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- dleifelohcs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+58There should also be a filter-free version so that we can actually see what is going on without all the blurs, color-changes, etc. that you have done to this video.
As is stands, this is more of a "hey look at all of the transitions and things I can do to videos with iMovie '06" and not a "hey watch me rebuild a PBG4" - thayneq, on 10/12/2007, -1/+38OK, I took your suggestion and I added an UNFILTERED version to go along with the one with effects. The point of this was to both showcase my talent with assembling the powerbook and to just play around with some iMovie filters so the viewers wouldn't get bored. You can find the unfiltered version linked at the bottom of the page. http://www.cs.utah.edu/~thayneq
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13..no, it doesn't.
- rebz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11thank god, the filters were driving me nuts
- exorcist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Damnit. It's fast forwarded. I feel cheated.
- rprins, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9How about reading the comments (at least the very first two!), then commenting.
"You can find the unfiltered version linked at the bottom of the page. http://www.cs.utah.edu/~thayneq" - ISVDamocles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Yeah, when I read the title, I was wholly expecting the P-p-p-powerbook! http://www.p-p-p-powerbook.com/
- thayneq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6a filter free version is a good idea. I'll put one up! Thanks for checking it out!
- jk_baller23, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Summary is misleading. You are not actually building your own powerbook, your rebuilding one. Not upgrading in 2 minutes real time, but the video is 2 mins long.
Cool nonetheless and you used iWeb :p - boozedrinker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6WOW Ice cube tray for parts - I never thought of that - good idea.
- Flyinace2000, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Alternate title: Every Effect possible in Movie 06
- mikeycav, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4
Wait a minute: Isn't he a college student? So if he is age 18-21, I am NOT COUNTING "10 years of electrical engineering experience". So what, he was 8-11 when his electrical engineering training began?
Give me a break. - thayneq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4DrNoSoze, the video is available for download directly from my site. http://www.cs.utah.edu/~thayneq
I'll put up a YouTube link also. - TheSolomon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Contrary to what you might think, an electrical engineering background does not automatically instill computer servicing skills. Trust me; I know plenty of electrical engineering guys who barely know their asses from a floppy drive. Even CS/CIS majors aren't necessarily good at servicing computers. They are all very different things. A degree in a (currently) technology-related field does not automatically mean you are good at everything technology-related.
In other words-- disassembling computers has always been something that can be very easy, as long as you have the right tools and the patience and focus to remember where everything goes when you're ready to put it back together. :-)
If you can recognize and sort screws into matching piles and are able to recognize when a connector is physically unable to fit into a certain port, you're more than halfway there! "10 years of electrical engineering experience" and "bad ass" status not required. ;-) - yugiohdan6, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4the website IS slow loading but looks nice in firefox but in IE terrible because there are alpha transparent PNGs (which IE doesn't support)
oh and nice video by the way - Elranzer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6"As a side note, I urge anyone interested in this procedure to NOT attempt this on their own powerbooks. I have over 10 years of electrical engineering experience and can honestly say that the 12%u201D powerbook is the most compact and complicated reassembly I have ever done. There are over 40 different types of screws, some of which are very similar to others. This procedure also voids your warranty.
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and I am a bad-ass."
You make it sound like the Powerbook G4 is actually difficult to take apart and upgrade the components. I've done a few myself. I don't know anyone with a 12" Powerbook G4 that hasn't at least replaced the hard drive (with a 7200rpm model since Apple doesn't offer it for the 12" model). Well, it's common in New York, anyway. - patrickweber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Feel free to do it, but please send me all the hardware you remove from it! hehe
- remcgregor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Digg Title: How to build your own powerbook in 2 minutes
Title from Link: Upgrade your own 12" powerbook
Hmmm...should I mark this as lame or innaccurate? Well, I'll watch the video first.
From Digg Summary: All of this in about a minute and a half!
In reality: All of this in about a minute and a half!....at 10x speed, so in reality, about 15 minutes. Still impressive when you think about it, but innaccurate to post that it only took a minute and a half.
On top of that, you can't even see how he did it, even with the unfiltered version, because it is so fast. What is the point of a title that leads you to believe it teaches you how to assemble/upgrade your powerbook (or "build your own" according to Digg) if you learn absolutely nothing from it (other than the fact that iMovie has a lot of neat features)?
So, what does Digg think this should be reported as, lame, innaccurate or spam (as far as I can tell, this guy linked to his own site well grossly overexagerating what the video shows, probably to increase his pagerank for the page showing an absolutely useless video)? I'll ponder for a while and then report it. - jkill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's probably a slow loading page because it was made with iWeb. It makes almost everything into a huge image map, but it's really easy.
- rebz, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9thank you captian obvious, but it was close enough to "modifying your powerbook", to which most wont complain about, except you, mr must-correct-everyone
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -12/+14modifying an existing powerbook is not the same thing as "building your own powerbook"..
besides, it took him ALOT longer than 2 minutes. this shows you how to do it in 2 minutes IF you are superman. - NewEvolution, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So, dare I ask? What did you need that gray putty spatula for?
