Would have to be an absolutely no-profit charity without anyone getting paid at any level. Otherwise cleaning the thing would cost more in labor money than those 5 bucks.
Literally got a G4 3 weeks ago and replaced the HDD, _this so much_. *SO MANY* screws, and I almost destroyed the frame trying to get those latches out on the bezel. Even the 8bitguy is like, yeah, this is probably one of the hardest computers you'll ever open. ...but at least it can be opened and serviced, unlike some of Apple's later laptops.
@@alexjones3035 if you think the iBooks are bad, I've seen someone destroy a iBook G3 (the snow ones) trying to crack it open... A bit of an Apples (pun intended) to Oranges thing but, I've had to open up my iMac G3 once to remove the PRAM battery... That was a real pain in itself. The iMac G4 isn't any better, mine despite being a 15in one, it's got a 1GHz board in it (kinda assuming it's a weird combination... IDK), there's that one cable that I nearly sheared off multiple times... But at least it's not as bad as the G3. The G3 has a ton of clips... I'm always sh*tting bricks whenever I'm moving that thing, in fear that the clip somehow gives way one day... Ugh
@Sannesthesia Even worse are those "vintage" style ballpoint pens that use the replaceable ink cartridge's. I used to love writing with those until one day a brand new cartridge ruptured and I ended up with ink everywhere... Took forever to clean up.
The purple stuff is definitely lipstick or eyeliner... looks like Nancy and Bernie let their kiddos have their old iBook and someone ragequit during the Dr. Seuss game. lol
Great job on the video and the title had me rolling! I picture Bernie attacking this computer like Michael Bolton and Samir attacked that printer with the PC Load Letter issue from Office Space...
I'd guess this was someones old laptop and they let their kid have it, smearing eye shadow all over and prying the keys off the keyboard. Wouldn't say no for $5, worth the time and effort of at least making it look nice.
Nancy probably installed Firefox because Chrome and Safari stopped supporting older Mac OS versions, and security certificates and browser features were expiring.
These machines are surprisingly resilient things! My personal iBook G3 doesn't have a single inch without a chip or scratch, but it still works great. Absolute score for $4.99 there!
...and for the first time in recorded history, VWestlife's YT avatar is not of Westlife... (OK probably not the first time, but the first time I ever remember seeing it.) However when I saw that keyboard, first thing I thought was "looks like a kid got a hold of it." The Dr. Seuss program on there certain gives that theory some credit.
The red stuff looked like lipstick, My sister left hers on a glass table in the sun once, It melted and looked the same. (or it could just be blood :) )
This is probably one of my favorite examples of the random stuff you could find in the “bric-a-brac” section of any thrift store….. although I am absolutely shocked that this laptop works at all! Thank you so much for the video!!!!
Wow this takes me back. I haven't seen one of these in well over a decade. I remember the school district bought a bunch of these at one point or another and the laptop cart was my introduction to the iBook.
Been thinking about picking up another one of these, but the ebay prices are insane. This is the laptop that got me through 8th grade into 10th back in 2013. Did everything I needed for school, even G Docs worked great on WebKit Safari at the time. CZcams and flash content was still flawless.. Miss that machine. Replaced it with a 5,2 early 2009 MacBook that unfortunately died like any Apple laptop of any era, the GPU.
A few minutes worth of wiping and its value has already increased to $6! At this rate you'll be able to sell it and have enough left over to buy a coffee in about half an hour!
Deimos Rising is a computer game by Ambrosia Software, similar to many top-scrolling arcade shooters. The sequel to Mars Rising, it is available on Apple Macintosh and Windows platforms. It is similar to the scrolling arcade shooter, Xevious.
These machines are sold for pennies this days. I bought myself here in Germany a Powerbook G4 12" in good condition and full working order for 30 EUR (around 36 US-$).
Mine still works too, identical except was cared for. Every now and then I dust it off and play the way- back music and go 'that's where that file is!' Rebuilt the battery with the help of eBay and my spot-welder, works fine. They were so well made then and beautifully designed. Still have my PowerBook G4 too, beautiful machine and IMO peak Apple but suffers from the fan failure on one side which was a common Achilles heel ... one day I'll fix it but for now I just set it in some ice cubes. Good vid TY!
