Re: PISMO G3 POWERBOOK UPGRADE - ADVICE REQ'D

crap mail Mon, 04 Oct 2004 11:17:38 -0700

keep the pismo its a very durable caddylac last version of the classy stealthy black powerbooks. definitley upgrade the hd 40-80gb, faster drives with larger caches help a bit. max the ram to 1gb, you can't do much as far as video card upgrades (so don't expect 50fps with unreal tournament 2004+no quartz extreme), then finally splurge on http://www.daystartechnology.com/Apple_Mac_Products/ XLR8_Macintosh_Products/Mac_CPU_G4_Upgrade_PowerBook_Pismo_PS.html . i've taken my pismo backpacking, camping, around the planet, on beaches, at burning man, dropping it on occasion, skateboarding round town for borrowing wifi : ) - they are very durable, well built powerbooks. usually repair parts can be had on ebay/online for relatively inexpensive not to mention the ease of opening a pismo. oh- i almost forgot you can hold 2 batteries. isight works great, very nicely designed. but for laptop i use the logitech quickcam notebook pro http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/CA/ EN,CRID=690,CONTENTID=5040 i think less power consumption, smaller package. if you plan on using ichat you'll need http://www.ecamm.com/mac/ichatusbcam/ and there are dvd and cdr burners that retrofit into the caddy.

cheers,
rama.

On Sep 23, 2004, at 1:49 PM, simon goslin wrote:

G'DAY GUYS,
MY PISMO IS STANDARD SPEC, BAR THE RAM UPGRADE I'VE PERFORMED RECENTLY (576MB)

I'D LIKE TO UPGRADE THE HARD DRIVE, ALTHOUGH I HAVE ALL MY DOCUMENTS AND PICTURES ON MY IPOD (SLOWER, BUT EFFECTIVE), I ONLY HAVE A GIG LEFT (IT WAS DOWN TO 100MB) AND HAVE RECENTLY PURCHASED ADOBE CS (THE BIG GIG GUZZLER).
CAN I UPGRADE TO 500MHZ AT THE SAME TIME, I'D LIKE AN ISIGHT.
WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND?
CHEERS!
GOOSE
24/09
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