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| Bought a near mint Pismo |
Posted by: Hugh on 2013-01-21 07:51:23
... on eBay for just under £40.
It's the 400Mhz version, came with 512mb RAM, 12GB HDD, DVD drive, Airport and a one hour battery.
Upgraded from Panther to Tiger 10.4.11, installed all my backed up old stuff + TenFourFox, then the spending started ...
1GB RAM, 2 new batteries, 60GB hard drive (from stock so was free), then it got more mad and I've just ordered a 32GB PATA SSD to play with.
I also bought another CPU daughterboard and overclocked it to 500, but it was causing KPs and I dropped it to 450Mhz. It's now working nice and stable in the Pismo.
I would dearly love to find a G4 upgrade card, but short of spending $199 new I can't seem to find a used one, anybody have an old one hanging around?
In short - I love it - the iPad isn't getting much use these days!
Cheers 🙂
Hugh
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Posted by: ClassicHasClass on 2013-01-21 08:34:48
Pismos really are delightful units. :approve:
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Posted by: CC_333 on 2013-01-21 10:33:03
They are!
I loaned out mine this summer, and I hope I can get it back sooner or later.
It's not fast by today's standards, but it's a very decent machine nonetheless.
I would dearly love to find a G4 upgrade card, but short of spending $199 new I can't seem to find a used one... Me too! Then I can run Leopard on it (just for fun, I don't know if it's actually very usable).
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Posted by: Hugh on 2013-01-21 10:48:33
Leopard could run pretty slow because of the maximum RAM, and wasn't brilliant on a G4 700 iMac a few Macs ago.
Tell you what, when you get your Pismo back, I'll swap you an emac for it!
Cheers 🙂
Hugh
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Posted by: uniserver on 2013-01-21 10:53:44
I would like one, but every-time i try to get one, they want a hundie or more.
I just can't throw down that much for one. 🙁
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Posted by: TheMacGuy on 2013-01-21 12:06:59
The entire PowerBook G3 line I wanted. But for whatever reason people are wanting collectable prices for them, in decent shape! Nice nab! I'm curious, how well does it run Tiger?
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Posted by: Hugh on 2013-01-21 12:18:22
OK I think, not super fast but then again I'm not impatient. I'm surprised (and I remember now) how good Tiger really is, and no extra crap bits like the Lions have.
I've enabled pipelining in TenFourFox which has made internet pages load more quickly, but I think the graphics is slowing it down somewhat.
I tried ATIccelerator II http://thomas.perrier.name/ but is hasn't made any difference that I can notice.
The best speed boost I hope to gain will be from an SSD when it arrives, plus even better battery life.
Cheers 🙂
Hugh
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Posted by: TheMacGuy on 2013-01-21 12:22:14
Tiger was a good OS. When my dad bought his MacBook (black, 2.0GHz Core Duo) it came with Tiger, and he didn't bother to upgrade to Leopard because it was such a good OS. He did upgrade when Snow came out, then he sold the laptop just before Lion came out, and got a great deal off the sell.
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Posted by: J English Smith on 2013-01-21 13:00:04
Hugh - do post re how she runs with the ssd, I have long considered getting one for my pismo(s). Speed and battery runtime improvement, plus the stability, are compelling to me...
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Posted by: Hugh on 2013-01-21 13:10:46
Will do, bought this one http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/300745319081?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649 as I don't think I will ever need more than 32GB in this machine.
It's coming from China, so may take a while.
I was toying with the idea of a CF card in an IDE adapter but research suggests not as good as a genuine SSD.
However I fancy putting a CF card in the PCMCIA adapter I already have and try to boot something (OS 9?) from it. Have a 1GB card somewhere, will OS 9 fit on it?
Cheers 🙂
Hugh
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Posted by: J English Smith on 2013-01-21 13:33:36
I am running one of my 1400s on a CF card (and it runs just fine, and silently) but that would not work for me on a Pismo - I think I have the wrong type (slower speed?) Thought about trying that again with the right kind of CF card but had not gotten around to it. I think I was using 4gb cards...that was enough to hold 9.2 but just barely enough for 10.4.11.
Can you explain pipelining in the controls for TenFourFox? Would like to try that, but I don't see how to control in Preferences?
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Posted by: J English Smith on 2013-01-21 13:39:09
Wow, definitely a good price on that SSD drive. And yeah, that would be plenty big for me. I am working on a novel so it would be nice to have the added drive stability. I've been saving to a flash drive in case of hard drive failure, which works, but it would certainly be great to get better battery life too.
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Posted by: Hugh on 2013-01-21 13:44:35
The pipelining is controlled typing about:config in the navigation bar, it brings up a warning, then the configuration page for Firefox / TenFourFox.
I used http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=297099 as my first reference, then adjusted more settings from Google searches.
I can't be sure but I reckon pages load more quickly now.
Hope this helps,
Cheers 🙂
Hugh
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Posted by: Hugh on 2013-01-21 13:53:56
According to http://www.themacintoshguy.com/mactips/archive/tip41.shtml a full install of OS 9 will take 300mb, so a 1gb card will take it all with plenty to spare.
Just need to get the card formatted and recognised before digging out my 9.2 disc ...
Cheers 🙂
High
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Posted by: ClassicHasClass on 2013-01-21 18:50:42
Careful with pipelining: some servers don't like it. You can enable it in Classilla as well, but there is a warning.
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Posted by: Hugh on 2013-01-22 06:24:42
So far so good, seems a little faster loading pages. I wouldn't bother doing it for my MacBook though.
Cheers 🙂
Hugh
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Posted by: J English Smith on 2013-01-22 10:48:10
I changed on one of my units, will look at some media intensive sites side by side and see if there is a difference.
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Posted by: Hugh on 2013-01-22 11:38:57
Cheers 🙂
Hugh
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Posted by: Hugh on 2013-01-30 02:08:00
It seems Camino is a lot faster than TenFourFox on this machine, so I'm giving it a whirl ...
Cheers 🙂
Hugh
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