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I don't think the date was 1 day out, I believe it was correct. As you mentioned, the machine came from Victoria in Australia. It is 10 hours ahead of you guys in England, so if you shot that video on Thursday night your time, it would have been Friday morning in Australia. If you had checked system prefs, you would have noticed the timezone was still set to Melbourne I guess... I had a Bondi blue iMac from around that time (got it in 1998) and loved it. I remember getting the Mac OS X beta for it (still have the disc and envelope around here somewhere). I even put Yellow Dog Linux on it at one point. One of the best laptops back then was the Titanium G4 laptop. I remember spending close to AUD$4000 for it which was (and still is) a lot of money. Love it so much. One day the hinge on it broke, but I still used it with the broken screen for another year or so... Having said all that, the best Mac I've ever owned is my current M1 Mac Mini, so even though looking back is great, right now is pretty cool too!!!
I still have and use my iBook G3 bought in 2002. It’s the 700mhz version. It got me through college. Works perfectly. It survived multiple house moves and was almost disposed of on several occasions. I’m glad I still have it. It’s not surprising that OS9 enjoys so much support. No one cares about early versions of OSX.
@@F_I_J_I_W_A_T_E_R Probably because Tiger was the first version of OSX that was really usable and was on par with OS9 for performance. It was also the first version that supported intel CPUs. Previous versions of OSX were pretty but horrible to use. The beach ball of death was a common issue.
you could use the earlier Magic Mouse 1 supports on macOS X v10.5.8 or later with Wireless Mouse Software Update 1.0 or Mac OS X v10.6.1 or later with Wireless Mouse Software Update 1.0..It uses two battery of AA sizes for it to runs.
Got an old iBook G4 here, similar to the one I bought in I think, 2003. For me the worst thing today about this books is not that they are slow, but the display! Very dark, dull colours, really bad viewing angles. Hard to do anything besides word processing on such a screen. But I still like the nostalgia I get when I use such systems, makes me feel like im 20 again... 😂 Thanks for the vid, Dan!
In my collection is a 12-inch Powerbook from around the same time frame as your iBook. I agree with you about the screen because, it always takes me about five (5) minutes for my over age 60 eyes to get used to it. With iLife '09, iWorks '09, and MS Office, I could use it for productivity tasks. However, it is used mostly for watching DVD's while away from home (smile...smile).
I had the 2005 model with the 1.33GHz G4. Loved that little laptop. Battery life in them was really unbeatable at the time. AND it had discrete graphics. But man that slow 40GB, 4,200rpm HDD they shipped with was Brutes McGoots even back then. Wasn't so bad running Tiger, but it was slow as molasses under Leopard. 2000s were really the peak of Apple laptops. M1s are nice, but they're ultimately disposable tech. There's a reason why I run a Framework now.
@@MmntechCa Yes, you are so right about Apple laptop designs...from 1998 through 2008, they were truly outstanding. In addition, to my 12-inch G4 Powerbook my collection includes the last of the "Black and White" laptops a G3 Powerbook (Fire-wire) from the year 2000, plus an Intel MacBook Pro (with both a Fire-wire 400 port and a Fire-wire 800 port) from around the year 2007. Over the years my co-workers have asked me, when are you going to buy a modern laptop? And my reply is always the same, when Apple comes out with a good looking design (smile...smile).
Very carefully, apply lighter fluid sparingly over that box and in a well ventilated space with no naked flames and you should be able to remove the label without damaging the box. You may also try it on the marker pen scrawlings. I have had very good results with lighter fluid. You could also try warming the label with a dry iron - steam setting to off. Then lighter fluid to remove any residual sticky glue. It doesn’t leave an oily mark like other petroleum based products. And it’s not as expensive as some ‘sticky stuff removing’ products.
I've had good luck with Goo Gone, and Goof Off, which are orange oil based, they aren't that expensive, nor flamible, or toxic, and a hair dryer on the shipping label works well also if you use to cooler setting, and take it slow.
I'd start with rubbing alcohol, putting just a little on a paper towel so it's slightly damp and lightly going over the surface. That takes off permanent marker and is the most gentle to start with.
