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THe PowerBook 180C might just be one of the most significant Apple laptops you’ve never heard of… that’s because this was the first viable color Apple laptop! Today we’ll work to restore mine to tip top shape!
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0:00 intro
1:04 What’s wrong with my PowerBook?
3:49 Teardown and trackball repair
5:21 Display repair
6:35 Donor machine to the rescue!
8:24 30 year old plastic is a nightmare
8:47 Replace your hard drive with a MicroSD card!
9:55 hinge repair and reassembly
10:53 why this PowerBook is so important
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That ghosting could be solved by recapping the LCD.
https://youtu.be/ZeUDQyStTiQ?t=673
It's funny when you look at old computers they are literally made out of the same material they now use to make airline toilet seats 😂
Please get an Apple IIc?
Awesome video!!! I bought and still own that same model laptop. It's in a closet 10 feet from where I'm sitting. The only difference is that mine is in pristine condition and everything works. Well, except the battery. It is the original one that came with the unit and understandably does not hold a charge. So it needs to be plugged in to run.
I love how the hard drive is 100x more powerful than the laptop. It's an awesome machine tho, I'm jealous. Please cover more retro Mac systems. I would like to see a video on "This retro Mac runs most games/apps and is easy to find" if that is even possible.
This direction of digging into
The tech history must be encouraged. As we wait on the
M3 chip please keep digging around.
I'm, working on a similar PowerBook (165) on my channel, Mr. Brown's Basement. As soon as I saw you flexing those hinges I knew where your video was going. Brittle plastics are taking their toll on many old Macs but it's hitting these early grey plastic PowerBooks especially badly. With respect to the 165c, I bought one new back in about 1993 just before it was discontinued. I think it was about around $2500 CDN at the time, which was discounted from its usual price of around $3000. Your PowerBook 180c was over $4000.
the old plastics in particular in these laptops do not age well. Sad because it's what most of them are encased in.
Some thoughts:
Yellowed keyboard – If you're gonna replace it anyway, try to retr0brite it first. If it fails, well…
Floppy drive not reading – probably a dirty head, clean it with a Q-tip and some isopropyl alcohol, at least 75% though 90%+ is much better. Might also need to clean up the old grease/lubricant (again with some good-old IPA) on the mechanical/moving parts, and replace with some fresh silicone grease.
Hard drive – good choice! For IDE-based systems you can use a CF to IDE adapter. They have them for 44-pin 2.5" IDE connectors.
Cracked/broken plastic – you did all you could do. 3D-printed parts are definitely a game-changer, especially if you have the ability to design your own (just please share with everyone if you do!)
For the parts you replaced, maybe give some of the above a shot. At the very least you'll have some experience doing so, and if it works out, you now have spare parts!
Fantastic video. Your videos are so slick
Having flashbacks to elementary school in the mid 90s and these old PowerBooks but with the monochromatic screen. The computer lab also had dozens of Macintosh Color Classics.
I suggest a review on the Macintosh Color Classic in a future video.
I have an old MMD dual 1.25GHz that you can have if you try to fix on your channel.
The PowerBook 165c was the first color PowerBook, but it had a horrible passive matrix display, so it was very dull looking. The 180c had the active matrix screen, which was superior.
I have a working PowerBook Duo 230, 2300c, and 540c. Great to boot those up and run vintage System 7. I also have an LC 575 with the ultra-rare Apple PowerPC Upgrade card that allows dual booting of the 33MHz 68LC040 and the 66MHz PowerPC 601. The PowerPC mode even has the startup chime from the TAM.
I still have old 165c. Booted fine last time i checked lol.
dude, what do you do with all these old macs? so outdated… can't do anything with them… are they just to collect?
Steve from mac84 is the retro version of Steve from gamers nexus
Really awesome job! What interesting for me is, what tasks you can do on this machine today?
All well and good until you decide to repair and 'do-up' the donor one…. so buy another scrap one for its parts, and then the perpetual cycle begins!! 😀
Ha! So you've got a 30-year laptop that has plastic mounts that are broken? What about a s#itty Samsung from 2018 that is in a worse condition than that with the exact same issues? This Mac of yours is definitely a LOT stronger than the crappy stuff around nowadays…
Your SMD caps in the display are gone, please change them before they leak too much !
Imagine in 30 years time, using a micro computer more powerful than a current M1 Macbook to emulate a sata SSD.
i wanted to ask about the problem in the display, but you covered it!!!
{Video title} … and new ones are literally burning 😂😂😂