Lombard $41 Shipped

[jkoci]

Working 400mhz, with 128mb ram, 6gb hard drive, ac adapter, dead battery, no DVD drive. Maybe the original boxes too. From an ebay auction that advertised it as a Powerbook GP3. I was the only bidder. I was looking for something cheap to run Jaguar better than my Wallstreet.

 

[sambapati87]

Nice! Gotta love that -- probably got excluded from many search results because of the misspelling. My lombard was $80, and I thought that was a good deal!

 

[jkoci]

probably got excluded from many search results because of the misspelling

I think so too. The seller just told me it shipped today.

 

[Unknown_K]

Great deal, what are you going to do for optical drives (can't use wallstreet ones)?

 

[Dennis Nedry]

Consider this idea:

TWO BATTERIES

If you rarely use CDs / DVDs, just find some other way, like external SCSI drive or network to a different Mac that has one. You can SCSI dock and shoot over a disk image too. Pismo/Lombard optical drives are usually kind of sketchy and tend to go bad. A flex cable in one of mine cracked rendering the drive virtually useless, but I've gotten by fine with these other options.

 

[MacDan]

Cool. Welcome to the club!

 

[jkoci]

Cool. Welcome to the club!

Thanks. I just got it today and am posting using it. It boots up fine and is as advertised. I took 256mb of ram out of my Wallstreet to up the Lombards total to 320. It came with 10.2.8 on it. The pram battery is dead too. It was nice to see how easy it is to replace when I opened up the keyboard. Not sure how I will use this machine yet. My Wallstreet is totally classic OS so I will keep Jaguar on this one. I had Jaguar on the Wallstreet and felt it was too slow. This machine handles it better.

 

[jkoci]

Update. Got a DVD module on ebay for $18 shipped. Am installing Panther from a DVD right now.

 

[Unknown_K]

Yea, I have no plans for OSX on my Wallstreets since it would be too slow.

 

[Bunsen]

The pram battery / It was nice to see how easy it is to replace when I opened up the keyboard.

Oh I second that emotion. I only just noticed that a couple of days ago (when I was drying out my coffee spill ahem) and after finding out what was involved in a Wallstreet PRAM mission, boy was I relieved.

 

[MacDan]

I took 256mb of ram out of my Wallstreet to up the Lombards total to 320. It came with 10.2.8 on it. The pram battery is dead too. It was nice to see how easy it is to replace when I opened up the keyboard. Not sure how I will use this machine yet. My Wallstreet is totally classic OS so I will keep Jaguar on this one. I had Jaguar on the Wallstreet and felt it was too slow. This machine handles it better.

You could put Tiger on it, but you don't have a DVD drive. Sure you need firewire to install Tiger, but there's a workaround (XPostFacto). I read on Wikipedia and I've had some people tell me that Tiger runs smoothly on it. I'm going to do it next week, when I get that stick of 512MB.

Think about it.