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REPORT ABUSIVE REPLY
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Anyone ever upgrade an Apple iBook (laptop)?
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I've done the work myself with help from ifixit.com. What do you want to upgrade?
Memory is easy, anything else is going to require cracking open the case, which is a pain (read: expensive). With laptops, everything is integrated onto one circuit board, CPU, graphics card, everything. You can't "upgrade" the CPU without replacing the logic board, which will set you back almost the price of a new iBook.
Look at increasing RAM, maybe changing the hard drive if it is 10 years old.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 16229523 Thanks for the info. It is actually a 2003 so that makes it 9 years old. We just thought we could upgrade the memory and OS enough that our daughter could use it to cruise the net. But what we found out is anything before 2006 is not upgradable enough :(. So that means upgrading it a step up isn't really worth it as the OS and Safari would not be powerful enough to handle certain web pages. It is a shame, when we brought it home from the auction it turned on, and then almost immediately this iBook detected and logged onto our wireless internet (I was very impressed with that). Any how, it works just fine playing dvd movies so daughter can use it to do that.
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