Extreme modding on an Ibook

Hi
Money is short round house and I was thinking of buying an old Ibook g4 as I once had one and found them to be a really good design and most reliable. However, I would like to bring it up to date buy maybe installing an internal isight camera from an imac g5 and perhaps even giving it an touchscreen. I was wondering how feasible was this and if anyone else had tried it.

Thanks for any replies in advance.

Robbie

r.goodfellow said:

...I would like to bring it up to date buy maybe installing an internal isight camera from an imac g5 and perhaps even giving it an touchscreen.

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If any of this were possible…you would be MUCH better off spending the $$$ to do this project on a newer, faster, and more feature rich Macintosh computer.

- Nick

And OSX does not do touch screen and I hope it never goes like Windows 8 is going.

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ok maybe not that extreme

I found this on the internet a week ago and it made me think.
Macbook iSight in a G4 iBook | Applefritter
The touchscreen idea was mainly for drawing and was a little head in the clouds I admit. Yet with a little patience I think it maybe conceivable to put in an old G5 camera turning a £60 quid machine into something a little more.

Robbie

r.goodfellow said:

I found this on the internet a week ago and it made me think.
Macbook iSight in a G4 iBook | Applefritter
The touchscreen idea was mainly for drawing and was a little head in the clouds I admit. Yet with a little patience I think it maybe conceivable to put in an old G5 camera turning a £60 quid machine into something a little more.

Robbie

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Hey…go for it if you see this as an interesting project to try. But if you wanted this computer be a "daily user"…the money invested in this project would be better spend on at least some sort of Intel based Mac.

- Nick

r.goodfellow said:

Money is short round house and I was thinking of buying an old Ibook g4 as I once had one and found them to be a really good design and most reliable. However, I would like to bring it up to date buy maybe installing an internal isight camera from an imac g5 and perhaps even giving it an touchscreen. I was wondering how feasible was this and if anyone else had tried it.

Thanks for any replies in advance.

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If you're going to **** away money, you might do better to do it on women and beer.