Hi The easiest way to tell if it is a Lombard or Pismo is open the port door on the back. If it has 2 firewire ports then it is a Pismo, if it has no firewire ports then it is a Lombard.
There are no issues I can think of on either machine. The Lombard doesn't officially support Tiger but I had it running on both of mine a dream - just make sure you max out the RAM to 512MB and if you can put a faster hard drive in it. Also it doesn't have an Airport slot so you will have to use a wireless card in the PCMCIA slot - http://www.simonroyal.co.uk/html/maccards.html The Pismo has a 1GB RAM limit, officially supports Tiger and is much better than the Lombard. Even a 400Mhz Pismo will outdo a 400Mhz Lombard (66Mhz vs 100Mhz). I would suggest also putting a faster hard drive in a Pismo, the original drives are painfully slow and will make a lot of difference. Make sure you get one with a good casing. The G3 PowerBook range are built like tanks and take a hell of a bashing but I have had a few with broken plastics. Simon On 8 Jan 2009, at 16:08, di wrote: > > If it's a 400mhz Pismo, are there any issues with that model that I > should look out for? > > I'm thinking it looks like a pretty good machine but I haven't got a > heap of money to spend so I don't want to buy a dud. > > Thanks for your help. > > di > > > --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
