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I'm typing this on a 400 mHz powerbook with 384 megs of RAM, running Tiger. Everything about it is fine, except that my screen is dying again, and this time i think it's terminal. I am going to the store today to buy a refurbed Powerbook. Any word on screens these days, do they still die the way they used to? I seriously could use this machine for another couple of years without upgrading any of my apps and be totally fine, but I need a screen. (yes, I've considered just buying a used CRT for $20 but I need my computer to be truly portable)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

it just seems like such an inordinate waste, to turn this ridiculously sophisticated machine into a 9G external hard drive. i wish there were some way to salvage its functionality, do something good with it. i'm trying to think of something useful and drawing a blank.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

headless server?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

As is nigh-invulnerability to malware of all kinds, for which I'd happily pay a one-time fee of, say, a few hundred bucks.

Haha purple money!!! Thank god only you think like that or I'd be just another drum machine busker.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

i'm trying to think of something useful and drawing a blank

OS X VNC could give you a little more time to figure out the answer, I would think.

http://www.redstonesoftware.com/vnc.html

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

It sounds like it might make a good desktop for someone.

― Jon, remind me again why you haven't drowned in your own vomit (ex machina), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Okay I'm at Tekserve now, and I'm a little stunned by the amount of money I'm about to drop. My last one lasted 5 years, though. I imagine they've figured out their screens better now, so this one ought to last at least as long? GAAAAH.

Tom that's interesting, but I would still need a... screen.

Ed, ditto, but what the hell am I serving. Oh yeah, nothing.

There's a 1.33 GHz powerbook here for $200 less than the 1.5, except it has a Spanish keyboard!! I seriously think I might get it. Are there any other major diffs between them? I can't really tell and the staff here is a little overwhelmed.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

Check the apple store site for refurbs, there's been quite a few recently.

No real diff between the 1.33 and the 1.5, other than the bleeding obvious.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

it looks as though for the same price I can get a refurbed 1.5 from the Apple Store. 1.3, 1.5 - eh. My screen is dead as a doornail now (it doesn't even light up any more)... I guess I could drop $20 on a CRT to last me 10 business days. But I am well and truly in full-on get-it-now mode.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

Ed where is yr magic touch when my screen needs it??

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

I don't remember fixing it before?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

My intention was to give you a fairly simple way to operate the old laptop WITHOUT a screen for starters. But yeah 9GB external hard drive. Don't be so sentimental.

Tell the salesduder @ tekserve you'll take the Apple Store offer! Show it to him! Fuck you pay me etc.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

Ed - Apple Laptops

Tom I don't get it though, I would need to like, go over to a friend's house in order to use my computer, right? Unless you are talking about the SHHHH OPTICAL IMPLANTS SHHHHH I NEVER SAID THAT.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

it looks as though for the same price I can get a refurbed 1.5 from the Apple Store

Assuming the other specs are the same, this should be a no-brainer.

A. It's a more recent vintage.
B. It has a keyboard en ingles.
C. iirc, the Apple refurbs come with a full warranty and are AppleCare eligible. (Which would be the clincher!)

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

The Spanish keyboard was the clincher, actually.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

So congratulations are in order?

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

¡¡¿¡

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

you used the past tense

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

¡I was talkin about the deçision, for whiçh something could be çlinched. Whiçh is past now, çertainly. what. do i have somethin on my çhin?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

bwahahaha

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 14 July 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

I got the warranty and the apple care too, by the way, and it was still $200 less than the 1.5. i lost out on the back-lit keyboard and 170 mHz of speed but i gained a spanish keyboard!!! these macs have so little personality these days that i had to have SOMETHING... think different, mang! remember when the imac came out, it was all "oooh apple's cool, they make weird lookin things, tasty-lookin odd stuff!" and now it's like the opposite, like something from a cutaway shot in "il conformista", white rectangles, silver rectangles... my new powerbook is essentially exactly the same as my 5-year-old titanium powerbook, just a LOT faster, and slightly THICKER.. (?)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 14 July 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

aw crap:

Apple recalls laptop batteries
Bobbie Johnson, technology correspondent
Friday August 25 2006
The Guardian

Apple is recalling almost 2m laptop batteries as fears of computers catching
fire spread, following a recall by Dell last week.