This to me is how Apple justifies the price of a Macbook. I have heard rumors that they plan to start going back to some of their older design styles which would be excellent. To me their newer machines don't seem to last as long or have issues early on in life. Their new new keyboards are hot garbage, but apparently are rumored to change.
This looks straight from a crime scene, signs of struggle I don’t touch anything second hand without disinfectant wipes first, I recommend anyone to do the same
That Powerbook belonged to a teenager who just got a phone call from her boyfriend who broke up. She cried off her maskara and got mad on the keyboard.
You might find a replacement keyboard on ebay, take some car scratch removal products on it and buff it away using a lot of elbo grease or use a rotary buffer tool to it and it should get the majority of the scratches away and finish it with car wax.
I had a 12" 1.2GHz iBook G4 back in 2008, with maxed out RAM (1.25GB). I loved it to bits, but the AirPort Extreme card has failed, and it would crash the system immediately after boot. Since I had a Core Duo Mac Mini as well, I decided to sell it, as I was doing most of the things on the Mini.
So this ancient machine with only 640MB RAM and one core seems better at playing YT than a 4-core/1GB Raspberry pi 3B+. Looks like YT reverted to an older, simpler page for that machine. Frustrating how bloated web apps have become.
Unfortunately, the clip of CZcams playing is an older clip from far back on his channel, on a different iBook G4. Your theory is correct, CZcams used to have a simple mode for old computers but that was dropped in late 2019 making CZcams on G4 basically impossible.
@@shad0w_dragon178 Yeah, look into KaiOS. It's extremely popular in the Philippines and India. It's essentially a cutdown version of Android but with light web based apps. You can watch youtube, browse the internet and get google maps all on a flip phone with a processor from last decade.
8:49 Totally forgot that Mac OS used to have a test field for the keyboard repeat preferences! Wonder when they got rid of that. Also would've liked to see the underside of that cleaning DVD. The animation seems like a metaphor for obliterating the dirt on your lens, using a pseudo-Death Star.
One thing I remember about the iBooks was that they were made more sturdier than MacBooks. I had a 2009 13" MacBook and the plastic on the case near the keyboard started chipping off. That never happened with my iBook. That thing was a beast.
Fun fact: They still last longer than newer MacBook (Pro)... My 2009 MBP wasnt abused, only heavily used and much performance needed (so got often hot/loud), but after 2-3 years all the bumpers on the bottom fell off, after 4 years the notebook fell apart in 2 parts (since the display assembly is poorly glued to the hinges in 2008/2009 models), the HDD died ofc and was replaced with a 240GB SSD, the superdrive died within a few years (but it was heavily used for CD burning and watching DVDs),... Its btw still used as a "media PC" at the 2nd living room, but like a giant remote (bottom part with keyboard/touchpad only) On the other hand, my 2010 MacBook Pro still works fine, especially the display is glued much better to the hinge assembly. Needed also a few repairs already, 3 batteries and a "renewing" of internals like noisy fan bearings, completely dry thermal paste or some months ago - a capacitator for the GPU power supply which was going bad and forced video engine related system shutdowns. But still going strong, the only problem: you can feel the 2C/4T only CPU and the 256MB VRam GT 330M, totally not useful anymore aslong you need even only a bit performance.
Someone left one of these at our office. It wouldn't work without pushing down on the area to the left of the touchpad. It's common for the chip there to become unsoldered.
You can actually install 10.5 Leopard onto that, Leopard was the last OSX that could be installed onto a PPC Mac, snow leopard is where they switched to full on Intel. Safari was included by default with OSX Panther 10.3 on
Apple definitely made more resilient products in the early 2000s. I sneezed beside my 2019 13inch MacBook Pro last week, and it hasn't powered up since.
I've been a computer tech for 15 years now and everytime I've seen a keyboard like that, a toddler was involved.
Hehe keys go brrr
oh so thats why it had that abc app
i remember from when i was a toddler i ripped off the majority of my mom and dads laptop keys. fun times.
@@theoinchains my fingers always bled when I did that as a toddler (they were really on the keyboard)
As someone who's laptop as a kid had to be replaced at least a dozen times, yes.
