Re: Pismo upgrades: The BlueChip G3 900 MHz
Stardate 060210.20:17 -0600. A subspace message from Jason Long reads: Too late, I've already got one! smirk ... bastard :P I didn't realize that there were so few sold. I was a bit leery of Powerlogix as I'd read some of the upset customer reports on the xlr8yourmac database. From my experiences, Powerlogix made the best upgrades out of the lot. Sonnet, frankly, make shit. To pick a nit I'm pretty sure that Moore bought the G4/500 upgrade for his Pismo, not the G3/900. That's his personal machine - the wife has the G3/900. Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- 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 ---
Re: Pismo upgrades: The BlueChip G3 900 MHz
On Feb 11, 2006, at 7:54 am, Geoffrey Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hands up all you Pismo addicts who'd like another crack at the world's fastest Pismo upgrades? I know *I* for one am prepared to pay the premium, who's with me? Shall we petition the lovely lads at OWC with a last-chance group order? These upgrades were problematic when PowerLogix was shipping them (check out OWCs CPU upgrade database). I'd want to see some evidence that the bugs had been worked out before I'd consider ordering one. -Jeff[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- You can't brew a premium lager with a Kool-aid mentality. --Harold Green in _The_Red_Green_Show_ -- 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 ---
Pismo upgrades: The BlueChip G3 900 MHz
Well ... some things just never cease to amaze me. Does anyone here have the incredibly good fortune to own the very rare PowerLogix BlueChip G3 Pismo 900 (yes, that's right, the sexiest machine Apple ever made can run at 900 MHz) CPU upgrade? No? Want one? Well, ya can't have one. Unless ... read on! It seems that when the lovely lads at OWC 'absorbed' PowerLogix (whom I swear made *THE* best CPU upgrades ever -- Sonnet make shite, by comparison) they merged their CPU upgrade lines, and the only Pismo upgrade they kept was the NewerTech G4/500 (PPC7510). BOOO!!! B *much raining of peanuts and hissing* BOO! Charles Moore mentions the launch of the BlueChips in his MacOpinion colums http://www.macopinion.com/columns/roadwarrior/04/04/13/index.html with a 900 MHz (750FX) and 1 GHz (750GX) available back in late April of 2004. Obviously *some* of them made it out the door, because Charles has one, and at least one person bought *two* because he's selling one on eBay: http://tinyurl.com/cp5hs ... and interestingly enough, the seller's upgrade features a third chp, the low(er) power 750GL. Man, my chin hit the floor, bounced four times and ran out the door screaming. Now, I can kinda understand why OWC decided to not continue the BlueChips, seeing as they already had the Newertech stuff, and the fact that the BlueChip 900 was US$349 against the NewerTech G4/500 at US$279 ... but *SURELY* when they took over they brought in whatever remained of the BlueChip kits!! If so ... Hands up all you Pismo addicts who'd like another crack at the world's fastest Pismo upgrades? I know *I* for one am prepared to pay the premium, who's with me? Shall we petition the lovely lads at OWC with a last-chance group order? Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- 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 ---
Re: Pismo upgrades: The BlueChip G3 900 MHz
-- Original message -- From: Geoffrey Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone here have the incredibly good fortune to own the very rare PowerLogix BlueChip G3 Pismo 900 (yes, that's right, the sexiest machine Apple ever made can run at 900 MHz) CPU upgrade? Hands up all you Pismo addicts who'd like another crack at the world's fastest Pismo upgrades? Sounds like a winner to me... Let's do it. Henry -- 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 ---
Re: Pismo upgrades: The BlueChip G3 900 MHz
Too late, I've already got one! smirk I didn't realize that there were so few sold. I was a bit leery of Powerlogix as I'd read some of the upset customer reports on the xlr8yourmac database, but I got lucky with no problems and no delays once I'd decided not to wait for the just announced 1 GHz G3 chip, but to settle for the 900 MHz. It's no longer my primary computer as I bought a 20' iMac G5 1.8 a year ago for more screen space. But I just took it on the road for a couple of weeks and it did just fine although I was really wishing that I'd bought the damn Airport card. Aside from frying the modem and Ethernet ports in a series of lightning strikes a couple of years ago it runs great. To pick a nit I'm pretty sure that Moore bought the G4/500 upgrade for his Pismo, not the G3/900. Jason -- 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 ---
