Wow, is everything packed in there!Replacing the hard drive is pretty easy. The top cover comes off (more careful prying), and thisreveals the guts of the PowerBook. I use the smallest (and it istiny) flat blade jeweler's screw driver to get the male half of theconnection out of the female half, which is anchored to the board. (I know,you could buy a new mainboard, but really, that costs money!) Do notpull on the leads going into the connector. Yes, this isthe garflax! Proceed with caution from this point on: If you ruin theconnector on the board, you will render the computer useless.
These two connectors handle the power to the on/off switch above thekeyboard and the lead from the speakers to the mainboard. Off comes thekeyboard, and here comes the critical part. A 1 GB chip is available for the PowerBook G4,and combined with the 128 MB chip soldered on the board, it shouldallow for some frisky operation under Leopard. This will not be enough to run Leopard, so I mighthave to spend money! Shock! (So far, I have not had to buy athing.) I happened to have a 256 MB chip lying around and was able toupgrade to 384 MB. Four screws hold it in place, andvoilà! RAM upgrades are possible. The RAM is located undera door on the bottom of the unit. Not so with the 12" PowerBook G4.First, you have to take out the battery (not so tough, since mine isminus the battery cover) and take out the RAM. Now once you remove the keyboard from my old Pismo, you have access to theprocessor, AirPort Card, RAM, and hard drive. When you go to strip apart an Apple laptop, you have to remove thekeyboard. Using a Titleistgolf ball and an improvised 5 iron, Baldar defeats the garflax (sort ofa Star Wars monster on a smaller scale), enabling his return toEarth.
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In the movie TheConeheads, Baldar is tasked to "snarful the garflax"when he returns to Remulak, the planet of his origin.
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