Ti Powerbook parts to sell

I spilled water and on and damaged my titanium powerbook G4 and recently upgraded to a new macbook pro. In the meantime I took my old powerbook in to a local certified apple retailer and repair shop and had them test each salvagable part and package each piece individually. What I'm wondering is does anyone have a suggestion as to where I can go online to find people who need used powerbook parts? Message boards? Online resellers? If anyone has ANY suggestions I would really appreciate it.
Thank you!
Macbook Pro 1.1 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hi Agrace,
eBay is an excellent place to sell spare parts. If you properly mark your auctions as parts salvaged from a broken laptop there will be many people looking to pick up these items to service their own laptops. It is also quite common that broken and non-working laptops are sold simply for the spare parts that can be salvaged.
While they won't fetch as much as a working unit, a TFT screen for example can still get you a nice price.
Good luck!

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Hi Todd,
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Bob,
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Hi, Gordon. Powerbook parts vendors:
http://www.pbparts.com (parts and repair work)
http://www.dttservice.com (parts and repair work)
http://www.powerbookresq.com (parts and repair work)
http://www.powerbookmedic.com (parts and repair work)
http://www.tekserve.com (parts and repair work)
http://www.powerbooktech.com (parts only)
http://www.ifixit.com (parts and excellent, illustrated online take-apart instructions)
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PowerBook G4 17" 1.5GHz & Linksys WCG200 Gateway

Summary
My Mac won't get the full downstream bandwidth (9 Mbits) with either wireless or wired ethernet, but my roommate's Windows computer gets the full amount (and then some) with his wired ethernet connection. My ISP and Linksys both report that everything is working fine. What's going on with my Mac?
Full Description
I recently got a Linksys WCG200 v.2 Gateway (cable modem/router in one device) and set it up with my ISP (Cox Communications). Our service is supposed to be 9 megabits downstream, and 1 megabit upstream. I connected to the router via wireless and wired, and have been to four different speed test sites only to discover that my downstream speed is never faster than 3.5 megabits. The upstream is still getting up to as fast as 1.3 megabits.
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My roommate has a Dell with WinXP on it, so he fired it up and tested the speed at a few different speed sites to notice that he was receiving between 9 and 12 megabits downstream and 1 megabits upstream. He was hard wired to the gateway, so I tried it again on my PowerBook, but still I was getting no faster than 3.5 megabits downstream.
I tried calling Apple, but they just said that it was probably the gateway or Cox, but I know that's not true because if either of those weren't working/configured properly, then my roommates Dell wouldn't have been able to get the full (and then some) downstream speed. The agent simply had me remove my SystemConfiguration folder and then reinstall Tiger, which neither did anything to fix the problem. What a waste of the AppleCare Protection Plan!
I'm pretty convinced that my last test has narrowed down the possible cause of the problem. I inserted my Cisco 350 Aironet PCMCIA wireless card to test to see if there might be a problem with either my AirPort Extreme card or the ethernet controller on the PowerBook, and to my surprise, I was able to get 5.5 megabits downstream consistently. The Cisco card is 802.11b.
I ran one other test by jumping on my neighbor's wireless network which is rated at 4 megabits downstream, and I was able to get the full 4 megabits downstream with my AirPort Extreme card as well as with my Cisco card.
Due to the improved functionality of the Cisco card and the fact that my roommate's Windows computer was able to get the full amount, I'm pretty convinced that there must be a problem with the way my Mac is communicating with this particular Linksys gateway device which is causing it to not receive the full downstream amount. However, I have no clue where to go from here as far as more troubleshooting techniques or possible fixes for this problem.
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I don't know the answer but am curious--do you need to make the upgrade because your 1.5G board is dead, or because you'd like a little more speed?
If the latter, I think you'd be disappointed. In doing a number of upgrades on desktop machines, I've found that, although calculated benchmarks may look better with any upgrade, you need a 20-30% boost in processor speed for the increase to be noticeable in normal use. When I upgraded an old G3 from 300 to 500 mhz --a 40 percent increase--that benefit was crystal-clear. When I compare my 1.0G PowerBook G4 to my 1.25G PowerMac G4 tower (same OS, bus speed, RAM, and VRAM), I see little if any difference in day-to-day computer use from the 25 percent advantage in speed in the desktop model
If the need is for speed, you could end up with a costly upgrade that doesn't "feel" any faster.
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Idea for Adobe....SELL FREEHAND!!

Face it...both these programs were at their best when they
had a good healthy competition going. So, how about it Adobe? Maybe
enough of us Freehand lovers could take it off your hands and get
that competition going again!

As to whether FH will ever be updated, I doubt Adobe is doing
much more than letting this place exist because it's a safe way to
let frustrated FH users vent... and vent and vent.
(;->))
But I'd like to address a few points some of you have brought
up.
I don't think Apple has any compelling reason to create a
vector illustration tool. All their iApps address interests that
have a broad-based appeal; I just don't see a vector app having the
same clout. It's a more specialized tool with an appeal for sign
makers, graphic designers and cartographers. As cool as those
professions are, their numbers pale compared to how many run around
with a digital camera, or who like to mix their own music
selections.
But even if Apple decided to release an Apple-branded vector
app, why would they buy such creaky old code? They'd be better off
doing something from scratch, something that takes full advantage
of modern chip-sets and OS'. Were Apple to show interest in
snagging the bedraggled remains of FreeHand, it still begs the
question: doesn't it take two parties: a seller as well as a buyer?
Why does anyone still think Adobe is ever going to sell FreeHand,
period?
As for those of us grimly vowing to use FH in Classic mode
until our teeth fall out, well, right on. Good luck with that, I
say! Me, I'm looking for something I can use well into the future.
Whether that solution is provided by Adobe, Apple, or someone else
altogether, I really don't care - as long as it works on a Mac and
is an excellent alternative to Illustrator I expect I'll be a happy
camper.
And as to whether or not Adobe one day drops Mac development
of its apps, the way things are going recently that will be a cold
day in, ahhhhh, Hades. The Mac platform is more viable and popular
than ever before. Adobe abandoning it would be a moronic move. Not
that it couldn't happen but... I don't see it any time soon.
I hope that at least some of the dismay and anger on this
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