On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at 06:19 PM, Jeff Hubatka wrote: >> I've just bought a 333 Mhz Lombard with CD drive. I'm interested in >> fitting a DVD Rom drive instead, but I gather from the list archive >> that I couldn't play DVD movies if I did so unless I get a PC card >> hardware decoder. I'd be grateful if someone could confirm, or deny, >> this. > > I have the same model. Very few 333mhz models had DVD decoding built-in > - I think they were at the end of the model run.
as far as i know, -none- of the lombard powerbooks (officially called the "Powerbook G3 (Bronze Keyboard)") had a built in DVD decoder. the Powerbook (Firewire) (aka "Pismo") was the first model to support DVD without a cardbus decoder card. >> If this is true, this is a bit of a blow - I've already just put a >> Linksys wifi card in the PC Card slot, using the IOXperts OS X driver. >> Works fine. >> >> Oh, I'm running Jaguar with 192 Mbyte of RAM installed. RAM is next >> for >> the upgrade, I think. > > OS X of any flavor doesn't support the PC Card DVD playback. I guess > there's still a possibility of that happening, much like the long-lost > hardware video acceleration for these machines.... But I'm not counting > on it for mine. hardware acceleration is slowly trickling down to older machines in OS X. several of the last few releases have added a machine or two to the list. that said, i don't think hardware-based DVD solutions will be supported in OS X... and this isn't just powerbooks, but also the PowerMac G3's and the first PowerMac G4. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
