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Hi guys No I'm definitely not expecting it to run like my Hp DV7 or desktop PC. I've seen the YouTube video, booting the model powerbook I'm thinking of buying, next to its intel based counterpart, the intel beats it hands down. However as it has been pointed out, compared to my Pismo it will...

Hi there guys First of all, thanks to everyone who took the time to reply and give some pretty thorough opinion's on this machine, it has given me food for thought. I'll try to answer one or two of the questions that have been asked. Firstly usage, if you haven't guess already by the fact I'm...

Evening all! I have been looking online at 1.6Ghz G4 Powerbooks and toying with the idea of buying one, but I would appreciate people's opinions on them. For example do they have any design flaws? like the Ibook G3 and its dreaded video fault or weak hinges. Also how well do they perform...

Hi Hugh I've not been able to find the software, so any help in that area would be greatly appreciated! James

I'm visiting relatives at the moment, but I will let you know when I get back. Usually it is Facebook or ebay that gets the fan working after an hour or more after being switched on. I don't believe I have the same software as you, I don't recall there being a temperature monitor with the...

When these CPU cards came out, you would send them off for upgrade. I wonder if they altered the internals. I might have to dig out the pismo this card came installed in. Thanks guys, I might try applying some fresh thermal paste to the heatsink James

Earlier this year I was lucky enough to land myself a Pismo with a XLR8 G4 card inside. I took the card out and installed it in my existing Pismo, keeping the other laptop for spares, should i ever need them. I use the Pismo for writing my block on Wordpress, surfing etc. I noticed last night...

Cheers, I shall look around to see if i can find a copy. I've not really had the issue of virus's with my Plus as i run everything from floppy, after I got sick of using the HDD. The Plus steals soo much room when you use HDD, external floppies etc. I'm still trying to decide if System 6 is...

Which of those will be ok for System 6? I decided to use that instead of 7, simply due to the performance. After all the Classic is essentially a Macintosh Plus.

Can anyone suggest a good virus checker? I installed System 6 and deleted the old system 7 and icons are back

Hi guys I have a slight problem and i was wondering if anyone else has suffered this. I bought a Classic off ebay earlier this year, it seemed perfectly fine. Tho sometimes the icon for the floppy would take ages to appear after inserting a disk. Now today, I have turned the Classic on and...

Ended up taking it apart and removing each of the switches and rebuilding them

Will have to give that a look, tho i'm thinking it's a flaky connection.

Hey guys As some of you might know, I'm in the process of refurbishing some of the components in my Plus. After spending the past year with it not working, I finally feel like progress is being made. However I'm encountering one of two problems and thought I would post here and get the advice...

I have a keyboard suffering with two dead keys, I've tried following some of the guides online for removing the black plastic surround, so that i can access the mechanism. However I've had no luck. Would I be best off desoldering and removing the two dead keys? Cheers James

All i can say is thanks, it's great to be able to use my Pismo for more then word processing. Will be featuring the TenFourFox browser on my blog :)

Thanks for all the advice, in the end I used a wet lubricant used on bicycle chains. Was much better then the silicon grease I had been trying. Drive appears all good now :-)

I'm also having issues with my 800k drive, I have followed the guide for cleaning / greasing the drive. Yet now the drive has trouble ejecting the disks without my help by pressing the ejection tab. I've greased everywhere but it still feels sticky / grating like metal is rubbing together.

Arghh damn tablet, I meant grease!

Thanks for the info, going to buy silicon geese tomorrow :-)