Almost as Good as New

All of my newly ordered iBook replacement goodies showed up via UPS today, and it was like Christmas all over again.

I use my trusty “Little White” just about every day. In fact, I can only recall a handful of times that I didn’t use it on a given day in the last two years that I’ve owned it. And in that time, it’s never once given me any kind of trouble. So as a reward to it (and myself), I picked up a new keyboard assembly. The old one was just a little worn, as you can see from this image…

Once the lettering on the keys started coming off, Little White just didn’t seem as new anymore. Now that I have a fresh keyboard, it feels almost as good as the day I first bought it. Very nice.

I also picked up a 1GB SO DIMM to replace the 512MB module I’d originally installed. 512MB always did me pretty good, but now that I’ve nearly doubled my memory, I can definitely feel the difference. Bottom line – more RAM, better performance. (duh).

In addition to that, I picked up a NewerTech 4800mAh high capacity battery, which is supposed to give me an additional 30% amount of time over the stock battery. The old one was at 65% capacity with 302 load cycles and would only last a couple of hours without having to be charged, so it was time to replace it.

Finally, I snagged a Seagate 120GB internal HD to replace the nearly full 60GB stock drive. Unfortunately, I didn’t think far enough ahead, and will have to pick up a foot replacement kit for when I crack the case open to install the drive. I’ll order it tomorrow, and should have the part sometime next week. Then I’ll be able to clone the old drive using SuperDuper! (my favorite clone app), pop out the old, drop in the new, clone my system back and everything is done.

And to think, I was considering retiring Little White and buying a Dell instead… Shame on me!