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h00ligan · May 10, 2004, 12:56 AM

For anyone who wants to see my pics of the new machine disassembled, they are up at

http://www.digitalinterplay.com/12inch

I'll probably write a page with detailed pics rather then the scaled down broad pics, but for now here's some rev c disassembled pics. Not sure if they have been posted yet.

tekno_geek911 · May 10, 2004, 01:03 AM

That actually made me cringe lol

Thanks for sharing.

Lateralus · May 10, 2004, 01:06 AM

You're crazy.

How many screws did you have left over?

Link · May 10, 2004, 01:22 AM

I know some dude in japan did that probably.. nice job but dude.. that second to last pict.. don't ever wear small shorts when taking a pict like that.. it almost looks like you have nothing on rofl

Lateralus · May 10, 2004, 01:25 AM

I think you paid a little too much attention to that picture...

h00ligan · May 10, 2004, 01:35 AM

lol, i was wearing knee length shorts, but trying to hook everything up, they rose.. i'm 6'5" so all shorts look like short shorts

no screws left over, that's why i showed the table, I put everything in mirror placement , worked like a champ.

My GF came home early from work and was like.. OMFG, you JUST BOUGHT THAT

Fellow2000 · May 10, 2004, 02:10 AM

What was the purpose of this? Were you installing a new HD or something?

sillydog701 · May 10, 2004, 03:07 AM

thanks for sharing, have you discovered anything new/unusual in that PB 12?

h00ligan · May 10, 2004, 08:06 AM

yes a 7200 rpm drive install ... didn't see anything glaring, but i haven't compared to the other earlier model pics yet.

Fellow2000 · May 10, 2004, 06:28 PM

Originally posted by h00ligan:
yes a 7200 rpm drive install ... didn't see anything glaring, but i haven't compared to the other earlier model pics yet.

How is the performance gain from the new drive? Worth the money?

And how about noise/heat/battery llife? Anything different?

h00ligan · May 10, 2004, 06:42 PM

ye, i've had this drive in a tibook before.. xbench shows another 12 points, but it feels like another 25.. I have always noticed that the 7200 rpm drive really makes it feel much more loike a desktop. As far as heat, i'd say it's less... i know that is strange, but that's what it feels like on this machine.. it certainly isn't more. Noise is less.. power is abotu the same.. probably due to the power management system this drive uses.. there's a white paper on hitachi's site detailing it

Cadaver · May 10, 2004, 06:57 PM

Gah, scarry.
I once contemplated installing a new HD in my old iBook. This doesn't look like its any easier. I think I'll hold off on upgrading the HD on my new 12" PB for now

0s and 1s · May 10, 2004, 06:57 PM

Is the new HD as noisy as the stock HD your PB had? I'm assuming you had a 4400rpm

RooneyX · May 10, 2004, 08:16 PM

Someone do that to the 17. I want to see if the graphics card is upgradable or soldered.

ibook_steve · May 10, 2004, 08:37 PM

Originally posted by RooneyX:
Someone do that to the 17. I want to see if the graphics card is upgradable or soldered.

As stated many, many times here with a simple search, the graphics *chip*, not card, is soldered to the motherboard in all current Powerbooks and all previous ones as far as I know. Apple has never had a way of upgrading the graphics without replacing the entire motherboard.

Steve

teknopimp · May 10, 2004, 09:22 PM

yikes, threads like this usually carry the warning "not for the squeamish". but thanks for sharing!

RooneyX · May 10, 2004, 09:34 PM

Originally posted by ibook_steve:
As stated many, many times here with a simple search, the graphics *chip*, not card, is soldered to the motherboard in all current Powerbooks and all previous ones as far as I know. Apple has never had a way of upgrading the graphics without replacing the entire motherboard.

Steve

Those are older models and though I doubt Apple has changed it would still be nice to know. We can't get hold of these upgrade cards via retail channels anyway, can we? We won't know until PC laptopers tell us in several months.

ibook_steve · May 11, 2004, 12:48 PM

Originally posted by RooneyX:
Those are older models and though I doubt Apple has changed it would still be nice to know. We can't get hold of these upgrade cards via retail channels anyway, can we? We won't know until PC laptopers tell us in several months.

No. As I said, I'm talking about the current models. In the current models, the graphics chip is soldered down. I've seen all these machines open. There is no way to upgrade the graphics chip. Period. Yes, it would be nice, but the space and cost required to allow such an upgrade would most likely increase the cost of the box and make 1 inch thick impossible. Have you ever seen inside a 17"? There's no extra room for anything in there.

Steve

MilkmanDan · May 11, 2004, 04:23 PM

So if any of you read slashdot you know who CowboyNeal is. This is how he dissected his 12in Powerbook.

http://cowboyneal.org/ex-powerbook.jpg

My heart goes out.

JKT · May 13, 2004, 04:09 AM

Originally posted by MilkmanDan:
So if any of you read slashdot you know who CowboyNeal is. This is how he dissected his 12in Powerbook.

http://cowboyneal.org/ex-powerbook.jpg

My heart goes out.

Does it still boot?

JKT · May 13, 2004, 04:10 AM

Anyone who wants to see the insides of any Mac can get hold of the Apple Service Manuals here

h00ligan · May 13, 2004, 09:41 PM

ok a few things.

first i don't notice any difference negatively with the new drive

second, it wasn't hard, just time consuming and delicate work, you must be patient.

third I don't think the manuals listed above detail changing no user changable parts on powerbooks. i.e. the tibook explains how to change the hard drive as it was considered a user changable part, but a brief look through the 12" manual doesn't show that info

fourth, I am surprised by the number of views this thread got..

5th i like mine better then cowboy neil