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First Mac, to good a deal to miss and had to buy, need advise
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: SoCal
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Hey All,
Bought my first mac, 15 PowerBook G4 for $500.00, at an estate sale a month or so back and still have it and think I will keep it. It has a 667MHz powerPC G4 processor, 1MB L3 cache, 30GB Hard Drive and I upgraded it to 1GB RAM (maxed out) Tiger, and the latest MS Office suite. It needs a little more love as some screws and the little pads on the bottom are missing.
I have a few questions and need some advise. Can I upgrade the processor or is it like PC laptops not worth the expense? Where can I find the little peices that I mentioned screws and pads to make it complete? I can still upgrade the hard drive and probably will however, is it woth it? Can I trade it in towards the purchase of a new or news PowerBook?
Thanks in advance for your comments and help.
jim
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: London, UK
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You can't upgrade the processor in a PowerBook. If you could, it'd probably mean replacing the entire logic board which would be too expensive to do.
Little bits and pieces? Sorry, I can't help there, but IIRC there are some online Mac stores that sell these types of thing... just can't recall who they were... er, it may be www.smalldog.com?
What I can help you with though is the official Apple Manual for seeing how to take your laptop apart if you ever need to (or is the hard drive easily replaced on that version PowerBook?).
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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There are actually some PowerBook G4 CPU upgrade services available, but it depends on the PowerBook in question.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Los Angeles of the East
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pbfixit.com should have some lost parts.
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NOW YOU SEE ME! 2.4 MBP and 2.0 MBP (running ubuntu)
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Delray Beach, FL
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try this
powerbookmedic
click in service parts 15" models. They have screws and feet and a few other service items for sale...
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