Comments on: What fun things can I do with my old iBook Clamshell?

Question: What fun things can I do with my old iBook Clamshell?

gonzo_ID — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:34:30 -0800

I've got a iBook G3(i think) blueberry clamshell which can just about handle running photoshop 4 and appleworks on it. think it has OS 8 on it too. The battery is pretty much shot on it and so only runs off the mains power supply. Currently it is sitting on my shelf doing nothing. Give me some fun / interesting / unusual ideas with what I could do with it. The more creative the better.

By: gonzo_ID

gonzo_ID — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:56:12 -0800

forgot to say.
has CD ROM drive, no wireless. and have had incredible trouble trying to plug it into the interweb.

By: fourcheesemac

fourcheesemac — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:19:23 -0800

The clamshell iBooks make really fun frisbees. Otherwise, I'd say you have a lovely digital picture frame in your future.

By: mrbarrett.com

mrbarrett.com — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:22:38 -0800

- a digital LCD picture frame.
- a computer for babies to play AlphaBaby or any of the keyboard-smash games.
- put an older Yellowdog Linux on it as a learning experience?
- if it has an ethernet port, attach it to your network and make it a network monitoring device (a la Nagios).

By: JohnR

JohnR — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:22:40 -0800

I have a 300 MHz, revision b tangerine one. I put tiger on it, bought a new battery and a used airport card. It picks up broadband better than my dell d410. The battery lasts 6 hours and I love it.
I put 9.22 on it and 10.4.11. I use classic for photoshop 6 and freehand 7. I disabled spotlight and dashboard. Don't underestimate this baby. (I obtained a cd copy of tiger to be able to install on this machine.) Really the only downside is the 800x600 resolution limit on the monitor.

By: JohnR

JohnR — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:27:57 -0800

Added note : has 320 mb of memory, but it will take 512 mb

By: cloeburner

cloeburner — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:43:37 -0800

Donate it to someone in a developing country. I don't know what program but it's become glaringly obvious in my travels that our under-wanted/under-used computers would find a better home here.

In particular, Bolivia, it's wired and people know that computer jangle, it just costs about 7 times more to buy one. But, I don't know how you'd get it here. Lo siento.

By: paisley henosis

paisley henosis — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:49:37 -0800

Marathon .

By: idiopath

idiopath — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:12:43 -0800

If you want to try Linux, don't bother with yellow dog, debian or ubuntu will install on it just fine, and you can install the latest version. I have a debian ibook G3 sitting right here next to me on my desk. instead of an older version of a Linux distro, get the latest, then strip things down until it runs smoothly (ie. get rid of gnome/kde and just run fluxbox and rox-filer). Worst case, just run the latest distro with an old version of the desktop environment, that is where the ram and cpu usage bloat really comes in.