AndyO
Well-known member
A big yawn for many, I suspect, because there are faster, bigger PowerBooks out there with better screens, but it was a 100-series PB I wanted and have been looking for. I was given (literally) a PB 170 in 1991 when they had just come out for joining the business school staff, but these seem hard to find in good condition.
I saw the 145b at the weekend, and got it for $100, which seems a good enough price on eBay. I wasn't expecting a miracle, but it is in fact it in superb physical condition - even still has the hinged flap on the back - and not a scratch on it anywhere. It boots and runs just fine, and everything behaves as I would have expected. Battery is dead and doesn't seem to want to come out, but there's a tiny bit of wiggle in it, so it will eventually. And the passive matrix screen is fine - some ghosting as usual, but it doesn't bother me at all once I'm working on it.
What will probably seal my fate as a judge of these things, is that it's going to join my snowbook as a favorite laptop! Seriously though, it looks as if it just came out of the box.
I saw the 145b at the weekend, and got it for $100, which seems a good enough price on eBay. I wasn't expecting a miracle, but it is in fact it in superb physical condition - even still has the hinged flap on the back - and not a scratch on it anywhere. It boots and runs just fine, and everything behaves as I would have expected. Battery is dead and doesn't seem to want to come out, but there's a tiny bit of wiggle in it, so it will eventually. And the passive matrix screen is fine - some ghosting as usual, but it doesn't bother me at all once I'm working on it.
What will probably seal my fate as a judge of these things, is that it's going to join my snowbook as a favorite laptop! Seriously though, it looks as if it just came out of the box.