[rescue] Older-new mac stuff

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Tue, 13 May 2003, Robert Novak wrote:

> I'm discussing a trade of a G3 500 and some dead presidents for my Inspiron,
> although I just realized the seller/trader didn't mention optical disk. I
> won't spend money or equity on a notebook without DVD playback capability.

Be forewarned that a Pismo (at least, mine at 400MHz) is not beefy enough to
play DVDs respectably under OSX.  I've heard that life is different under OS9,
but I do not boot into that OS, so I couldn't tell you.

> By the way, I haven't seen them lately, but is there a G3 800 upgrade for
> the Pismo, or is that only for desktops?

I've seen it for both, but my eyes are on the G4/500 upgrade.  The 800MHz
upgrade has been EOLed now that the 900MHz upgrade is out.

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