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Our good friend asked me to revive her iBook G3 900MHz for yardsale. Cosmetically it looks all banged up, i.e. missing rubber foot, hole in the front right corner, broken DELETE button, one inch crack on the screen's plastic border, finally, there are scratches everywhere on the body. She did say it was abused. The system boots up fine with all the whistles and bells. The Finder looks normal. However, the mouse freezes and I can't get it to do anything. I don't know what OS is on the system since I can't get the mouse to do anything.
1 - How to get the mouse moving again.
2 - How much should she sell this iBook?
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If the USB mouse works, then take off the keyboard and check the trackpad connector to the motherboard.
After selling a really nice condition iBook 14" G3/800 that had its trackpad connector broken for $47 and a cosmetically beat up 14" G4/1.0 for $112 on eBay, I wouldn't put a lot of work into it or expect to get much for it.
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the wireless M$ USB mouse works beautifully. I found the system specs:
iBook 900MHz
10.3.9
640 MB RAM
40 Gig HD (18 Gig Free)
Airport
I am running permission repair right now. Then will follow Gareth's suggestion.
When I first saw the iBook ... before cleaning up its cobwebs, I told our friend that she'd be lucky if she could get $50 for this machine.
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$50 sounds about right. the airport card makes over half that value.
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I was thinking $40 for the airport card. It might be even less if I cannot get it to connected. It picks up the signals, however.
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G3 iBooks make great iTunes music servers (when connected to an Airport base station via Ethernet, probably too slow via 80211.b) , low power consumption compared to a desktop unit.
