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muffie - Which model of PowerBook G4 is it? A1106, A1138, A1046 or something else, i.e. A1095, etc.?
As it seems to look like a 15.2" model.
If you're not bothered about which model you have/use, as long as it has 64MB then it still should be fairly easy to get hold of a replacement PowerBook, and transfer the licence to that replacement system. In which case you'd probably only need to swap over the HDD, you'd then still be able to utilise the power supply for your current PowerBook, as well as any battery you might have been using up until now, etc..
Getting hold of a 64MB MacMini will probably be more difficult, though I don't know what they go for currently, but probably a PowerBook would be a cheaper, more available option.
I don't know which country you're in, but if getting it apart would be too much for you, if you live in the UK then I'd help you get whatever's salvageable from inside your system, saved for your replacement system.
A1106...
I'm in Brazil, South America, but I travel to the US couple times per year, so, I can get one from eBay delivered to my hotel.
I still don't know what to do. Got really sad after I just melted couple function keys with a hairdryer. I have a hot air pistol somewhere, it's the cheapest one available, but maybe I'll try to reflow the GPU as a last resource next weekend. Last time I tried that with an old Thinkpad I ended frying the MB (probably applied too much heat).
Thank you for the offer. For sure, if everything else fails, I'll try to salvage all parts. Maybe even the LCD I could use with one of those external controller boards...
