Apr 19, 2005 Hey, I've got a 900 MHZ G3 ibook (see sig.) - purchased almost two years ago in August of 2003. My friend recently bought an iBook G4 (most recent model), and I was wondering if there was any way to install the bundled iLife software he got with his computer on mine. Quite a few people still have Power Mac G5s kicking around, and quite a few people have iMac G3s around as well. That's our guess of what still has the most ground in the PowerPC World. The PPC Archive team ourselves has a variety of machines, ranging from iMac G3s, Blue and Whites, iBooks, PowerBooks, and G5 systems! Today was the day I sent my iBook G4 back to the Mactory. I spent so many good moments with that machine that I was sad when I handed her over. She was a gift from my friend, James Curtis, an incredible luthier from Port Townsend, WA. One day in about 2003 James called me up and asked if I needed a new laptop. Make Offer - Power Mac G4 Software Restore OS 10.1.3, OS 9.2.2Install, Applications, and Test Apple iBook Software Install CD's OS X OS 9 version 9.1 Version 2.1 $19.99.
The 1.2 and 1.33 Ghz iBooks can be upgraded to 10.5.x Leopard maximum.
The Lack of upgrades to OS X 10.3.5 is probably due to the lack of Apple support for the older systems through software update. I found a link for you to try a direct download of the 10.3.9 updater.
I have an older iBook that can only run 10.3.9 and the internet experience is awful. It is slow and the screens are sometimes screwed up as you have experienced.
To adequately use the internet you should consider upgrading the RAM. 256MB is barely adequate and the upgrade price is pretty cheap. OS X 10.4 and 10.5 need more RAM than the 10.3.5 you currently have so a system upgrade only would not increase performannce.
(The maximum memory capacity of this system is 1.25 GB with 256 MB onboard and a 1.0 GB SO-DIMM.)
Regarding OS X sources there are no downloads available for 10.4 or 10.5 so you would need to purchase a copy. It would need to be a retail disk(s) as there were no original install disk(s) for your iBook other than 10.3.
The links below are to some dealers but some of the prices are absurd. Ebay can be a source but be certain the disk(s) are the retail (BLACK) and not (GRAY) intended for another Mac.
With the 14-inch iBook G4 1.44GHz model (assume late 2005) the memory or RAM
can be upgraded by adding a 1024MB chip under the keyboard, for 1.5GB total..
The ATA/PATA 2.5-inch hard disk drive may be upgraded (if available) to a faster
spin rate rotational drive, or to a faster legacy Mercury SSD from owc/macsales.
And the newer SATA ones of course won't work. Some ideas on using an adapter
may not be functional or practical for several reasons. The OWC mercury legacy
SSD may be OK, but you'd have to set perform setup with the unit in an external
housing for a hard drive; perhaps a FireWire400 version with oxford-type chipset
or a newer model available from OWC that can boot a PowerPC system.
The iLife '06 may be suitable for use with Leopard 10.5.8, the unit shipped with an
older version that would have been in its install-restore grey-lable DVDs, with Tiger
10.4(.11) would have seen a few updates to the original via Software Update, then.
A hard disk drive with adequate free or used storage capacity helps since these old
PPC G4 models like others rely on Virtual Memory, or a section of automatically used
hard drive capacity for swap files and temporary memory to supplement physical RAM.
Doodle jump hack on mac. IT is slower than having more chip RAM installed, but both are essential; especially if
you were to find and run Leopard 10.5.8. Tiger used less resources & ran better.
To obtain the correct original install-restore DVDs would be difficult now, but if you had
the correct ones, that will give you original software in addition to the vintage OS X..
And the retail version of the as-shipped OS X won't work, since you'd need to get a
later version; and retail kit did not include the gratis software as shipped with the Mac.
Once the computer is restored and tested OK, you may be able to run some vintage
applications on there and perform useful tasks. For a web browser, you'd have to get
the TenFourFox browser build for PPC Macs; the version would be 7450 ('G4e')
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(note that's direct download link.) Details: http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/
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You may be able to buy a replacement battery from owc macsales, note there are a
few versions, and one for the 14-inch iBook is different than the one for 12-inch.
You should be able to find info about these older products from LowEndMac.com as well
as everymac.com, and some specs about Macs from mactracker.ca download database.
Hopefully this helps some. I'd noticed your post some time ago, but no takers. While I
have a few portable Macs, and a few PowerPC model computers, some lag due to specs
and internet. A few of mine (PPC) use TenFourFox and some other older applications that
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are not available online anymore. Be wary of free-download sites that may provide junk
or adware, etc; a few are notorious and be careful what links you click..
Good luck & happy computing! 🙂
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