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Dylan C - 25 Jul 2006 03:54 GMT

I'm looking for some help with an older ibook I just uncovered. Its a
466MHz SE Graphite colored version. I hear these were the best of the
clamshell crop. There are just two problems.

#1. Only 128Mb of memory at present (too little for OS X 10.4). I know
it will take up to a 512Mb chip in the expansion slot, but are there any
compatibility issues I should know about?

#2: No wireless network. Besides an airport card, are there other
internal or USB/Firewire devices that I can use? I'd rather not shell
out $60 USD on ebay for an apple product if 20-30 will get me where I
need to be.

Thanks for any help.

-Dylan C

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Tristan - 25 Jul 2006 11:43 GMT

On 25/7/06 12:54 PM, in article 12cb1uh6f1665cf@corp.supernews.com, "Dylan
C" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

> I'm looking for some help with an older ibook I just uncovered. Its a
> 466MHz SE Graphite colored version. I hear these were the best of the
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> it will take up to a 512Mb chip in the expansion slot, but are there any
> compatibility issues I should know about?

No issues will happen, will have 640mb after 512mb installed.

> #2: No wireless network. Besides an airport card, are there other
> internal or USB/Firewire devices that I can use? I'd rather not shell
> out $60 USD on ebay for an apple product if 20-30 will get me where I
> need to be.

As far I know there is 1x firewire & 1x usb port on that laptop. You can use
any type of USB floppy disk drive, it'll work even from PC market. If you
want to use wireless network - you can get airport otherwise it has ethernet
port there.

> Thanks for any help.
>
> -Dylan C

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"New" User with "Old" iBook