[olug] Laptop HD for borrowing?

[Jon Larsen]

My brother replaced the HD is his iBook G3 (dual usb) several years ago, 
and the ATA interface of the board was actually faster than the drive 
installed.  (33 on the drive, 66 on the board).  A small 20 GB UDMA66 
drive with a couple meg of cache will bring new life to any almost any 
iBook G3.

Check the height of the existing drive before ordering any replacement.

You can also install OSX to an iPod and boot from it for testing 
purposes.  Check with the GNMUG guys, they might have some ideas.
http://gnmug.org/

Jon L.

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Luke -Jr wrote:

> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:54:52 -0500
> From: Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org>
> Reply-To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Subject: Re: [olug] Laptop HD for borrowing?
> 
> On Sunday 28 October 2007, Dan Clough wrote:
> > A 900Mhz iBook is a decent interwebs-browsing/light-use laptop.  
> 
> I would think so, too. But somehow this one is horrible :(
> I'm hoping it's just the HD failing turning into a bottleneck in the meantime.
> 
> > My 700Mhz handled OS X 10.3 quite well with 384MB RAM.
> 
> It runs Gentoo with 256 MB RAM.
> My performance issues persist even when not compiling ;)
> 
> > Jay at RTU might have some laptop HDs left over, although when I went
> > there yesterday I discovered that alot of things got thrown out.  Odds
> > are, now that you need it, he probably doesn't have it.  ;)  But anyway,
> > if you use your iBook for anything other than internet browsing/e-mail,
> > I'd suggest moving up to a used PowerBook G4 (And perhaps even upgrading
> > to Leopard - it's amazing, even on a G4), and if need be, maybe even a
> > new MacBook.
> 
> I can't afford a new PC right now, and have no interest in Apple's x86 stuff. 
> As far as I'm concerned, Apple's sole purpose in existing was to sell PPC. ;)
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