Comments on: Reviving Old Computers (PowerBook G4)

By: Keith

Keith — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:33:04 +0000

I ordered one that was officially recommended for the PowerBook (it was actually a PC2700 even though only a PC2100 was needed) and it did not register the first time I put it in either. I removed and reinserted very carefully and it finally worked. Seems it is a bit picky about insertion alignment.

By: John

John — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:37:44 +0000

How did you get the 12″ to read the 1g of ram? I popped a (good) 1g stick of ddr ram in there and it didn’t take, says the slot is empty.

By: Kit Rosenlund

Kit Rosenlund — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:50:16 +0000

I liked your article. I recently picked up the 867 MHz “little Al” on Ebay for just over $200. I think it’s a great machine. Mine only is running Tiger, but adding an Airport Xtreme card and some more RAM makes it a viable machine today. They get a little warm on the bottom, but not so much as to worry.

Long live Apple!

-Kit

By: Jas

Jas — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:22:45 +0000

I’ve got an old eMac in my basement that I keep around for the same reasons. Great old-skool keyboard, and with a gig of RAM it runs Leopard just fine, I must say.

That said, I absolutely adore my black Macbook, and while it’s far from being obsoleted, I suspect I will be able to continue to use it for web browsing, basic word processing, and all my usual online nonsense for a good long time to come. Certainly well past the day I invest in one of those new iMacs they recently rolled out…