On Jun 27, 2005, at 9:27 AM, Geoffrey Davis wrote:
My 2 cents?
The Pismo is more readily adaptable.
By this I mean that even a clot with the mechanical skills of a
turtle with a screwdriver (i.e. me...) can upgrade and reconfigure
it rather easily.
The TiBooks, on the other hand usually need a more skilled touch,
and upgrade parts are fewer and more expensive.
Actually, having worked on both, the TiBook is just as easy to work
on. Replacing HDD's or optical drives and adding memory is just as easy.
You have to be more careful with the titanium back, as it's easy to
bend, but it's just a matter of not being totally ham-handed.
OK, the TiBook is newer, shinier and have a faster processor, and
you think that would mean more price-wise, but it seems to me that
in computing, utility wins the day.
There really isn't any greater utility
It's a Chevy/Jaguar thing.
Get an old Chevy to fix up, and parts seemingly fall from the sky.
Get a Jag for the same reason, and you'd better have a parts good
source and deep pockets.
Hardly. Parts are as readily available for the TiBooks as for Pismos.
and Apple made MORE titanium powerbooks than they did Pismos...it's
just fewer of those have fallen over into the 'usable for parts only'
category.
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