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Apple has long held an iron grip on the materials and tools required to repair their devices but starting today I'm doing my small part to level the playing field by introducing a PowerBook Duo Battery Contact Alignment Tool rental service! Never again wonder if your battery contacts have...

I have some Apple Restoration CDs that I just uploaded to the Macintosh Garden. My understanding is these were used by Apple service centers/partners to restore hard drives for specific Mac models to the same image they left the factory with, which in some (many?) cases includes items you would...

I've seen posts about adding RAM chips to empty pads on SIMMs/DIMMs to, for example, turn a 8MB stick into a 16MB one, and now I'm wondering if that's doable for "older" SSDs? In particular I have several STEC 128MB "Flash Drives" SLFLD25 - 128MM1U that appear to have pads for flash chips that...

I've been using simple, cheap CF2IDE adapters along with industrial Compact Flash cards in my 1400 and 5300 PowerBooks for some time (also looking to do so in a 2300 Duo and "new" 190). I know there are other options with SD cards and what not but I just like this approach. One aspect that I...

I have a LC 550 logic board that I'm trying to get working and would appreciate any thoughts and/or advice. It came to me looking pretty good, maybe some signs of leaking capacitors but no obvious signs of trace damage. I did test it prior to re-capping in a known working LC575 chassis: On...

Thought I'd share my experience with replacing the orginal hard drive in my PowerBook 540c with a BlueSCSI and some tests I did to see how it compares with the original HD and a SCSI2SD I had in my PowerBook 180. I ordered the PowerBook BlueSCSI Version 4 [F1.TbA.PB.V4] from Tech by Androda...