Re: ...Pismo + OS X....

2003-12-03 Thread stewart ebneter
I've seen Jaguar selling on ebay at under 40 bucks, and it is a HUGE leap forward. I was using final cut on OS9 (on 400 pismo) and suffered crashes, having to do clean installs, etc on a regular basis. Jaguar is a dream come true. If you value your time at all, the lost time you will gain is

...Pismo + OS X....

2003-12-02 Thread Jim Scolman
Hello I am the very happy owner of a 400 Mhz Pismo, with 256MB RAM and the 6 GIG HD, that is about half full. I am currently using OS 9.2.2, and am happy with it. But, I am thinking of OS X. I have access to a copy of OS X that came on a 500 Mhz iMac, an early one. How do you think that would

Re: ...Pismo + OS X....

2003-12-02 Thread Scott Crick
On 12/2/03 6:37 PM, Jim Scolman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I am the very happy owner of a 400 Mhz Pismo, with 256MB RAM and the 6 GIG HD, that is about half full. I am currently using OS 9.2.2, and am happy with it. But, I am thinking of OS X. I have access to a copy of OS X that came

Re: ...Pismo + OS X....

2003-12-02 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 02/12/03 19:37, Jim Scolman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I am the very happy owner of a 400 Mhz Pismo, with 256MB RAM and the 6 GIG HD, that is about half full. I am currently using OS 9.2.2, and am happy with it. But, I am thinking of OS X. I have access to a copy of OS X that

Re: Pismo to X, or not?

2003-02-03 Thread wappling
Re;Im only on my second week getting the hang of OSX,You may wish to consider upgradeing soon, so as to be familiar with OSX when the programs you want become available in X,besides,you may be able to use your presant version for awhile,in other words for me there is a learning curve to this,it

Re: Pismo to X, or not?

2003-02-02 Thread Jon Glass
on 1/31/03 8:02 PM, Bruce Johnson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nisus is coming out with an OSX upgrade: http://www.nisus.com/products/NisusWriter/SneakPeek/ The operative question being when? :-) I will confess that one reason I'm waiting on X is for Nisus to be available. It will be my WP

Re: Pismo to X, or not?

2003-02-02 Thread Jeff Abbott
At 2:00 PM +0100 2/2/03, Jon Glass wrote: Nisus is coming out with an OSX upgrade: http://www.nisus.com/products/NisusWriter/SneakPeek/ The operative question being when? :-) I will confess that one reason I'm waiting on X is for Nisus to be available. It will be my WP when I upgrade, and

Re: Pismo to X, or not?

2003-02-02 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 02/02/03 10:37, Jeff Abbott at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2:00 PM +0100 2/2/03, Jon Glass wrote: Nisus is coming out with an OSX upgrade: http://www.nisus.com/products/NisusWriter/SneakPeek/ The operative question being when? :-) I will confess that one reason I'm waiting on X is

Re: Pismo to X, or not?

2003-02-02 Thread Jon Glass
on 2/2/03 6:23 PM, Laurent Daudelin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It won't replace Word, and I'm sure that a lot of the Nisus followers will protest that it won't replace Nisus either, but try to give it a try without any bias Nice app! Unfortunately, the reasons I use Nisus are such that only

Re: Pismo to X, or not?

2003-01-31 Thread Jon Glass
on 1/31/03 5:02 AM, Laurent Daudelin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got OS X on my Pismo since 10.1, I think, and, even if I was almost always booted in OS X, when I got 10.2, I've never looked back. Sure, there are a few things that are not as snappy than in 9, but after a little while, you

Re: Pismo to X, or not?

2003-01-31 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 31/01/03 03:22, Jon Glass at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 1/31/03 5:02 AM, Laurent Daudelin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got OS X on my Pismo since 10.1, I think, and, even if I was almost always booted in OS X, when I got 10.2, I've never looked back. Sure, there are a few things

Re: Pismo to X, or not?

