Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / February 2006

Hiya,
I'm new to this whole usenet malarky so I'm sorry if I do something I
shouldn't. Also, my knowledge of Apple Macs and Lap Tops is but limited
(I usually confine myself to a Desktop PC).

Anyway, one of my new years resolutions I set out to raise the cash for
a decent laptop computer. Well I had a browse around Dell, Toshiba,
Sony, Acer and usual crap PC World (UK store, not the magazine) try to
con you with (I appologies if mentioning those round these parts is
considered sacrelige). Then I had a quick look at Apple (not expecting
to see anything I liked), and came across the iBook. As with all large
things I consider buying, I checked it out on Wikipedia, when I came
across the original iBook (the 'iMac to go' version), and I instantly
fell in love with it.

Now I've searched through here and some other places, and it seems that
upgrading them past the 'Special Edition' 466 mhz Logic Board is out of
the question... Surely there must be some way past this? Running on the
idea... how hard is it to customize a motherboard/logic board to fit?
There must be one that sits within the footprint of the G3 Clamshell? I
surely cant have been the only tinkerer to consider doing something
like thise.... although having said that you hear less about the
unsuccessful attempts. The clamshell definately doesnt (by any stretch
of the imagination) seem to be the most tight-for-space laptop ever
made!

Running on the theme of me knowing sod all about Macs, how well would a
clam shell run on a 466 mhz Logic Board with the maximum ammount of RAM
(560mb is it?) and a fairly good HD (60-100gb)?

Anyway, thanks for reading all that, and feel free to shout at me for
sugesting such a ludicrous plan. All feedback appreciated!