I had the PowerBook G3 "Pismo" back in the day. IMO the best designed laptop that Apple ever made. Amazing reliability and flexibility (mine still works fine); with hot swappable drives I had an extra hard drive, a CD burner, dvd player, floppy and Zip drive as well. I could stick an extra battery in the spare bay to get 7 hours out of it. Wrote my PhD thesis on that thing!
I genuinely found out by mistake using a CD Lens cleaner that Mac OS 9's iTunes can still connect to CD database services and fetch metadata. It got tags and everything for a *no brand CD Cleaner*
Still using a 1999 Black PowerBook G3 (Pismo model) to play games. Battery is knackered so have to use on Mains power, but runs MacOS 9.2.2 with no problems
I still have my OG clamshell G3, watching this made me dig it out and browse through it, I can't believe I used to take this thing to school back in the day.
One of my daily drivers is a Power Macintosh 6500 from 1997. If it weren't for the overly bloated internet, most people would get by using 20-25 year old computers just fine.
12:08 idk if anyone else has said this yet but youre in the UK and that laptop was made in Australia so it would be a day ahead because of time zones. whoever you bought it from was using it in Australia. the battery still had some juice and gave the right time technically
My first laptop was one of those white iBook G3s. I loved that thing, especially how easy it was to access the memory for upgrades. I remember it being built like a tank, so opening it up to get to the main board, hard drive, etc. was an utter pain in the rear.
If you accidentally write on a dry wipe board with a permanent marker, you can usually clean it off by going over the permanent pen with a dry wipe marker and then wiping it off. The dry wipe markers have thinners mixed in with the ink (or something like that) so they can be cleaned off. Might be worth a try on your box
My first laptop was a hand me down I got from my aunt in 1990 who was a court reporter(she was upgrading to a custom lunch box 386 PC on wheels for her work) , and it's a Zenith DataSystems 286e SuperSport with a B/W screen running DOS 4, and Letter Perfect, and it still has one of the best laptop keyboards I've ever used with baby blue Alps switches, I still have it in my collection BTW, but I need to find a new PSU for it, along with going through, and checking all the old caps, and such. These days I have to admit I've gotten away from laptops, and into Android tablets for their lower cost with my latest being a Nokia T20, that does everything I need a portable device to do when paired with a Logitech K480 Bluetooth keyboard including office work via Google Docs, web browsing, RUclips, gaming(mostly old school emulation), email, etc., and unless I ever start doing heavy video/audio/photo editing on the go, then I can't see myself going back to a laptop anytime soon for my portable computing needs.
Never had experience with iBook's in past, but recently I bought G4 in top configuration. I was searching for ultimate retro laptop for games and after I found it I've started colleting laptops that can close some gaming niches I had. With iBook G4 I can play classic apple games (though trough emulation) and some newer titles like Unreal, StarCraft and so on. Really happy with the device :)
I just posted about my T22 and "distraction free computing" so agree fully. As I do repair and rebuild a lot of Thinkpads, I do also have a T23 that does boot, I just need to clean it and install Linux onto an SSD for it, then I will enjoy using that too. Both machines have great keyboards.
Ouch at the lack of packaging. Good to see the Australian version came with a fly. Traditionally it should have about 20 flies that never leave your face, but one is better than none. Truely Australian unit there.
I wish apple still would have considered adding Accessories like it uses to do. I mean It used to come with a mouse ,my mac 2020 doesn’t even have enough ports on it.
great video exploration! My first laptop was a PowerBook 180c with a color screen. When I moved from California to Prague, I bought a Wallstreet with the full accessories and carry case (PowerBook G3). Weighed a ton, and I still have it! When I moved to Singapore, I got a iBook G4 14" and it was a real workhorse until I got my Mac mini Server (Mid 2011) and an iPad. Now I don't use laptops, but bought my son one a year ago and it serves him well... look forward to checking out more of your vids../
I’ve got one myself, but the backlight crapped the bed (seems to be a common thing tho), and like half the keys don’t work. Thinking of tearing it apart and building something like a cross between an iMac G3 and iMac G5. My working name for the project is “iMac G3.5”
My first portable computer was an Olivetti Quaderno. It was very basic but it had some built-in applications that ran in the 1MB of RAM on the 20MB HDD. It also had QBasic and I coded stuff for helping me at work. My first laptop was a second hand iBook G4 followed by a second hand MacBook DC, both in white. My most current is my 2015 MBP which still runs great.