"Furniture"
Nice to see your here! 😄
Lol
Electronic Furniture... mind you.
It is a doorstop after all.
its a chair
Even for a 5 dollar thrift store find.. kind of shameful they didn't even give it a wipedown before putting it on the showfloor
it would have probably more than doubled the price
Thats savers for you
Would have to be an absolutely no-profit charity without anyone getting paid at any level. Otherwise cleaning the thing would cost more in labor money than those 5 bucks.
@@BilisNegra Not really, it took him less than 2 minutes to do a fine job cleaning it - at "high" minimum wage of $15, that's 50 cents.
its even more beautiful beat up
LUCKY MAN! The HDD still works! You wont have 300 screws on the table and a Saturday lost!
i have done that to many times :p
Literally got a G4 3 weeks ago and replaced the HDD, _this so much_. *SO MANY* screws, and I almost destroyed the frame trying to get those latches out on the bezel. Even the 8bitguy is like, yeah, this is probably one of the hardest computers you'll ever open.
...but at least it can be opened and serviced, unlike some of Apple's later laptops.
@@alexjones3035 if you think the iBooks are bad, I've seen someone destroy a iBook G3 (the snow ones) trying to crack it open... A bit of an Apples (pun intended) to Oranges thing but, I've had to open up my iMac G3 once to remove the PRAM battery... That was a real pain in itself.
The iMac G4 isn't any better, mine despite being a 15in one, it's got a 1GHz board in it (kinda assuming it's a weird combination... IDK), there's that one cable that I nearly sheared off multiple times... But at least it's not as bad as the G3. The G3 has a ton of clips... I'm always sh*tting bricks whenever I'm moving that thing, in fear that the clip somehow gives way one day... Ugh
My iBook G3 got a hard drive replacement. I never want to do that again.
The paint/makeup marks look a lot like an "exploded" black ballpoint pen to me. That standard black ink has a heavy purplish sheen to it.
That was exactly what I was thinking...
@Sannesthesia Even worse are those "vintage" style ballpoint pens that use the replaceable ink cartridge's. I used to love writing with those until one day a brand new cartridge ruptured and I ended up with ink everywhere... Took forever to clean up.
Most of the time I've seen exploded pens the ink has been purple-ish or red, so you are probably right.
Ah yes the pen expert
@@gageb4476 Pen expert yesyees
10:20 Gosh, that "whirlwind" sound effect is just fantastic.
i didnt realize it was the sound effect for the spinning speaker thingy lol
With "Bernie" I thought it was gonna be Bernie Sanders' old iBook and yeah, it wasn't *that* Bernie
* gasp * Maybe it’s Hunter’s laptop!
"Those millionaires and billionaires are gonna pay" *smashes laptop*
hahahaha... me too, man, me too
Same
Maybe it's Candice's laptop
I recognize a keyboard like that - the aftermath of being used by little kids.
Ye, Probably started life as a parent's laptop then got passed down to entertain a kid, who proceeded to try their best at destroying it.
@@jokerzwild00 100%! My child loved "peeling" the keys off the keyboard. Ooof, I learned my lesson!
@@manitoba-op4jx *until they're mature enough to handle it properly.
@@manitoba-op4jx i got a my first pc at 6
@@cdur5091 k maybe that’s a bit early…
Keyboard aside, it’s actually not in bad condition.
The purple stuff is definitely lipstick or eyeliner... looks like Nancy and Bernie let their kiddos have their old iBook and someone ragequit during the Dr. Seuss game. lol
Great job on the video and the title had me rolling! I picture Bernie attacking this computer like Michael Bolton and Samir attacked that printer with the PC Load Letter issue from Office Space...
Michael Bolton? Is he related to that singer guy?
@@marklagerstam6927 No. It was just a coincidence.
Oh
Oh no, money waste.
I was just watching that scene from Office Space
I'd guess this was someones old laptop and they let their kid have it, smearing eye shadow all over and prying the keys off the keyboard. Wouldn't say no for $5, worth the time and effort of at least making it look nice.
Nancy probably installed Firefox because Chrome and Safari stopped supporting older Mac OS versions, and security certificates and browser features were expiring.
