What to do with an old iBook?

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Grathrax

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So I was doing some cleaning and came across my old white late 2006 model iBook G4.

I'm hesitant to throw it out, and was wondering if there are any good suggestions on what to do with it. I don't have access to any crazy modding tools/skills etc to go nuts on it. And I'm pretty sure that the wireless card is shot. Ideas?

G4 1.33GHz, 1GB RAM.
 
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Nothing useful really. If you want to play classic games there is that. That is probably the best you'll do.
 
If you don't want to mod and use it for something then don't throw it out, recycle it at the nearest Apple Store. I'm not sure what kind of credit they give you for older machines but I believe they give you something for them.
 
mope54 said:
If you don't want to mod and use it for something then don't throw it out, recycle it at the nearest Apple Store. I'm not sure what kind of credit they give you for older machines but I believe they give you something for them.
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I should have said "get rid of it" - I wasn't planning on actually chucking it in the trash.

I do want to use it, I just lack the kind of stuff necessary to do some crazy mods like I've seen in the past ("steampunk electronic photo frame" or "wall mounted somethingorother running linux" - although I could handle the linux part).
 
Sell or donate it.. Don't throw away or recycle a perfectly good computer.
 
Recycled-Apple-iBook-Clamshell-Clock_1.jpg
 
12" or 14"? I use to make digital photo frames out of them long time ago. 1024x768 was a good resolution and much higher than the other photo frames on the market.
 
Rip the lcd panel out and use it as a monitor with and LCD controller you can get on ebay.

I'm in the process of doing that with a MacBook and MacBook pro with bad logic boards.
 
1.) Buy a .50BMG rifle.
2.) Shoot iBook with rifle.
3.) ???
4.) Profit
 
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