Unrelated but as I was watching your video with headphones on, I literally thought there was a fly around my head and it gave me a heart attack omg I hate their buzzing noises when it's near my ear lol
Oh hey, speaking of the hockey puck power supply, I bought a Lombard G3 Powerbook from the UK that came with the hockey puck power supply and a UK power cable, whereas I really need an Australian power cable. I'm like your antipodal twin or something.
Still using the iBook G4 , maxed out at 1.5 GB Ram , mSATA ssd , I play a lot of Sims Complete Collection , and watching movies on it , it was really usable for browsing on internet till 2013 .
I don't have any particular interest in Apple devices (I subscribe to this channel mainly for the Amiga and Raspberry Pi stuff) but I do completely get the concept of "distraction free computing" that we seem to have forgotten about these days. I repair, renovate and collect old IBM and Lenovo Thinkpad laptops. I have no interest in Microsoft Windows any more, when support for Windows 7 ended I kicked my "Microsoft abuser" out of my life almost completely (I have a few VMs of MS-DOS, Windows 98 and Windows XP for retro-gaming) and now all of my Thinkpads are installed with "scratch-built" Gentoo Linux. I have a particular machine, a Thinkpad T22 from 2002, that has a Pentium III 700 MHz CPU and 1 GB RAM in which I installed an IDE SSD that, being an old Thinkpad, also has a great keyboard. With Gentoo it connects to wifi absolutely fine and I run a light XFCE desktop on it perfectly fine. I dig out that T22 at least a couple of times a month just to spend a day on it programming a shell script or two - I open an SSH connection to my server, open vim for editing, have my email open in mutt and a bit of music playing in the background, and I am away doing what I need to without any distractions from elsewhere. I do think that those of us who came from "hobbyist home computer" times like the Amiga really appreciate the old days of more simplistic computing where you weren't being constantly distracted by other things going on in the background.
The way I found to use WiFi on an iBook G3 with modern WPA security is with a First Gen Airport Express (A1264) which I set up with a modern Mac and then connected to the ibook via ethernet.
Could use a standard IEC c5 cable with the power supply. Though the power supply will be sideways :). The iBook g4 power supply also works and It uses the standard “modern” Apple power supply cord connector.
The 12“ iBook G3 800mhz was also my first new laptop I ever bought, for my 18th birthday back in 2003. It replaced a Thinkpad 760EL with a 120mhz Pentium, so quite the jump.
I wrote my BA and MA theses on my old Pentium 3 20 years ago on Word 2000 and as you said, most new features they have added, I really don't use them. I do formatting by hand with space and enter. Greetings from Tunisia.
You'd probably want to add a hidden, open, heavily throttled SSID to add that Mac to. Otherwise you can filter allowed devices by MAC address, to only allow the MAC of the iBook to connect to it.
I have this exact model. It doesn't work anymore because I slightly bumped it, and it never booted after that... And the keyboard smells like some sort of terrible stale hot pocket mixed with armpit. Something about the adhesive. I replaced the keyboard and the replacement smelled like it too.
@@ronhutcherson9845Perhaps, but from what I read on ifixit it's a common problem with the adhesive that holds the instructions on the back side of the keyboard. But even after pealing that off it still stunk. Maybe its something else.
BT broadband customers can connect to any BT router through the BT-WiFi SSID, that all BT routers put out by default. That’s why this computer is able to connect to your next door neighbours wifi.
I cannot stand notification center all it does is put notifications up they get in the way and then you have to click 1500 things to get them to go away and the new ones pop up. If you're doing anything with audio it ducks the audio down so you missed what it said. it's supposed to be a notification not an interruption!
Off topic : interesting to see your Echo Spot glitching out. Mine started doing that recently - basically making it unusable for me. Common issue, clearly.
