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The alternative is the 330, which is CDRW only.
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assume the battery's dead. The Lombard/Pismo LiIONs only last a couple of
years. My first battery lasted 2.5 years (as opposed to my old 5300 and
190 NiMH batteries which are still going strong, 7 years on!).
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the usefulness of a DVD-R drive).
Plus it's a lot cheaper than an eMac.
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good things of the more recent Travelstars (40 gigs and
up). But the Toshiba 40GB has also had good reports - I've no personal
experience of them though. Shop for the best deal - just stay away from
Hitachis, IMHO.
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and the keyboard is slowly getting killed by my
pounding. The palm rests are worn shiny smooth from my wrists and letters
are wearing off the keys...hey, anyone wanna buy it? ;-)
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to crash a drive and, ultimately, to physically damage a hard
drive.
I use an expansion bay drive as an alternative to boot my Lombard, but a
CF card will do just as well, or a custom- burnt CD with your disk tools
on it.
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Davis must have the most loaded G-Book out there. How many
expansion bay drives now Gary? ;-)
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into. Is there a good
source for software, ideas, techniques/info on recording, editing, etc
(preferably specific to the Mac) that I can direct him to?
Thanks!
Try here:
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not build HQ merchandise (black
power adapter recall, lousy yoyos).
The older PB adapters are bulkier than the black G3 adapters, but are far
more durable. Use standard power cords too, which is a big advantage in
my book.
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Whoa!! What's this about a Dell drive in a Pismo? Never heard this. Where
can one get this info?
Check out xlr8yourmac.com under the Powerbooks tab. Detailed pics +
instructions.
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are the two you mention??
Take a look at this eBay store - they sell most of them.
http://www.ebaystores.com/id=10525630
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and the UJDA-710 is Combo DVD/CDRW. You won't need the DVD
on the Wallstreet unless you have the decoder card. I've seen 330s go for
about $85 on eBay.
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full-screen, full-frame.
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, of course).
VST have EOL'd the exp. bay line, so get 'em while you can.
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adapters refer to AppleTalk printers. The 300's good, but
USB-serial converters don't work with serial laser printers.
Only suggestion I can think of is to revert to a Wallstreet ;-)
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, but I'm probably one
of the few who couldn't care less about that. I can watch VCDs in X now,
and that's what counts (using MacVCD - QT doesn't work as there's no s/w
MPEG-1 decoder in X).
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they last longer than the
LiIONs in terms of battery life. I've noted a lot of people's original
iBook (1999-2000) batteries went out to lunch fairly early (12-18 months)
and that replacements aren't that easy to come by.
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Can anyone tell me if the same DVD decoder cards will work in both the
Wallstreet and Lombard(333MHz) models?
Yes :)
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;-)
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of this tutorial here:
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and M-Pack MPEG-1 encoding were, IMHO, crap. Especally
MPack. Good thing they don't sell it anymore.
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ones (they're the
cheapest). They're available for Memory Stick etc. as well. $US26.36 in
my part of the world. Sure you can find a cheaper one though.
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no assurance a PC one will
work correctly with a Mac (some might).
The other thing is why give your $$ to a firm that doesn't give a hang
about the Mac? Mac developers should be rewarded.
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On Thursday, May 30, 2002, at 12:01 PM, Remy Davison wrote:
Not quite. Apple made available the full Service Source CDs commercially
available a year or so back for a few hundred bucks the set. They're
freely available on ebay and elsewhere. What they were doing was widening
(e.g., 4GB) stock. As it is, MCE's $99 and
$119 cases are probably too expensive. Ditto for ROM drive cases; produce
the case and then put in OEM Matsushitas, 16x if the customer wants. BTO
is the way to go.
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of juice. He also clocked his PB 5300 bus to 40Mhz
with a soldering iron, while holding a milk shake in one hand and a hot
dog in the other. Not a bad effort.
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I should be on commission, but I'm not (damn again).
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tried to order any, they list 0 in stock for all those drives...
;-(
That happened last time as well. They were out of 10GB drives and
restocked twice - check up frantically every few hours like I did and you
might be in luck.
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the same internal connector.
