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  • Installing MacBook Core 2 Duo Upper Case Oct 5 @ 5:28 PM

    I didn't look closely at these screws when I took it apart, but when I went to put it back together (two weeks later) I found I had two longer (4mm?) screws, and one short one. So I put the longer ones in the two end spots, the short one in the middle; they all seemed to go in okay. (Maybe the screws got changed around the last time the cracked top case was replaced, when the MB was in the Apple shop under warranty last year.)

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  • Installing MacBook Core 2 Duo Upper Case Oct 5 @ 5:11 PM

    The top two screws didn't seem to want to come out, and I saw no reason they had to, so I left them there, put a little piece of tape over each so they wouldn't fall out.

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  • Re: iBook G4 14" 933 MHz, replacing the MOBO wth a 1.33 board?? Feb 24 @ 9:40 AM

    There's only one MLB you can substitute for the 933MHz one: the 1064MHz (aka 1.07GHz or 1GHz) board from the same generation iBook G4. This board, like the 933MHz, has 128MB RAM built-in. The next generation iBook G4 also included a 1GHz MLB model, but that MLB has 256MB RAM on it, and due to a couple slight design differences, will not install in the originally 933MHz model. Nor will any later model.

    (I am in fact doing just this upgrade: putting a 1GHz MLB into an iBook G4 whose original 933MHz board had died. I first got a 1GHz board from the next generation by mistake, and found it wouldn't install. So I've learned all about the fine points of this particular upgrade.)

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