Wallstreet/OS X : PCMCIA
While I've been using OS X for some time now on my desktop machine (G3 DT (233-400) I only recently installed it on my Wallstreet (384M/10G/266,14.1). So far it's a bit of a mixed review. The installation was painless and presented no problems at all abd the machine is reasonably quick. However I am bothered by the inability to use any of my PC-cards - both for the DVD and the SmartMedia adapter for my digital camera. Have I missed something or is it just a matter of waiting for the updates ? Geoff Parker -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Wallstreet/OS X : PCMCIA
On Saturday, April 20, 2002, at 08:26 AM, Geoffrey Parker wrote: While I've been using OS X for some time now on my desktop machine (G3 DT (233-400) I only recently installed it on my Wallstreet (384M/10G/266,14.1). So far it's a bit of a mixed review. The installation was painless and presented no problems at all abd the machine is reasonably quick. However I am bothered by the inability to use any of my PC-cards - both for the DVD and the SmartMedia adapter for my digital camera. Have I missed something or is it just a matter of waiting for the updates ? PC Card support in OS X is somewhere between poor and nonexistent. I guess the real issue, just like with ANY peripheral, is whether OS X drivers are available yet or not. Some PC Cards (like, my Farallon Skyline 802.11b card) work fine. if the opensource drivers (the only available drivers) are installed. AFAIK, there are no DVD Decoder Card drivers for OS X yet, and the OS X DVD Player only supports hardware decoding on desktop machines. I don't know whether drivers are out for SmartMedia adapters or not. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Good, inexpensive digital camera/Lag time
On 4/20/02 4:21 PM, (G-Books) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently most/all Digital cameras have lag time after the shot. I have tried many at CompUSA and Circuit City and they all had lag after shooting. The lag times are even parts of the review process on web sites now. Do you have one that doesn't have any lag after shooting? Aron I am no professional photographer, but in my experience with the common household film camera...every one that I have owned has a lag time that is no more/less than my digital I use now. Even conventional cameras have to wait for the charging capacitors to charge up for the flash. If I turn the flash off of my digital (HP Photosmart 318) I can shoot, and shoot and shoot without worrying about any lag time. I have no use for taking 5 pictures in one second, so I can't gauge THAT type of lag. 1/100th, 1/1000, 1/12000 shutter...means nothing to me, nor will it ever unless I take photography up as my job. If that ever happens, then I will rethink my opinions. Of course I normally shoot at the lowest quality setting for easy transmittal over email to family., so that has an effect I am sure. When I bump up the quality..there is more lag as it writes it to the CF I am sure. I have left the film roll for the digital as my common household camera, and I will never go back. Walt -- Bill Gates house was designed on a Macintosh. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
film vs. digital, plus question on $20 VST Zip drive for G3PowerBooks at Mac Zone
Digital images were placed on the sides of tall buildings (the kind Superman used to leap) at the Salt Lake Olympics. -- Thomas S. England Decatur GA 30030 Thomas, Thanks for sharing this fact! I was at the Olympics and I can attest to the fact that those banners on the buildings in SLC looked fabulous. Related to the film vs. digital thread, does anyone know what's going on with ALPS? The company that makes (made?) printers that do a great job of printing digital photos so well they look like film prints with photo overcoats etc. The phone numbers don't work (seem to have been given to other companies) and the ink cartridges are getting scarce. I'm assuming they went of out biz? If so, any ideas on how to avoid having an ALPS albatross? On the topic of the VST Zip 100MB PowerBook G3 drive on sale at Mac Zone for 19.99 (item # 00109510): I immediately ordered one for my Lombard, but then I vaguely recalled some discussion of negatives about this VST drive on the list. Am I remembering correctly? (Sorry, I haven't been able to figure out how to use the list archives). -- Lesley Sprigg Context Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Difficulty in setting up intranet
Jeremy Derr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How are you configuring TCP/IP on each machine? DHCP? Manual? If Manual, what IP Address, Subnet Mask, and Router address? How can tell that the iBook does OK? What is it you're trying to do on this network; filesharing? internet connection sharing? something else all together? Something else all together... hoping to play Diablo II multiplayer over TCP/IP. Unfortunately, it doesn't support Appletalk, like many older games. A little clarification: - My Ethernet network is up and running normally. - I'm configuring TCP/IP via Ethernet, and manually giving each machine a unique IP: 192.168.1.x, and subnet of 255.255.255.0 - I'm leaving the Router Address blank, as I don't have a router (is this the problem?) - The iBook shows its IP and subnet in the System Profiler; the iMac shows TCP/IP active, but shows blank for IP and subnet. - When going into the multiplayer options in Diablo II on the iBook, it lists the iBook's IP and options for hosting or joining a game, - When going into the multiplayer options in Diablo II on the iMac, it says Cannot detect a valid TCP/IP address I'm wondering if this isn't an issue with OS 8.6? Doug -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Good, inexpensive digital camera/Lag time
