Before you begin Read this website's Legal Guidelines and make sure you understand the risks of this repair. Place your Powerbook G4 on a clean flat and soft surface, such as a rubber mat or a piece of soft cloth and get the required opening tools.
		This is what the g4 looks like from the top.
		Step 2 Remove the two philips head screws next the battery on the side.
		Step 3 Remove the other two screws on the other side as well.
		Step 4 Remove the screws on the side near the back of the laptop.
		Step 5 Remove the screws on the other end of the side towards the back.
		Step 6 Use a Torx screw to remove the screw next to the power button.
		Step 10 You need to remove the keys to release the keyboard.  The f11 and f12 keys. Remove them carefully with the green tool so that you do not break them.
		Step 13 Flip the laptop over and remove the cover for the RAM.  There are 4 philips head scews that need to be removed on each corner of the cover.
		Step 12 Once the cover is removed you can see the RAM for the G4.  Remove the Ram be releasing the latches on the side of the RAM so that they lift up so you can pull them out with ease.
		Step 15 On the side where the RAM was you will see a philips head screw.
		Step 16 The screw needs to be removed.
		Step 17 Remove the F1 and teh F2 keys on the keyboard using the green tool.
		Step 18 With the proper keys being removed you can now release the keyboard from the palm rest.
		Step 19 There is so protective tape over the ribbon cable for the keyboard remove it.
		Step 20 Under the tape you can then remove the keyboard from the motherboard.  Its ribbon cable is connected to the motherboard.  You can remove it using a flathead screw driver to gently release the connector.
		Step 21 This is what the g4 will look like once the keyboard is removed.
		Step 22 On the bottom left of the palm rest under the keyboard there is a protective tape that needs to be removed.
		Step 23 Under the tape there is a screw that needs to be removed.
		Step 24 Make sure the battery is released.  You can do this using your green tool and rotating the latch to the unlocked position.
		Step 25 Pull the battery out of the laptop.
		Step 26 Below the battery there are some screws that need to be removed.
		Step 27 With the green tool you can start to wedge between the palm rest and the bottom piece of the g4 laptop casing.  Do this all the way around so that it releases easily.  Be sure not to bend the metal.
		Step 28 Once it is fully released DO NOT YANK ALL THE WAY OUT you will see two connectors on the top right hand corner. Make sure you release these cables so they do not break.
		Step 29 Use the green tool to carefully release these cables.
		Step 30 This is what the g4 12" laptop looks like with palm rest removed.
		Step 31 The screw below the Optical Disc drive needs to be removed.
		Step 32 There is a screw right above that next to the Optical Drive in the crevice that needs to be removed.
		Step 33
		Step 34 On the top right hand corner above the optical drive there is another philips head screw that needs to removed.
		Step 35 The one right below that needs to be removed as well.
		Step 36 The little metal piece that was be held down by those two screws needs to be removed.
		Step 37 On  the bottom left hand corner of the Optical Drive there is a screw that needs to be removed.
		Step 38 Make sure the screw above the upper right hand side of the hard drive is removed.
		Step 39 Make sure that the screws are also removed on both sides of part that locks into the battery.
		Step 40 All the way towards the bottom in the middle there is a screw that needs to be removed.
		Step 41
		Step 42 With all the screws removed from the edges of this middle board on the bottom middle of the laptop you can now lift it up out of the casing.
		Step 43 This can be done by using the green tool.
		Step 44 With the board now removed you can now get reach a screw right below it that needs to be removed.
		Step 45 Now you can use the green tool to release teh ribbon cable for the Optical drive from the motherboard.
		Step 46 Ease it out by lifting it out from both sides.  Once the cable is release you can now remove the Optical Drive.   To reassemble follow directions in reverse order.