I got a working one of these a few years back, but mine is not in anywhere near as nice of physical condition (it's splotchy discolored underneath the outer most layer of clear plastic/film)... I haven't played with it much though, since I didn't get a power supply with it (I rigged something together just to be able to test that it works).
Plot twist your neighbor sold it to somebody else who sold it to you? What's more impressive is that the B only card is actually connected to something as I find it much more difficult with newer Wi-Fi equipment. I'm still rocking my original iBook G3 900 MHz 14 inch as a Web server because it has the infamous VGA graphics card issue. And my mom is 12 inch. oh I have an old G only Linksys hanging from my basement ceiling for older devices. I was both amazed and disappointed to find out that the model before mine had a transparent casing painted white. one could carefully remove the paint and up with a transparent iBook.
My first ever laptop, and also my first ever Mac, was a 2007 black MacBook (the "BlackBook" for the true geeks.) I cut my teeth on Mac OS X with that computer, and it served me well for 5 years until a ceiling leak killed it. The hard drive in it was fine, though, so I just put the drive into the 2012 MacBook Pro I replaced it with; I still have that computer a decade later. Also, my colleague just gave me his old 14-inch iBook G3 for Christmas. I reinstalled Mac OS X Tiger and got it running, but I've been having trouble with the optical drive. It keeps popping open when I close it, and thus, it can’t read any CDs or DVDs. Any idea as to what the problem might be?
I had a PowerBook Duo 210, then the G3 iBook. Gone over to the dark side now with an Asus. Twice the power, half the price of an equivalent Apple product.
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I don't think the date was 1 day out, I believe it was correct. As you mentioned, the machine came from Victoria in Australia. It is 10 hours ahead of you guys in England, so if you shot that video on Thursday night your time, it would have been Friday morning in Australia. If you had checked system prefs, you would have noticed the timezone was still set to Melbourne I guess...
I had a Bondi blue iMac from around that time (got it in 1998) and loved it. I remember getting the Mac OS X beta for it (still have the disc and envelope around here somewhere). I even put Yellow Dog Linux on it at one point. One of the best laptops back then was the Titanium G4 laptop. I remember spending close to AUD$4000 for it which was (and still is) a lot of money. Love it so much. One day the hinge on it broke, but I still used it with the broken screen for another year or so...
Having said all that, the best Mac I've ever owned is my current M1 Mac Mini, so even though looking back is great, right now is pretty cool too!!!
This, was just about to comment that the time is probably correct in Australia. Beat me to the punch there Dave.
I still have and use my iBook G3 bought in 2002. It’s the 700mhz version. It got me through college. Works perfectly.
It survived multiple house moves and was almost disposed of on several occasions. I’m glad I still have it.
It’s not surprising that OS9 enjoys so much support. No one cares about early versions of OSX.
The exception to that is 10.4, which gets a lot of support and custom software.
@@F_I_J_I_W_A_T_E_R Probably because Tiger was the first version of OSX that was really usable and was on par with OS9 for performance. It was also the first version that supported intel CPUs.
Previous versions of OSX were pretty but horrible to use. The beach ball of death was a common issue.
a good laptop owner.
My father in law has been using the same iMac since 2003 every day without a hitch. 19 years and running… they are that good.
you could use the earlier Magic Mouse 1 supports on macOS X v10.5.8 or later with Wireless Mouse Software Update 1.0 or Mac OS X v10.6.1 or later with Wireless Mouse Software Update 1.0..It uses two battery of AA sizes for it to runs.
Got an old iBook G4 here, similar to the one I bought in I think, 2003. For me the worst thing today about this books is not that they are slow, but the display! Very dark, dull colours, really bad viewing angles. Hard to do anything besides word processing on such a screen. But I still like the nostalgia I get when I use such systems, makes me feel like im 20 again... 😂 Thanks for the vid, Dan!
In my collection is a 12-inch Powerbook from around the same time frame as your iBook. I agree with you about the screen because, it always takes me about five (5) minutes for my over age 60 eyes to get used to it. With iLife '09, iWorks '09, and MS Office, I could use it for productivity tasks. However, it is used mostly for watching DVD's while away from home (smile...smile).
