Ubuntu and an old PowerBook
January 28th, 2009
My brother-in-law had an old PowerBook G4 laying around. He said it had a bad hard drive and it was just collecting dust. He sent it to me to mess around with as I figured I could at least make it usable.
Specs:
- 12″ PowerBook G4 1.33 GHz
- 256 MB RAM
- 80 GB Hard Drive
I was able to replace the Hard Drive rather easily by following the instructions at iFixit. I wanted to do a compare of speeds of doing normal tasks so I tried to install Leopard, but after the DVD spinning for a few hours I learned that the minimum requirements for Leopard is 512 MB RAM.
