I hope you guys enjoyed this more casual, laid back video! We've got about a week and a half until new M2 MacBook Air content drops so wanted to take a break and do some relaxing retro stuff this week! what do you think about the Titanium PowerBook?

@myrealusername2193

2 жыл бұрын

My grandpa owned one, he actually recently got rid of it sadly before I found out he had it. He kept the charger for some reason so now I only have a PowerBook charger In fact I'm pretty sure his hinge completely broke too because he ended up having to buy an external monitor for it

@hani5598

2 жыл бұрын

I think you need to update maOS

@chaptersawaiting6787

2 жыл бұрын

luke's nose comes into frame at 5:01

@myrealusername2193

2 жыл бұрын

@@chaptersawaiting6787 ok

@diinm

2 жыл бұрын

It looks gorgeous. Please try and make it usable today!

not to be confused with the Time Capsule, the router + hard drive

@myrealusername2193

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I was kinda confused lol

@CMBurns1000

2 жыл бұрын

Me too 😅

@DanZimmerli

2 жыл бұрын

I know that’s what I expected as well 😂

@bobbieluij

2 жыл бұрын

Yup me too🤣

@franckdiboues1201

2 жыл бұрын

+1

Can we just take a moment and appreciate how thin those bezels were for 2001-2002? They're nearly the same, if not thinner, than those of the 2016 Macbook Pros; that are basically identical to the 2019-20 MacBook Pros. That's just phenomenal. Also, if you look closely, the display assembly shape and large apple logo greatly resemble the new 16-inch M1 Max/Pro Macbook Pros.

@EvilTurkeySlices

2 жыл бұрын

I think that was the intention.

@bigeasycov

2 жыл бұрын

I've just compared them side by side with my 2018 15" macbook pro and the side bezel is exactly the same size, the top bezel on the pro is much bigger.

@kuchenblechmafiagmbh1381

Жыл бұрын

It's great, a few months ago I got an Early 2008 MacBook Pro 17" (the last pre-Unibody revision with a then-new LED-backlit 1920x1200 screen) and it's bezels are pretty narrow for late 2000s, after that with the introduction of the unibodies they got really wide. And the pre-Unibody MBP weren't made from scratch but rather x86'd PowerBook G4s with some minor changes like MagSafe.

@ryankery5052

2 ай бұрын

Agreed

I like that these less popular products see some attention. I though I was gonna see Apple's Time Capsule router!

@dukeseb

2 жыл бұрын

The titanium was not a less popular product…. It’s was hugely popular

It's great that people are taking care of these old electronics, since I recently visited a friend's place, and they had a PowerMac G5 outside in their garden as a table, and it was 80 degrees with 70% humidity, and I saw rust in the ports and on the graphics card and I felt such pity for it, as it's such an elegant machine

@adredy

2 жыл бұрын

taking care ? guy was i jail 20 years laptop was stolen "time capsule " XD

@cxt2210

2 жыл бұрын

using a mac as a... table?

@adredy

2 жыл бұрын

@@cxt2210 i think so old one mac pro tower version people put piece of glass on the top looks nice :)

@adredy

2 жыл бұрын

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@bigbubba0439

2 жыл бұрын

@@cxt2210 Yup. No joke. That's exactly what they told me, and they had some gardening equipment (like pliers and stuff) on top of it

No joke my jaw dropped when you removed the keyboard. Never in my life have I seen something typically so integral being replaced so easily

Dude, how come the Bezels are so small for a laptop from 2002? 😱

The videos where you fix/restore tech, to make it usable again, is the content I enjoy the most! Keep it up, man!

Oh, I though Luke was going to restore a Time Capsule (Router Hard Drive combo)

@kimberly_disk

2 жыл бұрын

Sane

@kimberly_disk

2 жыл бұрын

*same

The older/retro videos are the best. Can’t wait to watch. :)

Man I used to comment on your videos about the titanium powerbook and now you have made many about it. Thanks a lot, I am a big fan of that laptop

When I was in college in 2003-04 I would go to the main library and checkout out one of these titanium PowerBooks to use in the library. I was such a regular customer that the staff would pull it out of the storage area before I could ask for it. 😄 I loved it and ended up getting a first generation aluminum PowerBook.