I had the 2005 model with the 1.33GHz G4. Loved that little laptop. Battery life in them was really unbeatable at the time. AND it had discrete graphics. But man that slow 40GB, 4,200rpm HDD they shipped with was Brutes McGoots even back then. Wasn't so bad running Tiger, but it was slow as molasses under Leopard. 2000s were really the peak of Apple laptops. M1s are nice, but they're ultimately disposable tech. There's a reason why I run a Framework now.
@@MmntechCa Yes, you are so right about Apple laptop designs...from 1998 through 2008, they were truly outstanding. In addition, to my 12-inch G4 Powerbook my collection includes the last of the "Black and White" laptops a G3 Powerbook (Fire-wire) from the year 2000, plus an Intel MacBook Pro (with both a Fire-wire 400 port and a Fire-wire 800 port) from around the year 2007. Over the years my co-workers have asked me, when are you going to buy a modern laptop? And my reply is always the same, when Apple comes out with a good looking design (smile...smile).
I have a iBook G4 from 2004
Very carefully, apply lighter fluid sparingly over that box and in a well ventilated space with no naked flames and you should be able to remove the label without damaging the box. You may also try it on the marker pen scrawlings. I have had very good results with lighter fluid. You could also try warming the label with a dry iron - steam setting to off. Then lighter fluid to remove any residual sticky glue. It doesn’t leave an oily mark like other petroleum based products. And it’s not as expensive as some ‘sticky stuff removing’ products.
I've had good luck with Goo Gone, and Goof Off, which are orange oil based, they aren't that expensive, nor flamible, or toxic, and a hair dryer on the shipping label works well also if you use to cooler setting, and take it slow.
I'd start with rubbing alcohol, putting just a little on a paper towel so it's slightly damp and lightly going over the surface. That takes off permanent marker and is the most gentle to start with.
16:47 I always thought that it was Mac OS 9 Lives, as in "it lives".
Ah maybe. I thought it was a pun on a cat having 9 lives, like it can’t be killed.
I had the PowerBook G3 "Pismo" back in the day. IMO the best designed laptop that Apple ever made. Amazing reliability and flexibility (mine still works fine); with hot swappable drives I had an extra hard drive, a CD burner, dvd player, floppy and Zip drive as well. I could stick an extra battery in the spare bay to get 7 hours out of it. Wrote my PhD thesis on that thing!
I have a pismo, I don’t have any of the bay devices though.
LOVE these kinds of videos... the nostagia of the box and packaging the way the computer looks... its just amazing to watch
I genuinely found out by mistake using a CD Lens cleaner that Mac OS 9's iTunes can still connect to CD database services and fetch metadata. It got tags and everything for a *no brand CD Cleaner*
Still using a 1999 Black PowerBook G3 (Pismo model) to play games. Battery is knackered so have to use on Mains power, but runs MacOS 9.2.2 with no problems
Computer Now? More like Computer THEN. Thank you, I'll be here all day.
I still have my OG clamshell G3, watching this made me dig it out and browse through it, I can't believe I used to take this thing to school back in the day.
One of my daily drivers is a Power Macintosh 6500 from 1997. If it weren't for the overly bloated internet, most people would get by using 20-25 year old computers just fine.
I was a junior in HS when this iBook came out. We were one of the first students to get them because we were in the Journalism class. It was nice!
12:08 idk if anyone else has said this yet but youre in the UK and that laptop was made in Australia so it would be a day ahead because of time zones. whoever you bought it from was using it in Australia. the battery still had some juice and gave the right time technically
That’s what I thought too
This was the first Mac I had for my own personal use. It was already very old by that point but god it was nice to play Squirrel Kombat again.
We had some of these in elementary school (I was very young, I had no idea what model or specs or anything) and this was very nostalgic!
My first laptop was one of those white iBook G3s. I loved that thing, especially how easy it was to access the memory for upgrades. I remember it being built like a tank, so opening it up to get to the main board, hard drive, etc. was an utter pain in the rear.