2003-01-31 Thread Bruce Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For instance, I use Nisus Writer a lot (9 or classic only), so I find myself using OS9 a lot more than X. Other than Omnigraffle, I don't have an intense need to use OS X. But superior memory management and UNIX stability is very enticing indeed. I will shift over

Pismo to X, or not?

2003-01-30 Thread Kathryn Odell
I've got a pismo 400 with 320 mb of ram. I'm running ox 9.2, and am satisfied with its performance. However, I'm tempted by some of the os x applications. I'd like to hear from any Pismo 400 users who have made the switch. How much does everything slow down? Do you regret moving up? I've got my

Re: Pismo to X, or not?

2003-01-30 Thread David M. Ensteness
All I have on my Pismo is OS X v.10.2.3, no OS 9 at all. I just upgraded the RAM and hard drive to 768MB/40GB 5400rpm but I had been running a 400MHz/320MB/10GB for about a year and it has been very well, I can't stand to work in 9 on it so I just took it off. 10.2 is very snappy for me

Re: Pismo to X, or not?

2003-01-30 Thread Gary E Davis
Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kathryn Odell Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 7:52 PM To: G-Books Subject: Pismo to X, or not? I've got a pismo 400 with 320 mb of ram. I'm running ox 9.2, and am satisfied with its performance. However, I'm tempted by some

Re: Pismo to X, or not?

2003-01-30 Thread Laurent Daudelin
does everything slow down? Do you regret moving up? I've got my free copy of osX here (got the free educator's version) awaiting advice. I got OS X on my Pismo since 10.1, I think, and, even if I was almost always booted in OS X, when I got 10.2, I've never looked back. Sure, there are a few

Re: Pismo to X, or not?

2003-01-30 Thread Mark_PHILIP
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Re: Pismo to X, or not?

2003-01-30 Thread P. Turtle-Bear Guillermo
On 1/30/2003 8:51 PM Kathryn Odell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a pismo 400 with 320 mb of ram. I'm running ox 9.2, and am satisfied with its performance. However, I'm tempted by some of the os x applications. I'd like to hear from any Pismo 400 users who have made the switch. How much

Re: Pismo to X, or not?

2003-01-30 Thread RogueWriter
I've had X on my Pismo 400 since 10.1 came out. I've never regretted it. I never boot into 9 anymore. Erick On Thursday, Jan 30, 2003, at 22:51 America/Indianapolis, Kathryn Odell wrote: I've got a pismo 400 with 320 mb of ram. I'm running ox 9.2, and am satisfied with its performance

Pismo OS X.2/9.2.2 boot problem

2002-10-29 Thread Peter Johnson
Okay, here's the deal... for some reason my Pismo has decided that it doesn't want to boot into OS 9.2.2 any more. The machine is configured thusly: 400MhZ G3 384 MB RAM (256 lower + 128 upper) 25GB IBM HD, partitioned into 4 partitions. OS X.2 installed on one partition. 9.2.2 on another. I

Re: Pismo OS X.2/9.2.2 boot problem

2002-10-29 Thread Jeremy Derr
On Tuesday, October 29, 2002, at 08:38 AM, Peter Johnson wrote: Okay, so I decide to run the 9.2.1 update to revert all the OT extensions to earlier versions, then re-update to 9.2.2. The 9.2.1 update freezes half way through installation, upon reboot the Powerbook refuses to acknowledge

SuperDisk in a Pismo (OSX X)

2002-04-21 Thread William Corea
I recently picked up an expansion bay Superdisk drive. I mostly want to use it to read floppies, rather than Superdisks. When I insert a floppy, I get a message that the system wants to reformat it. Has anyone had success using the expansion bay Superdrive in a Pismo running OS X 10.1

Re: SuperDisk in a Pismo (OSX X)

2002-04-21 Thread Walter R Basil
PROTECTED] wrote: I recently picked up an expansion bay Superdisk drive. I mostly want to use it to read floppies, rather than Superdisks. When I insert a floppy, I get a message that the system wants to reformat it. Has anyone had success using the expansion bay Superdrive in a Pismo running OS