On Apr 13, 2005, at 8:52 PM, Malcolm Cornelius wrote:
I have a Mainstreet and a Lombard, both in good shape. I want to upgrade one of them for everyday use until I can afford a new laptop.
I have 2 uses other than normal stuff:
1. I have an ap that uses a 2nd monitor (or TV) for general use by an audience. If you *must* know, it's a karaoke ap. Say what you will ;) It also uses an external firewire hard drive. I have a Newer Firewire cardbus card.
2. I want to be able to watch DVDs when I take the train across country.
I can upgrade the Lombard's cpu by sending it in.
I can upgrade the Mainstreet's cpu by purchasing an upgrade and installing it myself.
I'm not even sure if you can upgrade a Mainstreet to watch DVDs, or if they make an internal (slide-in) DVD drive for them.
Suggestions, thoughts?
If I understood the question I could offer a suggestion.
Both machines run the FW HD without upgrade.
Neither of them have built-in FW. I have a FW cardbus card that says minimum 300 MHz cpu, so with the upgrade, no problem there.
Both machines run DVD with the DVD drive and a hardware Decoder.
Can they? Are you sure of this? I'm talking about an internal DVD drive. I didn't know one was made for the mainstreet/wallstreet.
Both machines can be upgraded to be better.
What's the issue ?
Well, price, for one. You neglected to mention the need for the external video. The other response mentioned the vid card in the Lombard. I know there's some (expensive) cardbus video card things. The Mianstreet has two cardbus slots. No USB though.
I'd prefer to use Panther (or even Tiger), but I own Jaguar as well.
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