YAY! I fixed my ol'school Powerbook G4!
Which surprisingly enough still go for a pretty penny depending on the quality and how well they have been refurbished.
I didn't actually buy mine...no I didn't steal it. It's kind of a funny story, my last roommate was a stoner rich kid who had like 3 macbooks. He always would take off for the weekend and I would never know when he would return, the problem with this was is that he had a dog, a responsibility that I had to take care of because he was not around.
One day, I inquired about one of his laptops and asked if he would ever consider selling it. He said yeah and told me he would sell it for 600 dollars and I thought that it was a decent price because really I would be using it just for screenwriting and using the internet when at coffee places. He let me use it for a couple weeks and it said that I would give him the money at the end of the week.
The end of the week came and I was about to give him the money when he told me that he was just going to let me have it because I took care of his dog for so long. Later I found out that earlier that day he ate two weed brownies from a dispensary and smoked hash with a friend of his. I guess he was just overly generous that day. oh well.
Long story short, about a few weeks later the hard drive crashed on the laptop. I took it to a couple places and they quoted me outrageous prices to fix it. Close to 400 dollars. I then thought well let me look into this and then never did and during christmas vacation I researched a way around the 400 fix and found that as long as you have an external firewire drive and the original disk you can do it. Well being an editor and a geek I have plenty of those. I tried it first with a Frankenstein drive that I had which has pretty much that guts to an old firewire drive that my school gave me when I started there years ago. Having no need for the drive I decided to format and install the OS. It worked! It took a little while to figure out the right format but I got it.
Now comes a time when I need the laptop to be a little more presentable because I could be possibly using it for work and I wouldn't want employers looking at me strange like I was using a macbook that looked like it was rigged and used on the set of Johnny Mnemonic. So I digged around the apartment and found my good old g-raid drive (BETTY) that looks pretty sexy and is ultra portable and bus powered.
OS installed and looking sexy.
Thanks Betty
Oh and just remember
Which surprisingly enough still go for a pretty penny depending on the quality and how well they have been refurbished.
I didn't actually buy mine...no I didn't steal it. It's kind of a funny story, my last roommate was a stoner rich kid who had like 3 macbooks. He always would take off for the weekend and I would never know when he would return, the problem with this was is that he had a dog, a responsibility that I had to take care of because he was not around.
One day, I inquired about one of his laptops and asked if he would ever consider selling it. He said yeah and told me he would sell it for 600 dollars and I thought that it was a decent price because really I would be using it just for screenwriting and using the internet when at coffee places. He let me use it for a couple weeks and it said that I would give him the money at the end of the week.
The end of the week came and I was about to give him the money when he told me that he was just going to let me have it because I took care of his dog for so long. Later I found out that earlier that day he ate two weed brownies from a dispensary and smoked hash with a friend of his. I guess he was just overly generous that day. oh well.
Long story short, about a few weeks later the hard drive crashed on the laptop. I took it to a couple places and they quoted me outrageous prices to fix it. Close to 400 dollars. I then thought well let me look into this and then never did and during christmas vacation I researched a way around the 400 fix and found that as long as you have an external firewire drive and the original disk you can do it. Well being an editor and a geek I have plenty of those. I tried it first with a Frankenstein drive that I had which has pretty much that guts to an old firewire drive that my school gave me when I started there years ago. Having no need for the drive I decided to format and install the OS. It worked! It took a little while to figure out the right format but I got it.
Now comes a time when I need the laptop to be a little more presentable because I could be possibly using it for work and I wouldn't want employers looking at me strange like I was using a macbook that looked like it was rigged and used on the set of Johnny Mnemonic.
So I digged around the apartment and found my good old g-raid drive (BETTY) that looks pretty sexy and is ultra portable and bus powered.
OS installed and looking sexy.
Thanks Betty
Oh and just remember
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nikkiknuckles:
i has an iMAC 
will never EVER purchase a pc product!!!!
will never EVER purchase a pc product!!!! 
danfilms80:
It's funny you mention that Nikki cause I still have a pc tower and now since all macs are intel powered I am trying to make this old pc into an mac. I agree though, I may have shelled out a good amount of money but since I bought it (knock on wood) I haven't had any problems with it. I can't say the same for the PCs I have had in the past.