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Posted by: MacNoob on 2007-07-30 06:39:38
I can pick up a Pismo configured as:
Powerbook G3 400MHz Pismo
768 MB RAM
New 40GB 5400 RPM HDD
DVD Rom
Apple Power Adapter
Powerbook G3 (Original Apple) battery (holds a great charge)
Mac OSX 10.3.9
Microsoft Office 2004
for $250.
It's for my wife to do email and web. Whattaya think?
MacNoob
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Posted by: MacG4 on 2007-07-30 07:24:06
not a bad price really. i sold my pismo for $350 a few months back it was a 500mhz/1gig ram/60gig hd/dvd-crdw combo drive/3 batteries/1 expansion bay 12gig hd/floppy drive/ac adapter
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Posted by: gobabushka on 2007-07-30 08:03:18
dude, go for it!!! i managed to get my pismo for $150 back in '06 base config. i cant wait to resurrect it!
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Posted by: 4seasonphoto on 2007-07-30 08:20:30
For $250, try to get a newer computer with wifi and combo drive!
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Posted by: Dan 7.1 on 2007-07-30 08:35:38
For $250, try to get a newer computer with wifi and combo drive! agreed. Pismo's do have wifi but for that much money i'm sure you can find something better.
its not worth $250.
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Posted by: MacG4 on 2007-07-30 08:49:40
offer $200 ish and see what they say
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Posted by: wood_e on 2007-07-30 10:01:25
Offer $175, then 200...
10 months ago I picked up a Pismo that was perfect... I mean it was PERFECT! NO marks, no nothing - mint screen, mint keyboard. 384MB RAM, wifi card (NOT airport) , DVD drive and a great battery
Sold it on ebay for $400
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Posted by: John8520 on 2007-07-30 10:36:07
I say $175 as well, $250 is really high. A year ago I got a pismo/500 for my dad with 512mb RAM and no HDD off the LEM swap for $125. If you wait, you find good deals.
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Posted by: MacG4 on 2007-07-30 10:53:37
I say $175 as well, $250 is really high. A year ago I got a pismo/500 for my dad with 512mb RAM and no HDD off the LEM swap for $125. If you wait, you find good deals. true just depends on what u are willing to pay for it |
Posted by: Bunsen on 2007-07-30 12:15:05
I don't agree. Look at the amount of RAM and the HD, and the DVD drive. $250 seems fair to me.
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Posted by: Temetka on 2007-07-30 13:20:48
IMO $250 is fair for the machine config listed. That being said I would offer $225 and see if they bite. The only other thing I would do to that Pismo would be to pick up a second battery.
I used to have 2 batteries in my old Pismo. Man that laptop could run for 8+ hours on battery alone. Sadly I sold it to help pay for the Ti that this post is being made on.
Pismo's are great machine, I'd be all over that deal if I didn't have my Ti.
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Posted by: 4seasonphoto on 2007-07-30 13:28:56
When all is said and done, a Pismo is just a G3, and I don't know if DVD movie playback works under OS X. Last time we needed batteries for a older machine (Lombard) it still cost around $100 and it turned out to not hold a charge very well because it had been sitting around Micro Center for years.
On the other hand, fresh batteries for white iBooks are definitely available, and because of the recall a few months ago, it's even possible yours will have a fairly fresh one.
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Posted by: Dan 7.1 on 2007-07-30 13:31:07
huh? the DVD playback works perfectly. at least on my pismo it does.
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Posted by: The Macster on 2007-07-30 13:33:36
I don't know if DVD movie playback works under OS X On my G3 tower it does work but is not really smooth enough. In OS9 it locked the whole machine up when I tried to play a DVD, possibly because of the hacked Apple DVD Player that I had to use (on OS X I didn't need a hacked one for it to work).
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Posted by: Dan 7.1 on 2007-07-30 13:42:48
why did you have to use a hacked version of Apple DVD Player?
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Posted by: The Macster on 2007-07-30 13:50:04
Because I have a non-Apple-logoed drive and the non-hacked one gave an error about supported DVD hardware not being found when I tried to run it. The OS X one works fine with no hacking though, and the drive is pretty Mac-compatible as it can boot from it and everything.
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Posted by: Dan 7.1 on 2007-07-30 13:57:28
weird...i have a lite-on dvd-rw drive in my digital audio g4, i'm curious to see if it will play a dvd in os9. i've not used os9 as a daily os since 10.2 was released 😛
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Posted by: John8520 on 2007-07-30 15:19:46
a DVD drive in a pismo is nothing special, it came standard.
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Posted by: FunnymanSE30 on 2007-07-30 19:21:02
I love my pismo. I have 640mb of ram, an airport card, and 10.4 everything runs fine except flash video(like youtube). i get about 8 hours of battery life just websurfing
i got my replacement pismo battery from the seller "wholesalelaptopbatteries"
Here's one for sale on their website
The batteries are fairly freshly made too, less than a month old.
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