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Bought a near mint Pismo

Hugh

Hugh

6502
... on eBay for just under £40.

It's the 400Mhz version, came with 512mb RAM, 12GB HDD, DVD drive, Airport and a one hour battery.

Upgraded from Panther to Tiger 10.4.11, installed all my backed up old stuff + TenFourFox, then the spending started ...

1GB RAM, 2 new batteries, 60GB hard drive (from stock so was free), then it got more mad and I've just ordered a 32GB PATA SSD to play with.

I also bought another CPU daughterboard and overclocked it to 500, but it was causing KPs and I dropped it to 450Mhz. It's now working nice and stable in the Pismo.

I would dearly love to find a G4 upgrade card, but short of spending $199 new I can't seem to find a used one, anybody have an old one hanging around?

In short - I love it - the iPad isn't getting much use these days!

Cheers :)

Hugh

 
They are!

I loaned out mine this summer, and I hope I can get it back sooner or later.

It's not fast by today's standards, but it's a very decent machine nonetheless.

I would dearly love to find a G4 upgrade card, but short of spending $199 new I can't seem to find a used one...
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Me too! Then I can run Leopard on it (just for fun, I don't know if it's actually very usable).
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Leopard could run pretty slow because of the maximum RAM, and wasn't brilliant on a G4 700 iMac a few Macs ago.

Tell you what, when you get your Pismo back, I'll swap you an emac for it!

Cheers :)

Hugh

 
I would like one, but every-time i try to get one, they want a hundie or more.

I just can't throw down that much for one. :(

 
The entire PowerBook G3 line I wanted. But for whatever reason people are wanting collectable prices for them, in decent shape! Nice nab! I'm curious, how well does it run Tiger?

 
OK I think, not super fast but then again I'm not impatient. I'm surprised (and I remember now) how good Tiger really is, and no extra crap bits like the Lions have.

I've enabled pipelining in TenFourFox which has made internet pages load more quickly, but I think the graphics is slowing it down somewhat.

I tried ATIccelerator II http://thomas.perrier.name/ but is hasn't made any difference that I can notice.

The best speed boost I hope to gain will be from an SSD when it arrives, plus even better battery life.

Cheers :)

Hugh

 
Tiger was a good OS. When my dad bought his MacBook (black, 2.0GHz Core Duo) it came with Tiger, and he didn't bother to upgrade to Leopard because it was such a good OS. He did upgrade when Snow came out, then he sold the laptop just before Lion came out, and got a great deal off the sell.

 
Hugh - do post re how she runs with the ssd, I have long considered getting one for my pismo(s). Speed and battery runtime improvement, plus the stability, are compelling to me...

 
Will do, bought this one http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/300745319081?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649 as I don't think I will ever need more than 32GB in this machine.

It's coming from China, so may take a while.

I was toying with the idea of a CF card in an IDE adapter but research suggests not as good as a genuine SSD.

However I fancy putting a CF card in the PCMCIA adapter I already have and try to boot something (OS 9?) from it. Have a 1GB card somewhere, will OS 9 fit on it?

Cheers :)

Hugh

 
I am running one of my 1400s on a CF card (and it runs just fine, and silently) but that would not work for me on a Pismo - I think I have the wrong type (slower speed?) Thought about trying that again with the right kind of CF card but had not gotten around to it. I think I was using 4gb cards...that was enough to hold 9.2 but just barely enough for 10.4.11.

Can you explain pipelining in the controls for TenFourFox? Would like to try that, but I don't see how to control in Preferences?

 
Wow, definitely a good price on that SSD drive. And yeah, that would be plenty big for me. I am working on a novel so it would be nice to have the added drive stability. I've been saving to a flash drive in case of hard drive failure, which works, but it would certainly be great to get better battery life too.

 
So far so good, seems a little faster loading pages. I wouldn't bother doing it for my MacBook though.

Cheers :)

Hugh

 
It seems Camino is a lot faster than TenFourFox on this machine, so I'm giving it a whirl ...

Cheers :)

Hugh

 
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