On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 08:20:52PM +0100, Steve Cottrell wrote: > Mrs has an old Powerbook G4 and looks like the inverter has died, > backlight okay. I'm cloning her stuff (via target disk mode) onto an > external HD so she can boot up in her little world on another machine > while I get a new board in and swap it out. > > I'm lazy - I know I can hook up an external monitor to find this - but > for the sake of argument and just to see if it is doable, while her sick > mac is in target disk mode, is there any way to view the specs of her > actual machine? > > EG if I use System Profiler it will obviously display my Mac's hardware > and even detail her int HD via the Firewire pane, but can't see an easy > way to spy on her CPU speed (for identifying the right inverter to order...) > > Sensible suggestions only please!
can you ssh into the machine? Though I don't know what the file would be. I expect that the easiest would be to type the serial number of the machine into one of the sites that specialize in older macs. Which powerbook? I've got a 12" that I love, but it's gotten to the point that it no longer has the computation horsepower to play iTunes without glitching (!?). > > -- > > > Cheers, > Cotty > > > ___/\__ Broadcast, Corporate, > || (O) | Web Video Production > ---------- <www.seeingeye.tv> > _____________________________ > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
