Turn your iBook into a PowerBook (Sorta)

Hardmac has a step-by-step how-to on taking a base level iBook into something with (sorta) equivalent innards to a 12 inch PowerBook. It seems that this might be cheaper than buying a PowerBook, but you are still stuck without some of the special features that make a PowerBook what it is. In any case, its interesting to see how many of the parts are interchangeable.

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