wireless for pismo: card or airport?
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 -- 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! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com 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/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Looking for recommendations on secondary machine
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. -- 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! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Pismo question
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 -- 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! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
pismo question
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:11:05 -0400 Subject: Re: Pismo question From: Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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! -- 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! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
