On Nov 12, 2008, at 4:02 PM, Brian Troisi wrote:

>
>       Hello! I am about to buy a iBook G4 14" 1 Ghz, 512 MB RAM, 60 GB. The
> current bid is $81 and it ends in 3 hours and 6 minutes from now. It
> does not have a charger, but could I use one that came with my
> PowerBook G3 Pismo? Would it work with the G4 iBook? And it says that
> it boots to the frowning mac face, which means there is no OS
> installed. If I recall, G4 iBooks do not have frowning mac icons built
> into the ROM, or could run Mac OS 9, which had Sad Mac icons. What do
> you think this means? If it had just no OS, then it would boot to a
> flashing question mark icon. Thank you for your help! Btw, the auction
> is here: 
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=150309177763
>

The Pismo AC adapter will not fit the iBook G4. You can find the right  
one in an aftermarket version on eBay for $15-$20 shipped.

That iBook will not boot into OS 9. However, it will run OS 9 in  
Classic mode. Never saw an iBook G4 boot to a Sad Mac icon. Beats me.

Jim

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