So obviously i am not a mac guy, and when it comes to fixing them, especially laptops, i want to shoot myself in the left eyeball.
anyway...some of you (kakaze) might remember that i have a friend who is stuck with a very craptacular G4 ibook (don't remember exact version..i wanna say A1208 or something like that). In the last few years the mobo died...just about annually. Once even the hdd and ram also got swapped. Anyway, that thing is a lemon, but thats another story. Her bro gave her a Sony Vaio (PM 1.6, 512mb ram, 80gb 4200rpm) ... and that thing is a DOG. She wants her ibook back.
I went to the apple store w/ her to get it tested, dude confirmed that indeed the mobo is busted and would run $300 for a fix. Of course he recommended just selling it on ebay for $100 "as is" and dropping $1k on a macbook. My friend doesn't really want to go that route b/c its $600 more money and she won't really benefit that much from the improved performance (read: office and internet doesn't need much anything). So she is still considering fixing (maybe even slightly upgrading) the mac. Of course that would involve a bigger/faster hdd, more ram.... and a replacement motherboard.
Here is the question: are G4 ibook motherboards interchangeable between models. That is, she has a 12", so as long as i get any other 12" ' s mobo, would it fit? This is also crucial for an upgrade b/c this way i can get a mobo w/ a faster CPU than what she currently has...
anyway...some of you (kakaze) might remember that i have a friend who is stuck with a very craptacular G4 ibook (don't remember exact version..i wanna say A1208 or something like that). In the last few years the mobo died...just about annually. Once even the hdd and ram also got swapped. Anyway, that thing is a lemon, but thats another story. Her bro gave her a Sony Vaio (PM 1.6, 512mb ram, 80gb 4200rpm) ... and that thing is a DOG. She wants her ibook back.
I went to the apple store w/ her to get it tested, dude confirmed that indeed the mobo is busted and would run $300 for a fix. Of course he recommended just selling it on ebay for $100 "as is" and dropping $1k on a macbook. My friend doesn't really want to go that route b/c its $600 more money and she won't really benefit that much from the improved performance (read: office and internet doesn't need much anything). So she is still considering fixing (maybe even slightly upgrading) the mac. Of course that would involve a bigger/faster hdd, more ram.... and a replacement motherboard.
Here is the question: are G4 ibook motherboards interchangeable between models. That is, she has a 12", so as long as i get any other 12" ' s mobo, would it fit? This is also crucial for an upgrade b/c this way i can get a mobo w/ a faster CPU than what she currently has...
If she's gonna buy new and she can wait just a bit, I'd be curious to see if there will be any product refreshes or updates when Leopard is released.
