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PowerBook Lombard??

Submitted by oldmacguy on January 30, 2006 - 11:11pm. PowerPC Macs

I am looking into buying a Lombard PowerBook G3 off eBay- 333mhz, 256mb RAM, to replace my Wallstreet Powerbook G3- 266mhz, 256mb RAM. How much faster would the Lombard be than the Wallstreet? My main disappointment with the Wallstreet was that it didn't have USB, but I also wanted a little more speed. All I do with the laptop is Web, E-Mail, and Word Processing, as I have a desktop computer that I do the rest on. If you own one, I would like to know what you like and don't like about the Lombard.

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i say, if your going to upgra

Submitted by peacefrog226 on January 30, 2006 - 11:16pm.

i say, if your going to upgrade from a wallstreet, go for a pismo, there al laround better, i love my pismo, and the firewire and speed bump is very noticeable

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i have one, am typing on it n

Submitted by FunnymanSE30 on January 30, 2006 - 11:28pm.

i have one, am typing on it now. it runs fine for web, email, etc. Has 10.3.9 on it to. i even do some very light video editing with it. If it's from the guy selling them for 85 bucks each, he is a trustable seller i got mine from him. It's my most modern computer, next to my imac 266. I find they have nice screens, and the s-video out feature is cool to. ultra web tv.

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Love my Lombard!

Submitted by cwsmith on January 31, 2006 - 1:00am.

My Lombard (400 MHz, Panther) is my secondary machine, right behind my 12" iBook G4 (1.2 GHz, Tiger). I have it "souped up" with a 20 GB hard drive, a Combo Drive (CD-RW/DVD-R) from a dead iBook, and the full monty of 512 MB RAM.

I use it mainly as a backup when my iBook is busy doing video rendering or burning CDs and DVDs. My Lombard is networked with the other computers in my home (9 currently on the network) and handles cable Internet without a hiccup. It's used for browsing, email, audio editing, web design, and occasional CD burning.

Although I have two other, faster machines between the iBook and the Lombard -- namely my PC tower (1.3 GHz, WinXP) and a pieced-together Blueberry iMac DV (500 MHz, Panther) -- I like the large LCD screen and the available SCSI port (my favorite scanner is a UMAX Astra 1200s, with a 14" scan bed and a SCSI interface) that the Lombard offers.

I agree that the Pismo is a great machine, but if you have any older SCSI devices you might want to continue using, you may very well want to go for the Lombard.

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lombard

Submitted by Karen Jo Weindel on June 29, 2006 - 2:14am.

I also have a lombard that is running os 10.2. I've got a scsi epson expression 800 that I want to use with it the problem is when I hook it up it says scanner not installed. Why do you think it does that?

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SCSI scanners in OS X

Submitted by cwsmith on June 29, 2006 - 2:40am.

There are two workarounds I can think of.

1) Reboot the Lombard to Mac OS 9 and use the scanner from there. So far this is what works best for me.

2) Check out VueScan, a program that adds SCSI scanner drivers to OS X. You can find it at VersionTracker. There's a trial version (which I haven't had time to play with yet), or the full version is $49 US. As I play with this a bit more (probably on my Beige G3 first), I'll let you know how it plays for me.

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I have a lombard and if you c

Submitted by Smiththers on June 29, 2006 - 12:36pm.

I have a lombard and if you can get a pismo then by all means do so, firewire and being faster all around will be a help.

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