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
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
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
-- 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
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
According to the manual for the 500 Mhz G3 Bluechip from Powerlogix (soon
3 years old), this product is compatible with Powerbook G3 series 266mhz,
that is a PDQ. Yet, after successfully running in an original Wallstreet
(The seller tells me) and after running the flash utility on the PDQ
Mark Edward Attew [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I upgrade my Pismo to the 900MHz G3 and yes, the System Profiler reports
that it is a 550Mhz G3, but the CPU Director utility that comes with it
reports the 900MHz properly.
FYI, PowerLogix has released a firmware patch that fixes this problem.
Hello,
Does anyone reading this newsletter, have any experience with upgrading a
Pismo with the PowerLogix BlueChip processor?
I ask because I've held the belief that the 400 Mhz Pismo and the 500 Mhz
Pismo would have different final processor speeds, if the same chip was
installed in each
, 2003 1:32 PM
To: G-Books
Subject: Pismo BlueChip Upgrade
Hello,
Does anyone reading this newsletter, have any experience with upgrading
a
Pismo with the PowerLogix BlueChip processor?
I ask because I've held the belief that the 400 Mhz Pismo and the 500
Mhz
Pismo would have different final
I have my Bluechip G3 900MHz upgrade happily accelerating everything Mac
on my Pismo and so far the performance boost is tremendous.
My only complaint is battery time...before the upgrade while I was
running at 400Mhz, my battery would last about 3.5 to 4 hours which is
pretty good considering
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 09:50:17AM -0700, Mark Edward Attew wrote:
:
: I have my Bluechip G3 900MHz upgrade happily accelerating everything Mac
: on my Pismo and so far the performance boost is tremendous.
:
: My only complaint is battery time...before the upgrade while I was
: running at 400Mhz
that PowerLogix uses for
their Bluechip upgrades draws *less* power than the original PPC750--all
else being equal.
For the original poster:
Is it possible that some power saving options got changed or reset
during the upgrade? Resetting them and/or zapping the PRAM might help.
Also
I have my Bluechip G3 900MHz upgrade happily accelerating everything Mac
on my Pismo and so far the performance boost is tremendous.
My only complaint is battery time...before the upgrade while I was
running at 400Mhz, my battery would last about 3.5 to 4 hours which is
pretty good considering
Bluechip G3 900MHz upgrade happily accelerating everything
Mac
on my Pismo and so far the performance boost is tremendous.
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It also depends on the revision of 750 is in the Bluechip versus on the
original CPU card. The Powerbook G3s were pretty bad on the
power-efficiency compared to the current G3 crop. Even the first-gen
G4s had better power efficiency than the G3s the Lombard and Pismo came
with. (Just working
Yes. Forgot to mention that. The G3 750 that's in the 900Mhz iBook
is a low power version.
On Monday, Sep 29, 2003, at 20:05 US/Eastern, Krevnik wrote:
It also depends on the revision of 750 is in the Bluechip versus on
the original CPU card. The Powerbook G3s were pretty bad on the
power
I would say 1.5 hours is pretty good for upgrading that much.
Without looking up the specs, I'm sure your upgraded processor pulls
more wattage than the old one. Your battery was designed with the
old processor in mind. Even running it at slower cycles, your
probably still going to pull out
I've just upgraded my pismo with a powerlogix g3 900mhz processor.
There are heat issues. The fan comes on and it did not with the
original
500mhz processor.
It seems as though the heatsink is not seated properly on the CPU
itself or may be loose. I would remove the
daughter card, remove the
Mark:
Yup, tried that several times, didn't make any difference for me. It's
fast now, though!
... Eric
Just FYI. It may help to rebuild the database in Entourage. It can
become
rather bloated over time and cause it to be slow and unstable. To do
this,
simply hold down the Option key
Tom:
Don't know for sure, the Lombard is the one model of Powerbook we don't
have (actually, we had one but it got stolen several years ago!). What
I can tell you about the Pismo upgrade is that it is not completely
done at the factory. You actually take the Pismo apart yourself and
just
Tom Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've never really understood why the Powerlogix G4 500 Mhz for the
Lombard is a user-install, while the Pismo upgrade requires the CPU
board to go to Powerlogix. Is there some difference between the
daughter boards that I'm missing?
Yes. The Lombard (and
I've never really ujnderstood why the Powerlogix G4 500 Mhz for the
Lombard is a user-install, while the Pismo upgrade requires the CPU
board to go to Powerlogix. Is there some difference between the
daughter boards that I'm missing?
Tom Burke (who's got a 333 Lombard is therefore very
Eric Morrison on 3/26/03 3:35 PM wrote:
I was getting really frustrated.
Especially in Entourage, it would take forever just to refresh the
interface after deleting an email. This was really, in the long run,
unusable although I've been tolerating it for quite a while. Now, the
updates are
on 11/6/02 11:39 PM, Hal at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just got my Pismo back from Powerlogix today. The G4 upgrade rocks. I
posted a full review to the CPU upgrades database on xlr8yourmac.com,
if anyone wants to read it. So far, so good. It's noticeably faster
than the G3/400 it replaced.
on 11/6/02 11:39 PM, Hal at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just got my Pismo back from Powerlogix today. The G4 upgrade rocks. I
posted a full review to the CPU upgrades database on xlr8yourmac.com,
if anyone wants to read it. So far, so good. It's noticeably faster
than the G3/400 it replaced.
