Track pad aside, this would have been the notebook to have in 2002.Īs for my specific TiBook, the only real disappointment is that the screen has a line of light scruffs across the middle. But you just cringe when you realize someone stored something between the screen and keyboard, and whatever it was had a surface rough enough to scruff the screen. What are people thinking when they do stuff like this? It’s just annoying enough that I might take on the task of replacing the screen with another one off eBay. RAM is cheap, a new Superdrive is cheap, and the only thing that scares me about the screen is the possible work involved replacing it should I decide to. I didn’t order RAM when I ordered the TiBook (should have), but I did have a spare 64GB KingSpec PATA SSD on hand. At one point I tried putting this in my PowerBook PDQ, but that PowerBook wasn’t happy with it for some strange reason. I prepared the drive on another Mac with Mac OS X Tiger and the Mac OS 9.2.2 System Folder that the TiBook requires, and then installed it. ![]() Having spent a lot of time recently restoring and playing with older classic Macs I wasn’t prepared for what a TiBook on a SSD would feel like. With some caveats this machine feels as snappy and fast running Mac OS 9 as my MacBook Pro feels running Mac OS X. Office 2001 launches instantly where the latest and greatest takes 3-4s on a MBP. The apps themselves also feel snappier in use. But given the vast difference in hardware your latest version really shouldn’t lose this race.) (Come on Microsoft! I realize later software has more features. To Adobe’s credit their latest version of Photoshop on a MBP launches a bit faster than Photoshop 7 on the TiBook. And of course image processing is something that’s going to exercise the CPU hard, meaning a 1 GHz G4 has no chance in a race against a Core i7. Still, Photoshop 7 is very responsive, and editing an image on the TiBook isn’t terrible unless you try working with larger files. ![]() The web? Classilla, which was a disappointment to me on the older 60x Power Macs and even the PowerBook PDQ, runs very well on the TiBook. ![]() So does TenFourFox when booting Mac OS X.
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