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Her laptop is gummy. A ibook g4 933mHz 14" getting slow, showing its age. But if I could make my Pismo last 6 years I think we can make her ibook last 10. Serious.

What's already been changed? New battery. Usually the first thing to go on these technological bastards. She still has the stock 640mb of ram but I just recently discovered I can ram a 1gig stick in there. (merry xmas!)

What I'm doing to it in this video? A new heart. A 160gig Seagate 5400rpm hard drive. Why not 7200rpm? Initially I wanted to get her something badass but it is a laptop and I don't want to see her time spent on the thing diminish because of the battery dying quicker than it needs to. 5400rpm is plenty fast.

word up - ice t
thanks ifixit.com
no thanks apple for making the ibook a bitch to upgrade.

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Ian Lucero
Fixer Up'r
kumzooloo
Frustrated iBook Owner

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victoria 5 months ago

This is great! I've never seen the inside of a laptop before. The little boy was a nice touch, too... heheh :)
Ian Lucero 5 months ago

more insides can be had here:

flickr.com/photos/ianlucero/sets/72157603479398789/
Jon Salazar 5 months ago

hah, where'd you get that little boy?!
dunno 5 months ago

Yeah wth.
Ian Lucero 5 months ago

Little boy is from San Fracisco chinatown. A funny thing that's been making us laugh at every meal lately ever since Kamala brought it home.
My name is Aaron 5 months ago

Neat-)!

I think the plastic kid peeing tops the plastic man farting.
Ian Lucero 5 months ago

don't give me ideas!
Perez 5 months ago

wow

you´re a computer genius and a video genius as well.
Ian Lucero 5 months ago

without the take apart instructions i wouldn't have known how to do this. It was fun!
heather 5 months ago

I feel as if you are a man of many trades!
Ian Lucero 5 months ago

I'm in the process of making a new computer desk.

flickr.com/photos/ianlucero/sets/72157603480418199/

I can't wait to finish it.
Loonachic 5 months ago

wowza! that's one hell of a project. you're a brave man!

excellent video :-)
Ian Lucero 5 months ago

Twas interesting.

Next, my saxophone.
Brett Russell Dougherty 5 months ago

way to go, man! opening up a mac takes some balls. i have no problem chainsawing my pc open and doing all sorts of stuff to it, but macs are scary. you have me in awe.

if you dont get the opposite of the dog house for this one (hint hint, nudge nudge), i dont know WHAT you could do.

by the way, i wish there could be a "i didnt like a certain feature of this video" button, because that peeing statue boy is fucking creepy as shit.
Ian Lucero 5 months ago

Their newer stuff is kind of a pain especially on the lower end stuff like the ibook. They make it so break proof that you can't get to anything. When we installed the airport card when she first got it I was surprised at how clean and not a computer it was after removing the keyboard. My first reaction was "uh oh, this is gonna be a bastard someday!"

Basically they made it that way so you take it in to someone to get it fixed. Quite the opposite on the older powerbooks (titanium, pismo, etc.) They made those so simple and easy to take apart, it was heaven really. I could take apart my Pismo in 10 minutes with eyes closed. I really tried it. I had to replace the motherboard and some other things a few times.

The little boy wants you.
Brett Russell Dougherty 5 months ago

that's the whole reasoning behind the difficulty. money. Jobbs is the Man! and not in a good way. iPods rule your soul.
Ian Lucero 5 months ago

luckily i've been able to make it this far without updating my 2nd Gen ipod. I'm waiting for the ipod touch to stop feeling 'cheap'

sorry if i offended any west coasters with ipod touches.
Brett Russell Dougherty 5 months ago

ive kept my colorless 40 up an running since the dawn of time. im right there with you, brosef.
kumzooloo 5 months ago

So, does this mean I have to touch Ian's weenus now?
Brett Russell Dougherty 5 months ago

that SHOULD be a regular occurrence over at the K&I green house of glory.
Jared Moran 5 months ago

Ian, you just inspired me to pump fresh jams EVERY time I do any kind tech support. Jams!

I think this makes you the original LJ (laptop jockey)
Ian Lucero 5 months ago

dooood it's the only way to keep things riiiiiiipe.

