I got a hand-me-down Lombard from a friend who was replacing it with a 15" TiBook. The screen was shattered and the battery was dead (I tried every fix I could find online and from previous G-Book messages, so I'm pretty sure it's really and truly dead). I grabbed a screen on eBay (absolutely pristine) and bought everything else new from Other World Computing so I could have warranties and some guarantee of quality and replacement. I bought a BTI battery, a 30GB TravelStar Hard Drive, two 256MB RAM upgrades, and a FireWire Card. I downloaded PowerBook Medic's instructional PDF and used it as a guide to all of the repairs. Once the hardware was all in place I installed Jaguar, then I hooked into the internet and installed every recommended upgrade. I ran iTunes and checked out the Music Store. Then I attached my Canon Optura and downloaded 5 minutes of digital video into iMovie, I split the clip, added dissolves and then exported the clip to Quicktime. It's not the fastest computer I've ever used, but for a $600 investment I'm ecstatic.
Now for the questions:
Someone suggested that I fully charge the battery and then let it fully discharge in order to "break it in". I was under the impression that a Lithium Ion battery only had a certain amount of charge/recharge cycles before it would start to wear down. Should I try to keep it at a full charge as much as possible, or should I let it fully discharge on occasion?
I've got the original 4GB drive leftover, I've heard you can turn them into pretty effective FireWire portables. Has anyone done this, how does it work?
How easy is it to go wireless with this model? Do they make an Airport Card that's compatible? What kind of range can I expect?
Every ScreenSaver in Jaguar tops out my VRAM, does anyone know of a any that will run smooth on a Lombard?
Has anyone upgraded to PowerLogix BlueChip G4 500 MHz CPU? What kind of performance benefits can be expected from such an upgrade?
This email is now three times longer then I would have expected, maybe I should have broken into multiple parts.
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