So I've seen some people make good use of old laptops before by converting them into digital picture frames, the best tutorial online I've seen so far is this one done with an older Powerbook Duo 270c or 280c. Another good one is this one which looks great and uses a Powerbook 3400. I have also seen one that a guy bought all new PC parts and made one with a 17" screen, and a remote to control the picture and other things on it, but I cannot find the link for it.

Basically I just turn this:

Into this:

So I finally decided to make one, and I did some research on which model of powerbook would be the best. I decided that the Powerbook 1400c would be the best. There is also a 1400cs version but that has a passive matrix screen, and would fade over time and just look bad in general, so I went for the 1400c with an active matrix screen. It has a Motorola 133Mhz 603e (yes, even before the G3 processor), 24MB of Ram, 1GB hard disk 512k of video RAM, an 11.3" 800x600 screen (thousands of colors), and Mac OS 8.6 loaded on it. I can upgrade it to Mac OS 9.1, but I need at least 32MB of RAM to do so, and apple made some kind of weird proprietary RAM, and it was like $50 for a 16MB upgrade....not worth it.

So, on with the process...