Some time ago I was given a iBook G4 to repair and discovered that the motherboard was completely dead on it. As often happens with these sort of things the owner simply wished to have the data from it and just gave me the dead computer. I have had it laying around for ages and I have been out of the country for some time as well. Here is my question I am looking for a computer for school that will be fine for taking notes etc in class I have some money saved up and I'm leaning towards buying a much more powerful desktop and just using anything I can get my hands on for portability. So my eyes have landed on this used ibook. Everything is working on it minus the motherboard. I will need to purchase a new HD for it although I do have a 20GB I could put in possibly if that is enough space. I believe the battery holds a decent charge for a few hours. The ram is already maxed and it has a wifi card. The laptop is a 1GHz G4.
Do these laptops have cronic problems? Is it worth it to fix this? Given I have nothing invested at this point. If I buy a new motherboard can I upgrade it from 1Ghz to 1.33Ghz? Basically will the motherboards be the same shape or does it have to be the same one? I have plenty of experience repairing Apple computers especially laptops so my main concern is if you think it is worth it to repair given the age of the laptop and if there are any known issues. And if I can use just any iBook G4 motherboard or if I am limited to the 1.0Ghz G4 board. Hopefully my question is clear I have the feeling that I rambled a bit to much so I apologize for that. Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this matter. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