I never had a Mac
But this is beautiful :D
If you accidentally write on a dry wipe board with a permanent marker, you can usually clean it off by going over the permanent pen with a dry wipe marker and then wiping it off. The dry wipe markers have thinners mixed in with the ink (or something like that) so they can be cleaned off.
Might be worth a try on your box
4:10 thank you mate, I needed that jumpscare.
My first laptop was a hand me down I got from my aunt in 1990 who was a court reporter(she was upgrading to a custom lunch box 386 PC on wheels for her work) , and it's a Zenith DataSystems 286e SuperSport with a B/W screen running DOS 4, and Letter Perfect, and it still has one of the best laptop keyboards I've ever used with baby blue Alps switches, I still have it in my collection BTW, but I need to find a new PSU for it, along with going through, and checking all the old caps, and such.
These days I have to admit I've gotten away from laptops, and into Android tablets for their lower cost with my latest being a Nokia T20, that does everything I need a portable device to do when paired with a Logitech K480 Bluetooth keyboard including office work via Google Docs, web browsing, RUclips, gaming(mostly old school emulation), email, etc., and unless I ever start doing heavy video/audio/photo editing on the go, then I can't see myself going back to a laptop anytime soon for my portable computing needs.
Never had experience with iBook's in past, but recently I bought G4 in top configuration. I was searching for ultimate retro laptop for games and after I found it I've started colleting laptops that can close some gaming niches I had. With iBook G4 I can play classic apple games (though trough emulation) and some newer titles like Unreal, StarCraft and so on. Really happy with the device :)
My first ever Laptop was an IBM Thinkpad T23. With a Pentium 3 inside, i think 800 MHz or so. Very nice machine.
I just posted about my T22 and "distraction free computing" so agree fully. As I do repair and rebuild a lot of Thinkpads, I do also have a T23 that does boot, I just need to clean it and install Linux onto an SSD for it, then I will enjoy using that too. Both machines have great keyboards.
I remember mine super fondly. I remember it being nicknamed IceBook.
Ouch at the lack of packaging. Good to see the Australian version came with a fly. Traditionally it should have about 20 flies that never leave your face, but one is better than none. Truely Australian unit there.
Very minty! It's not often you can find them in this condition. It would have taken a while to find this example!
4:09 the fly said hello hahaha😂😂😂
4:10 sound setreo 🪰🪰🪰
Old, but Gold!!
My first laptop (got it right when I went to college) was the 2006 15” MacBook Pro - I believe it was the first intel model. Ahh, memories.
With those Australian models does the hard drive spin backwards? 😄
I wish apple still would have considered adding Accessories like it uses to do.
I mean It used to come with a mouse ,my mac 2020 doesn’t even have enough ports on it.
Great video Dan. Amazing computer. I still use my Power Mac G3
The WPA issue is not the Airport card but the fact that OS9 will only support WEP
Yeah
great video exploration! My first laptop was a PowerBook 180c with a color screen. When I moved from California to Prague, I bought a Wallstreet with the full accessories and carry case (PowerBook G3). Weighed a ton, and I still have it! When I moved to Singapore, I got a iBook G4 14" and it was a real workhorse until I got my Mac mini Server (Mid 2011) and an iPad. Now I don't use laptops, but bought my son one a year ago and it serves him well... look forward to checking out more of your vids../
I’ve got one myself, but the backlight crapped the bed (seems to be a common thing tho), and like half the keys don’t work. Thinking of tearing it apart and building something like a cross between an iMac G3 and iMac G5. My working name for the project is “iMac G3.5”
My first portable computer was an Olivetti Quaderno. It was very basic but it had some built-in applications that ran in the 1MB of RAM on the 20MB HDD. It also had QBasic and I coded stuff for helping me at work.
My first laptop was a second hand iBook G4 followed by a second hand MacBook DC, both in white. My most current is my 2015 MBP which still runs great.
Unrelated but as I was watching your video with headphones on, I literally thought there was a fly around my head and it gave me a heart attack omg I hate their buzzing noises when it's near my ear lol
The set of ports was awesome, unlike these days...
