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Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / December 2004Any creative use for a 15" Powerbook G4 LCD display ?
Subject: Reusing 15" Powerbook G4 LCD display ? I have a dropped-from-42"-above-the-hard-floor--while-the-screen-was-open, but-hey-it-still-is-working-as-long-as-I-keep-it-open-on-my-desk... Titanium G4 550... It has an newly installed Superdrive (ironically), a 20 gig HD, 512MB Ram and perfectly good LCD and bezel. But one of the hinges is destroyed, the other bent and the casing broken beyond repair. It starts up, runs and as long as I don't try to open or close the screen... works fine. I bought a 12" Aluminum G4 and could potentially transplant/use the Superdrive in it. I could take out the HD and put that in an external 2.5" firewire case. BUT... Can I use the screen for anything? It is perfect- with nary a dead pixel! The frame around it is good too. My new powerbook can supposedly drive a second monitor... Can I have someone solder a connector and rig a stand for this otherwise fine LCD? Yisroel How much do you want for it? There are some instructions somewhere on the net for making a video wallpaper unit out of that TiBook. But what I would do with it is get some used parts on eBay and fix it up. -- Gnarlie echo 649248004461910480448607861767668487701877885364978125268340P | dc Entity yisroel spoke thus: > Subject: Reusing 15" Powerbook G4 LCD display ? > [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > Yisroel > Can I use the screen for anything? > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Can I have someone solder a connector and rig a stand for this otherwise > fine LCD? If it were me, I'd look into converting this Powerbook into a digital picture frame. I've seen various schemes for this, and since they all involve partial or total disassembly of the computer, the broken casing would not be an issue. There are a couple of books describing how to do this, and you could no doubt find descriptions and plans through Google.  SignatureTom "Tom" Harrington Macaroni, Automated System Maintenance for Mac OS X. Version 2.0: Delocalize, Repair Permissions, lots more. See http://www.atomicbird.com/ > BUT... > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > The frame around it is good too. eBay. A working screen can fetch a nice price from someone who is doing his own repair work. -- David |
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