> > Don't know much about pricing, I'm afraid. Not very high these days > would be one answer - the newer iceBooks have rather knocked s/hand G3 > Powerbook prices. The 14" G3 iBook was called 'Son of Pismo' by many, > and with them available for �500 or less on eBay, the older Powerbooks > are going to come in quite a lot lower than that. > > Pismo 500s are pretty rare, and may still carry a premium for that > reason. Come to that, Lombard 400s aren't that common. > > Don't know if you already know this or not, but there is one big > difference between the Lombard 333 and the rest, and that is that the > slower Lombards don't play DVDs (films). > > One other thing - I've been seeing a lot of threads on other mailing > lists about dead Pismos, etc, and in the last year I've had a 333 > Lombard just die on me (Malcolm got the benefit of that one!) and a > Pismo we've got has recently decided to stop talking to its internal > DVD drive. So my personal feeling is that these older machines are > coming to the end of their natural lives. I would have thought that a > s/h 14" iBook (700 Mhz or 800Mhz, for example) might be a better buy. > > Tom > [A / ]
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