I was given a powerbook5,8 a while back. Pretty nice specs. 2GB ram, 1.67ghz, 128mb VRAM.
Can't complain! I only needed to buy a power supply, battery and DVD drive. That was like $150 and the machine was easy to disassemble.
I'm going to laugh when it spanks the x1000 performance wise.
Nice gift! Probably saved you over $200, as most of those models of PowerBooks are selling around $350 to $450 on eBay lately. I agree that they are easy to disassemble, but it is time consuming and care must be taken with all those tiny and delicate parts. I just replaced the heatsink & fan assembly on my 17" 1.67GHz G4 PowerBook and replaced the hard drive with a WD320gb drive. To get the heatsink & fan assembly out you have to practically remove every other part from the PowerBook and are left with just the shell.
The guide by Jacek is really good and should prevent most of the confusion of anyone interested in getting a G4 PowerBook to run MorphOS3.0 on when it is finally released.
