Well anyway that's what I always tell my wife......

 

[pixelatedscraps]

Not sure, I guess I'm using to taking photos with one of my work cameras but looking at these, the quality is pretty good for a phone camera. Guess it's all about the right light...

Bring on the 1Ghz Ti!

 

[pl1984]

The retro brighting process has been a spectacular success. I've attached some pics of before and after. I didn't really spend much time with the pics.

Before:











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[pl1984]

After:










[doublepost=1527633056][/doublepost]Some things to note:

• The keys and the disk drive plastic have not yet been retro brighted
• The brown on the back plastic next to the power switch was the actual color of the plastic. After retro brighting it's gone and is uniform with the rest of the plastic.
• The disk use and power LEDs are fine. The distortion you see with them is how they are normally and not a result of the retro brighting.
• The text for disk use and power is not faded but rather the way the photos were taken. They're the same as they were prior to the retro bright.

I am very pleased with the whole retro bright process. Very easy to do with excellent results.

 

[1042686]

Bought myself a new battery & 1gb stick of ram for the ibookg4.

 

[AphoticD]

• The keys and the disk drive plastic have not yet been retro brighted
• The brown on the back plastic next to the power switch was the actual color of the plastic. After retro brighting it's gone and is uniform with the rest of the plastic.
• The disk use and power LEDs are fine. The distortion you see with them is how they are normally and not a result of the retro brighting.
• The text for disk use and power is not faded but rather the way the photos were taken. They're the same as they were prior to the retro bright.

I am very pleased with the whole retro bright process. Very easy to do with excellent results.

Very impressive results indeed! If I ever delve back into the "Beige", I will be buying a tub of this stuff.

Do you ever feel like this PowerPC bug has started you on a technological regression? Whenever I go looking for second hand Macs, I just seem to to skip right past all of the Intels and anything that would probably serve me well and go straight for the older, unloved machines in need of repairs and/or attention.

 

[pixelatedscraps]

Wow, amazing results. Who would have known...!
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Do you ever feel like this PowerPC bug has started you on a technological regression? Whenever I go looking for second hand Macs, I just seem to to skip right past all of the Intels and anything that would probably serve me well and go straight for the older, unloved machines in need of repairs and/or attention.

Yes, absolutely. I’m already looking around my studio and office, at home and even my sister and mother’s homes to see if I can replace or ‘upgrade’ a computer to a nice PowerPC unit.

 

[pl1984]

Very impressive results indeed! If I ever delve back into the "Beige", I will be buying a tub of this stuff.

Do you ever feel like this PowerPC bug has started you on a technological regression? Whenever I go looking for second hand Macs, I just seem to to skip right past all of the Intels and anything that would probably serve me well and go straight for the older, unloved machines in need of repairs and/or attention.

I was very impressed. I've seen the results on a number of retro computer blogs but wanted to see how it works firsthand. The plastic looks brand new (except for the scuffs, nicks, and scratches). I was even more impressed with how easy it was. The basic process is thoroughly clean, apply the paste, cover in plastic wrap, and then place in the sunlight for a few hours. I first tested it on a Microsoft wheel mouse which had yellowed over time.

My technological regression has always existed. I've collected a number of old systems for many, many years. Typically I cycle through them over time as they accumulate. For example in the past few months I purchased a number of PowerBook systems (two 12" and one 17"), played around with them, and then gave them away to another collector.

The Apple //c project initially started when someone here posted a video of the 8-Bit Guy reviewing the PowerMac G5 Quad for suitability in, at the time, today's world. After watching a few of his videos along with others who play with the old 8-bit computers I decided to get one. The Apple ][ (not plus, not //e but ][) was the first computer I ever touched. I decided to re-live those days of my youth through a //c.

I decided on the //c because it has a plastic case and it is compact (I'm trying to thin out my collection). I chose this particular one due to how dirty / yellowed the case was. Now I have to get it functional (it powers on with a garbled screen). Today I plan to pull the floppy out and retro bright the faceplate so it matches the rest of the computer. Once I buy a key cap puller I'll do the keys too. Then it's on to fixing it.

 

[pl1984]

Here are the results of the retro bright process on the floppy disk faceplate:

Before (same pictures as post #38):




After:



Top (looking down onto faceplate):



Any yellowing / browning coloring is merely because of lighting, there is no more yellowing / browning on the faceplate. The floppy release "button" was not retro brighted. I believe this is close to the original color so I have no plans to retro bright it. Next will be the keyboard.

 

[Guy Clark]

Most recent PPC purchase is a 12" PowerBook G4 with 1GHz PowerPC G4 CPU and 1.25GB RAM running OS X Tiger 10.4.11

A cracking machine with quite acceptable performance given the modest specifications.