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Overclocking Your iBook to 600MHz

Posted by timothy on from the clashing-paradigms dept.

Cryptnotic writes: "The guys at Accelerate Your Mac have figured out how to modify the motherboard on the recent Apple iBooks to get them to run at 600MHz with a 100MHz bus speed. There are benchmarks comparing the OC'd iBook to some regular Apple desktop machines. However, what I am wondering most is how this overclocked G3 compares to the much more expensive Apple G4 Powerbook and if it makes it worth voiding the warranty." Remember, not recommended for your iBook.

3 of 136 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Benchmarking battery life by dreamchaser · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Try actually reading the article. The author talks about battery life at the end of the article.

  2. New iBooks by martij2 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Someone finaly makes the iBook better, and what happens, the new iBooks are getting ready to be released... http://www.macosrumors.com/

  3. Re:My Mac laptop by hattig · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Why buy something that's not the latest greatest?

    Because the latest and greatest costs a whole lotta money, whilst 10% slower is half the price?

    Buy the most RAM you can afford

    Agreed.

    Buy the fastest machine you can afford

    Disagreed. Buy the fastest machine that will handle your needs for today and the next year. After that time even the most modernest of machines today will look like it was made by Ug the caveman anyway - lets not spend too much money on it!

    The iBook is a great buy for students and for general portable work. However, I am still doing fine with a PII 266MHz laptop (HP Omnibook 4100) and feel no need to upgrade it yet (still running Win 95 and Office 97 [and Linux]). Hardware only needs upgrading when you buy the latest software for marginal benefits!

    Remember - RAM, HD and CPUs will be even cheaper in a year's time. By buying cheap (but sensibly, don't buy an out-of-date platform like KT133 or i815!) you can buy cheap again in a years time and double the performance of your system (then sell the replaced parts on eBay). Whatever, always buy the best motherboard possible! That is the most important part of the computer.

    And now I see that Slashdot has messed up again and everything gets me onto the front page without a login. I mean, none of the Slashdot bugs are being fixed at all, and they have had plenty of time since the release of 2.2...