All in all, yes. Pretty bad-ass. I think I'll have to snag that idea of using the ice cube tray for screw storage the next time I work on my motorcycle. It's always a bitch to keep similar screws from intermingling, and that's surely cheaper than some of the magnetic solutions I've seen around. - zweben, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Nice upgrades!
Does anyone (thayneq?) have any further information about speaker upgrades in PowerBooks? I'd like to look into possible internal speaker upgrades for a 17" PowerBook (newest model). I'm aware that it's probably extremely difficult, but I'm pretty comfortable taking stuff apart and i'd like someone to point me in the right direction to investigate it further. Is the upgrade something you just did with your own knowledge, or is there some sort of guide that you used? - bquigly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow! Wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's IN the computer?!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Cool, but all the video effects that he threw in WERE ***** ANNOYING!!! Seriously! What the hell? A video isn't made better if you throw ALL the filters in your video editing software at it. I think I got a slight seizure because of it.
- boxomojo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2headline is totally misleading- no digg
- vertigoblue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What kind of speakers did you switch to?
i really want to do that and was wondering if you thought it was worth the switch... - MiloMindrbindr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Never said i didn't like it. But you reassembled. assemble is taking parts that werent together in the first place and putting them together. you didn't do this. when most people hear build along side computers, we don't think taking something apart and putting it back together. moral of story: title the article accurately and stop trying to get diggs. thee end.
- thayneq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2the speakers I rebuilt from the mounted bracket. I just used some custom ones that I built. Sorry that that's not more helpful.
- MiloMindrbindr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2the title is about 0% accurate according to the good 'ol dictionary. Drop that engineering career and get into a 4th grade english class posthaste.
building - the process or business of constructing something.
reassembling - to put something together again.
3 to 7 hours does not compute to 2 minutes by my calculations at least.
annddddddd scene. - Jeebugorn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i agree completely with goat! i'm sure by "mac" he meant that the title had something to do with: powerbooks, ibooks, i macs, powermacs, quicktime, ipods, nanos, OS X, OS X 10.4.1.2, OS X 10.4.2.2, OS X 10.4.3.2.1 with which any digg with those in the title ALWAYS gets sent to the front page from all the apple fanboys
- thayneq, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3actually it's less than 2 minutes and I provided an unfiltered video for those that wanted to see in better detail. I was really just doing this video for my own pleasure. I'm sorry you don't like it.
- fungifred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2For screws, I use some high strength hard-drive magnets to hold them. I am still going to steal the ice cube tray idea and glue magnets to the bottom of each well. This makes them hard to get out but, if you bump the try off the table, they still stay in place.
- remcgregor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Just to clarify before people jump at my throat, the video is pretty cool, and you did a good job on it. It's the Digg headline I have a problem with. If the headline and summary had been more in-line with the actual video (such as: This is a video of me re-assembling my 12" Powerbook. I have sped it up so you don't get bored. I also added in some cool effects to show the power of iMovie) I would have dugg it. I clicked on the link expecting a video+instructions (what you would normally expect when you see the words how-to are instructions), but instead got nothing of what I expected.
- hausome, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Umm, IE7 displays fine....but I'm still stuck on Firefox :)
- thayneq, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This was the point if you read my excerpt...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i'll happily take those screws off your hands - mine keep falling out, particularly the ram bay and the one above the hole for the kensington lock on the left. also i lost my right arrow key when i tried to get a bit of dirt from under it, so if you have any spares of those!!!
- rspeed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+112" PBs can be a HUGE pain in the ass to work on if the threaded posts on the logic board break loose. You basically can't take apart the machine without cutting open the bottom or destroying the logic board.
- mercurous, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1He said he's 24 in the "About Me" page.
- moanica, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Misleading headline, however, that guy is hot.
- thayneq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1hey noone's twisting your arm. Personally I think I did a great job of showcasing the filters, transitions, and musical timing effects possible in iMovie. It was meant to be a proof of concept, not a work of art. I'm not oblivious to the fact that I use every single filter. That's was the point, and if you had read my web page you'd realize that.
- thayneq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1did you guys not see the version I put up that doesn't include the iMovie filters? It's right there under your nose so you can check it out yourself.
- buxtor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1and you're still using IE because... ?
- Nathanael, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, it reminded me to recharge my ipod - Digg!
- Elranzer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Without PNG support, the site does look pretty whacked out in IE...
- jholdaway, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Yeah for Apple! Goooo Mac! Boom shakalaka boom!" I cheer.
I drop pom poms and run to nearest apple store to get 12" powerbook. - Petronski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The ice-cube tray is a great idea for keeping parts all sorted out.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Description and title are totally misleading. This guy didn't build his own PowerBook, he upgraded it, and that's nothing new. People have been doing it (doing exactly what he has done) for years, and it's documented in how-to articles all over the place. "Modding the PowerBook" should have been the title, and the description shouldn't have said "all this in about a minute and a half". Yes, speeding up the playback of the video will do that for you, but it doesn't reflect the truth, and the author clearly states that something like what he did is not for those with a weak stomach, as he's been into electrical engineering for years.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"So what, he was 8-11 when his electrical engineering training began?"
I think he understood that you were about 10 from his comment above. "8-11" implies that you could have been 8...or 9...or 10...or 11. -
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