Re: Buying new Powerbook

[David M. Ensteness]

Go for a Pismo over a Lombard. Pismos are very nice PowerBooks. They 
come in 400 and 500 G3 models as you know. They will take up to 1GB of 
RAM and will use PC-100 SDRAM SO-DIMMs. It can also use faster PC-133 
RAM but can not use PC-66. Your Wallstreet can use PC-66, 100, and 133. 
As long as your DIMMs are PC-100 or higher they will work in both.

There are not a lot of Pismo options as most things were standard. They 
all came standard with DVD, hard drives ranged from 6GB to 20GB. For OS 
X it will run very nicely [more RAM is better] and you will want a 
larger drive than 6GB. I used a 10GB in mine for a couple of years 
before moving to a faster 40GB, it all depends on your use of it.

Battery life tends to be around 4-4.5 hours for me with AirPort on but 
the screen completely dimmed and without other things [like FireWire 
drives] plugged into it. The Pismo has 10/100T wired ethernet, one 
PCMCIA Cardbus compliant slot, an internal AirPort slot, two bays [each 
can accept a battery and the right one only can accept DVD ROMs and 
other modules], 2 USB ports, 2 FireWire ports, IR DA [not supported in 
OS X], and a 56K V.90 modem.

It is a very nice PowerBook and you can think of it as a higher end 
Lombard with FireWire and better graphics. Processor upgrades for it 
are often considered spotty because due to a special Apple only chip on 
the daughter card the only way to upgrade a Pismo is to unsolder the G3 
from the daughter card and resolder another chip on. Some people have 
had great success, those that have no don't really have a backup since 
their original daughter card got altered to create the upgrade.

Hope that answered your questions.

David

On Sunday, July 13, 2003, at 11:32  AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I am thinking of buying a new Powerbook, currently I have a Wallstreet 
series 292 mhz.  I am thinking of getting either the 400 or 500 mhz 
pismo.  Will the ram I just purchased work in the Pismo?  What are 
some opinions on the Pismo?  Or should I go with the Lombard?  Thanks 
for any insight!

Pat


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