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I'm relatively sure that you can't just using the Personal Hotspot feature because the airport cards aren't compatible with the encryption used, but I was wondering about USB tethering. I've never really done anything with that, but it would be nice to be able to actually access the web while...

I’ve been working on restoring a number of clamshell iBooks recently. In some cases they required some minor repairs such as resoldering the power port, but for the most part they all worked fine with the exception of the very noisy hard disks, which I am replacing with SSDs. Most of them were...

Inexpensive is a relative term. If you search on ebay the only non-used Clamshell iBook batteries are being sold by one seller who wants upwards of $200 apiece for them. But there is a third-party seller on Newegg that is selling them for $60 + tax and shipping. I got one and it lasted almost...

Thanks, that would be nice. 

Got a B&W G3 tower for $25 on eBay. The seller said that it didn't have a hard drive, but it turned out to have two! It has one SCSI and one ATA disk, and they both appear to be fine. The only issue is that one of the handles got smashed in shipping, although I was able to glue it back...

I'd be interested to see how well a machine translation of something like this turns out. I'm a Japanese translator so I've seen quite a few, shall we say, questionable translations based off of machine translation, but it is getting better. I would offer to help but unfortunately I don't have...

I looked into OWC’s “Legacy” IDE SSD but apparently it won’t fit in the cube because of the way the airport card sits. Not sure if it would fit if you didn’t use the airport. I would also like to know what other options are available. 

Thanks. I guess I will stick with 8.1 since I'm basically unable to use the main features that I wanted to use 9.1 for. 

I haven't actually tried this, but I'm sure it will work -- the only question would be if you were using a very early version of the OS from before that version of the keyboard existed. I'm not sure about the numpad/arrows in that case.

I don’t know what the nature of the mod was, although mine is a Japanese machine. 

I found this thread from last year where you talk about experiencing the same exact freezing issue that was only solved by downgrading to 8.1. Did you ever figure anything out about that?

You're basically going to end up destroying it, I'm afraid.

Yeah, I'm not sure they are really repairable. Hopefully it's just the cable or trackpad and not the connector on the board.

Well I tried 8.6 and it also freezes while copying from the PC card.

Not yet. I don't recall what the benefits to those over 8.1 were except maybe more PPC-native code. 

The width one isn't supposed to have a screw in it. You have to use a tool of some kind to adjust these, but it needs to be non-conductive since you have to do it while the machine is on. Most of them can be turned with a slotted screwdriver-like tool, but if the SE/30 is like the earlier ones...

Yes I actually saw that and am considering it. I just have to decide how much money I want to put into this machine

Got a 733MHz Quicksilver PowerMac G4 for $20 (although shipping was kind of expensive as you might guess). The main reason I chose this particular one was that it appeared to be in amazing condition. The plastic was still on the optical drive covers, and there doesn't appear to be any damage of...

Cool iPod classic shell. Oh wait...  :O

Is the actual optical drive having trouble opening, or is it just having trouble opening the metal outer door? Mine originally had something similar, but if I slide down the metal door manually it can open fine. It seems to have worked itself out by now, although it will still often want to...