"Furniture"

I've been a computer tech for 15 years now and everytime I've seen a keyboard like that, a toddler was involved.

Even for a 5 dollar thrift store find.. kind of shameful they didn't even give it a wipedown before putting it on the showfloor

The paint/makeup marks look a lot like an "exploded" black ballpoint pen to me. That standard black ink has a heavy purplish sheen to it.

LUCKY MAN! The HDD still works! You wont have 300 screws on the table and a Saturday lost!

The purple stuff is definitely lipstick or eyeliner... looks like Nancy and Bernie let their kiddos have their old iBook and someone ragequit during the Dr. Seuss game. lol

I'd guess this was someones old laptop and they let their kid have it, smearing eye shadow all over and prying the keys off the keyboard. Wouldn't say no for $5, worth the time and effort of at least making it look nice.

I recognize a keyboard like that - the aftermath of being used by little kids.

10:20 Gosh, that "whirlwind" sound effect is just fantastic.

Keyboard aside, it’s actually not in bad condition.

With "Bernie" I thought it was gonna be Bernie Sanders' old iBook and yeah, it wasn't *that* Bernie

Nancy probably installed Firefox because Chrome and Safari stopped supporting older Mac OS versions, and security certificates and browser features were expiring.

It’s rare to see a laptop in such a state, this is like CSI: Mackintosh 😅

Great job on the video and the title had me rolling! I picture Bernie attacking this computer like Michael Bolton and Samir attacked that printer with the PC Load Letter issue from Office Space...

These machines are surprisingly resilient things! My personal iBook G3 doesn't have a single inch without a chip or scratch, but it still works great. Absolute score for $4.99 there!

...and for the first time in recorded history, VWestlife's YT avatar is not of Westlife... (OK probably not the first time, but the first time I ever remember seeing it.) However when I saw that keyboard, first thing I thought was "looks like a kid got a hold of it." The Dr. Seuss program on there certain gives that theory some credit.

This early to mid 2000s OS X look is still look like peak GUI to me (as a PC user). Before everything gone flat...

Nice little cameo by the iBookGuy aka The 8-Bit Guy at the end.

I remember using those laptops in elementary/intermediate school back in the mid 2000s!

I thought this was a restoration video. But, excellent video!

I had a PowerBook G4 from around the same tiime that I used in high school that worked for me. Thanks for the video, Kevin.

The red stuff looked like lipstick, My sister left hers on a glass table in the sun once, It melted and looked the same. (or it could just be blood :) )

Positive aspect of the glossy finish is that you can easily polish it - works well with car products.

That DVD was a screener! I haven't seen one of those in years!

Had it been Weekend at Bernie's, only that computer would've had any life left in it!

Mine was manufactured weeks before I was born. Really neat how mine survived that long without any sign of damage here.

Watching that paint come off was so satisfying!

"You can see the ads for the latest apple products" Yeah they'll make sure you can see those on an apple 2... Anything to make you upgrade.

Very nostalgic, Deimos Rising is an Ambrosia game I used to play as a small kid

So what I'm hearing, if I require spreadsheets after the apocalypse, I should find an iBook :) They seem indestructible.

Can't believe that piece of machinery is almost as old as me.

This is the most late 1990s or early 2000s DVD I have seen

You can still see the full name on the left at 6:25 so you might want to edit the video

This is probably one of my favorite examples of the random stuff you could find in the “bric-a-brac” section of any thrift store….. although I am absolutely shocked that this laptop works at all! Thank you so much for the video!!!!

A few minutes worth of wiping and its value has already increased to $6! At this rate you'll be able to sell it and have enough left over to buy a coffee in about half an hour!

I loved iBook's so much when I was young

Been thinking about picking up another one of these, but the ebay prices are insane. This is the laptop that got me through 8th grade into 10th back in 2013. Did everything I needed for school, even G Docs worked great on WebKit Safari at the time. KZfaq and flash content was still flawless.. Miss that machine. Replaced it with a 5,2 early 2009 MacBook that unfortunately died like any Apple laptop of any era, the GPU.