I almost died at 4:10 , i was using headphones and thought i had a fly inside me head
The music bit at 20:48 sounds a lot like the WCW Monday Nitro theme from 2000. I know it isn't but the beat is too similar bro lmaoooooo
ruclips.net/video/iOg48lL7P0g/видео.html
Now I would be interested what kind of Linux you could run on that creature!
4:08 i almost had a heart attack
Oh hey, speaking of the hockey puck power supply, I bought a Lombard G3 Powerbook from the UK that came with the hockey puck power supply and a UK power cable, whereas I really need an Australian power cable. I'm like your antipodal twin or something.
Still using the iBook G4 , maxed out at 1.5 GB Ram , mSATA ssd , I play a lot of Sims Complete Collection , and watching movies on it , it was really usable for browsing on internet till 2013 .
I had the tangerine toilet seat LOL!
I had that same machine…I loved it… first version of OS X and the old System 9.
That was awesome! My first was a Sony Viao from the late 90’s.
Still have my 2001 Powerbook G4 and the first Gen. iPod I bought with it. They both still work. Finding a working browser is a problem though.
What a flabbergasting clip and factoid about the IE on Mac OS 9! Thank you, and I don't think most anyone is privy to that!
I don't have any particular interest in Apple devices (I subscribe to this channel mainly for the Amiga and Raspberry Pi stuff) but I do completely get the concept of "distraction free computing" that we seem to have forgotten about these days.
I repair, renovate and collect old IBM and Lenovo Thinkpad laptops. I have no interest in Microsoft Windows any more, when support for Windows 7 ended I kicked my "Microsoft abuser" out of my life almost completely (I have a few VMs of MS-DOS, Windows 98 and Windows XP for retro-gaming) and now all of my Thinkpads are installed with "scratch-built" Gentoo Linux.
I have a particular machine, a Thinkpad T22 from 2002, that has a Pentium III 700 MHz CPU and 1 GB RAM in which I installed an IDE SSD that, being an old Thinkpad, also has a great keyboard. With Gentoo it connects to wifi absolutely fine and I run a light XFCE desktop on it perfectly fine.
I dig out that T22 at least a couple of times a month just to spend a day on it programming a shell script or two - I open an SSH connection to my server, open vim for editing, have my email open in mutt and a bit of music playing in the background, and I am away doing what I need to without any distractions from elsewhere.
I do think that those of us who came from "hobbyist home computer" times like the Amiga really appreciate the old days of more simplistic computing where you weren't being constantly distracted by other things going on in the background.
The way I found to use WiFi on an iBook G3 with modern WPA security is with a First Gen Airport Express (A1264) which I set up with a modern Mac and then connected to the ibook via ethernet.
Could use a standard IEC c5 cable with the power supply. Though the power supply will be sideways :). The iBook g4 power supply also works and It uses the standard “modern” Apple power supply cord connector.
The 12“ iBook G3 800mhz was also my first new laptop I ever bought, for my 18th birthday back in 2003. It replaced a Thinkpad 760EL with a 120mhz Pentium, so quite the jump.
I agree. I would of been peeved about the box for sure.
I wrote my BA and MA theses on my old Pentium 3 20 years ago on Word 2000 and as you said, most new features they have added, I really don't use them. I do formatting by hand with space and enter. Greetings from Tunisia.
Throw MacMAME on that bad boy and enjoy some 80s arcade action!
Why didn't you buy the clamshell?
I want to see an editing video using iMovie on this bad boy
That computer was shipped the day and year I was born :) fucking crazy man
You'd probably want to add a hidden, open, heavily throttled SSID to add that Mac to.
Otherwise you can filter allowed devices by MAC address, to only allow the MAC of the iBook to connect to it.
My birthday is also same! My year of birth is 6 Dec 2006
This is fun! Great screen background!
BT Wifi allows you to use other BT Wifi hubs on a ‘public’ basis. That is what it will be.
the fly sound at 4:10 honestly scared me
i fucken jumped and ran out of my room
Bought one brand new back in the day. Still think it's one of Apple's best form factors.
Being a 21 year old, hearing you say “21 years ago” made my head explode
20:15 you can do that with any windows 10 laptop, or an older 2014 laptop. Crack office and install your favorite software.
