PowerBook A1106 and MacBook Pro A1211 interchangeability

I do have newer models (plural ^^) but I happen to like this PowerBook - from the keyboard feeling to the design to the challenge of making it work almost 15 years after it was released...

The project is to make it look good as I find that the functionality itself is quite ok - not the best but it works just fine for what I want and that’s alrigh.

As for being smart using online I could argue that no online activity is ‘safe’ without VPN regardless of how old is the system. But I also could install Linux in it why not...

Anyway like I said I just want to restore the thing. If I get lucky and find the proper parts great but if I don’t I would like to know if there are alternatives that’s all. Plus if you check my other posts here you’ll see that there’s a McGyver pattern and that probably says a lot :)

A VPN does not make you safe! It only prevents someone from snooping into your dialog. If you access a compromised web site with or without a VPN connection you are still compromised! I was only speaking about the OS-X needed to be used on this series being swiss-cheese from a security perspective You also have the fact Safari in these older OS's don't support HTML5 as many web pages are not going to work. I would strongly recommend you go the Linux if you are going forward here.

If you are going forward here you'll need to get a set of schematics for both systems as well as board views so you can compare things. Knowing Apple I don't think this is a plug and play setup. Apple tends to reuse connectors running different signals across the difference series.

Bottomline you're on your own as I doubt anyone has ever done this and you'll likely sink a lot of time & money into making this work.

If you are really serious, I would look at designing a logic board that physically lines up within the case and has the connections of the Powerbook but the logic if all from a MacBook Pro carefully transplant all of the components to your new designed logic board. I would guess it will cost you a good 5k to do that and hundreds of hours of time.

So... am I supposed to engage and turn this into a p!ss!ng context where:

1) you fixate on arguing about what is or ain’t safe online expecting me to counter what you said regardless of having nothing to do with the original post;

And

2) you extrapolate what I said beyond common sense to try and ridicule my intentions on using something I want to have regardless of needing it or not.

Here’s the thing: a car from the 60s/70s is unsafe to drive by today’s standards and probably much more uncomfortable than a late 90s sh*tbox but none of that would stop people from wanting a vintage muscle car because they love it regardless of their shortcomings.

Why can’t I have a vintage computer regardless of its shortcomings without having people ranting that I should burn it and get over it?

Even if it were a 1984 Macintosh - pretty much useless for anything - what’s the problem of wanting to have one and wanting to make it work and try to restore to make it look good?

No contest here!

Just someone who's been fixing systems for over 35 years. During the summer I had two customers with older Duo2Core systems with older OS's having their systems being ransomed by malware! Having to pay $500 to get to their own HD as it was encrypted remotely! Which is why I gave you the warning.

As for what car enthusiast do to keep their classic cars on the road most make the effort to restore not modify. I agree with that philosophy! At least your system might be a collectable at some point if its still working! Just look at the Apple 1 systems being sold who would had thought! Would you have bought one if the person had mangled up the logic board? Not likely.

I still have my 128 Macintosh in the original travel case. Its one of the first 250 sold.

I've seen people getting Sierra mangled by malwares and the only time I had any issues was when I got my first Mac and was learning how to use it - which is probably what happened with this people as well.

Nothing is safe if you don't know what you're doing is not just a matter of what system you got.