There is also another slight difference: the label, which is placed on the monitor frame. A Lombard will have "Macintosh PowerBook G3" written in it, whilst a Pismo will have simply "PowerBook". If you don't have access to the back ports (for instance, when you can't physically "see" the machine before you buy it, you only have a couple of photos), you can try looking at the display frame.
Earlier PowerBook G3's were even more different: they did not have that white apple on top of the screen, instead they featured a "PowerPC™" logo. And I can't recall what they said in the name bezel, but it was different from the Lombard... Regards Manuel Marques, Portugal On Jan 8, 11:22 am, Simon Royal <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.ukandhttp://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
