More iBook modding...

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Remember my iBook G4 with the black keyboard?
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It got an 80GB hard drive when the 30 died last week...

and clear blue plastic model paint on the Apple logo and sleep LEDs
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I was going to just use blue cellophane, but then decided that with paint, I could make it all swirly and textured.

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The sleep LED really looks MUCH deeper blue than that, matching the logo.
 
Interesting. I only wish apple had used clear plastic on the ibook g4 insted of white plastic. Thats what I like about my g3. I have it clear. Too bad it is showing its age bad and I'm going to retire it soon I think.
 
Nice work, though I'm not digging the black keyboard deal. But other than that, nice work man!
 
Yes. I had an iBook G3 that died (and was replaced by this machine), which I was going to give the full clear blue treatment.

I'm looking into other possibilities for keyboards. There was a site a long time ago that sold clear blue keyboards, but it has long died...
 
I use to have a ibook 600 overclocked that had a clear palm rest. One of my friend had found the palm rest over in japan and bought it for me. That was sweet. I wish I had one for my 800. As far as colored keyboards I've seen them before but I think the guy that did it pulled the keys off another keyboard that he found with the same style connectors on the bottem of the keys. I think they were off a toshbia with a blue keyboard but I could be wrong.
 
I wonder if the top lids could be interchanged between the G3's and G4's. I just bought a couple of cases off of ebay for 3 bucks each and just game my iBook G3 the clear lid treatment. Anyone have both models lying around to check?
 
I like the pics but I was wondering where you got or what you did to get black keys on the beautiful white iBook. Can tell right now it's not paint. ;)
 
e740Samurai said:
The keys are Ti Powerbook keys. You can just pop off the keycaps and switch them.
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Yea if I remember thats what he did but the TI powerbook keyboard will also just work with the ibook if I recall. The taps at the bottem don't line up right though so you would have to use double sided tape or something to hold the bottem down.
 
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