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It's something they started focusing more on I want to say some point in the early-mid 2000s. The innards of the PowerMac G4 towers and PowerBook/iBook G4s wer
by kitsunesoba 3y ago
It's something they started focusing more on I want to say some point in the early-mid 2000s.
The innards of the PowerMac G4 towers and PowerBook/iBook G4s weren't very nice looking, and the latter were an absolute nightmare to disassemble with 3x as many screws as seen in the video above.
Where that changed was with the PowerMac G5 and iMac G5 on the desktop side of things and the unibody MacBooks on the portable side. The internals of the first couple revisions of 20" iMac G5 in particular were very nice both aesthetically and from a serviceability standpoint, which they unfortunately degraded with later revisions by making it necessary to remove the screen to access internals.
- nikau 3y agoThe early ibooks designs were outsourced, to asus I believe. I remember they were dangerous to repair as the screw lengths were all different and you could screw a long screw into a short hole which would cut into some pcb traces.
- kitsunesoba 3y agoInteresting, do you know if that applies to the fruit colored models or the later white ones? I disassembled a white iBook G4 ages ago and it was a real mess to take apart.
- nikau 3y agowas either the g3 or g4 ibook (my g3 was such a lemon it got replaced with a g4)