Daily Archives: 29/11/2005

ibook update: still doa

The iBook is still unusable: it still refuses to boot into target disk mode, and thus is in a bit of a coma (to anthropomorphize the situation). It’s very sad, and very frustrating. What I plan on doing is extricating the iBook’s internal hard drive and transplanting it into an external firewire enclosure that will

ibook on life support

It was bound to happen at some point. My old, trusty iBook, bought just prior to the Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Games, has finally reached a turning point. Its trackpad and mouse button haven’t worked for some time (save for a brief respite when the ribbon cable mount was soldered back on to the motherboard),