Also my first notebook too :-)
I have this exact model. It doesn't work anymore because I slightly bumped it, and it never booted after that... And the keyboard smells like some sort of terrible stale hot pocket mixed with armpit. Something about the adhesive. I replaced the keyboard and the replacement smelled like it too.
The smell gets worse once the processor heats up. lol
Bad capacitors can smell like that.
@@ronhutcherson9845Perhaps, but from what I read on ifixit it's a common problem with the adhesive that holds the instructions on the back side of the keyboard. But even after pealing that off it still stunk. Maybe its something else.
im still use macbook 2011 pro lite edition and this worked! im get this macbook from my father and im use him like personal pc and this is not bad :D
My friend Dave, gave me one. It ran 10.4 Tiger
BT broadband customers can connect to any BT router through the BT-WiFi SSID, that all BT routers put out by default. That’s why this computer is able to connect to your next door neighbours wifi.
isopropyl alcohol might take those DHL marker pen insults off the box? What the hell was the seller thinking? :/
That he could save money on packaging
Man.. I miss PowerBook G4 😞
hell yeah! I love the design of these
I cannot stand notification center all it does is put notifications up they get in the way and then you have to click 1500 things to get them to go away and the new ones pop up. If you're doing anything with audio it ducks the audio down so you missed what it said. it's supposed to be a notification not an interruption!
Off topic : interesting to see your Echo Spot glitching out. Mine started doing that recently - basically making it unusable for me. Common issue, clearly.
I got a working one of these a few years back, but mine is not in anywhere near as nice of physical condition (it's splotchy discolored underneath the outer most layer of clear plastic/film)... I haven't played with it much though, since I didn't get a power supply with it (I rigged something together just to be able to test that it works).
Please tell me you backed up the os9 and osx restore discs for other people to get them if they need them… like me…
Plot twist your neighbor sold it to somebody else who sold it to you? What's more impressive is that the B only card is actually connected to something as I find it much more difficult with newer Wi-Fi equipment.
I'm still rocking my original iBook G3 900 MHz 14 inch as a Web server because it has the infamous VGA graphics card issue. And my mom is 12 inch.
oh I have an old G only Linksys hanging from my basement ceiling for older devices.
I was both amazed and disappointed to find out that the model before mine had a transparent casing painted white. one could carefully remove the paint and up with a transparent iBook.
how does the keyboard smell? 😄
Everyones probably told you this but you can use a standard UK "mickey mouse" power cable. Gday from Australia BTW
My first laptop was an HP G62-340US with a mobile Athlon X2, 3gb of ram, and mobility 4200 graphics.
My first ever laptop, and also my first ever Mac, was a 2007 black MacBook (the "BlackBook" for the true geeks.) I cut my teeth on Mac OS X with that computer, and it served me well for 5 years until a ceiling leak killed it. The hard drive in it was fine, though, so I just put the drive into the 2012 MacBook Pro I replaced it with; I still have that computer a decade later. Also, my colleague just gave me his old 14-inch iBook G3 for Christmas. I reinstalled Mac OS X Tiger and got it running, but I've been having trouble with the optical drive. It keeps popping open when I close it, and thus, it can’t read any CDs or DVDs. Any idea as to what the problem might be?
This iBook, my friend Dave gave me one. Tiger OS
I saw all video, very interesting I love old MB.
Thank you
OMG the new iToilet have hardware cd and its have camera
hmm. that will run linux mint power pc version nicely
I still have my ibook in the box and it got refurbisehd in 2006 by apple with a lawsuit and it has a new battery and a super mint case to.
I just the m1 macbook last week and now I'm just here thinking how technology is the worst thing you could spend your money on.
Are you still using this computer? Other apps?
Wonder video Dan!
Office 2001 and Photoshop 7 is more than enough for lots of stuff
I had a PowerBook Duo 210, then the G3 iBook. Gone over to the dark side now with an Asus. Twice the power, half the price of an equivalent Apple product.
I still use my PowerBook G3 Pismo
Me using an MacBook 4.1 windows 10 pro build 19041 (custom os)