Downgrading - How Hard Could It Be?

[rwrylsin]

When I first started this LJ, my 12" G4 macbook pro was shiny and new.

Comments

[kremmen]

Laptop hard drives have become really cheap. I'd have thought the least arduous solution would have been to buy a new hard drive and copy the whole thing. (Remove old drive, attach it to a real computerLinux box with lots of space with a $2 3.5"/2.5" converter, copy to new drive, change partition sizes if necessary, install in Mac.)

[rwrylsin]

The whole point of having macs is so that I don't have to mess around with computer internals unless someone pays me to.
Admittedly, that's not working out so well right now, but the theory seemed sound...

Plus, I'm still hoping not to spend anything on it.

[morniendil]

How big is your current drive?

[kremmen]

I think my last laptop drive was about $40. Admittedly, I've never taken a Mac apart (physically swapping a drive in my Dell takes about 2 mins), but it sounds like the amount of time you've spent could be valued at more (possibly orders of magnitude more) than a new drive.

[xanni_au]

You could always put Linux on it instead. That's what I did with my PPC Mac Mini and my 24" iMac at work. :)

[rwrylsin]

Heathen! :)

Say, are you in Melbourne now? I've lost track.
If so, would you be interested in an evening of games on the 29th?

[xanni_au]

We are indeed back in Croydon, yes. A games night sounds like fun!

[davidcook]

Pretty sure Scrivener isn't on Linux, alas, which I think was one of the points of revitalising the laptop ...