Power Macintosh

Cinema Display: repairing the DVI connector

Apple | Power Macintosh | Engineering Hack | Electricity & Optics


I posted a question in the forums about repair of a cinema display 20-inch, whose DVI connector was broken off. I finally have the solution and a working Cinema display again and as promised in the thread I would post the info regarding what color is what pin. So here it is.

Apple USB keyboard repair

Apple | Power Macintosh | Hardware


Disassemble and repair an Apple USB keyboard using tinfoil and superglue.

Glowing Wallstreet

Apple | Hacks | Power Macintosh | Laptop Mods


Modify your PowerBook G3 Wallstreet's case so that light from the LCD will pass through the Apple logo.

Intel Mac mini: Take Apart Guide (RAM & HD)

Apple | Power Macintosh | Guide | Hardware


This guide describes how to take apart the Intel Mac mini and upgrade the RAM and hard drive.

Repairing the PowerBook 5300

Power Macintosh | Guide | Hardware


A design flaw in this PowerBook inevitably leads to a flakey power connector. Learn how to repair it.

Experiments with the Apple Motion Sensor

Power Macintosh | Project | Software


Apple's latest PowerBooks contain a "Sudden Motion Sensor" to prevent damage to the hard drive. Learn how you can use this sensor output to gather data or play games.

Memento

Power Macintosh | Review | Software


Remember a few words but forget where you saw them? Memento provides a clean and easy interface for searching Safari's cache.

Power Button Mod - Change the Stock LED on a G4

Apple | Power Macintosh | Electricity & Optics


How to swap the power button LED in a Sawtooth G4.

Hard drive sandwich

Apple | Power Macintosh | Engineering Hack | Peripherals


Using aluminum bar stock, eeun puts the squeeze on hard drive noise!

Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh

Computers | Power Macintosh

How do you mark with prestige and elegance the 20th birthday of the most influential and important company in the history of the microcomputer? For 20 years, Apple had the will and motivation to create a new design rather than a new computer. The designers, with Jonathan Ive at their head describe the principal design features as beautiful, refined, with few cables and efficiency, and most important, wicked fast.

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