On Nov 16, 2006, at 7:23 PM, William D. Bandes wrote:
If anyone gets to the point where they can't stand it anymore, go out and get a PB Kanga, which is a G3 in the 5300 case with a larger screen (12.1"). Never any trouble with that machine. What a gem!
Technically, it is a G3 in a PB3400 case. It *was* the PowerBook 3500 before they decided that unique numbers denoting every model was some how more confusing then 20 different models all having the same name.
I do point out this difference that it is actually a PB3400 with a G3 processor, because it can share many parts with the 3400, whereas it can share nothing except the battery with the 5300 (and the battery from a 5300 won't get you very long as the 5300 used NiMH batteries and the 3400 and G3 used LiON batteries, so a 5300 battery at full charge will get you about 15 minutes on the G3. The battery sharing is NOT compatible the other way around, you can't put a 3400/G3 battery into a 5300).
The 5300 by the way was basically a 190 with a PPC processor.
That's still my primary machine running OS8.6 (it will take up to 9.1), and I know that they're out there because I got an identical (backup) machine el cheapo not long ago.
I was *supposed* to have one of them to replace my PB 1400. I bought my boss a Pismo to replace his Kanga, and he was supposed to pass the Kanga to me. Alas, he kept dragging his feet claiming he hadn't yet moved everything off it. Even after I took care of moving everything, he still had one excuse after another why he had to have the Kanga sitting booted in his office being ignored. Roll the clock forward, and I *still* don't have the Kanga, and now I really don't care because although it can take OS X with the help of XPostFacto, it's ram tops out at something like 196 MB which is too small to do anything really good with X so it is now useless to me.
-chris <www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
