On 2/20/07, Gary Hurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
why don't the rest have such a slot?
Gary, Actually all of the G3 Powerbooks, before the change over to iBooks and TiBooks and etc had PCMCIA slots. The Kanga and Wallstreet had 2 The Lombard and Pismo had 1 The Kanga will *not* run OS X (officially, I think some have strong armed it, but not best solution) The Wallstreet (considered the best of the G3's by most), Lombard and Pismo will run current OS X (again, very many rumors about 10.5 Leopard breaking a lot of systems compatibility) The Wallstreet maxs at 512 MB RAM, technically the Pismo also maxs at 512, but some have gotten them to accept 1 GB with the correct DIMMs. You can find Wallstreets starting at $220, Pismos at $300 (again, Wallstreets considered awesome portable, hence only $80 between the two) Then the iBook came along and changed a lot. Jobs ideas were that USB and Firewire could be used for most of what peripherals that people needed, so no need for PCMCIA. Interestingly there was a company at one point that had a G4 upgrade for the Pismo. Might still be able to find a G4 chip for one. The original TiBooks also had a single PCMCIA slot, those start at $380 - $400ish and are G4's -- Knowledge is power... Power Corrupts. Study hard... Be Evil.
