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Glad you got lucky!

Yeah, I would NEVER pay $150 for a broken one personally. I’d like to get one for more like $50 to $75. There are a few that have sold reasonable on eBay recently. I might consider grabbing one if I see it for the right price. I really wish I could find a lot of like two or three of them, then...

Cool that you have one of each model! Do you have a 100 as well? I have actually been quite curious about those lately, but I know they can be a real headache to fix up these days. But man are they neat when fully working. Thank you! Yeah, I really don’t think this one was used much.

Yep, that’s me! :) It has always been a goal to get a 160 and/or a 165 for my collection. I’ve always enjoyed my mono passive laptops so I think I would really have fun with one! And between it and my 145B, 170, and 180 I would then have 1-bit black and white and 4-bit grayscale PowerBooks in...

Some of you probably saw this PowerBook 180 I posted about in my conquests thread. Finally decided to crack it open to inspect the internal plastics yesterday. Of course, the usual problem standoffs were broken! It seems actual use has little do do with this. I think what happens is the...

After digging my trusty PowerBook 145B and 170 back out of the closet, that’s got me kind of obsessing over these early PowerBooks again. So, I did a completely random eBay search for a 180 (one I have really wanted for a long time) and I found an ABSOLUTELY MINT example! It looked really good...

You’re certainly entitled to your opinion! But out of all the laptops I have worked on, these are quite simply designed in my opinion.

Fully agree aside from the fact that I think these are very easy to work on! I’ve always found the design to be dead simple and I love it. Yeah, the 160/165s are so cool, I’m probably going to get one pretty soon. Would complement my passive 145B nicely! The passive displays are great on these...

Yeah, the plastic sucks on them. Very thin and brittle.

Haven't been active here in a while! I have not gone anywhere though, and I'm still in the hobby! I haven't done too much with vintage Macs in quite a while actually. I just pulled my PowerBook 145B and 170 back out yesterday and I'm going to be getting them back in top shape soon hopefully.

The 100 series (from 140 on up) are my favorites. I like the look, feel and overall simple design of them. Pretty reliable too aside from some screen and plastic standoff issues, most of which can be fixed fairly easily. I think the keyboards are great despite what some say, and the trackballs...

Thanks for the info! I'm glad to hear you don't think they aren't too hard to service. I am surprised that you think it's easier than the older ones, but then again I've never had one so I couldn't say for sure. The great thing about the older design with magnets in my opinion is that you don't...

Yes, I agree. It's not to say they didn't make anything good afterwards, because they did, but that's definitely the "golden age." While we're on that subject, I will say the 2012 to 2020 iMacs have been growing on me lately. The decision to go from magnets to adhesive to hold the glass on was...

Yes, very sad. 100% agree! For "modern" laptop designs, the first-gen unibody is definitely one of the greatest of all time. Honestly they are easier to take apart than a lot of older laptops I've dealt with! Pretty much everything Apple was making around that time was top-notch. The first gen...

Nice! Yeah, it's crazy how easy these first-gen unibodies are to service. I only had to reference a take apart guide once during the restoration/rebuild of this 2010. I like the retina models a lot too, though I do wish the memory was socketed. Soldering the SSD in on the 2016 and later (I...

Yes, they are some of the best MacBooks ever made in my opinion because of their of build quality and serviceability. I'd love to get a mid-2012 13" or 15" (or both!) at some point.

I have wanted a 15" first-gen unibody MacBook Pro for a while now, and I finally have one! It's a mid 2010 model I built from two different units. This one was originally a 2.4 i5, but It now has a 2.66 i7 board in it. It also had a non working aftermarket battery which has been replaced with...

I ended up installing High Sierra on the Mid 2009 iMac with @dosdude1's patcher. Very happy with how it runs! I swear I think it runs even better than El Capitan did on here. Only issue is every time I boot the computer up it starts with the brightness all the way down and I have to turn it back...

Wow, that's crazy! I really didn't think that was possible. The Early 2009 is very similar to the Mid 2009. The mid 2009 is a slightly cost and feature reduced version of the early 2009 for the educational market. Would be fun to see it run on here, but I don't think it'd be much fun to use...

Hah, I'm not even sure that's possible on a C2D! Probably not. I think High Sierra would do decent enough though, as long as there aren't too many weird glitches or hardware incompatibilities.