On 22/4/05, Jon Glass, discombobulated, unleashed: >1. Pink screen. It's not that common, but sometimes, a Pismo will >display in pink when waking the monitor from the screen saver. My >wife's Pismo shows this, but mine doesn't.
I had one display go bad on me, and had a backup ready to fit. That one is still working fine, and I have another spare waiting. They go for less than a couple of hundred bucks on US eBay (complete display with plastics, ready to fit). Just changing the LCD panel inside is not a problem either. PS - Here's something you might like to see, long before Apple decided to turn the logo 'the right way up' on the TiBooks, I did it to my Lombard: :-) <http://www.cottysnaps.com/snaps/spare4.html> What a hoot >2. Bad DVD drives. The model with the numbers 8080B on the bottom are >the LG brand, and they tend to die. The Matshita drive, OTOH, seems to >be solid. Swapping out a DVD drive mech from inside the plastics, again, no problem. >3. The Airport card that goes internal is rather rare _and_ expensive! >About $100!!! Worse, it's the older b version not the newer, faster g. >If this is important to you, you might want to consider a newer book. There's a few around. Same one's fit in the original iMac as well. US eBay again. >4. The batteries have a finite lifespan. If somebody wants to sell you >a Pismo with original battery, do not believe them if they tell you it >still holds a good charge. It won't. Unfortunately, batteries are >about 1/3 the cost of a Pismo. The good side, as someone else >mentioned, is that you can slap two batteries into the Pismo, and get >five to six or more out of them, so long as they are new! Agree. I got a NewerTech 6600 mah battery last year and it's pretty amazing <http://www.newertech.com/newer_bats.html> HTH Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________
