Josh: If you are new to the list check out the archive--these are
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><Hello to everyone, I just bought a Lombard..333mhz,
><192 megs of ram, 4 gig and was just wondering what
>< you guys have as far as your
><OS on your Lombards..
I have a 333 Lombard with 192megs and it runs OSX OK--if your
expectations are not unreasonable. Once you get your new drive make
three disk partitions and keep OS9 on one partition and OSX on the
other. You may want to stay on OS9.
>Also, I'm thinking about upgrading the HD,
>it would appear for not much more I
>could get a Newer Firewire card, and a
> firewire 7200rpm HD for just a little
>bit more than a regular 2.5 5400rpm IDE hard drive..
Others have discussed this topic--check the archives. I bought an
drive from OWC and then put the old drive in a $60 firewire box that
is powered through the cable. It is a wonderful thing for my other
computers--but I can't use the firewire on the Lombard without a
firewire card--which I also need for my ipod--but remember only the
really, really expensive firewire card ( can't remember the name)
allows you to connect an external power supply to the card to power
the cable on a portable firewire drive--including the cost of the
external power supply I think it costs over $100 (all firewire
cardbus cards are not equal).
IN other words, without a plug in power supply you cannot
power firewire through the cardbus; you must have a self-powered
external drive--or a self powered cardbus--you cannot drive your
drive from the lombard battery.
Now think of this----you can't take that big drive with you
and 4 Gigs is hardly enough disk space these days for much of
anything. Since your new drive would be critical for giving your
machine a speed boost, and so you would want it to be the boot up
drive-- you really want the new internal drive for speed and
portability.
I can promise you, the new drive will really speed up the
machine. There are other experts here that know more about processor
swaps and dvd chips, but of course at some point, if you want a
pismo, its cheaper to sell the Lombard and get a pismo.
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