I have worked on my two Lombards. Just the other day I put in more ram which required removing the processor, and the connection is completely different from the picture on ebay. There were upgrade cards made, but i don't know how fast they were, and that isn't one for a lombard. -Jonas
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Cyrus <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have personally worked extensively with both Lombards and Pismos; > and it is indeed impossible to swap motherboards. The keyboard and > trackpad plugins are completely different, the Pismo has a much larger > heatsync, and an AirPort card slot, and two FireWire ports instead of > a SCSI port. To change motherboards, you'd have to change cases, > keyboards, the CPU. the only part that's compatible between the two is > the display. (And the modem) And then... you'd just have a Pismo. He > is probably just confused, or got something mixed up. I think there > may be, however, a 500Mhz upgrade CPU for the lombards, but I'm not > sure. I do know that the processors are incompatible, also. > > -Cyrus > > > On Mar 4, 11:25 am, Bruce - in Orlando <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I see on ebay right now there is a 500 mhz CPU board being advertised > > as being for a Lombard: > http://cgi.ebay.com/Processor-Board-Apple-PowerBook-G3-Lombard-500Mhz... > > > > As I understand it the fastest CPU board for a Lombard was actually > > 400 mhz, so I suspect this board would actually be from a Pismo? > > Seller claims he really used it in his Lombard. Yet elsewhere on ebay > > there are Pismo CPU boards for sale where the description specifically > > says that a Pismo CPU board will not work in a Lombard: > http://cgi.ebay.com/Powerbook-G3-Pismo-400mhz-Processor-Firewire-400-... > > > > So, true or false - will a 500 mhz Pismo CPU board work in a Lombard? > > Or maybe this 500 mhz board came from some powerbook other than Pismo? > > > > Bruce - in Orlando > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
