[iBook] New (old) iBook

[Carol-Lynn Hill]

Hey Howard,

My baby has Arrived today and it is in such good nick.  I have erased the
current 3 GB Hard Drive and reinstalled OS8.6 and now I am putting  OS 9 on
it.  Might not be needed but I am just muckong around.

Now I have had a suggestion from one iBook lister saying NOT to try to
replace the Haard drive and to use an external one.  It seems like a valid
option except it sort of defeats the purpose of having a portable laptop in
many ways.  If I was to go with the external option I could take the 80GB
Hard Drive from my current iMac and use that as an external Hard Drive and
pop in a 10Gb into my iMac.  I guess that way I could have my music on the
80Gb external and then swap between the two.  I would then not need to buy a
2.5" internal  hard Drive for the iBook - But I like the idea of being
portable!

First thing I need to do regardless is up the RAM in this baby.  Is that an
easy thing to do?

Also can you tell me what you think about these instruction for replacing
the HD in a clamshell iBook.  I have the ifixit instructions but found
these...

http://caslis.com/mac/ibook/ibdrive.html

Shall I do it?  I need to buy RAM first anyway, but what about the HD
replacement???


Carol-Lynn