Sweet machine. My mom bought a 400mhz version when they first launched. We opened it up at the mall and checked it out on the bench outside the Apple Store. I immediately ran to buy a dvd (Shrek) just so we could try out the dvd player.

Makes me miss my TiBook. I definitely remember the easy flip up keyboard. Great machine. Great video.

Should make a video on restoring the actual Apple Time Capsule with the same video name lmao

I'm envious. The Tibook was a gorgeous piece of hardware especially in its pristine state. Wish I took extra careful care of mine when I owned one back in the day.

A very fine example of a Titanium Powerbook. The keyboard design is vey similar to the Wallstreet Powerbooks with those access tabs. I still have and use my pristine 1999 Wallstreet Powerbook G3 with OS9.1 regularly for retro gaming

I LOVED my Titanium PowerBook! I wish I still had it.

I don’t know why I wasn’t subscribed I’ve been looking at all of your videos recently and old ones and so good quality the videos you make bruh

Hi Luke. Blast from the past. I have a PowerBook 165 and a PowerBookd 5300ce. Oh, and a Radio Shack Model 100 with a 4-line LCD display! Wahoo!

Take the wrecked chassis and have it powder coated/painted as if it were made today... using the iphone 13 pro blue or green. Buy replacement parts for the hinges etc and replace the internals for an m1 macbook pro. (only usbc connectors so not much to complicate things) The keyboard is about the same size and it would be an honest thing of beauty. 3d print the mountings for the insides of the tibook to mount the m1 macbook pro motherboard and route teh usbc ports to the original port plate. This would make a great project thread and look at the possibility of bring back old tech to life in a usable way. Having the old frame and plates media blasted and powder coated would leave a flawless finish (with a little filler) I always loved these and wanted one... at the time i had a g3 ibook but these looked great! Let me know if you want more on this idea, i could even visualise it for you to give you an idea.

Once again you show why you are the man when it comes to all things Fruit. While it seems that Fruit afficiandos (Fruit Flies) tend to get moments of breathlessness over the slightest hint of change, you at least are in control most of the time of the mouth breathing and instead you offer compelling videos that even go down Fruit history and appreciate good products from yesterday's Fruit company. I do marvel at the efficiency of Fruit ARM processors, but I clutched my pearls in disbelief at the rancid actions the Fruit company did with the M2 and its insidious cheapness when it comes to onboard storage going to single channel and actually being slow to use. Because of you I have two 2012 13 inch Macbook pros that I have "fully slammed" with max ram and replaced the DVD drives with another ssd for data storage (I learned the hard way not to store data on a boot drive that has the OS). Thanks for all you do and for being the only Fruit Fly worth spit on youtube!

@babyboomertwerkteam5662

2 жыл бұрын

What

If I had other computers for productivity, I'd preserve this one as a time capsule. Anoter great video. Thanks!

Mine is in pretty good shape. The top is a little scratched, but the hinge is solid, and the paint isn’t chipping much if at all.

This is fun! I have a Titanium G4 Powerbooks sitting right next to me, I use it as a night stand, but it still works when plugged in, watch DVDs on it from time to time lol.

wow this unit looks goood! flawless, much much better than mine, i'm a little jealous One notion: You mentioned the DVI port as "THE" one reason why this machine is longer lasting than a >20y old should. IMHO the addition of L3 cache to the 1GHz G4 is the ultimate reason this machine runs faster than it should und therefore lasts longer

I love seeing older systems getting restored, and made useful again, so I would love to see a video with you upgrading this machine as much as possible, and installing either Linux, or a FreeBSD on it.

Great video. Repaired lots of these in my days at an Apple VAR

Yay Titanium G4 content! I would be interested to see what you can do with one of these running Linux. Also these PowerPC Macs were supposedly very easy to upgrade the CPU… Not that these upgrades are likely to be widely available today.