Chrome never existed for power pc macs
Firefox best browser anyway.
@@aidancommenting yeah but like on that time edge wasn't chromium, just uwp and windows 10-only
@@jm036 duckduckgo gang rise up
On my old 2007 iMac Firefox is the only browser that still supports it (albeit an “extended release” version).
It’s rare to see a laptop in such a state, this is like CSI: Mackintosh 😅
These machines are surprisingly resilient things! My personal iBook G3 doesn't have a single inch without a chip or scratch, but it still works great.
Absolute score for $4.99 there!
I have a G3 and G4 iBook, both of them free.
This early to mid 2000s OS X look is still look like peak GUI to me (as a PC user). Before everything gone flat...
it's so cute and bubbly! makes the whole computer feel fun (:
...and for the first time in recorded history, VWestlife's YT avatar is not of Westlife... (OK probably not the first time, but the first time I ever remember seeing it.) However when I saw that keyboard, first thing I thought was "looks like a kid got a hold of it." The Dr. Seuss program on there certain gives that theory some credit.
I changed it a couple of weeks ago. It just took you a while to notice. :-)
@@vwestlife I noticed it changed too, though it still showed the Westlife band for a couple of days.
@@vwestlife I have not watched your last couple videos yet, so this is probably the first video I've watched with the new avatar.
Nice little cameo by the iBookGuy aka The 8-Bit Guy at the end.
I remember using those laptops in elementary/intermediate school back in the mid 2000s!
Same. I'd like to own one just for the nostalgia.
@@RandysFunhut the fact I hold the same feelings for the iMac G3 makes me feel like an old geezer...now I know what C64 lovers feel 😐
They had those in the computer lab too. The earlier bondi blue ones and they were still being used in 2006.
I had a PowerBook G4 from around the same tiime that I used in high school that worked for me.
Thanks for the video, Kevin.
Positive aspect of the glossy finish is that you can easily polish it - works well with car products.
Mine was manufactured weeks before I was born. Really neat how mine survived that long without any sign of damage here.
I thought this was a restoration video. But, excellent video!
That DVD was a screener! I haven't seen one of those in years!
The red stuff looked like lipstick, My sister left hers on a glass table in the sun once, It melted and looked the same. (or it could just be blood :) )
blood usually dries light brown in my experience so I don't think so :3
Not blood, blood will dry and flake off hard surfaces. It was pen ink.
Watching that paint come off was so satisfying!
Can't believe that piece of machinery is almost as old as me.
Very nostalgic, Deimos Rising is an Ambrosia game I used to play as a small kid
Thought it was the Doctor Who film lol
"You can see the ads for the latest apple products"
Yeah they'll make sure you can see those on an apple 2... Anything to make you upgrade.
Had it been Weekend at Bernie's, only that computer would've had any life left in it!
This is the most late 1990s or early 2000s DVD I have seen
You can still see the full name on the left at 6:25 so you might want to edit the video
It will be blurred once CZcams finishes processing it.
There's more suspense in this video than in the last five seasons of Game of Thrones!
Firefox 3.6.6 is a good choice for older machines, I have it installed on my 2002 HP desktop machine. Later versions tend to be resource hogs.
So what I'm hearing, if I require spreadsheets after the apocalypse, I should find an iBook :) They seem indestructible.
This is probably one of my favorite examples of the random stuff you could find in the “bric-a-brac” section of any thrift store….. although I am absolutely shocked that this laptop works at all! Thank you so much for the video!!!!
Wow this takes me back. I haven't seen one of these in well over a decade. I remember the school district bought a bunch of these at one point or another and the laptop cart was my introduction to the iBook.
Been thinking about picking up another one of these, but the ebay prices are insane. This is the laptop that got me through 8th grade into 10th back in 2013. Did everything I needed for school, even G Docs worked great on WebKit Safari at the time. CZcams and flash content was still flawless.. Miss that machine. Replaced it with a 5,2 early 2009 MacBook that unfortunately died like any Apple laptop of any era, the GPU.
I loved iBook's so much when I was young
A few minutes worth of wiping and its value has already increased to $6! At this rate you'll be able to sell it and have enough left over to buy a coffee in about half an hour!
this is a perfect example of how kids will ruin all the nice, clean, collected things you have lol
What a trooper! Would be fun to see it with a new keyboard, maybe some plastic polish on the plastics, etc.
