Mac 911: iBook G3

My school has two identical iBook G3 700mhz laptops. The PTA uses QuickBooks Pro for their accounting, and they wanted to know if this iBook could run it. I took the iBook home to see if it could and install an old version we had lying around. I booted the thing into 9.2.2. because I was better with 9 than with 10, and the computer crashed. I tried everything. I hooked it up to my iMac as a FireWire drive, tried to boot it off the system on a 10 CD, and then, as a last try, tried my 9 disk. Mac OS 9 was able to fix the hard drive and get the machine to boot off it. We are now going to erase the hard drive and reinstall Mac OS X. By the way, we backed up the computer before erasing it. It erased quickly and then installed Mac OS. It booted up fine, ran software update, and now we are putting it through some tests. I will post again if anything interesting happens. Have a Mac repair story? Post a comment!

Pre-Halloween Thoughts

This is just some Pre-Halloween thoughts. Are you or your Macs dressing up for the “holiday”? My laptop is going to be a Jack-o-Lantern and I am going to be a huge cardboard laptop with an old PC keyboard. I will post pictures later. If you are doing anything Mac related, post a comment! Even if you aren’t doing anything Mac related, still post a comment! Keep checking back for the Halloween Celebration here at MacKids!

Posted from my iPod Touch!