Please leave it in it’s time This is a site which has a personal touch and is so educational

Just brought out to sell, in the closet shelf for a long time, a PowerBook G4 15” Al 1.5GHz. I’d forgotten how great this was for its time; nice screen with thin bezels, all those ports!, switchable battery unit and RAM access from the outside!, nice backlight keyboard, just a nice looking unit.

The most powerful laptop that will natively run 9.2.2. I'd love to see a video on the G3 PowerBook sometime Luke, or even the 3400. 80s and 90s mac's were top shelf.

Would love to see a whole restoration series of other historically significant apple devices, esp if they can be built toward lending your collection to a tech museum

sometimes i wish i could've just lived through the 90s and then died like all the iconic people, but then i see things like this and look at my macbook air and i feel better

Watching you remove that keyboard on a 2017 MacBook pro makes me want to cry. If only it were still that easy.

20 years from now Luke: So I got one of the last Intel MacBooks…

The fact that the rough condition computer just so happens to have the only parts that the nicer one needs is what we call Miani Magic

Love this content, my wallet not so much though since every time you post something like this it's a trip to Ebay

you rock dude , well done , i remember my Macbook G4 Titanium it was the best time and love it, I remember mine, I had the same paint problems, I was very careful about it but ... I really miss the steve jobs period :(

I'd keep it as a Time Capsule...I have an old 2011 17" MacBook Pro. I have been running Ubuntu Mate as my OS for almost two years and it is pretty awesome...I'd say it performs better than the original MAC OS that came with the machine. I use it for keeping track of my vehicle maintenance, surfing the web, watching KZread, etc. I enjoy keeping my old hardware functional beyond it's expected life cycle!

honestly, why not. it will be fun to see what it can do nowadays.

Appreciate your content LUKE

Let’s see a Geekbench 1 score 👀

My first laptop and one of my favorites.

I was 14-15 years old when that Titanium Powerbook came out 😵‍💫🥴 Dang, I feel old. I have always wanted one but never got to😅.

A translation for you viewers: Silakin is the way Luke pronounces Silicon (which is pronounced Sill-A-Con by everybody in the world except for Luke and Tim Cook).

I would really enjoy seeing you play with Linux on one of those old machines! Be forewarned that Mac can be a tough experience post install. I've had a lot of troubles with various drivers, more specifically with early Intel mac's

Linux on Apple hardware is always a welcome topic. There are plenty of 13" 2012 MBPs out there, for example, that when stuffed with 16 GB RAM and an SSD would be a solid performer if all the bits and pieces are able to happily run a modern Linux.

What a genius! I no longer remember where my old Powerbook Titanium went. Indeed a great machine (very expensive). Great job!

@gusdelc

2 жыл бұрын

Just checking. Is this you on my Telegram?

Great video. The laptop looks in perfect condition i love the gray with the whiteon the sides. I would upgrade it.

I have this one before when I study in university [G4 667mhz. Version] , I think the design much more that many powerbook[ even some macbook pro] , it is very hot, sometime I need to open the keyboard to cold down, oil painting also easy riff off, anyway, it is a good collection item.

I love these old Apple Pros Mac EDIT: PowerBook lol, wtf what I thinking

@Epicgamer_Mac

11 ай бұрын

Originally I meant Apple Book Pros. Nothing about “Pros Mac” or whatever the sh!t I said. But it’s PowerBook so I was just plain fucking wrong I guess. Thx for the great vid luke

I have the last, most specced out version of this laptop but in a bit more worn condition. I put SSD on it and installed Sorbet Leopard and it runs absolutely great. You can even do web browsing and play KZread videos on it (although anything above 240p will be super choppy). I love this machine and design. The only other vintage laptop that I'd like to own is the iBook Clamshell.

we skipped the titanium books at work back then. Instead we had the iBooks clamshell and later the translucent ones. But when the G4 PowerBooks arrived, everyone wanted of those. The first Intel MacBook where quite disappointing tho.

