Archive for September, 2006

iBook overhaul leads to frustration as well as success


I finally got round to undertaking the incredibly complicated and scary technical job I’ve been talking and writing about for weeks now. Yesterday I took my old Apple Dual USB G3 500MHz white iBook to pieces, removed the 10Gb hard drive and busted CD-R it came with originally, and replaced them with a 40Gb Samsung hard drive and a Sony CD-RW/DVD drive before putting the iBook back together again.

iBook Undressed

I followed the instructions I downloaded in PDF format from ifixit.com to the letter, and have Hayes to thank for pointing me in the direction of that enormously useful website in the first place.

I’m not great when it comes to organisation under most circumstances but I knew if I so much as slipped up once, I could destroy the computer and waste a lot of money spent on new parts, so every screw that came out was immediately taped to a sheet of paper. This meant, by the time I’d completely taken the iBook apart, I had a sequential set of screws as well as other bits and pieces such as springs and rubber feet.

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Thursday, September 28th, 2006