kkritsilas
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I just received my iBook G4 (the 1.33GHz 12" version) in the mail from an eBay seller. Machine appears to work fine, and boots up into 10.5.8 (which is in and of itself a bit of an issue). System seems to be charging OK, the About This Mac > System Report > Power says the battery has 233 cycles on it, has a current capacity of 3378 mAH, and the Condition says Good. I can read and write CDs with the built in drive, and it has a 40GB hard drive.
Plans are to max out the RAM by adding a 1GB module, and to see what can be done about increasing the hard drive capacity by swapping the rotating hard drive over to some type of SSD, or even just a bigger rotating hard drive. I don't know how easy it is to find a PATA hard drive or SSD these days, but I'm going to start a search. If anybody has any suggestions or experience, I would really like to know about it.
Since its been a long while having not seen 10.5.8, one of the reasons to get this was to try to get Classic Mode going, and for that I need 10.4.X. What is the easiest way to get that onto this system? Then to get to Classic Mode, does it come with the 10.4.X install, or do I need to get a separate CD with OS 9, 8, or 7? I have already had to hack the system a little bit to regain control of the administrator's account, because the system was delivered without the administrator's password being given to me. It booted without requiring a password directly into a privledged account, and while the system ran fine, it also was impossible to manage and set some stuff in the system. I have that squared away now.
Plans are to max out the RAM by adding a 1GB module, and to see what can be done about increasing the hard drive capacity by swapping the rotating hard drive over to some type of SSD, or even just a bigger rotating hard drive. I don't know how easy it is to find a PATA hard drive or SSD these days, but I'm going to start a search. If anybody has any suggestions or experience, I would really like to know about it.
Since its been a long while having not seen 10.5.8, one of the reasons to get this was to try to get Classic Mode going, and for that I need 10.4.X. What is the easiest way to get that onto this system? Then to get to Classic Mode, does it come with the 10.4.X install, or do I need to get a separate CD with OS 9, 8, or 7? I have already had to hack the system a little bit to regain control of the administrator's account, because the system was delivered without the administrator's password being given to me. It booted without requiring a password directly into a privledged account, and while the system ran fine, it also was impossible to manage and set some stuff in the system. I have that squared away now.