My new (to me at least) TiBook

I ended up buying my buddies Rev. A TiBook off of him. Cosmetic condition is 9/10. Thing looks mint, due to the fact that he merely bought it to "see what OSX was all about". He said he used it maybe 20 times over the 4 years or so he's had it. Hinges are perfect, ZERO paint flaking, and screen is perfect as well.

400 mhz/10/256

Yeah, it has a small hard drive. I'm actually thinking of putting in a 5400 rpm 40 gb drive soon. I'm also maxing the ram out to 1 gb. This thing runs Tiger surprisingly well. I can't believe it's not choking at all. Same thing with Office X. No hiccups.

And no, I'm not concerned with the lower resolution. I thought 1152 x 768 would look like total arse, but it looks fine on this mega wide 15.2" screen. I love this screen so so so much. WAYY better than the 12" screens. So crystal clear! Anyways...sorry for the crappy pic!

Thats one of the things I love about macs.Even on slow hardware, they don't show slowdowns nearly as clearly as pcs. In general, they may be slower than a faster mac, but they are still smooth so you don't notice it as mcuh. I used to use a g4 400 system with 256MB of ram at school and it ran jaguar just fine.

get the bigger hard drive in, max out the ram and turn dashboard off and you new TiPB will be smoking!

inflexion said:

get the bigger hard drive in, max out the ram and turn dashboard off and you new TiPB will be smoking!

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How do you turn Dashboard off?

That's a good question..how DO you turn it off? I have one widget on there (weather) which I could bare to lose. 10.4's best feature to me is spotlight. Otherwise, I'd be on panther.

Congrats on the purhcase! It looks identical to mine! haha.. Once you get Tiger onto it, you'll notice that it will run faster.

Discerptor said:

How do you turn Dashboard off?

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To turn Dashboard off: in terminal

defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES

To turn Dashboard on:

defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NO

punkr0x0r said:

Congrats on the purhcase! It looks identical to mine! haha.. Once you get Tiger onto it, you'll notice that it will run faster.

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ah, but i DO have tiger on it!

Like i said, it's snappy for everyday use. internet, iChat...etc.

I'm loving this megawide screen!

Don't forget to add Speed Freak:
http://coolosxapps.net/2005/10/05/speed-freak/

JSchultz said:

I'm loving this megawide screen!

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oh dude.. that was one of the main reasons I got this one... the 15" widescreen is amazing!.. hehe, influenced me to getting a 19" widescreen for my gaming/media center PC, and getting rid of the two 17" CRT's I have.