New PowerBook G3! (Wallstreet)

[jdmoser]

I just acquired a 14" PowerBook G3 233 MHz (Wallstreet) as an alternative to my Beige G3 tower for making floppies for my older Macs.

It's a beauty for sure ( picture! http://i.imgur.com/ArTwpmQ.jpg) ... it's in excellent shape. Just thought I would share it, but if there's any advice on how to make it faster and beefier, I'm all ears. The hard drive in particular feels really sluggish.

 

[unity]

Nice score! Looks sharp!

 

[Unknown_K]

A newer 40GB IDE drive will speed things up (originals were 4-8GB I think). I have a few Wallstreets and they are so easy to work on. The original 233 used a dual scan 800x600 screen that sucks. newer models used a 14 and 13" screen 1024x768. There are zip drive and LS120 drives that fit in the floppy drive/cdrom port. You can have 512MB RAM (2x256MB PC100). Early units can do 83FSB while later ones are stuck at 66 so you can do 292Mhz or 300mhz CPUs.

 

[jdmoser]

Ahh yes, I forgot to mention! My model is the 14" ... really sharp looking display!

Good to know about the hard drive. I suspected that would be an easy swap.