The company said yesterday that it had received nine reports of overheating
laptops, and was issuing an immediate global recall of 1.8m batteries in
cooperation with the US consumer product safety commission (CPSC).

Last week Dell, the world's biggest computer maker, issued a recall of more than
4m batteries after laptops caught fire.

Apple said it knew of two cases of minor burns from overheated laptops, and
asked customers to check with its website to find out if they are affected. The
recall affects a large number of 12-inch iBook G4, 12-inch PowerBook G4, and
15-inch PowerBook G4 laptops sold since October 2003. The CPSC said most were
sold in the US, but 700,000 were sold elsewhere. It is not yet clear how many
went to Britain.

Both recalls are batteries made by Sony.

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Friday, 25 August 2006 08:52 (nineteen years ago)

pretty good news really for all of you out there with dead 2 year old batteries that haven't exploded.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 25 August 2006 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

bit of a hassle is it not?

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Friday, 25 August 2006 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

not really, you as for a battery they send you onw and an envelope to send the old one back. any Li-Ion battery from 2 years ago is likely to be only able to hold around 25% of it's original charge and you'd be looking to buy a new one anyway.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 25 August 2006 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

for shizzle? oh, that's not sooo bad then. mind you, the queues you get in post offices...

― animal bitrate (Enrique), Friday, 25 August 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

oh fucking hell.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 25 August 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

~~oh fucking hell~~ hmm. my serial number isn't in range. this is a good thi [BOOM]

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 25 August 2006 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

the queues you get in post offices...

The envelope I got when my iBook battery was recalled last year was a prepaid courier envelope. All I had to do was organise a time to have it picked up.

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 25 August 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

(not that I did, of course. I still have both batteries.)

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 25 August 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

I can't find where on the Apple page it lists the affected batteries?

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Friday, 25 August 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

haha

xpost

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Friday, 25 August 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

Here.
xpost

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 25 August 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

good old sony...the rate they're going the playstation3 will become self-aware and start World War 3*

*if they're ever released or indeed turned on

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 25 August 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

seven months pass...

I am thinking of buying a MacBook and want to be able connect it to my old CRT TV (which has S-Video input) to play films on and stuff.

I think I just need a mini-DVI to video adapter, as supplied by Apple, but for some reason the US store one lists MacBook among the supported machines:

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wo/StoreReentry.wo?productLearnMore=M9319G/A

but the UK one doesn't:

http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/ukstore?productLearnMore=M9319

??

― Alba, Sunday, 22 April 2007 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

yeah it will work, just an out of date description.

― Ed, Sunday, 22 April 2007 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

You are supposed to by an Apple TV, d'uh.

― Ed, Sunday, 22 April 2007 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, Ed.

― Alba, Sunday, 22 April 2007 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

why does black Macbook http://images.bestbuy.com/BestBuy_US/images/products/8376/8376134fp.gifcost more then white Macbookhttp://images.bestbuy.com/BestBuy_US/images/products/8376/8376125fp.gif?

― carne asada, Friday, 17 August 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

cuz it's black. i have one they're super sweet.

― Surmounter, Friday, 17 August 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

Because Apple knows people will pay the premium. The specs are (or used to be) exactly the same between the top white Macbook and the black one.

― milo z, Friday, 17 August 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

the specs are slightly different. the black one is kind of inbetween the macbook & the macbook pro specs. i forget the specifics, but i've been laptop shopping & am leaning toward the black macbook.

― sweet tater, Friday, 17 August 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

$200 difference in cost.

― carne asada, Friday, 17 August 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

i thought the specs were the same UNLESS u got the higher up black macbook

― Surmounter, Friday, 17 August 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

that has to be for more then jsut the color.

― carne asada, Friday, 17 August 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

the black does look nice though

― carne asada, Friday, 17 August 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

maybe it's material - the black exterior isn't glossy/shiny, it's a matte finish

― Surmounter, Friday, 17 August 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

it is really sexy

― Surmounter, Friday, 17 August 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

40GB of HD space for $200 - what isn't a fantastic deal about that?

― milo z, Friday, 17 August 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

Surmounter's a one man crew ensuring that no one ever buys a black Macbook again.

― milo z, Friday, 17 August 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

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