Ok, I spoke too soon. We're having issues. I'm working with Powerlogix
to try to resolve them. I posted the initial review on xlr8yourmac.com.
Go to the CPU Upgrade review and select Powerbook 200 (Firewire).
Mine's the first review.
The problem I'm having seems to have to do with power draw
Here's an update on the upgrade.
First of all, Powerlogix has been very responsive, getting back to me
within hours each time I've emailed them.
They had me pull the heatsink and remove the thermal pad and use Arctic
Silver II (which I happen to have a tube of) and reattach the heatsink.
The
I just got my Pismo back from Powerlogix today. The G4 upgrade rocks. I
posted a full review to the CPU upgrades database on xlr8yourmac.com,
if anyone wants to read it. So far, so good. It's noticeably faster
than the G3/400 it replaced.
Total turnaround time was 10 days, so they came through
On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 12:37 PM, hal9000x wrote:
On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 12:33 PM, Hal wrote:
Anyone here have their Pismo upgraded by Powerlogix? Care to share
your
experience?
thanks,
-Hal
I'd also be interested in this. I am thinking of upgrading my Pismo 500
Anyone here have their Pismo upgraded by Powerlogix? Care to share your
experience?
thanks,
-Hal
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On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 12:33 PM, Hal wrote:
Anyone here have their Pismo upgraded by Powerlogix? Care to share your
experience?
thanks,
-Hal
I'd also be interested in this. I am thinking of upgrading my Pismo 500
to the G4.
Will
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I have tried to upgrade my Wallstreet G3, but to no avail. I think the
card was bad. I didn't even bother to get it replaced, since I had such
a hard time dealing with tech support to begin with. If I were to do it
over again, I would go with Sonnet Tech's Crescendo card. it's a hell
of a
On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 03:50 PM, John Fox wrote:
I have tried to upgrade my Wallstreet G3, but to no avail. I think the
card was bad. I didn't even bother to get it replaced, since I had
such
a hard time dealing with tech support to begin with. If I were to do
it
over
Not true, Newer Tech makes one as well. Same $300 price tag.
On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 02:48 PM, hal9000x wrote:
On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 03:50 PM, John Fox wrote:
I have tried to upgrade my Wallstreet G3, but to no avail. I think
the
card was bad. I didn't even bother
Is anyone out there familiar with the PowerLogix
Before you even go that far.
Read this:
http://www.macintouch.com/powerlogixblue.html
People are still waiting.
Aron
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Honolulu,
Does this mean that I can exceed my
Powerbooks specifications and move up to 512 without
any negative reprocussions?
Absolutely NOT. For example, I HAD a 256MB DIMM in my powerbook. It
worked flawlessly with my previous Powerlogix card and with the Apple
card.
After receiving my replacement
--- Aron Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
WOW!
That is the worst horror story I have ever heard. I
feel so bad for you, Aron and the countless other
people that PowerLogix have railroaded with this poor
product. Even if they were to come out with a board
that actually worked, I would not be a
That is the worst horror story I have ever heard.
Well, maybe not the worst :-) Still bad though.
I also think that OWC should have pulled the contract
with PL.
Maybe so... well, they said they have changed how they deal with Powerlogix.
FWIW: Apparently Sonnet is better - they _did_ go
So does Newer Tech have a similar G4 board?
My whole motivation is to get the most out of my
Lombard before moving on to the latest and greatest
apple has to offer. The new titanium G4's are really
appealing to me, but if I can make my Lombard
comprable for much less, I think I would like to go
Michael Richardson wrote:
So does Newer Tech have a similar G4 board?
Newer has absolutely nothing more than a web site and the announcement
they're back in business right now...They were just re-started up.
OWC http://www.macsales.com are their exclusive sales reps right now...
Aron Nelson wrote:
Is anyone out there familiar with the PowerLogix
Before you even go that far.
Read this:
http://www.macintouch.com/powerlogixblue.html
People are still waiting.
OK the G3's were/are a problem, the first question was about the G4's...
anyone have any stories on
At this point, the people at PowerLogix couldn't sell
me water if I were dying of thirst. I'll stick with my
reliable 333MHz.
MR
--- Aron Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK the G3's were/are a problem, the first question
was about the G4's...
anyone have any stories on the G4 upgrades
I already have the upgrade - got it a couple months ago - so this
isn't a feasible option for me, esp. since it sounds like the 256 chip
(esp. if low-profile) will PROBABLY work. I'll report on the results
in my case when I'm back from vacation order the memory.
Anne
Remy Davison wrote:
they
often work in Wallstreets. But it didn't occur to me that I no longer
have the orginal Apple processor card.
So has anyone put in a PowerLogix BlueChip with more memory than that
(either at the time of installation or added later)? DID IT WORK?
I've been reading the reviews
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