down for the third time, or brother can you spare a dime?

Looks like my venerable (Oct of 2003) iBook G4 is casters up for good and all. Some unusual freezing up yesterday, then a refusal to boot which continues, whether it be from a CD, from it’s own disk, whatever. It works fine in Target Disk mode, so that subset of features is still good. But as a full-fledged laptop? Not so much.

Oh, well. It’s on its third hard drive, second logic board, second case. I think everything has been replaced but the display and keyboard, including the batteries.

For about the same as I spent on that one, I could buy one of these:
Picture 3

If I had it.

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