Walter R Basil wrote: Of course I normally shoot at the lowest quality setting for easy transmittal over email to family., so that has an effect I am sure. When I bump up the quality..there is more lag as it writes it to the CF I am sure. Yeah, I just tested this with my Epson (PhotoPC 650) 1.3 MP camera. At lowet quality (640 x 480 jpeg) it took about a second and a half from shutterpress to shutterpress. At highest quality (1152x864) it took about 7 seconds. This is, however, with a relaitively slow Lexar CF card (4x). Lexar sells 12X in their pro series now which would shorten the time. The 8mb card that cae with the camera is faster, but the 4X one was cheap when I got it, for an 80 mb card (It's nice looking at the number of shots I can take on that one: 300 at fine quality, which is indistiguishable, mostly, from the highest quality.) Also, my Epson is pretty old and slow as far as digital cameras go. A Nikon Coolpix I recently used was considerably faster. Bruce -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Wallstreet/OS X : PCMCIA
I have a Pismo and my compact flash card mounts perfectly. You must be running at least OSX version 10.1 or later. In versions 10.0.4 and earlier, it wouldn't mount. The driver for mounting is built into the OS. I don't know about the DVD, or other specialty cards in your Wallstreet, but I would think your SmartMedia should mount if you are running 10.1.3 or later. Perhaps someone with a Wallstreet and a SmartMedia card could shed some light. Ryan On Saturday, April 20, 2002, at 08:26 AM, Geoffrey Parker wrote: While I've been using OS X for some time now on my desktop machine (G3 DT (233-400) I only recently installed it on my Wallstreet (384M/10G/266,14.1). So far it's a bit of a mixed review. The installation was painless and presented no problems at all abd the machine is reasonably quick. However I am bothered by the inability to use any of my PC-cards - both for the DVD and the SmartMedia adapter for my digital camera. Have I missed something or is it just a matter of waiting for the updates ? -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Airborne Express AppleCare shipping: no insurance allowed!
What a farce. Apple sent me a carton for shipping my PowerBook for AppleCare warranty-covered DVD module repairs. Since I know Parko, the fellow who had the well-publicized warranty-shipping broken-LCD fiasco last year, I visited the Airborne office to ask how much it would cost to insure Apple's prepaid shipping. Airborne Express flatly refused to allow insurance on any shipment to Apple Computer in Houston. As soon as Airborne heard it was a warranty repair item to Apple, Airborne would not negotiate. Airborne refused to allow insurance purchase even if we ignored Apple's prepaid sticker and I paid for shipping charges myself! The employee went so far as to warn me not to try to deceive Airborne in this matter, because she now understood the nature of my shipment. Aghast, I suggested that Airborne would allow me to insure the very same package if I were to ship it to my father. The employee agreed. I suggested that FedEx would allow me to insure the very same package to Apple Computer in Houston. The employee agreed. She in return suggested that I might be happier with FedEx if I required insurance. I left immediately, drove to FedEx, where customer service was superb. -- gadzikowski | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: long term data storage (was digital camera)
Then you will have the best of both worlds! The archival property of film and the convenience of digital. I scan my negatives and store them on CD for distribution to others and will scan prints for some uses, but you have much more control over digital print quality when scanning from the negative. When you scan from the negative, you are at the mercy of the printer and how good a job they did reading the negative. Tom I have boxes and boxes (8X10 Ilford Paper boxes) of prints from my years working as a news photog. I don't even see getting rid of them. Now I need a GOOD scanner to get 'em into my external firewire drive. gene -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Airborne Express AppleCare shipping: no insurance allowed!
On Saturday, April 20, 2002, at 03:50 PM, Kochkodin wrote: I absolutely avoid Airborne like the plague!!! I have had stuff shipped to me via Airnorne that was signature required...the drivers just threw it on the porch and left it. I live 1 block from an elementary school and the kids walk past my front porch usually about 1/2 to 1 hr after the usual Airborne delivery time and I have had a few small packages stolen...chips etc ..When I complained to Airborne, the barely apologized and said to notify the shipper to file a claim. The delivery service here is a contract outfit and it sems that they really don't give a damn about good service. regards, Mike K On the opposite end of the spectrum, I've had all of these problems with FedEX and UPS, but in my area, service with Airborne Express is absolutely superb. I live across the street from my office and routinely FedEX and UPS will deliver packages intended for me at one location to the other (as in, I have something shipped to me at home, and they deliver it to the office, or visa versa), packages arrive battered beyond recognition Airborne, on the other hand, treats all of my packages with kid gloves and I've never had a delivery SNAFU with them. As to the whole mix up with Airborne and insuring Apple packages.. when I used to work for an Apple Authorized Service Provider, all Apple parts shipments were sent via Airborne and if there was any shipping damage, Apple corrected the matter, not Airborne. I'm guessing that's the contract they have worked out, or something. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Dual Usb iBook vs Pb G3/333
