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Hardware PowerBook G4

PowerBook Screen Brightness Compared (Updated 4x)

The objective of this article is to compare PowerBook screen brightness to other notebook LCDs. I’d like to turn this into an across-the-board comparison on brightness, with your help. Read More…

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Hardware PowerBook G4

2005 PowerBook Display Artifacts (Updated 5x)

We’ve collected some reader reports about a problem with artifacts on 2005 PowerBook G4’s screens. Read More…

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Hardware PowerBook G4

PowerBookResQ Offers PowerBook SuperDrive Upgrades

PowerPage sponsor PowerBookResQ has announced self-service user-installable PowerBook G4 SuperDrive upgrades. The upgrade costs US$299 and includes installation instructions and a pre-paid return shipping label for the old optical drive to MacResQ. Optional 24-hour turnaround installation is available for US$399. Owners of the PowerBook G4/400-1GHz can now easily replace their built-in CD-RW or DVD-only drive […]

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PowerBook G4 Sighting

Peter Frampton Plays a PowerBook G4

Peter Frampton shown with his favorite things…a John Lennon Doll and his PBG4.

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PowerBook G4 Software

Airport Extreme Coming to Older PBs in Panther

It appears that support for 802.11g card for older PowerBooks will be arriving in Panther but not officially before that. Check out the US$99.99 AL5402-XG adapterfrom Asante. The data sheet states that “Macintosh OS X Panther and later; no driver required.” …