How to uprez your iBook, if that's your thing

It might surprise you to see what some people will get up to with their computers. In a desperate attempt to increase the resolution of his/her clamshell iBook's display from 800 x 600 to a majestic 1024 x 768 (via replacing the LCD), one MacNN forums user went through both hell and high water, as recounted in seven mind-expanding pages of sheer modding madness. In the end, he/she got his/her resolution jump, but we think we can safely say that in this case it's the journey -- not the destination -- that counts. Check the read link for the whole amazing saga.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 25th 2007 8:43AM]

Haha, guide to upgrading my toilet-seat. Nice.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 25th 2007 10:29AM]

What's the point? You can't even run a decent web browser on OS9, and OSX is too slow for that machine.

[shifuimam Posted Jun 25th 2007 3:30PM]

Sure you can!

Panther runs pretty well. It takes a little while to open Photoshop, but I doubt anyone still using one of these is doing any actual graphical design work on them...

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 25th 2007 7:36PM]

I installed 10.2 a while back and it was running slowly. Not sure of the name of 10.2... was that Panther?

[shifuimam Posted Jun 25th 2007 7:43PM]

10.1 = Puma
10.2 = Jaguar
10.3 = Panther
10.4 = Tiger
10.5 = Leopard

So far, Panter seems to be the most efficient on these old iBooks. It's akin to running Windows XP on a PII laptop - slow but usable. It's better than OS 9, at least...

[bozs13 Posted Jun 25th 2007 9:00AM]

Here come the whiners........

[stridermt2k Posted Jun 25th 2007 10:59AM]

LOLspeak can't die fast enough.

Actual babies find baby talk to be kinda creepy.

[AJerman Posted Jun 25th 2007 11:32AM]

Agreed. I'm so sick of it and can't believe that it's even snuck into somewhat professional websites now. Whoever was responsible should be shot. I can't even stand people who type things like "ur" when "your" is only 2 more letters away. Give me a break, how lazy (or stupid) can you be?

[anonymouspimp Posted Jun 25th 2007 12:54PM]

Quit ur bitchin.

:)

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 25th 2007 2:54PM]

last i checked it was called l33t.

im n ur wall

jokn ur postz

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 26th 2007 1:33AM]

Please stop the lolcat stuff.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 27th 2007 7:04PM]

I've got 10.4.10 running on my Tangerine ibook.

Only problem is the small amount of ram in the system, well that and the low rez screen.

These are still usefull machines for things for field work where you dont want to risk damage to a nicer laptop, I carry mine with me to offload pictures from my camera and to do GPS mapping with. I have even wardrived with it.

[shifuimam Posted Jun 29th 2007 9:37AM]

Add a 512MB stick. It'll help with performance. Apple's max RAM spec is incorrect - those iBooks can indeed work with 512MB.