My old G3 lombard laptop is still very serviceable, but only has a 4gb hard drive. Does anyone know if there is a limit to how big a hard drive you can put in?
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On 4 Dec 2007, at 12:21, hugh wrote:
Does anyone know if there is a limit to how big a hard drive you
can put in?
I’m not sure. I get confused with the naming of the old black
PowerBooks. I have a G3 one, 400MHz, USB, but no FireWire and
retaining the high-density SCSI. Is that the Lombard? or the Wallstreet?
Whatever, it was very happy with a 60GB hard drive, and I can’t
really see it being a problem to fit a larger one. The new drive had
the advantage of being nearly silent: the original 4GB and 6GB drives
are horribly whiney beasts.
Hope that helps.
Heather
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I think you’ve got a Lombard, too, just a 400 one (mine’s 333). The last of the black G3s, the Pismo, added firewire I think.
Anyway, good to hear you lobbed a big disk in without problems. Do you run OSX on it?
I was thinking of a new (well, used!) iBook, but don’t think they’re as well made and they look a complete mare to work on if you have to go inside.
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On 4 Dec 2007, at 12:47, hugh wrote:
Anyway, good to hear you lobbed a big disk in without problems. Do
you run OSX on it?
Yep. It’s only capable of running 10.3 Panther, though. Apparently
the Pismo, with built-in FireWire, can run Tiger.
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I’m on Panther, so that’s ok.
I’ve read of so many problems with iBooks and even Titanium Powerbooks…scares me off. My lombard still looks good (and I prefer black!), has a great screen, hot swappable bays and has never missed a beat. Battery just a bit old and running out of disk space!
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On 4 Dec 2007, at 13:11, hugh wrote:
Battery just a bit old
This may help:
http://www.laptopshop.co.uk/apple-powerbook_g3-laptop_batteries-b1.htm
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Sometime around 4/12/07 (at 12:52 +0000) Heather Kavanagh said:
Apparently the Pismo, with built-in FireWire, can run Tiger.
Fairly well too. Well, considering how old it is. And if the RAM’s
upgraded too.
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There is a rather meagre limit on RAM I think with these old PowerBooks - some say 384mb max, although I’ve heard it said you can safely push this to 512mb, although beyond Apple’s recommended maximum.
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I managed to put 1 Gb into my Pismo. Works fine.
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