The Apple thread

[Tyke]

I was a mac lover 15 years ago after having a short affair with them that lasted 3 years , I have been wanted to pick up a modernish mac for some time to have a fiddle with tiger/leopard etc

I have been offered a working G4 powerbook in good condition with a 17" screen, 750mb ram, 80gig hd, superdrive, airport, bluetooth does £350 sound like a good price and is there anything I should look out for?

Cheers

[Kemper_Boyd]

If it's an early 17" Powerbook the maximum memory is 1 GB, later
models 2 GB, that may be worth considering if you want to run
Leopard.

The main thing though is to check the battery, as they are expensive
to replace. If you have the opportunity it would be worth playing back
a full DVD, with Wifi on and the screen brightness up, and seeing what
the battery report says.

Powerbook specifications.
http://support.apple.com/specs/powerbook/

I think £350 is fair for the first 17" Powerbook if the battery is okay.
If you need a new battery then a refurbished MacBook may be a
better option. If the Powerbook is a later model it's obviously a better
deal.

[Tyke]

If it's an early 17" Powerbook the maximum memory is 1 GB, later
models 2 GB, that may be worth considering if you want to run
Leopard.

The main thing though is to check the battery, as they are expensive
to replace. If you have the opportunity it would be worth playing back
a full DVD, with Wifi on and the screen brightness up, and seeing what
the battery report says.

Powerbook specifications.
http://support.apple.com/specs/powerbook/

I think £350 is fair for the first 17" Powerbook if the battery is okay.
If you need a new battery then a refurbished MacBook may be a
better option. If the Powerbook is a later model it's obviously a better
deal.

I'm getting the guy to send me a more detailed spec and will find out it its a newer or older model.

I have also been offered a 1 month old black macbook 2.2 duo, 2gig ram, super drive etc for £650 would this be a better buy for the money vs the powerbook?

Cheers

[Deckard]

I am such a sad Im getting excited about tonights SDK news

[Misfit]

If you've ever wanted to unlock/activate/jailbreak an iPhone, now seems to be the best time ever.

Have a look at ZiPhone, a Windows or Mac application that does everything in one click. Even out of the box 1.1.4 phones it seems.

If you already have an iPhone at some other level, hacked or not, and want to get to the latest. Just upgrade via iTunes to 1.1.4 and then run this. Just done it on my 1.1.1 hacked phone and it worked a treat. Even the Locate me stuff in maps is working fine. It also puts installer on to let you get at all the lovely software that is already out there.

One note, it does wipe all your contacts, pictures and apps. So backup first. Like I didn't....

You can download it here:

http://www.downloadziphone.org/

[kalmar]

http://www.downloadziphone.org/

Thanks a lot for this Misfit. I've been trawling the (very frustrating) hackint0sh forums for days trying to find out which of the unlocking solutions is safest to use and appropriate for a UK iPhone..
You've answered my doubts, the only point remaining is that there seems to be a few reservations about Ziphone downgrading the bootloader "irreversably"? So I'm looking at iPlus (see http://www.iclarified.com) as well.

Anyway I'm convinced to get one and will follow your suggestion about networks too. Cheers!

[Misfit]

http://www.downloadziphone.org/

Thanks a lot for this Misfit. I've been trawling the (very frustrating) hackint0sh forums for days trying to find out which of the unlocking solutions is safest to use and appropriate for a UK iPhone..
You've answered my doubts, the only point remaining is that there seems to be a few reservations about Ziphone downgrading the bootloader "irreversably"? So I'm looking at iPlus (see http://www.iclarified.com) as well.

Anyway I'm convinced to get one and will follow your suggestion about networks too. Cheers!

Missed that bit about the bootloader. That can't be right?!

Let us know how you get on.

[kalmar]

Will do!

The bit about the bootloader is:

This BL3.9FakeBlank is very very important to those having 4.6BL and wanted to downgrade to 3.9.

Prior to this, ziphone is used to downgrade 4.6 to 3.9 BUT once that is done, you cannot upgrade back to 4.6 if you want to. A lot of arguments have been posted in the forum and etc ...

Acujo's method of using the 3.9FakeBlank allows you to downgrade 4.6BL and it will allow you to go back if you ever want to. This is much better than ziphone.

http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=32655

Reading between the lines I think you still could reflash the bootloader using some hardware method where you have to open the case. As I say I'm not 100% sure, but as there are several alternatives doing the same thing as Ziphone but including this special bootloader instead, I'm inclined to think it's a good idea

[Misfit]

Will do!

The bit about the bootloader is:

This BL3.9FakeBlank is very very important to those having 4.6BL and wanted to downgrade to 3.9.

Prior to this, ziphone is used to downgrade 4.6 to 3.9 BUT once that is done, you cannot upgrade back to 4.6 if you want to. A lot of arguments have been posted in the forum and etc ...

Acujo's method of using the 3.9FakeBlank allows you to downgrade 4.6BL and it will allow you to go back if you ever want to. This is much better than ziphone.

http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=32655

Reading between the lines I think you still could reflash the bootloader using some hardware method where you have to open the case. As I say I'm not 100% sure, but as there are several alternatives doing the same thing as Ziphone but including this special bootloader instead, I'm inclined to think it's a good idea

I'm not overly worried. The goal posts change each week and a new hacks come out every day.

So far nothing has been un-do-able.

Just plugged my phone into iTunes for the first time since the upgrade and it seems to have restored all my contacts and settings.

[Kemper_Boyd]

I can't remember who it was who needed it but from the ongoing SDK talk...

802.1x support

[Bubba]

Whitewulf will be very pleased, especially if it makes it back into the iTouch.

Cheers

Bubba

[kalmar]

Cisco VPN support and Exchange compatability?
Man, they are really going to sell a ton of these now.

[Deckard]

To you tech lot is this going better than you thought so far ?

[kalmar]

The words "insanely great" are starting to spring to mind, but I'd like to hear from someone who knows a lot more about this stuff too

[Kemper_Boyd]

To you tech lot is this going better than you thought so far ?

Well the enterprise features are more comprehensive than I expected.
It looks like Apple has done things properly rather than fluffing it, as
they did with the early SDK 'just write web apps' nonsense.