From: L.W. Brown (lwb_at_mac.com)
Date: Fri Sep 30 2005 - 16:13:52 PDT
I have one w/ a (very full) 30GB drive, and am chafing at the slowness
- you tempt me to upgrade the drive instead of moving up to a new 17"
as originally planned!
If you're interested, I have the code to allow a software switch to
533MHz/133MHz-bus. It's just a series of commands I found by Googling,
to enter after booting into the rom itself. I've been running with it
up-switched for a couple of years and have never regretted it.
Another upgrade you might want to consider is the CD drive. I can now
burn DVDs - although I cannot burn anything through the finder (despite
locating - after some trouble - and applying a software patch that
claimed to permit such), I have no trouble at all using the NTI Dragon
Burn software bundled with the drive. I even installed it myself -
>nowhere< >near< as frustrating as trying to upgrade the hard-drive in
my wife's iBook (which I gave up on), although not _quite_ as simple as
the included instructions had implied (as they say, YMMV)...
On 30. Sep, 2005, at 4:57, DJ Vollkasko wrote:
>
>> On Sep 28, 2005, at 1:58 PM, William Pociengel wrote:
>>>
>>> has anyone tried any of the 7200 rpm drives in a poerbook or ibook?
>>> i'm
>>> looking at upgrading and need some feedback.
>>
>> I have one in my powerbook and it is great. It improved performance
>> overall as much (if not more in some cases) than extra RAM did. They
>> just released 80 and 100gb sizes as well... I'd say go for it.
>
> I got myself a nicely and slightly worn Titanium PowerBook 500 MHZ last
> year
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