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but from that era should you ever ? i agree its a start but the first powerbooks that could rightfully be considerd to be desktop replacements are the lombards and pismos followed by the orginal tibooks

the hd 20 is a slightly different beast it has a 20 mb rodime hd and conencts to the floppy port of the 128k\512 e it was made redundant when the plus was released with scsi

i dont think il be able to borrow a switch but i might look in to a router or a switch today if funds permit

did al that and i stil get the same crap its enough to make you want to hurl them out of the window

yes i mirrored my setup of the imac G5 ( which works i am using it now and works the moment i plug it in ) im going to turn off al other options on the ibooks sans ethernet to see if that has an effect ( i did turn the modem bluetooth and airport off on my imac )

1 gig it is and it s not really about the speed of the machine the blue G3's have a 100 mhz bus but about pumping too much money in old tech to keep it modern while modern better technology is availble for less money yes he can up grade his memory to the max ( which can be...

tiger runs but its sluggish your best bet is to go with panther ( 10.3) its older then tiger but peopel are undoubtedly dumping it giving you a bargain its stil modern enough to be able to run along and it wil run in 128 mb or you can go to os 9 but then you have the problem...

i was assuming the same process of the tray loaders would be used where you indeed need to disassable the whole machine ( i should know i did that more times then i cared to admit ) as far as apostrophe is not up to it yes it is up to him to decide if he is up to it but judging...

i have selected ethernet but i havent turned the rest off i might need to do that just in case and i am getting the damn i am talking to my self ip adresses when the cable is reported to be plugged in and i stil dont get a connection on either when i manually configure my...

you do know i posted a link to a take apart guide right under that post right right ?

no i havent tried a router funds at the moment dont permit a router especially not if i am sure if it wil work or not on any random windows machine i pull out the connection works just fine on my imac G5 it works just fine but both ibooks refuse to go online

thats what i mean all he can do is turn dashboard and spot light off and look for a better video card everything else is just not worth it and far too expensive the price of that dual 1.7 GHZ G4 i linked too is ridicilous you can buy a complete imac G5 for that

well he could plunk in a G4 cpu upgrade but that would be the same thing really the best things he can do is max out the ram ( 1,5 gig ) or at least more ram turn off dashboard and spotlight get a better video card and thats it or take all that upgrade to a faster G4...

my ibooks are quite frankly driving me to the brink of what is left of my sanity i have been busy for a week to try and get them online ( usinga direct cable modem line no routers or anything in between just a straight cable) and not a bloody thing happens via my imac G5 it...

terminal voodoo http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050723123302403 spotlight involves more crazy terminal voodoo http://www.tuaw.com/2005/05/13/tiger-tips-hate-spotlight-turn-it-off/

works for me

ohh now you are making me curious about jaguar heh im running tiger on a 500 mhz ibook for one reason only only tiger boots of an external usb drive

why do you think i like it ? ;p or liek mac os x over 9 for that matter

ill be the od done out and say panther is better even if it is older it doesnt mean its any worse then tiger

phsically it wil be possible but what about the rest ? connectors screen screen resolution connectors keyboard connector and why would you want to chop either up ? even if the emate should have the strongarm 162 mhz