For some unknown reason Free Geek was closed today. I stopped by the University of MN ReUse warehouse to see what treasures I could find. I picked up a couple Mac USB keyboards for parts, and three laptops for parts:
I got it home and plugged it in, the battery seemed to take a charge. I found an old spinner HDD and a 1GB stick of PC2700 RAM and installed that, and surprisingly it booted right up.
Just to verify all things, I downloaded the Apple Service Diagnostics 2.15 from Macintosh Repository and burned a CD. All passed.
Benchmarks of GeekBench 2.20
And CineBench R10
That fox worked fine.
So now I just need to get a spot welder or a steam roller and flatten that cover plate out.
- iBook 12" utterly destroyed, but the lid was intact and I think the screen may be ok
- MacBook Pro 13" motherboard broken out, keyboard bent, only things salvageable would be wifi card, optical drive, battery, and top/screen.
- PowerBook5,2 15" 1.25GHz G4 that was thrashed to remove the HDD.
I got it home and plugged it in, the battery seemed to take a charge. I found an old spinner HDD and a 1GB stick of PC2700 RAM and installed that, and surprisingly it booted right up.
Just to verify all things, I downloaded the Apple Service Diagnostics 2.15 from Macintosh Repository and burned a CD. All passed.
Benchmarks of GeekBench 2.20
And CineBench R10
That fox worked fine.
So now I just need to get a spot welder or a steam roller and flatten that cover plate out.
