Re: DVD on 500mhz G3 Only?

[Andrew Main]

To clarify: the 333MHz Lombard (1999), like the WallStreets (1998), 
came with a CD-only drive, and requires a PC card to play DVDs, but 
its big brother, the 400MHz Lombard, has the video circuitry built-in 
on the motherboard, and comes with a DVD drive, as do both Pismo 
models (400 & 500MHz). Thus if you replace a 400MHz Lombard's 
motherboard with one from a 333, it will no longer be able to play 
DVDs; and conversely, if you put the motherboard from a 400MHz 
Lombard into a 333MHz unit, it won't be faster, but you can now use a 
DVD drive with it.

 > Well, on OS 9 the Lombard can too, but using the Video
 Card.
 On OS X and with the ATI card unsupported at all, a G3
 400 can't do that.
Absolutely untrue...Pismo 400's play DVD's fine without hardware decoding in
9 or X, as do last editions of the clamshells (under 400), as do 400mhz and
350 mhz iMac CRTs equiped with dvd drives...
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