kitsunesoba
Well-known member
So if all goes as planned, a 500Mhz Pismo should be showing up on my doorstep sometime within the next week or two.
We'll see how it turns out when it gets here, but from the photos it looks like it's in decent cosmetic shape. Seller had already upgraded its RAM and storage and advertised it as fully functional, with the only real kink being the screen taking a bit to warm up and the battery being totally dead.
Is there anything I should be on the lookout for? Based on what I've seen it doesn't seem like its PRAM battery is a bomb, and I haven't seen too many mentions of bad caps either. Seems the model has an inclination towards some hinge issues?
This will be by a good measure the oldest Mac portable I've owned, and the first that boots Classic Mac OS, so it should be interesting. Previous oldest was an OS X-locked iBook G4.
We'll see how it turns out when it gets here, but from the photos it looks like it's in decent cosmetic shape. Seller had already upgraded its RAM and storage and advertised it as fully functional, with the only real kink being the screen taking a bit to warm up and the battery being totally dead.
Is there anything I should be on the lookout for? Based on what I've seen it doesn't seem like its PRAM battery is a bomb, and I haven't seen too many mentions of bad caps either. Seems the model has an inclination towards some hinge issues?
This will be by a good measure the oldest Mac portable I've owned, and the first that boots Classic Mac OS, so it should be interesting. Previous oldest was an OS X-locked iBook G4.
Last edited: