A few questions on my "new" PowerBook G4 12" 1.5GHz
Bought a very nice PowerBook G4 on eBay last week and want to update it a bit. The seller only used it about 2.75 years. It came with all of the books (including Apple decals!), install disc and two different display adapters for $130! 🙂 The seller didn't pack the PB with enough packing and the power adapter hit the side and bent the medal above the optical drive slot a bit.😠 I certainly was not a happy camper when I saw that! She refunded me $15 on the dent. Thank goodness the PB works! Played a DVD and it works. The hard drive doesn't make any noise, thank goodness! From what I've seen on eBay, it looks like these aluminum PowerBooks can get bent or dented if one isn't very careful.
It's got a Toshiba MK8026GAX 80GB HD and CD/DVD burner (SuperDrive?). The model is PowerBook6, 8. It's got Tiger on it and I want to upgrade to Leopard (just got a retail full install of Leopard on eBay recently for it).
Have seen old posts on here about different brands of RAM to upgrade the 512MB to 1.25GB. What brand is still recommended for this PowerBook in 2013? Crucial or OWC or?? Crucial wants about $65 for 1GB and OWC wants about $32. I'd like to use OWC since it's cheaper if it would be ok.
The PB came with a 45W power adapter without the AC cord. Found an Apple KB HT1565 (dated 8/30/2012) that says my PB should have a 65W adapter. Found a brand new in the box 65W on eBay today for $18! 🙂
Would like to have wireless Internet to use the PB in the basement. Currently I have wired Internet for my Mac Mini and Internet TV box. Was thinking about getting an Airport Extreme base station to plug in one of the Ethernet cables and then hopefully could get Internet in the basement. My house is 83 years old, so don't know if that would cause any problems. The Airport Extreme Firmware version is 402.6 (3.90.34.0p13). Which generation of Airport Extreme base station can I use? All of this wireless stuff is confusing to me. I wouldn't be creating a network or anything fancy.
What brand of wireless mouse would you recommend? Don't care for the trackpad and am currently using a Dell wired mouse I have, but it doesn't want to scroll.
Thanks very much for your time.
silverado93
PowerBook, Mac OS X (10.4.2), 12", 1.5 GHz G4, 512MB, 80GB HD