I, too run my main machine as a PB 540c...tricked out with a PPC processor,
40mb ram, 6gig hard drive, wireless card, external CDRW, external 6x Panasonic
Portable CD player, Quicktake 150, Portable Stylewriter, and Newton 130. I
joke with friends that I have the absolute best of 1997
My main machine is my PowerBook 520c with 20MB of RAM. It can do
almost everything I want (slowly) except for the CD-ROM stuff. I use
my PC a lot though because it has a CD-RW drive. I vastly prefer the
Mac versions of SimAnt and SimFarm over the Win versions. Can the 1400
CD-ROM drive read CD-Rs?
On or about Tue, 3 Jan 2006 18:50:50 -0500, John Kneeland or someone
claiming such identity, wrote:
Who here runs on the oldest 'Book (as their MAIN machine...anyone can
say they have a Mac Portable while using a 17 PBG4 as their daily
machine...that is, anyone with lots of disposable income!)
Geez you Penn folk are everywhere...gotta love it. And the old 'Book of course!
On 1/5/06, TEW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On or about Tue, 3 Jan 2006 18:50:50 -0500, John Kneeland or someone
claiming such identity, wrote:
Who here runs on the oldest 'Book (as their MAIN machine...anyone can
: Which PowerBook is for me?
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 13:46:35 -0800
SNIP
Higher RAM ceiling (144 vs 64 MB) and PCI vs NuBus architecture would be my
main reasons. Other considerations/comparisons:
- 1400 can be easily upgraded to G3, no upgrade path for 3400. A 3400/240
running OS 8.1 or 8.6
In a message dated 1/4/06 12:32:58 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Um, well, curiously, why would anyone run an old 'Book as their main Mac?
Then later, you said:
No G4s here of ANY kind, and given MY finances, not likely. LOL
You just answered your own question. The reason why anyone would run
list of items including:
Internal CD-ROM drive that can read CD-RW
This is an impossibly tough brief, $50 for all . . . however, while going
a bit over the original pricepoint . . .
I'll suggest a 1400 over anything before Lombard, for the simple reason
that it can be equipped with an
I am buying a different PowerBook in February, and I am trying to
decide which model. I know I asked before but I have different needs
now.. Here they are:
Here is what I would use it for:
SimCity classic
SimFarm
SimAnt
Windows Media Player 7
Trying to learn C++
Word processing
Ocasionally use
Good Luck
On Jan 3, 2006, at 10:29 AM, John Perkins Jr. wrote:
I am buying a different PowerBook in February, and I am trying to
decide which model. I know I asked before but I have different needs
now.. Here they are:
Here is what I would use it for:
SimCity classic
SimFarm
SimAnt
Windows
Yeah, spend the $50 on cheap drugs or perhaps a balaclava.
Seriously, I have a Lombard that I got for $150, and I love it. I
would recommend it over a wallstreet because it's much lighter,
faster, has usb and scsi. A good battery lasts about four hours in
mine.
In your price range, you might get a
On 1/3/06, Tom W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah, spend the $50 on cheap drugs or perhaps a balaclava.
Seriously, I have a Lombard that I got for $150, and I love it. I
Apologies to all for not clipping the quotes on the above message. I
was using the gmail quick reply and didn't see them.
Well, I don't do drugs. So the cheap drugs would be out of the
question ;). I was thinking the 3400c, but I'm assuming I'm not going
to get one for under $50. My second choice would be the 1400c/cs but I
was wondering if I could get anything better. Being able to read
CD-RWs is not extremely
extra you'd have to pay to get up to the active
matrix display.
Ciao!
Winfidel
From: John Perkins Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: PowerBooks powerbooks@mail.maclaunch.com
Subject: Re: Which PowerBook is for me?
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 09:58:26 -0600
In a message dated 1/3/06 11:16:46 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've never seen the 1400CS screen (all mine are 1400C's), but I imagine it
would be worth whatever extra you'd have to pay to get up to the active
matrix display.
Actually, the 1400cs is the active-matrix screen; your 1400c IS
No no no no, the 1400c is active matrix (TFT) and the 1400cs is dual scan.
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And here's what I want when it comes to features:
Internal floppy drive
Internal CD-ROM drive that can read CD-RW
800x600 screen (preferably TFT but it doesn't have to be)
Nice keyboard
Working battery
You're not gonna find anything like that for anywhere near $50, but
decently configged
If $50 is all you have to get a book? and you are really serious
about it i would hold off and save a-bit more because that will only
really cover the postage for most of the decent books. Even if you
can get a 1400 or even a 3400 for that Then i would assume that it
waas being sold for
I agree with Vicki on this one. If you're really serious about a good
'Book, save up a little and get a Lombard or Pismo, at least. I know
that when I finally replaced my 190 with my Lombard, I never looked
back. Get something that can run OS X, IMHO. It's worth it.
Caleb
On Tuesday, Jan 3,
Heh, I ran a PowerBook 190 until last month, so I think I'm beating
you. Personally, I think the Lombard and Pismo are much nicer than the
TiBook, but that's just my humble opinion.
As far as OS X goes, Jaguar isn't too bad, either. I've had good luck
with Jag on my Lombard 400, but that's
A 3400c will do all those things, but you'd be lucky to find a good one for
$50 or less, even now. They're still nice machines and quite useful, eight
years after they were made. I still use my hacked 198 MHz 3400c quite a bit,
and have even gotten OS X to crawl on it.
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on 01/03/2006 5:50 PM, John Kneeland at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Who here runs on the oldest 'Book (as their MAIN machine...anyone can
say they have a Mac Portable while using a 17 PBG4 as their daily
machine...that is, anyone with lots of disposable income!)
OK, I'll take the bait :)
My
John Kneeland writes,
Who here runs on the oldest 'Book (as their MAIN machine...anyone can
say they have a Mac Portable while using a 17 PBG4 as their daily
machine...that is, anyone with lots of disposable income!)
Um, well, curiously, why would anyone run an old 'Book as their main Mac?
This
To be honest, as everyone knows, my main Mac for a while was my 190,
but now that I think about it, I had to use my PeeCee for so much back
then that the 190 never saw any serious duty as anything other than a
word processing machine. Now that I've gotten my Lombard, I don't even
use my
I agree with Caleb 100 per cent. A Lombard, for the price, is a great
laptop. I love the 4-5 hours on a battery as well as the speed and I love
how easy it is to upgrade compared to the ibook. It's a little more than
the first poster wanted to pay, but I got mine for $150US for a basic
I paid $230 for mine with 192 MB of RAM running OS X Jaguar and it had
Office 2001 installed, so it wasn't a bad deal. Plus, I remember there
being some G4 upgrades for the Lombard, also. Plus, with the nice
1024x768 screen and the 512 MB RAM limit, it's really a good budget
'Book.
Just my
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