How can I "upgrade" my Mac PowerBook G4's OS 10.3.9 to at least a 10.4.9 in order to install MS Office Home & Student Edition? I had to replace my 5-6 year old hard drive and the laptop is now working well. The old hard drive had MS Office for Mac installed on it and the new one doesn'...

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by M A N I'm in the process of decompressing from Wondercon, but I wanted to take the time share this nifty little video with my fellow monkeys. The game follows the same premise as Ninja Warrior (on the awesome G4 TV) except this time the contestants must complete an obstacle course while on a bike...

The hard drive in my girlfriend's iBook (12" G4 late 2004) died, or at least that's what I think happened. I want to cover all my bases and I need a little advice on best practices. A few months ago it would make a gnarly clicking sound, but only intermittently. We backed up all her data, figur...

So twenty-five years ago today, Apple released the Macintosh computer. And as far as I’m concerned, they changed the world. I was never an Apple II person, I was an Atari 800 guy. Then I used PCs for a while (DOS and Windows 3.1). For years I couldn’t understand why I should switch from ...

Apple PowerBook G4 (15-inch) laptop summary The good: Beautiful sleek-and-slender design; robust software package, including Mac OS X Tiger; illuminated keyboard and scrollable trackpad; SuperDrive DVD burner. The bad: Expensive; only 90 days of toll-free technical support. The bottom line: The high...

Is my g4 iBook forked? I've had this machine for awhile now. It's a g4 iBook, 1ghz processor, 1gig of ram, bluetooth, wifi. And today it started acting up. I can power it on. It will go to the dark gray screen, then it will go to the light gray screen with the dark grey apple in the middle. Then the...

I feel so sad right now. My emotions have run away with the circus. My family is away. A very close friend, whom I love, is leaving tomorrow and I’m sitting here feeling sorry for myself. And words do not express how frustrating it is that my computer is so freaking slow. No, the computer is n...

Copyright © 2004 - 2008 John Bollwitt. Visit the original article at http://johnbollwitt.com/2008/10/15/installing-mac-os-x-105-on-my-first-generation-17inch-powerbook-g4/. My PowerBook is five years old now, and doing a little research the other day, I figured that it wasn’t in such bad shap...

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