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Name: Butteredghost
Date: July 5, 2002 at 16:46:53 Pacific
Comment:

I've got an iBookSE from 2000 with an ATI
rage card (that only has 8meg vram)

I'm very keenly interested into upgrading
to a better ATI video card, is this possible
with my laptop? if so/how so?
If you can tell me anything, thanks a
bunch! (for certain)



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Response Number 1
Name: the pickle
Date: July 5, 2002 at 17:13:42 Pacific
Reply:

Not possible.

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Response Number 2
Name: Andy
Date: July 5, 2002 at 18:23:38 Pacific
Reply:

Even if it was possible the parts and
labour would leave you with a ibook that
costs more than a ti-book,seeing how
most notebook have thier soundcard/
videocard built has part of the
motherboard,or if not part of it,t's a
custom fit which will be impossible to find
off the shelf.
But if you don't mind playing russian
roulette with your ibook or money,I'm sure
somebody out there on the web ,sells the
main parts of an ibook,maybe one of
them has the boards of a 700mhz,but
they would cost way to much to concider
as an upgrade!,just the bottom of the
ibook casing is almost $200.00(if you can
find one!)you also have to consider the
ibook may look almost the same on the
outside,but the inside is something
completely differn't,the layout and sizes of
parts can be totally differn't,power
consumption can change +/-.hardware
conflicts can arise and so on.
So to sum it
up!..........no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no..unless
your current vid card dies on you,don't
even bother trying to change it for
something newer,it will just leave you
with expensive parts that nobody in thier
right mind would atemp to put in!


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Response Number 3
Name: Mike
Date: July 6, 2002 at 21:18:14 Pacific
Reply:


I have a similar question, but for my powerbook. It's at least a bit easier to gain access to.

In regards to the original poster... I agree that gaining access to the guts of an iBook is a nightmare. Check out this site that describes how to 'user install' an upgraded hard drive:

http://caslis.com/mac/ibook/ibdrive.html



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Response Number 4
Name: Andy
Date: July 7, 2002 at 02:05:32 Pacific
Reply:

Most part's like hd's and cd drives/
floppies are easy to get to,but on
notebooks all companies are strict on
who could work on them(not very user
freindly)if I were to upgrade my ibook
myself,I would be flushing over 2 1/2yrs of
apple care down the toilette!,however if
that's not's really issue,you can change
the main parts rather easily!,Just make
sure you have a glass or something to
put all the tiny screws in!...try and find 20+
tini tiny screws when they start rolling off
the table!.


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