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shot, but at least the unit works. My other guess about eject is that
probably has pretty strict rules about how the system talks to exp. bay
devices, and ones that don't play by the rules don't work properly. Also
dunno whether the 330 has electrical or mechanical eject.
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, for camera control and
capturing, whatever. Enjoy. You can still get the Newer FW2Go card for
under $40 and there's an IBM one for $29, I think.
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which model of the DVD/CD drive he has and since it doesn't
work, he doesn't know how to check it.
So you just need the enclosure with its connector, right? (plus bezel
probably). Guess it's worth taking, if the price is right.
Is the 330 an 8x CDRW or 4x?
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). I've not
met too many people who've outlayed the necessary folding for the 1GB of
RAM though - 576 is more common. But it's nice to know the option is
there.
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Provantage.com has the SuperDisk for the 1999-2000 Powerbooks for $45. Just
an FYI.
;-)
Gary
(So, Remy, now I've got the SuperDisk on the way!)
I knew you wouldn't be able to resist ;-)
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the
SCSI Zip seemed to be intolerant of. Had to reformat and it lost a bit of
its 'life'. The media doesn't really bear more than about 3 years' use,
IMHO.
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, AFAIK, requires no special
drivers.
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I have 256 dimm in both upper and lower in my bronze lombard 400. I
had local apple repair install it and has worked just fine
Yes, Apple RAM will always be compatible (except in OS X with early rev.
Lombard CPUs!) Long thread on this at MacFixit months ago.
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(and an HP 5L which
works via IrDA, but not AppleTalk).
Of course, the iBook is a better choice for X, but in about 12 months
(tax write off), I'm thinking of either a PowerLogix G4, a Pismo 500,
possibly a used Ti or looking at whatever PiBook Apple has out there.
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performance, I don't know. I think some BareFeats tests showed high
performance for the 500 than the 550 in some instances, although I think
the DVD/CDRW drive is pretty compelling with the C revisions (meaning
current). I think we'll have to call the forthcoming ones 'D'.
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support
much higher resolutions and bit-rates for expanded desktops.
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the graphics card) is not such a
leap in performance, IMHO, to make the leap).
Plus, of course, the Lombard/Pismo is _charcoal_ That's cool :-)
Which iBook did you get, BTW?
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with the expansion bay in there. I
have no trouble hot swapping the factory CD/DVD unit.
Is this a known problem?
Is an up-to-date Iomega driver installed in the System folder? Or you can
use Iomega Guest to mount disks on the fly.
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connector +SCSI ribbon
cable. Old, pointless logic boards have their uses...
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for me because I'm a journo (has its advantages ;-)
They were out and I fired off an email to them. They found one more (and
only one). Hope it's not the one the marketing manager was using on
his/her field trips ;-)
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to deliver my VST drive :-( but guess
I gotta count easter.
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PCMCIA adapters for those who're interested.
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is
not a 911).
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Thanks, Remy. I knew you'd have the goods on this.
Gary
Remy Davison wrote:
OK, group, here's a question some of you might find interesting--you in
particular, Remy.
Compgeeks again has their PowerBoy USB/Firewire (2.5) on sale. I have one
already that I put the HD
). Just
ordered some for a client here in Oz.
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hit was. For Listers' interest, here's an excellent
comparative table of the various speeds of exp. bay devices and PCMCIA
drives in 'Books:
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after sleep to
recognized), but that may well have been their particular software setup.
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Works with 8.6- OS X apparently.
Anyway, thought I'd pass it on as a couple of people were asking about
CardBus FW for their G3s.
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it to be reliable, get some PC66 RAM for it.
That's
what was made for it.
Yep. I'm with David on this one.
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. It's no tighter or looser than the standard black
adapter (we should christen the black baby adapter sometime - 'Son of
Delta'; 'Idiot from Quanta Who Subcontracted Delta' or something?).
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Been there, done that :-( Well- a toner cart died, but I know what you
mean.
Sounds like she crashed and then the power manager got trashed. Not a
problem. Head over to
http://www.accesscom.com/~gamba/
and get yourself a boot disk for the 190, if you haven't got one. Note
that the 190 requires
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