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I've picked up an iBook G3 Clamshell that works great and is in fairly decent condition--except for one big problem. The hinge is alarmingly stiff, to the point where I don't want to use it at all. Has anyone here run into this? Can I just lubricate the hinge? Or would I need to replace the...

First off my apologies, I know my iBook thread is right below this one. I figured I've been having some good luck thrifting recently so I should make a dedicated thread so I'm not spamming new threads going forward. But today I picked up this awesome 15 inch PowerBook G4 with a 1.25 GHz G4 at a...

Yep it's the beta. It's pretty useless (no GPU acceleration and no Airport drivers) but I had to give it a try. I definitely wish they'd finished it and released it though!

Picked up another iBook G4 at another thrift store! This one is a 14 inch 1.42 GHz G4. Weirdly enough, I think the screen back was swapped with a G3 one--its transparent instead of solid white, and the bezel doesn't exactly snap in properly. Here it is, along with my 12 inch G4 running Snow...

The problem ended up being quite simple--I had a stick of PC2100 RAM in it when the 1.42 GHz iBook needs a PC2700 stick. Its weird that it manifested in the way it did (I would have expected it to not boot or not recognize it ever), but now that I have the correct stick in it it recognizes the...

Ok it actually gets a little weirder. I realized I don't even need to unplug it to make it re-recognize the RAM stick. It is enough to just shut the computer down and start it back up again and I'm back at 1.5 gigabytes. Its just restarting that causes the problem to happen.

I've recently picked up a 14 inch mid-2005 iBook G4 (1.42 GHz) that has a bit of an unusual problem. I've got a 1 gigabyte RAM stick installed in it, and when I boot up the computer it recognizes it perfectly. However, if I reboot it it goes back to only recognizing the soldered 512 MB on the...

Nope, not negotiable unfortunately. It disappeared eventually so I'm assuming they gave in and dropped the price. I don't have space for desktops like that so I probably wouldn't have bought it even if it was reasonable but it was still sad to see it sit there for so long.

For the scuffs, they came off with some household cleaner (Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day for what its worth) and a lot of elbow grease. I just spray a little on a paper towel so it doesn't get the computer too wet and scrub from there. The sticker came off with some Goo-Gone (that stuff is magic if...

This iBook G4 is the 2004 model with the 1.2 GHz G4. It has 1.25 GB of RAM, and a 30 gigabyte hard drive. I put a fresh install on Tiger on it and its a great little machine! As I'm sure you can see, it was really gross when I first got it, but it cleaned up really nicely. The keyboard is a...

I just bought a brand new sealed Belkin F5D7011 for under $10 on eBay and it works perfectly with my Pismo and Tiger--no drivers necessary. I can connect to my WPA2 network without issue.

For now, since I already had a serial cable, I'm just using ZMODEM in Zterm to transfer files. Its pretty slow, but OK for the small sizes of most of the files I am working with. Once I get ethernet setup, I will likely use that instead. Thanks for the offers! I found an AAUI adapter for...

I just won a PowerBook 520c off eBay for $9.50 sold as-is (with shipping it was about $24 in total). The 520c is my second 68k PowerBook; I already have a Duo 230, but since I don't have a place to setup my DuoDock, it is pretty hard to use. I figured it wasn't much of a risk if it didn't work...

Do you know where I can find Lind battery utility? That one seems harder to find. With the Intelligent Battery tool, I was able to get it to recognize the battery and charge (which took a few hours to get to 100%), but it only ran for about 5 minutes. Would the Lind tool/freezing it help? Or is...

Update: I actually found it! It is on the Internet Archive, along with the rest of Apple's former FTP site. I'll post a link here in case anyone in the future is looking for it like I was...

I just picked up a PowerBook 520c, and it works great--except it doesn't recognize the battery. Before I try replacing/refurbishing it, I have heard that there is some Intelligent Battery reconditioning software for this computer, but I can't find it online anywhere. Does anyone have a copy of...

I was browsing shopgoodwill.com and came across this lot that looked like mostly junk: But out of the corner of my eye, I saw something that looked grabbed my attention: A MessagePad 120! I won the lot for $26--I have no idea if the Newton works, but I figured it was worth the risk. I...

I think one of the ADB pins is related to a power switch, maybe you could try using a microcontroller to control that pin? But I'm not sure it can shutdown the computer. It might be worth investigating.

I'm absolutely not an expert, so if this is bad advice someone please call me out on it. But you could try scrubbing the board with distilled water? Supermarkets sell it for cheap.