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I use a Pismo 400 with 768mb RAM as my "daily driver." For most browsing, I find it quite acceptable, and Camino is my regular browser. There is one site that slows to a crawl: Hotmail. Not sure whether it's the underlying java script or the ads on the right. At any rate, switching between...

I'll try again with no wifi card in and see if it locks up...thanks. It sure seems to be transfering heat well to the dispersion grill...I may try installing 10.3 next week and see if that changes anything.

I was doing some testing with my Lombard today and it freezes up consistently after about 30 minutes. I reinstalled OS 9.2.2 but same result. Now I am running it for awhile with the keyboard open and I notice the fan is not going. I'm wondering if this is a heat dispersion issue, the CPU/and...

Recently, I changed wireless modems at home (with Qwest) and have been re-connecting various devices etc. I finally got around to my PB 1400s, connecting with Orinoco silver cards. My hook still works fine at the office, so I know the card and the software and 'puter are fine and work. At home...

The Pismo is a lovely machine - I use mine as my daily driver notebook. Very sturdy and decent battery life. I wish Camino could handle javascript faster, but that's about my only grumble with it. For a machine that's 11 or 12 years old, it works amazingly well.

One of my Pismos has developed a new tic - a little bit of "squealing" when the battery is low when replugged to power. This has happened now a couple of times and then goes away. The battery still recharges ok; it runs on power ok; the reset button in back does not seem to stop the squeal per...

I use waveLAN silvers for my PB1400s and for my Lombards. They work well with little fuss.

Success! I snipped off the extra pin, connected everything, taped down the end of the card so it would not flop around in the HD cavity, and booted. Once you have copied over the system folder to the card, the whole installation took about 4 minutes, including the pin snip. It is eerily...

I went to try this today and wondered what to do about the extra pin in the cheapie adapter. The IDE pin side has 44 pins and the HD cable has a knockout (no recepticle) in the 10th row. Did I get the wrong adapter? Hmmm... I was able to initialize the CF card in the PCMIA slot, and then copied...

Congratulations! They are, I think, the best notebook Apple ever made!

I've got the 44-pin adapter on order, and the PCMCIA adapter. Now I am trying to score a low-cost 8gb card on the 'bay. I figure I will give this a try in one of the 1400s first and see what's shaking.

I see for instance 16gb CF cards on eBay, still for cheap, but they don't say whether they are type I. Heck, if 16gb cards would work, this solution could work for my Pismos too.

Also, do you need an Addonics brand adapter or will one of the cheaper 44 pin adapters on eBay also work?

I'm tempted to give this a try with one of mine - is all you need a 4gb or 8gb CF card and a 44-pin IDE adapter? Do you need to do anything before removing the old HD and then booting from the 1400's original backup CD?

Score! Looks like it was never even used. I love the form factor of the Blackbirds.

I'm still waiting on the 40gb price from OWC...I do love the Pismo as a writing machine and I have a number of them, so if one fails, I could just swap the SSD drive around...may still be worth getting one for the writing work. The lower power consumption would be a nice plus... There's just...

Well, shoot, you guys have given me good advice and talked me down. Even more than the speed, having the nice drive stability was a plus. I probably would be better off just finding a higher speed (7200?) regular new HDD in the 40gb range that I can use for the Pismo I'm going to write on. Most...

Thanks, AF. Yeah, I'd gotten to that page, but hadn't bookmarked it. That 40 gb is my only hope. I suppose it'll be $150 or thereabouts. Sigh. I wonder how long that drive would last...

Here is the link: http://www.lowendmac.com/bookrev/11br/0107.html And this was the operative text that got me going (scroll down on the page to see): OWC Mercury Legacy Pro SandForce Based IDE/ATA SSD for Mac and PC NotebooksPR: Other World Computing (OWC) has announced its new Mercury Legacy...

I wondered about that - these are definitely SATAs. And yet, I think the original link from Low End Mac led me to believe that they could work in Pismos. Well, that could cool me down...