SCORE! Lombard 333Mhz 512MB RAM!!

[coius]

Paid for it through Paypal. $100

Specs:

[edited below to reflect what I actually got]

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Processor

400Mhz G3 w/ 1MB L2 Cache

I got a 333Mhz w/ 512K L2 Cache instead

RAM

512MB PC-100

HDD

8GB EIDE

I got a 4GB

Display

14.1"

it has two dead lines. ordered new display

Battery

1-2Hour MAX Li-Ion original battery

I seem to be getting about 4 hours!!! 3rd-party!!!

Optical

24x CD-ROM

Ports

SCSI/USB1.1/Audio in-out/VGA/S-Video/IRDA

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price:

$100!!!

Not bad, eh? It's a done deal And the cache works!!!

oh! And I get to pick it up tomorrow!!!

EDIT: picked up. See changes above for what I REALLY got :-/

 

[Christopher]

Nice job.

I got my iBook for $170 shipped from ebay. Specs were 128MB, 10GB clunker(that I still use despite its condition) and I get FireWire

Still awesome deal, you get the neato card slot right?

 

[coius]

Still awesome deal, you get the neato card slot right?

xHuh? what's that?

I get the PC Card slot, yes... that will be used for my Lucent WaveAccess Gold card

Other than that, I am not too sure about the optical drive. I will have to see. The guys says it's a CD-ROM, but it very well could be a DVD-ROM. not sure...

 

[quinterro]

That's a great deal!

My 400mhz Lombard was $115 with 128MB RAM and a 6GB hard disk. Now if only I could figure out why it locks up with a hot bottom in MacOS X.....

 

[bubbleman7546]

you lucky sonofagun! Nice deal!!

 

[macintoshman]

Why are g3 laptops soo expensive????

 

[Temetka]

$100 for an OS X capable laptop is cool.

Nice score.

I think you may have slightly overpaid, but for the specs you got I have seen people pay much more recently.

Enjoy the Lombard, they are good machines.

 

[coius]

Well, two problems

It has a 333Mhz CPU with WORKING 512K L2 Cache, but the other hitch is:

Two lines going down the display (blue and green) right next to each other that are stuck in "on" mode

if the display turns white, it will turn white, but they are like only 1 pixel wide each, but it's kind of in the middle of the display. But it's something I can live with I know a place I can get a new display for $30. Question, does the Wallstreet II 14" display use the same connector for the screen as the Wallstreet does? (on the actual display, not the ribbon that plugs into the board) I might just want to swap displays. I know it's a long shot, but before I dig into it, I want to know if anyone can tell me that they have done it? (no, this is not a "holy grail" thing from Applefritter, I am not asking to use it with VGA I just want to know if they are the same displays)

 

[coius]

I ordered another display off of ebay for $34 shipped. the speed of the machine is just fine, mainly because I have enough ram.

right now, this is the setup:

Lombard 14"

333Mhz G3 PPC750 w/ 512KB L2 Cache (32k L1 Cache I think)

512MB PC-100 (2x 256MB SoDIMMs, low-density)

100GB EIDE 4200RPM HDD

CD-ROM (24x)

8MB VRAM Rage LT Pro

USB/SCSI/Sound in/out / 10/100Mbits Ethernet/ 56k v.90 Modem/VGA

This setup still rocks! it's not that far off from my Pismo that I had. I am going to trick this out

FYI, I am going to test the battery and see how long it takes to go out. It seems to be a 3rd party battery from 2006. so I might get some pretty good time out of it

 

[Christopher]

4200RPM? I'm sorry.

 

[bubbleman7546]

apple still sells macbook pro's with 4200 rpm hard drives, mind you. i haven't really noticed much of a difference between speeds with what i do and probably what coius will do.

 

[coius]

4200RPM? I'm sorry.

I didn't buy the harddrive for speed I just wanted something big. And whether it's on USB 2.0 or inside an old laptop, I hardly think it will make much of a difference about the RPM of the drive when i am not using it for high-performance data access

 

[coius]

I went ahead and ordered a new display for it $32.50 Shipped!