Seek Pismo opinion.

[MacNoob]

I can pick up a Pismo configured as:

Powerbook G3 400MHz Pismo

768 MB RAM

New 40GB 5400 RPM HDD

DVD Rom

Apple Power Adapter

Powerbook G3 (Original Apple) battery (holds a great charge)

Mac OSX 10.3.9

Microsoft Office 2004

for $250.

It's for my wife to do email and web. Whattaya think?

MacNoob

 

[MacG4]

not a bad price really. i sold my pismo for $350 a few months back it was a 500mhz/1gig ram/60gig hd/dvd-crdw combo drive/3 batteries/1 expansion bay 12gig hd/floppy drive/ac adapter

 

[gobabushka]

dude, go for it!!! i managed to get my pismo for $150 back in '06 base config. i cant wait to resurrect it!

 

[4seasonphoto]

For $250, try to get a newer computer with wifi and combo drive!

 

[Dan 7.1]

For $250, try to get a newer computer with wifi and combo drive!

agreed. Pismo's do have wifi but for that much money i'm sure you can find something better.

its not worth $250.

 

[MacG4]

offer $200 ish and see what they say

 

[wood_e]

Offer $175, then 200...

10 months ago I picked up a Pismo that was perfect... I mean it was PERFECT! NO marks, no nothing - mint screen, mint keyboard. 384MB RAM, wifi card (NOT airport) , DVD drive and a great battery

Sold it on ebay for $400

 

[John8520]

I say $175 as well, $250 is really high. A year ago I got a pismo/500 for my dad with 512mb RAM and no HDD off the LEM swap for $125. If you wait, you find good deals.

 

[MacG4]

I say $175 as well, $250 is really high. A year ago I got a pismo/500 for my dad with 512mb RAM and no HDD off the LEM swap for $125. If you wait, you find good deals.

true just depends on what u are willing to pay for it

 

[Bunsen]

I don't agree. Look at the amount of RAM and the HD, and the DVD drive. $250 seems fair to me.

 

[Temetka]

IMO $250 is fair for the machine config listed. That being said I would offer $225 and see if they bite. The only other thing I would do to that Pismo would be to pick up a second battery.

I used to have 2 batteries in my old Pismo. Man that laptop could run for 8+ hours on battery alone. Sadly I sold it to help pay for the Ti that this post is being made on.

Pismo's are great machine, I'd be all over that deal if I didn't have my Ti.

 

[4seasonphoto]

When all is said and done, a Pismo is just a G3, and I don't know if DVD movie playback works under OS X. Last time we needed batteries for a older machine (Lombard) it still cost around $100 and it turned out to not hold a charge very well because it had been sitting around Micro Center for years.

On the other hand, fresh batteries for white iBooks are definitely available, and because of the recall a few months ago, it's even possible yours will have a fairly fresh one.

 

[Dan 7.1]

huh? the DVD playback works perfectly. at least on my pismo it does.

 

[The Macster]

I don't know if DVD movie playback works under OS X

On my G3 tower it does work but is not really smooth enough. In OS9 it locked the whole machine up when I tried to play a DVD, possibly because of the hacked Apple DVD Player that I had to use (on OS X I didn't need a hacked one for it to work).

 

[Dan 7.1]

why did you have to use a hacked version of Apple DVD Player?

 

[The Macster]

Because I have a non-Apple-logoed drive and the non-hacked one gave an error about supported DVD hardware not being found when I tried to run it. The OS X one works fine with no hacking though, and the drive is pretty Mac-compatible as it can boot from it and everything.

 

[Dan 7.1]

weird...i have a lite-on dvd-rw drive in my digital audio g4, i'm curious to see if it will play a dvd in os9. i've not used os9 as a daily os since 10.2 was released

 

[John8520]

a DVD drive in a pismo is nothing special, it came standard.

 

[FunnymanSE30]

I love my pismo. I have 640mb of ram, an airport card, and 10.4 everything runs fine except flash video(like youtube). i get about 8 hours of battery life just websurfing

i got my replacement pismo battery from the seller "wholesalelaptopbatteries"

Here's one for sale on their website

The batteries are fairly freshly made too, less than a month old.