Deimos Rising is a wicked little shooter. You should give it a go.
Wassn't it only on Classic?
6:30 I thought my phone's screen broke lol. That black spot got me
Deimos Rising is a computer game by Ambrosia Software, similar to many top-scrolling arcade shooters. The sequel to Mars Rising, it is available on Apple Macintosh and Windows platforms. It is similar to the scrolling arcade shooter, Xevious.
These machines are sold for pennies this days. I bought myself here in Germany a Powerbook G4 12" in good condition and full working order for 30 EUR (around 36 US-$).
I love that Clippit’s Mac replacement was a vintage Macintosh with little legs.
Mine still works too, identical except was cared for. Every now and then I dust it off and play the way- back music and go 'that's where that file is!' Rebuilt the battery with the help of eBay and my spot-welder, works fine. They were so well made then and beautifully designed. Still have my PowerBook G4 too, beautiful machine and IMO peak Apple but suffers from the fan failure on one side which was a common Achilles heel ... one day I'll fix it but for now I just set it in some ice cubes. Good vid TY!
great purchase. if a follow up video for the keyboard would be great to see how it can be replaced.
The iBookguy would probably be like "GADZOOKS!" or something similar at the sight of that keyboard.
@Hot Wheels Cars And Guitars He was the iBookGuy first tho.
@Hot Wheels Cars And Guitars same guy
@@topfacemod 8BookGuy
@Hot Wheels Cars And Guitars watch the end of the video...
It'd be great to see it with a fresh keyboard whenever that's possible
This to me is how Apple justifies the price of a Macbook. I have heard rumors that they plan to start going back to some of their older design styles which would be excellent. To me their newer machines don't seem to last as long or have issues early on in life. Their new new keyboards are hot garbage, but apparently are rumored to change.
"And amazingly, the battery holds it's charge."
i needs it
I kind of like the condition of this computer.
It really tells a story
This looks straight from a crime scene, signs of struggle
I don’t touch anything second hand without disinfectant wipes first, I recommend anyone to do the same
6:24 Sorry Nancy, he didn't read the rest of the text...
I wanted to see that cleaning thing on the dvd. I was sure you where going to flip it around when you took it out.
Apple old style interface is gorgeous.
Price sticker removal ASMR begins at 3:38.
Really a nice video love your old computers videos Kevin.
great video. i love those ibooks. would love to see the process for replacing the keyboard
Looks like Plainrock124 started a 50 ways to break an Apple iBook video but then decided to destroy something else instead.
Just watch a rage compilation of tense1983, his setup is invincible
2:25 Oh man! Your "Yikes" exclamation really made my day.
I do hope you'll show us the keyboard replacement process when the new one comes in!
That Powerbook belonged to a teenager who just got a phone call from her boyfriend who broke up. She cried off her maskara and got mad on the keyboard.
You might find a replacement keyboard on ebay, take some car scratch removal products on it and buff it away using a lot of elbo grease or use a rotary buffer tool to it and it should get the majority of the scratches away and finish it with car wax.
My first official new computer was a 2005 iBook g4, very nostalgic video
Those old HDD's are rugged.
I like that nod you gave to General Cinema at 11:39
It looks like a Canadian iBook, very interesting
I had a 12" 1.2GHz iBook G4 back in 2008, with maxed out RAM (1.25GB). I loved it to bits, but the AirPort Extreme card has failed, and it would crash the system immediately after boot. Since I had a Core Duo Mac Mini as well, I decided to sell it, as I was doing most of the things on the Mini.
Nice bargain there, I’d be happy.
So this ancient machine with only 640MB RAM and one core seems better at playing YT than a 4-core/1GB Raspberry pi 3B+. Looks like YT reverted to an older, simpler page for that machine. Frustrating how bloated web apps have become.
Unfortunately, the clip of CZcams playing is an older clip from far back on his channel, on a different iBook G4. Your theory is correct, CZcams used to have a simple mode for old computers but that was dropped in late 2019 making CZcams on G4 basically impossible.
