What should I do with my old PowerBook? (geekery)
by at 1:32 PM
So, right now I have two laptops (well, three, but I own two of them), and I don't really have much need for the 12" PowerBook G4 (wendigo). So it seems ripe for modding into something useful. (Not a router or file server or whatever, though, as I already have those covered by better solutions.) What sorts of interesting mod ideas are out there? I kind of considered the iTablet route, but that requires a lot of time and dedication and work for something I don't actually have a need for, and which wouldn't be very good at what it does anyway (since the 12" PowerBook has the same crappy screen of the old 12" iBook).
Right now I basically use it as my Internet tablet while watching TV or movies, mostly because I can just keep it on my coffee table and not have to pull my MacBook out of my backpack, but really it's not even very good for that anymore, between the trackpad problems, the assiness of the old-style power connector, and so on. It's not even a very good remote control for the Mac mini since the tiny screen means VNC has to scroll a lot.
The only simple "cool" thing I can think of for it is to invert the lid and turn it into a full-time Electric Sheep picture frame...
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I can't think of any use case for the hardware as it is, which is why I want to dive into the murky territory of modding.