14″ all worked except it needs a new hard drive which I’m told is a Toshiba unit. I’m ‘guessing’ the computers password was stored on the existing hard drive (I.e I forgot the password so it might have been a problem otherwise?).

How much do you reckon it’ll go for in its current state? Is there a market for them like this or is it literally not worth the hassle?

ebay say c.£125

Wow that much? I think I paid 800 back in 2004.

You could get a new HDD fitted and Tiger installed by a good Apple retailer. Nowt wrong with the Book otherwise, so still a good little ‘puter.

If I sourced a new hard drive its relatively straight forward to fit? I.e lift keyboard unplug/plug in?

Linky

Looks a bit of a pain but not to hard

If your local to Manchester, drop it off with new hdd, a few beers and I’ll install it for you

I am in Manchester 8)

Just lifted the keyboard. Observations- its an airport extreme module under there and the following memory ‘stuff:

1064 mhz
256mb
30GB

Will tiger run on that? Worth upgrading?

Memory upgrade and it will run leopard (slowly)

If you can’t upgrade the Ram I wouldn’t bother. I have a similar spec Powerbook with a G4 cpu. With 512mb it was horribly slow on Tiger, with 1.25Gb it’s usable, but still slow compared to a modern cheap laptop /netbook.

It gets used for kitchen web browsing and running alpha-baby.

Personally, whack it on the bay and use the money towards a new one…

A new HD is gonna be £80 or more right now, RAM that old is now expensive, and even if you do upgrade both, you’ve then only got a machine that will just about run Leopard slowly… I’ve literally just sold an immaculate MacBook this evening that is much newer, and much faster for £350… Far better bet than throwing loads of money into an ancient machine, unless you’ve already got the spare parts and knowhow to fix yourself IMO.

Hmmmmmm ebay. I’ve hardly missed it, its sat on a shelf for over 2yrs.

If I sourced a new hard drive its relatively straight forward to fit? I.e lift keyboard unplug/plug in?

I’ve done a few of them, nothing that hard but it’s a long and fiddly job that involves a pretty comprehensive strip down. Keep the screws you remove separated as there’s several different lengths and threads used.

Drive will be less than £50 (remember IDE not SATA) so wouldn’t cost a great deal to do. 512MB memory modules are £15 from Crucial, so could get 1GB in there quite cheaply too.

Not that it stops it being an old, slow machine that can only run obsolete versions of MacOS. I’d probably fix the hard disk just so you can sell a working machine rather than a “spares or repair” one but if you’re looking at paying someone to fix it for you, I’d say sell it as-is.