Firefox 3.6.6 is a good choice for older machines, I have it installed on my 2002 HP desktop machine. Later versions tend to be resource hogs.

this is a perfect example of how kids will ruin all the nice, clean, collected things you have lol

Wow this takes me back. I haven't seen one of these in well over a decade. I remember the school district bought a bunch of these at one point or another and the laptop cart was my introduction to the iBook.

6:24 Sorry Nancy, he didn't read the rest of the text...

What a trooper! Would be fun to see it with a new keyboard, maybe some plastic polish on the plastics, etc.

There's more suspense in this video than in the last five seasons of Game of Thrones!

6:30 I thought my phone's screen broke lol. That black spot got me

Really a nice video love your old computers videos Kevin.

Price sticker removal ASMR begins at 3:38.

This looks straight from a crime scene, signs of struggle I don’t touch anything second hand without disinfectant wipes first, I recommend anyone to do the same

These machines are sold for pennies this days. I bought myself here in Germany a Powerbook G4 12" in good condition and full working order for 30 EUR (around 36 US-$).

This to me is how Apple justifies the price of a Macbook. I have heard rumors that they plan to start going back to some of their older design styles which would be excellent. To me their newer machines don't seem to last as long or have issues early on in life. Their new new keyboards are hot garbage, but apparently are rumored to change.

The iBookguy would probably be like "GADZOOKS!" or something similar at the sight of that keyboard.

Deimos Rising is a wicked little shooter. You should give it a go.

Deimos Rising is a computer game by Ambrosia Software, similar to many top-scrolling arcade shooters. The sequel to Mars Rising, it is available on Apple Macintosh and Windows platforms. It is similar to the scrolling arcade shooter, Xevious.

Looks like Plainrock124 started a 50 ways to break an Apple iBook video but then decided to destroy something else instead.

I kind of like the condition of this computer. It really tells a story

It'd be great to see it with a fresh keyboard whenever that's possible

That Powerbook belonged to a teenager who just got a phone call from her boyfriend who broke up. She cried off her maskara and got mad on the keyboard.

You might find a replacement keyboard on ebay, take some car scratch removal products on it and buff it away using a lot of elbo grease or use a rotary buffer tool to it and it should get the majority of the scratches away and finish it with car wax.

I wanted to see that cleaning thing on the dvd. I was sure you where going to flip it around when you took it out.

2:25 Oh man! Your "Yikes" exclamation really made my day.

I love that Clippit’s Mac replacement was a vintage Macintosh with little legs.

Apple old style interface is gorgeous.

I like that nod you gave to General Cinema at 11:39

"And amazingly, the battery holds it's charge." i needs it

great purchase. if a follow up video for the keyboard would be great to see how it can be replaced.

I do hope you'll show us the keyboard replacement process when the new one comes in!

Just watch a rage compilation of tense1983, his setup is invincible

great video. i love those ibooks. would love to see the process for replacing the keyboard

My first official new computer was a 2005 iBook g4, very nostalgic video

8:49 Totally forgot that Mac OS used to have a test field for the keyboard repeat preferences! Wonder when they got rid of that. Also would've liked to see the underside of that cleaning DVD. The animation seems like a metaphor for obliterating the dirt on your lens, using a pseudo-Death Star.

So this ancient machine with only 640MB RAM and one core seems better at playing YT than a 4-core/1GB Raspberry pi 3B+. Looks like YT reverted to an older, simpler page for that machine. Frustrating how bloated web apps have become.

Those old HDD's are rugged.

Bernie & Nancy 2024

Nice bargain there, I’d be happy.

