Hi Jonathan, Thanks for sharing your story. Sweet Pismo indeed!
I only wish the video card was upgradeable, too. Wouldn't it be neat? The only caveat these machines have (for me, at least) is the underpowered 8Mb video chip. Best, Felix On Oct 2, 6:27 am, Jonathan Doupe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Simon and Felix, > I never really get involved in > the chat's on the g-books forum, but I thought I'd put a reply on > this one. I have a Pismo maxed out to 1 gig ram with the daystar G4 > 550 chip and that's not all, I also upgraded the cdrom to a dvd rw > drive, and boy what a difference, definitely worth the upgrading, as > mine is like a new laptop and I'm very pleased with it. > > Jonathan > On 1 Oct 2008, at 22:28, Ashgrove wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Simon, > > > I'm now the proud owner of Tom's G4 upgraded Lombard (hi, Tom!). It is > > definitely zippier, and very stable. It's noticeably faster than my > > 500Mhz G3 Pismo --although this one has a whole gig of RAM, and the > > Lombard is maxed out at 512Mb. > > > The Lombard's G4 upgrade is only 466mhz, so combine the 550mhz G4 > > upgrade for the Pismo with double the memory, and the maths' easy. > > > FastMac and Wegener Media also sell G4 upgrades for the Pismo. You > > might wanna check them out. > > > Love your columns in Low End Mac, by the way. > > > Good luck, > > > Felix > > > On Sep 30, 9:43 pm, Tom and Lisa Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >>> >Where I could get a G4 upgrade from. > > >>>> Simon > > >>> daystar.com > > >>> Let us know what you think of their product, I have a Lombard > >>> that I would > >>> not mind upgrading too. > > >>> Bruno > > >> I had a lombard with a G4 processor that worked great for me (from > >> Daystar). > > >> Mad Dog- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
