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OK, great feedback guys. Two more questions :) Anyone have experience with the coolant leaks on the quad cores?  I know there's a guide out there but I wanted to get a sense of how prevalent this would be Also, is the PC4200 memory the fastest that the PowerMac 11,2 can use>  Could I use...

I just bought a powerMac G5 with the Quad core 2.5GHz CPUs   :) This machine is a super find (I plan on maxing out the memory and putting in an SSD)  I dreamt about owning this machine when it was out in 2005 and now 10+ years later I have one! :)     I was wondering if there any opinions...

O_O Thank you Gorgonops! That made my week! The Aleph One ports are awesome and it's the WHOLE trilogy! I may wind playing through these and then going through the Halo games just for nostalgia....

Hi guys, So there are some games that I want to run from MacIntosh Garden which need Mac OS 9. (Marathon in particular, anything in color) I've been looking around to see what my options are. There are a few but being so new to Mac I can't figure out which is the best one. So I need your...

I just recently replaced my original HDD in my iBook G4 with an SSD. It was certainly difficult but worth it.  A couple of suggestions: For the teardown: - I put all the screws in their rough position on the bottom shell once I got that off. It makes a nice little tray...  I placed the screws...

So I finally resolved this.  I did what jongleur suggested.  (Mostly, I just used Disk Utility to Restore the data from the original to the newly formatted internal drive)  I had the original HDD with the original data and I found an enclosure that I could use with it (Needed a SATA to PATA...

Hi guys, So the saga continues... Put together the iBook G4 with the SSD in place.  Boots up great and the machine is acceptably fast now (also installed more memory) However, when I duplicated the previous drive onto the SSD (I used DD on Ubuntu), it turns out it didn't do that magic that...

I love that you have an old pulse dial / desk style phone in the background  :b&w:

Hi guys, So I went headlong into this.  I did watch a couple of Youtube videos on replacing an HDD on this iBook but apparently the lessons didn't sink in... My main problem is that something fell out and I don't know where it came from. (Pictures below of the part) It looks like a spring...

Thanks guys, those are awesome responses :) :) :) There's an update to this, I took apart the iBook G4 and it was an almost total disaster... I'm posting a different thread about it, you guys might get a chuckle  :b&w:

Hi guys, I'm new to macs in general so please takee it easy on me... :b&w: I just recently got an iBook G4 and want to replace the HDD with an SSD. Two issues that people have mentioned but seem to have no hard information about: 1 - The pin set-up of the original HDD.  Some people have...