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My D80 with the Nikkor VR 18-200 lens is here...and I have A LOT of learning to do! I thought I'd be right at home, but I realise my limitations are...vast. *grins* So bear with me: this stream will be home to lots of trial and error in the coming weeks, but www.kenrockwell.com has already helped! :-)
PowerBook G4 with lid closed. Note the slight chipping to the paint around the front edges - this is seen on almost all of the Titanium PowerBooks of this era.
Attempt at your own risk!
My Powerbook was narcoleptic, it had a faulty temperature sensor which told the powerbook that it was basically on fire, when in fact it was not. This caused an emergency sleep whenever it damn well felt like it. Very annoying and very hard to work with! So after two years of research and $25 of screwdrivers I cut the damn thing out. Here are pictures that I hope will help others having the same problem as the below links did for me! I used cuticle nippers to cut the connecting legs of the sensor off the ribbon it was soldered on to.
A note to anyone else who decides on the cuticle clippers, make sure you cut the legs really far down close to the ribbon - I had some errant legs that shorted out the computer a bit and it wouldn’t boot, even when they were covered with lots of tape. I think they may have been touching under the tape which would explain it, but I can’t confirm since I don’t see that well! Trimmed down and retaped and everything is working great, knock on wood!
I attempted the surgery after reading the following experiences - I owe all of them enormous thanks!
My Powerbook got wine spilled on it at eTech during the Roomba cockfights. (Actually it was afterwards when I wasn't controlling my Roomba, but instead was talking about it with folks)
The Powerbook survived the wine spill, but it took out almost the entire right-half of the keyboard, making the keys either non-functional, stuck in one state, or intermittent.
I removed the keyboard and washed it. This is actually safe as long as you're careful to get things completely dry before reconnecting power. And use detergent, not soap.
The washing took care of the intermittent and sticky keys, but the right shift and the arrow keys were toast. I ended up having to buy a replacement keyboard.
This is my desktop, complete with a fresh new desktop picture from InterfaceLIFT.
Mouse over for entirely useless information about my desktop environment.
Intel is for wussies. The 100Mhz PowerPC 603e is where it's at.
This laptop was unceremoniously dumped in the random-crap-pile outside my cube. It's ten years old, running System 7.5, has a staggering 24Mb of RAM, and a whopping 500Mb hard drive. Anyone got suggestions for what I can use it for?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_170
"The PowerBook 170 was released by Apple Inc. in 1991 along with the PowerBook 100 and the PowerBook 140. Identical in form factor to the 140, it was the high end of the original PowerBook line featuring a faster 25 MHz Motorola 68030 processor with Floating point unit (FPU) and a more expensive and significantly better quality 10 in (250 mm) active matrix display. It was replaced by the PowerBook 180 in 1992."
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Having coffee in Barista Coffee with my Astroboy powered PowerBook.
This picture is taken with palmOne Treo 650.
The last revision of the MacBook Pro 15 2019 is an amazing one.
I hope Apple corrected all the issues with the keyboard and some others in this 2019 revision.
For some time I have been away from Apple laptop computers, but the 8 core i9 base model turned out to be attractive and justified investment to me.
I also acquired the 15 inch leather sleeve recently that is very well made and stylish, the price of the sleeve is a little hard to accept, but I could not find one with a better look than de Apple leather sleeve.
Apple laptop computers present for me the best global experience of hardware and software, l hope 6 months from now I can still say the same words regarding this MacBook Pro 15. For now it appears to be a solid machine.
While wandering around in Florence I stumbled on a shop with an old PowerBook 100 in the window, and one of the early, clamshell iBooks.
In fact it's this place here:
www.google.co.uk/maps/@43.7674799,11.2521888,3a,90y,346.0...
After 4 years the only really cool laptop from Apple (12" PowerBook) finally gets its worthy successor.
Here are my smallest to largest computers. At the very small end of the scale is my Sony Clie UX 50 (Palm powered) which has wifi and bluetooth. Next up is my longest lasting computer, a Toshiba Libretto 100CT which dual boots Windows 98 and Linux. Last and certainly NOT least is my 17 inch Powerbook running Mac OS Tiger.
I was so glad to finally figure out how to transfer files over to Kristin's laptop, since I couldn't get them off the machine in any other way.
See my blog post about how to do this if you ever need to (hopefully you never will need to do so).
A quick audio doodle with Logic Express 8 running on a 15-year-old laptop.
The 1ghz Powerbook can run a handful of software synthesisers (the 667mhz model struggled with just one) although the fan runs constantly.
A classic from '03 (stating this up front just in case someone claims this is old news, since, you know, it is). The baked PowerBook. A lady brought it in to the repair shop I worked at claiming she stuck the machine in the oven for 20 minutes to dry it off after she spilled water on it. It still worked.
The display was obviously warped, and the keys melted, but pretty much everything else worked. An external display worked as expected. Airport, USB, FW, and optical drive worked as well.
Sure, it's not the new MacBook Air, but you gotta be happy with what you've got. I still have a fond place in my heart for my PowerBook G4, and my heart is growing (to make room for a new MacBook Pro). Dorky, I know, but seriously, have you seen the new laptops!?