5:45 2012* the retina macbook pros were the first to rivet the keyboard afaik. its possible the 2008 macbook air was first, but all other models had replaceable keyboard until 2012.

A gem from the past.

I expected a literal Apple Time Capsule, but this was better

It's possible to upgrade the CPU in these to an MC7457 running at around 1.5 GHz or so. Also, it's more than likely possible to upgrade the L3 cache to 2MB as well. Would be a pretty nice upgrade for a nice TiBook such as this.

@bradnelson3595

2 жыл бұрын

Do you know offhand if it's possible to upgrade the older-model Titanium with a 867 MHz CPU?

@dosdude1

2 жыл бұрын

@@bradnelson3595 Yep, any of them with a 7451 or 7455 can be upgraded to a 7457. Also the rare models with the 7440 can be upgraded all the way to a 7448 running at around 2 GHz.

@EvilTurkeySlices

2 жыл бұрын

@@dosdude1 I’m pretty sure the cpu is soldered in these.

@dosdude1

2 жыл бұрын

@@EvilTurkeySlices It is... Doesn’t mean you can’t upgrade it haha. I’ve done many PPC CPU upgrades on these, most of which I show on my channel.

@EvilTurkeySlices

2 жыл бұрын

@@dosdude1 oh, I didn’t even see who I was replying to. It’s not that easy for the average person though.

I would also advise installing Mac OS 10.2 Jaguar or later. Mac OS 10.1 Puma is cool and period-appropriate, but if you have a handy USB PCMCIA card, the ports will run at full USB 2.0 speeds in OS 10.2 and up.

Great video! The laptop definitely does not look 20 years old, neither does the OS!

I used one during a summer break once and I remember when these were new. I was in high school at the time. :)

yes try to make this thing usable in 2022 bc id use this mac as a daily driver if it can be used on a later version of linux

Great vid! See I remember those, they were the first Apple product to really engage me. Stunning design for its day. However my actual first Mac was a Green Jelly Bean which I had to repair and restore. It was a great learning curve on Mac Internals too. I can definitely see you using linux on this machine, I'd see what I could do to maximise performance with some upgraded RAM and maybe an SSD if it'll take it. I'd like to see you do that with Linux Mint Cinnamon using the various interface skins to make it look like a modern MacOS. Think you'll be surprised at how good it might be with it! Thats what I did with my late 2008 MacBook and its still running perfectly three months on, with no issues! Awesome!

I was just researching Apple Airport Time Capsules this morning and seeing the title for this video immediately made me think that’s what this was about. That would’ve been a neat little coincidence. Cool video though.

Never throw away tech. Luke,a shout out to you,great content

Hair on point Luke!

Loving the time capsule idea. My old Ti G4 is begging for some attention.

I recommend installing an SSD if you haven't already. My Lombard Powerbook G3 (and my own Titanium Powerbook G4, before it broke) ran beautifully with a Compact Flash card for an SSD.

Still got my 2002 400mhz. Still works perfectly.

I have one just as clean. Battery still holds a charge too, but with the old software, I didn’t think it was secure enough to use. Linux would make it secure?

maybe try to fit a mba or mbp m1 logic board in there? use adapters for the screen, keyboard battery etc. that would be a super sick project

I would be curious to see how it would perform with a period-correct software, from 2002-2004 era lets say. What was the "original" experience for this laptop? How fast it was to do some basic stuff, how it compares with modern Macs for example?

I restored last week an old Macbook 2008 (the one was black). I couldn't use with Mac oSX because I had no browser to instal. I used chrome Flex and it's amazing (but still very slow)

If it’s reversible, upgrade for the video and see what it’s like, but then restore back to time capsule to keep in your ever growing Apple museum

When you look at it top down it almost looks like a modern 2021 macbook pro

idk whenever i started watching you i became obsessed with apple products

Yes, do it. Get it running better. 😁

Try to fix(make working) the second g4 titanium.

I genuinely think that Luke makes love to these macs at night.

