Hi Simon,
Nice to hear about your pismo, these machines really do stand
the
test of time, it's a wonder why apple don't take hints from the past
when designing their newer machines. Even though their age goes
against them, their modular design is far better than most things on
the market today. My hdd is a 120 gig with the same spindle speed as
yours, and I must say I'm very happy with it. I initially thought I'd
fill it with my itunes library, but then I thought I'd put the itunes
library on my external 500 gig that is hooked up to my airport
extreme base station and run itunes from there, freeing up a huge
section of my hdd on the laptop.
I use my pismo mostly for emailing, surfing and the odd letter
writing (word-processing), plus I'm also in the middle of writing a
book on my old pc laptop in word, so I'm wanting to get that put
across onto my mac.
Jonathan
On 2 Oct 2008, at 12:11, Simon Royal wrote:
>
> Jonathan
>
> I thought I would share my Pismo joys with you.
>
> Mine is a 400mhz G3 model, maxxed to 1GB of RAM, a super silent
> super quick 5400RPM 40GB hard drive, a UJ-846 dual layer slot
> loading dvd burner and Airport card.
>
> It too is in mint condition and rocks. This thing flies along. Hard
> to believe sometimes it is a 8 year old low end G3.
>
> Simon
>
> --- www.simonroyal.co.uk and www.nmug.org.uk (sent using Nokia E71)
>
> -original message-
> Subject: Re: G4 Pismo
> From: Jonathan Doupe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 02/10/2008 11:27
>
>
> 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
>>>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >
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