L to da J.
gremm 5 months ago

you're my idol...to da max. the ending summed it up quite well. i can't imagine having the patience to do something like that. my version of this video would've had ME urinating on my laptop, because i would've gone insane! nice one, bra!
Ian Lucero 5 months ago

It isn't bad. It just takes a while. Easier to put back together than take apart.
Remyyy 5 months ago

ahah, gremn, this comment is priceless and so true for me too.
janocjapun 5 months ago

Wow dude, respect!
I replaced the dying harddrive on a friends iBook a year ago. That was really a pain-in-the-ass-project. Took me hours (of course referencing to instructions somewhere in the web) and two screws left over. But the iBook still is running :)
I promised myself never to open a Apple laptop again ...
Ian Lucero 5 months ago

My hope is never to do that again. Only to put new ram in but that is easy compared to this.
3d60 5 months ago

respect is due...you handled the screwy task ( geddit ) in the freshest way ....werd
Ian Lucero 5 months ago

hahah!
LCF 5 months ago

Even Sylar couldn't take apart an iBook =P
Ian Lucero 5 months ago

Wait who's Sylar again?
Buck Flashroy 5 months ago

Crazy!

That looked like a lot of hard work. Well done.
Ian Lucero 5 months ago

Thanks!
kumzooloo 5 months ago

He's RECKLESS!
kumzooloo 5 months ago

Ian is maybe the most patient person I know. Obviously. Holy Jesus.
kumzooloo 5 months ago

If I had attempted this, I'd be cursing and crying 5 minutes in and I think I, like, gremm, would then piss on it and give up. Lucky thing I got a nerd for a man. Thanks nerd!
kumzooloo 5 months ago

It works great! Faster, better and cleaner! I love my Christmas present!
kumzooloo 5 months ago

Oh yes, for anybody who wants their very OWN "Wee wee water squirter" plastic peeing boy, I found them online, just as cheap as where I got this dude (he was $2 in SF Chinatown and I love him SOO much):

zymetrical.com/product.asp?3=247

Zymetrical is awesome. The best prices on all the gags. I know this because I ordered 8 "Remote Control, New & Improved, Boom Box technology" fart machines from them in the past.
Erick C. 5 months ago

what a freaking nightmare. that's the type of thing that makes my face super itchy. did you have any screws leftover? that chart was very clever, was it your idea? also, the peeing kid was a fantastic touch, i loved it. great video Ian!
Ian Lucero 5 months ago

nope no left over screws. Yeah that chart, which i didn't come up with, was a time saver. If you go to ifixit.com they have take apart manuals, which you had to pay for in the past, are now free to download as pdf's.

Glad you liked the video.
Jeremy Chapman (j-chap) 5 months ago

i wish plumbers and electricians and auto mechanics made videos like this after they fixed stuff.

the world would be supreme.

fantastic video, makes me want to get back in the game (i've been working non-stop since early november)

thanks for the inspirash', Ian!
Ian Lucero 5 months ago

Thanks for watching it. YEah haven't seen you around in a while.

How's it going?
GermanNuestro 5 months ago

hi, ian. bad ass! i don't believe you did that. it was scary looking at that thing taken apart. nice vid, too. did i miss something? what is a pizmo?
Ian Lucero 5 months ago

Oh! Pismo was the name Apple gave to the Powerbook G3 (you know my old laptop). It was named after Pismo Beach in California.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pismo#PowerBook_G3_.28FireWire.29
GermanNuestro 5 months ago

Oh. Wow, is that thing finally dead?
Karen Abad loves Dinosaurs. 5 months ago

i wish i was more technology savvy
Julie Simonney 5 months ago

Great job! It even seems nice and relaxing to do... (weel ok in fast motion...)
Eric Anderson 4 months ago

Dang. Big props bro. We have three of these little guys at our office that have seen better days. I wonder...
Linda McClure 4 months ago

Brilliant! Loved your video!
Ian Lucero 4 months ago

Thanks Linda! Glad you enjoyed it.
Ivan Ciego 3 months ago

Cool video you have here! Love every seconds of it. How many and what type cameras and lighting did you use. You got mad skillz-Bro! Must spend alot of time behind those cameras and your mac.

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