wireless for pismo: card or airport?

2005-01-10 Thread Nina Lerman
A friend's pismo (400 Mhz, 320MB RAM) will now be living in the 
vicinity of a base station, so I'm playing consultant and looking into 
adding wireless (it doesn't have an airport card now). It's running 
10.3.7 (very happily, by the way).

As far as I can tell, the advantages of getting an airport card are 
full support and once it's in there it's in there, doesn't stick out at 
all, but on the other hand it costs more, needs to be installed (not a 
big problem), and runs 802.11b rather than g (right?).

The various cards run 802.11g, are mostly cheaper and by all reports 
the broadcom ones seem to work well. The macwireless one is supported, 
but costs more. I do worry a little about how robust they are when 
traveling -- maybe the policy will be to remove the card before putting 
computer in case, and find special case to put card? or is it pretty 
safe once it's in there? And then there was something about breaking a 
little plastic tab somewhere on the way to finding how to release the 
battery (I haven't examined closely, but I think we're talking about 
the card slot on that one, does she need to fix it if she wants to use 
a card?)

Any thoughts, questions, suggestions, and warnings welcome!
thanks in advance,
Nina
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Looking for recommendations on secondary machine

2004-10-22 Thread Nina
Hi - I just bought a 400 Mhz pismo on ebay for $329. It's in great shape (
afew scuff marks on the outer case) but works wonderful and is running OSX.
I was originally in the market for a wallstreet due to avg price of pismo
being around $500, and saw several pismos's go for just over or around $400.
I had to watch for a couple of weeks for this to pop up, but it was worth
the wait.

I don't run the hi-tech software that I suspect alot of folks here run, just
Word, Excel, quicken and the like (okay a few games but for the kids!), but
I'm really satisfied with it. We also have a Kanga (I know - snail at only
250 Mhz!) but I love that one too - a reliable old tank that one is.

Nina

> From: "G-Books" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 09:54:41 -0400
> To: "G-Books" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: G-Books Digest #1970
> 
>> He came back with a few machines that he, his family and friends may
>> be convinced to part with. In a nutshell they are:
>> Wallstreet
>> Original Blueberry iBook
>> iBook 600mhz (icebook from what I can tell)
>> Pismo 400mhz
>> 
>> A couple need batteries, the 600mhz needs a new combo drive, all are
>> running X right now.
>> 
>> It seems like400 mhz Pismo's are averaging $500 or so on ebay Some
>> Icebooks are going for over $600
>> 
>> Of course, with that in mind it's almost worth looking for closeouts
>> on new machines isn't it! Especially if you have to consider a
>> battery or additional RAM.


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pismo question

2004-10-19 Thread Nina
 
> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:11:05 -0400
> Subject: Re: Pismo question
> From: Laurent Daudelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> On 19/10/04 10:49, "Nina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi - I have a new pismo with a dvd player. If I decide to (or need to)
>> reinstall a new OS - like 9.2, will the dvd player still play dvds? The
>> player isn't software driven is it? Or if it is, will any OS CD have the
>> necessary software already in it?
> 
> The software should be included for any OS you can install on it. For the
> older OS 9, you might have to look for an update to the DVD Player
> application.
> 
> -Laurent.

Thanks!


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Pismo question

2004-10-19 Thread Nina
Hi - I have a new pismo with a dvd player. If I decide to (or need to)
reinstall a new OS - like 9.2, will the dvd player still play dvds? The
player isn't software driven is it? Or if it is, will any OS CD have the
necessary software already in it?

Thanks

Nina


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