PB g4 12 "

[bibilit]

One year or so ago, i collected a Powerbook G4 12".

Was free, but casing in bad shape and while working fine, the screen was broken...

This Week i found  another for cheap 20€ and brought it home.

not activity was found when the PSU was connected, so started taking it apart (the PSU connector was loose and burnt)

Anyway, i removed the screen from the "new", and swapped with the broken one.



Still have some work in the lower casing, but so far have a working unit.

 

[CC_333]

It's always nice when that happens.

I tried to get one when it was toward the end of its heyday (2007-ish through 2009), when I had the opportunity to get one with a broken screen for $80. I didn't know 1/10 of what I know now about fixing those things, but I learned that machine (an 867 MHz model) inside and out while trying (in vain) to repair it.

I never could get it working quite right (I was *so* close to having the perfect setup with a nice new display lid and 1.125 GB of RAM, but it all blew up for reasons I never understood when I tried upgrading the hard drive), so I finally gave up. Not long after, I got a nice 1.33 GHz one, rebuilt it, and now I have it sitting in reserve if I ever decide to play with it.

Long story short, when they work, they're fun. But when they're broken, they're a pain, at least in my experience.

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[Christopher]

Absolutely. I have a 1.07GHz iBook that I want to put an SSD in but, since it was a PITA just to put a 100GB drive in it 8 years ago, I'm worried about breaking stuff and losing the mountain of screws.

 

[bibilit]

Mine did survive to a full rebuilt.

I remove all the guts from the bottom casing and swapped my logic board and hard drive to the better one, then put all back together.

was a nerve wrecking experience, but didn't lose any screw in the process... only a full afternoon.





All in all, the Powerbook looks better, not perfect.