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Pic of me with short/school boy haircut and my old Powerbook. :)
Yes i know i look like a goof ball..
I'm decommissioning my old (2002-era) PowerBook Titanium. As part of that process, before shipping it out to Cupertino for recycling, I wanted to remove the hard drive. Once I opened 'er up, I found a bounty of photogenic material ... And here we are.
That was one of PowerBook's last functions before I traded it in for a lovely MacBook Pro. Here, I was able to connect it to the HDTV... well that's obvious isn't it.
I was bored this evening, so I decided to experiment a bit and build an holographic experiment. With my powerbook, watching Flickr, and with my TV.
I was just missing a tripod to record it correctly. I'll try to make some more photo when I get one.
Four powerbooks editing a W3C specification using SubEthaEdit (although NetNewsWire is hiding the edit window)
My old PowerBook G4's SuperDrive is all screwed up. Over time, the case started to sag until I couldn't get a disc in or out of the drive, so I had to pry the slot open. Apple was kind enough to replace the top case under AppleCare, but not the bottom case. Unfortunately, the replacement top case didn't fit with the bottom case, so that's what created the opening in between...
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!
I attempted the surgery after reading the following experiences - I owe all of them enormous thanks!
Instead of CD player, I use PowerBook with iTunes loaded with Apple Lossles audio files. Digital to analog conversion is done by battery powered Altmann Atraction DAC. This combination works sonic wonders, and it is so fun to use.
When I discovered the Cats love Macs group, I decided that I had to post this picture from last spring, where Cortez inspects my Dad's visiting powerbook...
Attempt at your own risk!
The best thing i did was make this sheet to store the screws with pictures of where they went on the Powerbook
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!
I attempted the surgery after reading the following experiences - I owe all of them enormous thanks!
The Defiant next to Icarus
My PSP is named Icarus, and my laptop is named Defiant. And yes, that is Natalie Portman on my lappy. She rocks my world :-). (I got the background from a fellow Flickr user here, www.flickr.com/photos/sharkgrrl/123358656/ )
The display in the background is to Enterprise, my PC. It's a 20" wide Dell LCD (2005FPW), an excellent display.