You could take the extra ram from for 333 and put it into the iBook. Or you could look into a CPU upgrade for your 333. -Thomas Hi all, I'll try to cut a long story short: After using my Bronze G3/333 for more than a year I've come, during the last days across an occasion which I find quite good: A friend of mine has introduced me to an Apple reseller he knows. This guy is selling open box new iBooks which have been used as demos, so they're brand new. The particular machine I'm interested in is a 500mhz/cd. The price is quite fair (more or less Usd 900) so I'm quite tempted but: - I'm worried about the display, it's a 12 and I'm quite accustomed to my old faithful's HUGE 14 ... - I also wonder if the additional horsepower which comes from the 500mhz processor will be enough to cope with the G3's additional 384mb of ram and it's 512k L2 cache. The fact is that I do not have plans to upgrade the iBook's ram (128mb in standard configuration) as the prices back here in Italy have started raising again very fast. - I'm currently running 10.1 and a barebones 9.2.2 on the 333 and it really is fast, I know myself and I know that I would be disappointed if I weren't to notice a significant improvement in speed when trying this same configuration on the iBook. - Moreover I know that there are a few important plus that go together with the iBook, better video card, bigger and faster hd, FW ports, the fact that it is a new machine and so on. Nonetheless the struggle is still underway in me. So I'm asking for opinions: - According to you is the iBook a good buy compared to my 333? Should I proceed and get the Pb replaced or would it better for me to avoid and perhaps use the money to upgrade the Pb (bigger hd, more ram, whatever)? I know that everything is subjective and that it depends on me and on the kind of things I'm using a Pb for but, I would all the same appreciate your comments on the matter. Thanks in advance Lorenzo -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: VST Zip expansion bay
I've just picked up a VST Zip 250 expansion bay for my Pismo. It's supposed to be hot-swappable, but I cannot get 100MB or 250MB Zip disks to mount unless the machine is booted up with the expansion bay in there. I have no trouble hot swapping the factory CD/DVD unit. Is this a known problem? Tate I initially had that problem the first time I tried to hot swap my Zip 100 bay while booted into OSX.1. However, I rebooted with the drive installed, the drive mounted my Zip disk, I removed the disk, hot swapped with the DVD drive, and then hotswapped back with the Zip drive and the Zip disk mounted without a problem. Everytime I've used the Zip drive since, I can hotswap and the disk mounts without a problem. Can't really explain why it didn't mount initially. Outside of this, I've had no other problems in OSX.1 or OS9. Jim = __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/ -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Active links
On 4/18/02 3:57 PM, Dan Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The best and most widely supported format for posting URLs in email and elsewhere is to put the entire thing between less than and greater than signs, like this: http://lowendmac.com More email clients will turn this format into an active link than any other format. And it keeps the URL from breaking on line wraps in the message window. -pha -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Dual Usb iBook vs Pb G3/333
On 4/21/02 1:36 AM, (G-Books) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'll try to cut a long story short: After using my Bronze G3/333 for more than a year I've come, during the last days across an occasion which I find quite good: A friend of mine has introduced me to an Apple reseller he knows. This guy is selling open box new iBooks which have been used as demos, so they're brand new. The particular machine I'm interested in is a 500mhz/cd. The price is quite fair (more or less Usd 900) so I'm quite tempted but: Just a thought. For about $500 more you get a new one at 600MHz and a 100MHz bus and lots more memory. I myself use a 500MHz with a 66MHz bus. I traded price for speed, and I am happy. I also ended up upgrading to 640 Megs RAM for only $160. - I'm worried about the display, it's a 12 and I'm quite accustomed to my old faithful's HUGE 14 ... Don¹t worry about the display unless you absolutely need the extra 2 inches. I went from using my iMac with a 21 inch monitor, to using this iBook with the 21 inch monitor, to just using the iBook. I loved the sharp and crisp display over size. - I also wonder if the additional horsepower which comes from the 500mhz processor will be enough to cope with the G3's additional 384mb of ram and it's 512k L2 cache. The fact is that I do not have plans to upgrade the iBook's ram (128mb in standard configuration) as the prices back here in Italy have started raising again very fast. I can't say for sure whether or not I would use it if I only had 128 Megs RAM. I wasn't happy with 128. Especially running classic. That was almost impossible to run classic and a couple other OS X apps. I upped it to 256 and it was more acceptable. That was to only hold me over until I received my 512 MB chip. - I'm currently running 10.1 and a barebones 9.2.2 on the 333 and it really is fast, I know myself and I know that I would be disappointed if I weren't to notice a significant improvement in speed when trying this same configuration on the iBook. I think you will find it more speed than your 333. I am thinking of my iMac 333 compared to my iBook 500 DVD. My iMac 500 DV SE is a bit snappier than my iBook 500 DVD. Nonetheless the struggle is still underway in me. So I'm asking for opinions: - According to you is the iBook a good buy compared to my 333? Should I proceed and get the Pb replaced or would it better for me to avoid and perhaps use the money to upgrade the Pb (bigger hd, more ram, whatever)? I know that everything is subjective and that it depends on me and on the kind of things I'm using a Pb for but, I would all the same appreciate your comments on the matter. Thanks in advance Lorenzo -- Where there's smoke, you'll find my wife cooking dinner. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
