i had that same machine for 2 years. it is a bit slow, but great and sturdy to carry around. i maxed out the ram, though, please consider doing that too asap.
1-you need the old type card. look and ye shall find. they are more expensive nowadays than the newer cards. mine had it and it worked well. no problems with reception. actually, it was better than the ti book.
2- sure, you could do that, but i chose the firewire enclosure for 2 reasons: they are bootable and you don't need an additional power supply.
3- i ran os 10.3.8 without any problems in the ibook. just remember: it is not fast, but it is more than acceptable. i mostly used it for the same things and the occasional dvd watching. one thing: the isight won't work with it because it needs g3 550+.
good luck!
gladys
On Apr 10, 2005, at 1:41 AM, Amanda Ward wrote:
Hi All,
I just bought a 12" iBook 500 from eBay... wanted something a little more
contemporary than my trusty Wallstreet. I've done some google-ing and gotten
a lot of information, but I have a couple of questions.
1. The 'book can accept an Airport card, but are there limitations on which
cards can be used?
2. It has a 10GB hard drive which is... well, not big. I have a 40GB USB
drive and want to know if the iBook can boot from that drive?
3. I'd like to run OS X on the machine and was wondering if the 500 MHz cpu
would give acceptable performance? I don't do graphics stuff... just some
word processing, spreadsheets and listen to an occasional music CD.
Thanks for any input!
Amanda
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