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I have honestly not loved a laptop more than this Pismo. Simply looking at it just gets me nostalgic. Ever since I first used a random Mac in 2001 or so (running OS 8, at school, for some edutainment game), I've been attracted to them. 11 years later, I've got 6 genuine Macs (one Intel) and a...

Sorry for the double post... The cable came in (with a new hard drive 'holder'), and it looks in much better shape than the original one. Problem is that it didn't fix the problem. Next step is...what? I've got eyes on rather decent prices for the: - DC in board - Voltage regulator/PMU card...

Hmm. I'd say it depends on how much you really need or use that SCSI port. I've got my Pismo that every now and then I've wished it had SCSI for hooking to old drives and what not. If you use it or even forsee using it, keep the Lombard. You're going to like the 12" G4 a whole lot more than the...

Okay...sooo... Found a harddrive cage and ribbon on ebay for just 10$. My only wonder is how could that explain the random failure that happened. I was typing, no background process active, had been using it for awhile, then the screen dims, and the hard drive stops spinning...I think one of...

Thanks for the responses, guys. I'd hate it if my G4 is dead. But after looking at some pictures of the logic board online, it seems that the only place the controller could be IS on the daughtercard...darn. I'm smack dab in the middle of exams, so doing anything isn't feasable for a few days...

:eyebrowraise: I've got a good Asus G73, dual booting Windows 7 and Mac OS X Lion. And if I had the room on my desk, I'd be bringing a 3Ghz Core 2 Quad desktop with the same setup here. I'm at no shortage of money or practicality (except to drop 2k$ on a MacBook Pro with the specs I need to do...

It scared me to death when it happened...even worse, I was typing a study guide on it for exams (ain't college life exciting...) Yes, I have a DVD-ROM in it, and it does eject. In fact, it boots...kind of. Did a bit more testing while I was waiting. After I shut the laptop off, I immediately...

I've had a PowerBook Pismo for the longest time. I got it for free from a guy who said it wouldn't start. I took it home, got it to turn on, and what followed was an obsession with...the G4? Yeah, it had a 450Mhz G4 processor in it, along with 768MB of RAM and a 40GB HDD. I loved this little...

Wow, installing that fixed everything...Updates installed perfectly. ...And I just realized that is the link that everywhere pointed to, and I know for a fact it did not work when I tried it the other night. But thanks for that, anyway!

Hey there, new to the forums, but hoping you guys can help me out some. About 2 years ago I got a PowerMac G4 AGP, GIgabit Ethernet version. Its a DP500, and I've upgraded it to 1GB of memory. I used it mainly for general computing for awhile, then tried installing OS 9 on it (with great...