Yes, the clip at the end is of my first iBook G4 when I got it in 2011.
CZcams has a phone app for flip phones in 3rd world countries. Yes you can watch 240p CZcams on a 1.5 inch flip phone screen.
@@EmergencyChannel huh, I didn’t know that!
@@shad0w_dragon178 Yeah, look into KaiOS. It's extremely popular in the Philippines and India. It's essentially a cutdown version of Android but with light web based apps. You can watch youtube, browse the internet and get google maps all on a flip phone with a processor from last decade.
Bernie & Nancy 2024
8:49 Totally forgot that Mac OS used to have a test field for the keyboard repeat preferences! Wonder when they got rid of that. Also would've liked to see the underside of that cleaning DVD. The animation seems like a metaphor for obliterating the dirt on your lens, using a pseudo-Death Star.
Nice little nod to the iBook Guy there at the end. Wonder what ever happened to him? 🤔😀
He’s the 8 bit guy now
A entire channel about iBooks? That'll never take off!
@@gmcnewlook oh I know, I've been subbed for years. Just used it as a throwback name since it referenced a vid from the early days of the channel.
My first laptop/computer was this exact kind of macbook... Miss it so much.
I swear its always the old laptops that are the strongest
One thing I remember about the iBooks was that they were made more sturdier than MacBooks. I had a 2009 13" MacBook and the plastic on the case near the keyboard started chipping off. That never happened with my iBook. That thing was a beast.
lmao that dvd cleaner thing is interesting. i’ve never seen or heard anything like it
Holy moly you’re better than me I couldn’t even name all those ports
Fun fact: They still last longer than newer MacBook (Pro)...
My 2009 MBP wasnt abused, only heavily used and much performance needed (so got often hot/loud), but after 2-3 years all the bumpers on the bottom fell off, after 4 years the notebook fell apart in 2 parts (since the display assembly is poorly glued to the hinges in 2008/2009 models), the HDD died ofc and was replaced with a 240GB SSD, the superdrive died within a few years (but it was heavily used for CD burning and watching DVDs),...
Its btw still used as a "media PC" at the 2nd living room, but like a giant remote (bottom part with keyboard/touchpad only)
On the other hand, my 2010 MacBook Pro still works fine, especially the display is glued much better to the hinge assembly. Needed also a few repairs already, 3 batteries and a "renewing" of internals like noisy fan bearings, completely dry thermal paste or some months ago - a capacitator for the GPU power supply which was going bad and forced video engine related system shutdowns. But still going strong, the only problem: you can feel the 2C/4T only CPU and the 256MB VRam GT 330M, totally not useful anymore aslong you need even only a bit performance.
nancy is going to get a lot of stalkers now!
WOah only four dollars for a old apple book? That's even cheaper than a happy meal
That purple stuff looks like hair dye, it gets everywhere!
I would love to see a follow up video!
13:20 The IBookGuy presenting iBook inside the VWestlife presenting iBook. Nice touch!
I wonder how it even got this beat up tbh
Someone left one of these at our office. It wouldn't work without pushing down on the area to the left of the touchpad. It's common for the chip there to become unsoldered.
You can actually install 10.5 Leopard onto that, Leopard was the last OSX that could be installed onto a PPC Mac, snow leopard is where they switched to full on Intel.
Safari was included by default with OSX Panther 10.3 on
So, I'm watching some guy clean a cruddy old iBook - and I find it fascinating!
Here is a fun fact for you: Deimos Rising is a game that is similar to Strikers 1945, but more futuristic.
Can't say it didn't get full use! These days, a mac doesn't 'last' long enough to reach this stage, it's quite impressive.
Not gonna lie at first i tought that uh "paint" was someone's period
Someone must have beat someone with it
-keys missing
-blood
-scratches
Apple definitely made more resilient products in the early 2000s. I sneezed beside my 2019 13inch MacBook Pro last week, and it hasn't powered up since.
Good thing you covering up her name although it was clearly visible to the left on that same screen
Thanks for catching that. I've added a blur to cover it up (once CZcams processes it).
CZcams recommended this to me, and I was hoping somebody found an old Bernie Sanders laptop he went psycho on 😂😅
i definitely thought the red stuff was blood for a second there