From: Zoont Foomby (zoontf_at_gmail.com)
Date: Sat May 07 2005 - 03:30:58 PDT
I can't install Tiger on my Lombard??? Dammit. I was excited to upgrade.
I watch eBay for Lombard stuff all the time. My Lombard would probably
fetch $250-$500 dollars depending on the day. A battery alone is worth
over $100. They haven't changed their eBay value much in the last year
since I got mine (free from a friend - boo-yeah!). I don't watch
Wallstreets, but I can imagine that they are in the lower end of the
Lombard price spectrum. Pismos are slightly higher than Lombards.
I love my Lombard. Love it dearly. I wish there was a significant CPU
boost one could give it, but the best out there is hardly worth it
(550mhz I think) for the money. Lombards, Wallstreets, and Pismos, I
believe (definitely Lombards) do not have hardware accelerated OpenGL
under OS X because of their crap video cards. So not only are they
sorta slow to run OS X to begin with, but the graphics fun they try to
have with OS X slows them down even more. My Lombard 333 is still very
useable under OS X however.
Its ironic that OS X requires so much horsepower - NeXTStep and
OpenStep for Intel were blazing fast on my 486pc a while ago, and
absolutely smoke on PII-350. I know the graphics engine is new and
improved, but the slow-down is still amazing to me. My NeXTStation
boots up faster than my Lombard, that's for sure.
Oh well.
My Lombard is a great tool for working with my Newton. Awesome book for the=
job.
On 5/7/05, John <macnut_at_frys.com> wrote:
> Andrew Fox wrote:
> > Hi Sonny,
> > If you paid more than $150 then they saw you coming<g>.
> >
> > If you paid somewhere between $120-$150 then thats market price
> > territory.
> >
> > If it was less than $120 then you got a bargain sir<g>.
> >
> > Does it work okay?
> >
> > regards
> > Andrew
> >
> > On 7/05/2005, at 4:00 PM, newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 13:04:07 -0400
> >>From: Sonny Hung <sonnyhung_at_gmail.com>
> >>Subject: Re: [NTLK] Losing the date and Mic
> >>
> >>Gosh Matt,
> >>
> >>You beat me to that... I'd had to run out and pick up a PowerBook just
> >>now... not sure what it's worth but I just got one (Wallstreet -
> >>14.1/233MHz-512/160MB/2GB HD/4MB Video/CD/Modem with a good
> >>battery/Dummy Battery and Original A/C adapter?)
> >>Anyone have a clue what I should have paid for it..???
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> I wouldn't exactly say that. I've seen good working Wallstreets going
> for up to $200 on the Swap list. Occasionally more. Pismos and Lombards
> usually bring $300 to $400 yet. Older G3 Powerbooks are still quite
> usable machines, although as each new iteration of OS X comes out, Apple
> is trying to leave the older models behind. With the Wallstreet it was
> Panther not supported (no built-in USB). But with XPostFacto you can
> install Panther anyway. And now with Tiger requiring built-in Firewire,
> that leaves out the Lombard, altho someone on the G-Books list installed
> Tiger on an external Firewire hard drive, then removed the drive (2.5")
> from the case and installed it in his Lombard. He says it works fine, so
> I'm sure a new version of XPostFacto (or a simple hack)will be available
> soon to make the Firewire requirement a non-issue issue. (Kinda like the
> 10.1 "upgrade" disc that was actually a full install with the use of a
> simple hack.)
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> JR
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