Can someone explain why the bezel is so much thinner on these machines vs the ones 10 years later (2010 MacBook Pro and MacBook Air)

I put a SSD inside mine and use it today with 10.5 Totally useful with Linux in 2022. 👍

I thought you meant an actual Apple Time Capsule 🥴 interesting episode tho. My fav is the Lombard, would be cool to see what can be done with one of those

try to move data from oldest supported powerbook backup in Apple Time Capsule device and apply that backup on newest MacBook that you have

That was my first apple laptop. What a trip to memory lane :)

at least no ads / sponsors! shame utube ad them for you...time capsule never used it. the G4 were and still are the best.

I had a 400MB Titanium PowerBook G4 new back in 2001. It was SO nice at the time. A privilege to use. Seems a shame to "update" it. I'd keep it as a pristine time capsule and maybe install some vintage software of the day, like Final Cut Pro 1.5 (which I had on mine and used it to edit video...I still have the install disc!). Don't turn it into another dime-a-dozen modern laptop. Thanks for the nostalgic video.

Makes me think about what was the best MacBook to run bootcamp and game on.

@BadDuet

2 жыл бұрын

Or even steamOS

Use a very small brush to apply clear sealant to the white paint. Tape off the edges first.

Timecapsule for sure.

That G4 Titanium is so nice I wouldn’t even think of monkeying around with it. I would hunt down a pristine condition 2001 iPod 5Gb and pair it up as a beautiful display piece, maybe with a framed photo of Steve Jobs or something.

@dukeseb

2 жыл бұрын

I actually have one in original packaging …. The mirror back isn’t perfect though

It still looks really good for its age.

I had one of those when new, for work, but I didn’t like macs back then so put Linux on it right away. (Tried macOS again with each version and Panther was the one that stuck.) Problem you’ll have *now* is even Linux dropped support for ppc32 a few years ago so you may have problems finding a maintained distro for it. That, btw, was the point at which I sold my G4 Mac Mini a very few years ago. It had spent far more of its life as a Linux box than it ever did running macOS. But it was telling when even an old-model Raspberry Pi 2 running the then same Linux drstro/version just stomped all over it. BTW my tiBook also fell apart at the hinges.

I'm all for updating it. It won't be useful today though, but it will be a fun video. 1gb of ram, ssd, lightweight Linux distro, maybe some external wifi solution... Why not? :D.

i still have my 2005 powerbook g4!

My vote would be for Time Capsule.

Oooh Powebooks, ahh!

@6:15 you would also have to turn the little flat had in the middle of the top of the keyboard between the f5 and f6 key, but it looks like someone already did that for this computer. But still definitely a feature I miss. A much better keyboard than Apple's now a days, more travel distance too.

Apple would now class that level of repairability as a serious design flaw and sack anybody involved....

I'm almost a week late to this, however I bought a 1.0 GHz PowerBook Ti (I already had 1GB Ram ready to drop in) a couple years ago and in my opinion it is in excellent condition. Needs new PRAM battery (a rechargeable 3035? if I remember) and new battery. Aside from that I have no lines on the display or light/dark spots and only 1 tiny chip in the paint on the same hinge you showed, but the keyboard looks new. I paid.... $50 for this gem. The reason I wanted it wasn't to run OS 10.2.1, but rather run OS 9.2.2 on the last, most powerful laptop to support it on boot. There is a huge difference, in my opinion, between boot & "classic" mode and I'd much rather run it natively from boot. I also did a bit of an upgrade to a 128GB M.2 SSD (not NVMe). Cost to upgrade? Just under $30 for the drive and adapter. The hardest part for this was finding original recovery CD's to reinstall the OS's from, but I have those too now.

@Lesydian

2 жыл бұрын

You mentioned the one you have was the last, most powerful Ti, but then installed OS 10.1? That would be the PowerBook 3,4 (800MHz G4) that came with 10.1, while the PowerBook 3,5 (1GHz G4) came with 10.2.1 installed. So my question is which do you have?

You should try to get one of those weird black MacBooks from 2007 they have a very strange story