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Upgrade Pismo or new Apple laptop by Sept?
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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Once again I head off to school this September. I won't have enough money to have a G5 AND eat (damn you, ingrained need for hamburgers!) so I'm stuck thus: I have a prefectly fine Pismo 400 which, although a little slow, has handled my abuse for four years so far and hasn't broken. I've used newer Powerbooks and iBooks recently and they don't seem nearly as durable.
If I take my Pismo, I'll need one of those 900 MHz G3 upgrades and a bigger hard drive. I've got half a gig of RAM already; don't need more. So that's perhaps $500 for a machine that will fill my needs and definitely not mind abuse.
If a new Apple portable comes out that isn't easily broken, I can spend $1500 and get a faster computer. There are several threads on these fora talking of IBM's revisions to the G3; it would seem silly for Apple not to take advantage (it's been almost a year since the last revision, yes?).
I guess the long and the short of it is, is it likely that a new iBook will appear before September?
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Actual conversation between UCLA and Stanford during a login on early Internet - U: I'm going to type an L! Did you get an L? S: I got one-one-four. L! U:Did you get the O? S: One-one-seven. U: <types G> S: The computer just crashed.
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Join Date: May 2001
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The iBook was updated in April 2003, this means we can bet the next update will happen before the end of the year (Sept-Oct). The iBook will probably get the new 1ghz IBM G3 chip with 1mb of L2 cache and maybe Airport Extreme...
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Join Date: May 2001
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Upgrade the Pismo every time. They are awesome machines...
The new *books are no way near as durable, the Pismo to me, was almost indestructible... If I we you, I would not part with it for the near future if you can get the upgrades sorted relatively cheaply!
I had a 'Wallstreet' for years, and still wish I had never sold it. I instead got an iBook 500... which broke 3 weeks later! 
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Join Date: Mar 2003
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upgrade the pismo i nearly bought my brothers that had a broken logic board and battery recognition but i was told instead to go for an iBook and even though i tlove this thing i still regrett not having the pismo if even only for modding and decor in my room
but i agree that thing was amazingly tough
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Join Date: Oct 1999
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Wow, $350 for a 900Mhz upgrade. Yeah, I would definately upgrade, with more ram and a faster hard drive the thing will smoke. Save what is left over.
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Join Date: Sep 2001
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Apr 2000
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Pismo rocks, for sure.
But... not as tough as the icebooks? Are you all smokin' crack or something? 
Those things are as tough as they come...
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Moderator  Join Date: Sep 2001
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Upgrade the Pismo, absolutely. $350 for that 900MHz upgrade and you will have a new machine again.
And I have had two iBooks and this Pismo, the Pismo is definately more durable.
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I like liver
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Join Date: Jun 2003
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Yeah I'm for the CPU too.. unless you want to play games... in that case the GPU on the ibook would be much nicer.
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Aloha
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