Repairing a TINY 12” PowerBook G4

I have a tiny 12" PowerBook G4 that is a little bit sad, let's see if I can make it happy and functional again! (Apple pretty pls make a 12" MacBook Pro I would absolutely love it)
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0:00 - Unboxing and Overview
3:49 - The second machine
5:46 - Teardown
11:55 - Repairing the good machine
17:46 - Trying to install an OS
20:35 - Firewire funnies
22:27 - Firewire funnies
26:56 - The 12” PowerBook G4
29:03 - Chess
30:48 - Some more stuff

[@jonathanschober1032]

Frokfrdk is what you get if druga1 and DankPods had a love child

[@B1akTang1dH4rt]

A wild druaga1 fan appears.

[@komidanohitouko]

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[@Zawgkuna]

W druga1 fan

[@DistrosProjects]

You can eject the disc by turning the Mac on while holding the left mouse button/touchpad button. Also, always ALWAYS take keys off from the top of the key, not the side! You won't break the key if you do that.

[@frokfrdk]

I tried holding down the button on boot and it unfortunately didn't eject

[@lelwani]

I love the niche genre of youtube videos where people torture themselves with old Macs. Reminds me of old druaga1 content. Great stuff, subscribed!

[@EvilTurkeySlices]

MacOS9Lives is a custom version of MacOS 9 with some quality of life stuff and support for non supported machines. Not sure why the 12” didn’t like it though.

[@smileyface8124]

The leaf is less obsolete than the frankenstein laptop.

[@geishu]

your last few uploads are so fun :D

[@Norieu]

babe wake up new frokfrdk

[@duplicake4054]

Amazing video!

[@gamecuber6]

that is my favorite old apple product

[@Temaineo]

Amazing new video!

[@setjmp.h]

awesome video (as usual)

[@taylorkiggins9081]

A leaf came with it? Must be the Canadian model.

[@coffee24000]

woooo breaking fragile things!

[@trisiegt]

Y'aight mate! Love your content! #roadto100k

[@CarlazorTheFourth]

ngl the keyboard looks like the one on the new acer laptop

[@yorgle]

Ifixit has a lot of good step by step teaardowns that would help with disassembling stuff.. Also some of the G4s and older didn't boot from USB drives.

[@jijilpo_r]

My favorite Australian behind forza horizon 3

[@s9tech_]

Powerbooks are powerfull, i'm sure it didn't got hurt by the first hit!

[@lucabarbolovici4974]

12:02 who doesnt like drywall

[@tdm3bros]

No way! MacBook with removable RAM? Not even my laptop with an i5 12th gen has that

[@O5-XIV]

Like ya stuff, new subscriber.
Also, i feel ya pain. i had to burn a Linux OS to Disk due to dead usb port's on a laptop x_X took forever and a day XD

[@wrldmap]

ur welcome for the help from the discord server!!

[@codix__]

Oh woah ! Very cool ! I found one for 15€ without the charger and with a 0% battery so I will se how it goes when I will had my power supply.

[@PeterEmery]

That's quite a good video card. It's better than the Intel GMA 950 that went into the 2006 MacBook (edited, I had typed PowerBook).

[@Radiiiiiiiii]

2006 MacBook, not PowerBook

[@PeterEmery]

@@Radiiiiiiiii Yeah, that’s what I meant. Thanks.

[@geishu]

1:03 whats that leaf that was inside of the box

[@elio44]

I love u frokfrdk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@bonkwonkelchip7569]

All my homies watch frokfrdk

[@corey7219]

6:59 I literally have the exact same screwdriver set at home!

[@WINDOWSXP9013]

Amazig video!

[@nico_jpeg]

does it taste good?

[@Exponaut_R-01]

“I’ve always wanted one of these but they’re just so expensive! So I bought two of them-“

[@underscoredotpng]

Australians favorite repair tool: The spudga

[@bramvandenbroeck5060]

This shouldn't even be possible! These Powerbooks are never ment to run macos 9! These are normally os x only laptops! That is so weird! Amazing that the 17 inch booted from the macos 9 on some random hard drive . . . Crazy!

0:02 freak on a leash opening?

[@user-yi4sd8br3q]

THERES A LEAF THERES A LEAF THERES A LEAF THERES A LEAF 1:04

[@user-yi4sd8br3q]

oh he noticed it

[@HorizonOutOfWar]

29:47 Welcome.

[@waldfruchttee]

couldnt you just screw the dvd/cd drive open to retrieve the disk?

[@sarpmanon]

Cool

[@ipodsandmacs]

11:23 To get the disc out hold the trackpad button or the left button of a mouse when you hear the startup sound.
Edit: 18:26 On some PowerPC computers, you can't boot off USB drives.

[@Wolkebuch99]

Are these plastic or the titanium cased? If titanium, the alloy might delaminating

[@frokfrdk]

It's aluminium

[@EirikrTinkerTries]

Now get a 512GB mSATA along with an mSATA to IDE enclosure. And then multiboot it 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 Leaked version, MorphOS, see if Haiku works, Debian PowerPC, OpenBSD PowerPC and/or NetBSD/macppc…. 7 OSes with one questionable? Yeah. I’d say that is gonna be the most cursed, loaded with software, PowerBook 12” on the planet

[@billgates3699]

I cannot resist the mini PowerBook. Dammit. It’s just an IRRESISTABLE toy 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@elektrosmieciarze]

fajnie

[@wondows]

Looks like frok forgor the intro

[@tigersusyt]

Noo, my MacOs can't be installed... RIP TIGER

[@mintybudgie]

lil mac

[@EngieInPixels]

Well of to visit your mother

[@nitelitevtuber]

ches

[@Johnathan069]

lets make @ThisDoesNotCompute Comment here

[@mihkelkastehein9470]

BRO u took the ram out of the 2nd powerbook thats why it wouldnt boot

[@leonidascastillo9511]

Hi

[@saimanhussaini2010]

Where do you live?

[@RildoDealdough]

ok.

[@Red66901]

Tiny 12

[@Red66901]

Tiny 11

[@Tschakkk]

I don't know why but I'm gonna drink water.

[@ojrancans5210]

Let me guess - you're a Mac noob. Never heard of MacOS9Lives! and booting OS9 on unsupported G4s? 😂😂😂