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Replacing Powerbook Ti 15" Rev. 1 with Rev. 2?
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I was looking on eBay to purchase some hinges to fix my dad's old Powerbook G4/550 and then possibly resell it on eBay but I noticed that numerous people also sell their detached Powerbook Ti 15" LCDs themselves. I was wondering if it was possible to use a Rev. 2 display (1280x854) on the origina G4/550 which originally ships with a 1152x768 screen. Thanks.
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Originally Posted by jchen
I was looking on eBay to purchase some hinges to fix my dad's old Powerbook G4/550 and then possibly resell it on eBay but I noticed that numerous people also sell their detached Powerbook Ti 15" LCDs themselves. I was wondering if it was possible to use a Rev. 2 display (1280x854) on the origina G4/550 which originally ships with a 1152x768 screen. Thanks.
It will not work properly, if it fits at all.
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Originally Posted by ChrisF
It will not work properly, if it fits at all.
Well I think it will fit but as for it working, that's my question. Both screens are Ti LCDs and the design itself didn't change between the screen upgrade until the Al models came out.
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It does too work. Lots of the LCD's that I've put into older Powerbooks had the black/grey inverter wire which were the DVI models. The LCD's with the pink/white inverter wire were from the Mercury/Gigabit Ethernet models. I've done lots of swaps and I've put a working DVI LCD into a 400mhz tibook since the DVI mobo was dead and I had a cracked screen on the original tibook. It worked properly with no problems. The only thing that it didn't let me do was raise the maximum resolution to 1280X854... it only went up to 1152X768 since the graphic chip didn't go that high.
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i'm not saying it won't fit. i'm saying it won't work 100%. if you can't get the native resolution on an LCD, it's junk. You'd be stuck with a permanently blurry screen. And that's not clever.
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