I have finally decided it is time to upgrade my 12″ G4 PowerBook (1GHz).

First up I am replacing the non-functioning combo optical drive with one from eBay which works. I have a FireWire external DVD-RW drive so I don’t see the point in spending up big on a SuperDrive (I don’t burn DVDs away from the office, or very often at all actually).

I am then upgrading the slightly full 40GB HDD (1.5GB free) with a 160GB one. Having a camera that can take 5MB digital photographs can chew up disk space quickly.

I have previously upgraded the RAM from 256MB to 768MB and added an Airport card.

Finally I am upgrading to Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5). All of this will probably take a few hours to do but I should end up with a very usable Mac as a result. I just can’t justify spending the cash on a new one.