It looks like a Canadian iBook, very interesting

I suspect that keyboard is suffering puppy-damage. Looks like puppy damage. "Paint or makeup..." - aren't they the same? 😜

Mine still works too, identical except was cared for. Every now and then I dust it off and play the way- back music and go 'that's where that file is!' Rebuilt the battery with the help of eBay and my spot-welder, works fine. They were so well made then and beautifully designed. Still have my PowerBook G4 too, beautiful machine and IMO peak Apple but suffers from the fan failure on one side which was a common Achilles heel ... one day I'll fix it but for now I just set it in some ice cubes. Good vid TY!

Fun fact: They still last longer than newer MacBook (Pro)... My 2009 MBP wasnt abused, only heavily used and much performance needed (so got often hot/loud), but after 2-3 years all the bumpers on the bottom fell off, after 4 years the notebook fell apart in 2 parts (since the display assembly is poorly glued to the hinges in 2008/2009 models), the HDD died ofc and was replaced with a 240GB SSD, the superdrive died within a few years (but it was heavily used for CD burning and watching DVDs),... Its btw still used as a "media PC" at the 2nd living room, but like a giant remote (bottom part with keyboard/touchpad only) On the other hand, my 2010 MacBook Pro still works fine, especially the display is glued much better to the hinge assembly. Needed also a few repairs already, 3 batteries and a "renewing" of internals like noisy fan bearings, completely dry thermal paste or some months ago - a capacitator for the GPU power supply which was going bad and forced video engine related system shutdowns. But still going strong, the only problem: you can feel the 2C/4T only CPU and the 256MB VRam GT 330M, totally not useful anymore aslong you need even only a bit performance.

That purple stuff looks like hair dye, it gets everywhere!

One thing I remember about the iBooks was that they were made more sturdier than MacBooks. I had a 2009 13" MacBook and the plastic on the case near the keyboard started chipping off. That never happened with my iBook. That thing was a beast.

My first laptop/computer was this exact kind of macbook... Miss it so much.

Holy moly you’re better than me I couldn’t even name all those ports

13:20 The IBookGuy presenting iBook inside the VWestlife presenting iBook. Nice touch!

Nice little nod to the iBook Guy there at the end. Wonder what ever happened to him? 🤔😀

WOah only four dollars for a old apple book? That's even cheaper than a happy meal

lmao that dvd cleaner thing is interesting. i’ve never seen or heard anything like it

Here is a fun fact for you: Deimos Rising is a game that is similar to Strikers 1945, but more futuristic.

You can actually install 10.5 Leopard onto that, Leopard was the last OSX that could be installed onto a PPC Mac, snow leopard is where they switched to full on Intel. Safari was included by default with OSX Panther 10.3 on

I swear its always the old laptops that are the strongest

Not gonna lie at first i tought that uh "paint" was someone's period

KZfaq recommended this to me, and I was hoping somebody found an old Bernie Sanders laptop he went psycho on 😂😅

I would love to see a follow up video!

nancy is going to get a lot of stalkers now!

So, I'm watching some guy clean a cruddy old iBook - and I find it fascinating!

I wonder how it even got this beat up tbh

Much Envy sir !!!!! You have a fine thrift store find 8)

Can't say it didn't get full use! These days, a mac doesn't 'last' long enough to reach this stage, it's quite impressive.

Someone left one of these at our office. It wouldn't work without pushing down on the area to the left of the touchpad. It's common for the chip there to become unsoldered.

Apple definitely made more resilient products in the early 2000s. I sneezed beside my 2019 13inch MacBook Pro last week, and it hasn't powered up since.

A few years ago I received a batch of used electronics such as laptops, cameras, and etc. I ran forensics data recovery software on all of them. It un-deleted all the files that were still intact. Some of the pics & videos uncovered were so evil & felonious, I was forced to take heroic steps to wipe everything in their vicinity. Overwrite a zillion times with 0s, then shoot the drives/SD cards with a shotgun, then bury them in a lye-filled septic tank in a cursed Indian burial ground in Chernobyl.

“deimos rising” Me: sweating profusley trying not to make jokes about madness combat