On Jan 15, 2010, at 2:13 PM, Austin Leeds wrote:
I've got an ailing Pismo 500 that I accidentally bent out of shape
on Wednesday (it was in a backpack that took a four-foot drop with
some pretty good initial velocity, so probably more like a five or six
foot drop), and now I'm having troubles with the DVD-ROM module not
working (the module was in the front of the backpack, so it was
pounded on by the weight of the rest of the textbooks and the Pismo in
the backpack (that's 6 [Pismo] plus at least 10 [textbooks], so
probably around 20 pounds of weight at a good velocity—not good). The
backpack strap broke (a Wal-Mart purchase… sigh), and now I think the
Pismo is done for… functionally, anyway. My sister (the one with the
clamshell) will probably love it.
So, I'm stuck between supporting Bill Gates (Never!), Steve Jobs
(eh…), and Linus Torvalds (hmm…). I like Mac OS X, especially Leopard
(which my college has on our newspaper production iMacs [check out
www.bannernewsonline.com]), but I'm starting to see that my chances of
getting a Mac as ubiquitous as the Pismo are slim. So…
I hate to say this, but has anyone seen the new Asus Eee PCs with
the Intel Atom N450? The battery life alone would sell them to me—14
hours. But I'm not using Windows—never again! I'm going to install
Ubuntu Netbook Remix on it, for my sanity. I personally love UNR on
our crappy HP Pavilion (solves the Vista problem better than 7 ever
could).
But before I bid farewell to the portable Mac tribe (I'll be using
desktop Macs to kingdom come), does anyone have any ideas how to bend
the metal internal structure of the Pismo back into shape?
Disassemble the machine the basic frame is light and fragile, very
easily bent back into possibly usable shape. Also a good amount of
parts can be had on eBay.=
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