ibook g3 to g4 logic board swap?
Submitted by Nates13 on August 30, 2005 - 1:31am.
Hardware Hacks
I have an 14.1" ibook G3 800MHz, 32Mb vram, duel USB from late 2002. It did have the infamus logic board problem, but one warrenty swap fixed it and it's stayed so far. It's been good but it's reaching the limits of its usefulness, and now I need more power. As it stands, I don't think think the new ibook G4's are a significant enough performance boost to justify the cost of one($1,300). However, if the logic board could be swaped out for one of the new G4 boards, like a 1.2GHz or even the really new 1.42 GHz boards, it would be worth it. I've looked at pictures of both boards, and there not identical but very close. The connections seem to be in the same spot, and the component locations are about the same. Of course pictures don't say anything about DC voltages, connection type and so forth, so I was wondering if anyone here had any thoughts. I'm not above trimming some plastic and I've got friends who can fix solder runs on printed cards, the kind you need a microscope and dental tools to fix.
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